Nature News highlights: 19 January 2017

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19 January 2017       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               nature.com webcasts Springer Nature presents a custom webcast on: CRISPR/Cas9 strategies for disease modeling and drug discovery   Date: Tuesday, 24 January 2017 Time: 8AM PST, 11AM EST, 4PM GMT, 5PM CST   Register for FREE    Sponsored by: The Jackson Laboratory          • Latest News               Billion-dollar project aims to prep vaccines before epidemics hit ▶ 18 January 2017     Massive effort plans to stockpile vaccines against future outbreaks. Read More ▶             Controversial patient-consent proposal left out of research-ethics reforms ▶ 18 January 2017     US agency releases finalized 'Common Rule', which govern human-subjects research. Read More ▶             Cancer reproducibility project releases first results ▶ 18 January 2017     An open-science effort to replicate dozens of cancer-biology studies is off to a confusing start. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Do you speak virus? Phages caught sending chemical messages ▶ 18 January 2017     A virus that infects bacteria listens to messages from its relatives when deciding how to attack its hosts. Read More ▶             The $2.4-billion plan to steal a rock from Mars ▶ 18 January 2017     NASA is now building the rover that it hopes will bring back signs of life on the red planet. Read More ▶             Trump nominees talk science: As it happened ▶ 18 January 2017     President-elect's picks to lead environment and health agencies testify before Congress. Read More ▶             Marijuana's benefits, Antarctic ice cracks and a $500-million donation ▶ 18 January 2017     The week in science: 13–19 January 2017. Read More ▶             Controversial website that lists 'predatory' publishers shuts down ▶ 18 January 2017     Librarian Jeffrey Beall won't say why he has unpublished his widely read blog. Read More ▶             Space-weather forecast to improve with European satellite ▶ 18 January 2017     Probe could give early warnings of catastrophic solar storms heading for Earth. Read More ▶             India's first GM food crop held up by lawsuit ▶ 18 January 2017     Scientists accused of deceiving the public about benefits of transgenic mustard. Read More ▶             Give the public the tools to trust scientists ▶ 17 January 2017     Anita Makri argues that the form of science communicated in popular media leaves the public vulnerable to false certainty. Read More ▶             Croatia's science minister rejects calls to resign amid plagiarism scandal ▶ 17 January 2017     Pavo Barišić says he won't step down after a parliamentary ethics committee found he copied another scholar's work. Read More ▶             How the panda's 'thumb' evolved twice ▶ 16 January 2017     Two species of distantly related panda may have adapted to a bamboo-centric diet in similar genetic ways. Read More ▶             Gates Foundation research can't be published in top journals ▶ 13 January 2017     Publications such as Nature and Science have policies that clash with the global health charity's open-access mandate. Read More ▶             Surprising contenders emerge for Trump's NIH chief ▶ 13 January 2017     A reproducibility guru, a former defence-research official and a controversial entrepreneur rumoured to be on list, along with current NIH leader and a congressman. 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