Nature News highlights: 27 April 2017

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27 April 2017       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               The 5th Helmholtz-Nature Medicine DIABETES CONFERENCE September 17-19, 2017 | Munich, Germany Presented by: Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen | Nature Medicine REGISTER NOW!               • Latest News               BioRxiv preprint server gets cash boost from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ▶ 26 April 2017     Money will be used to develop open-source platform and help put articles in web-friendly formats. Read More ▶             Controversial study claims humans reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought ▶ 26 April 2017     Broken mastodon bones hint that Homo sapiens wasn't the first hominin to get to the New World. Read More ▶             March for Science, climate engineering and China's space station ▶ 26 April 2017     The week in science: 21–27 April 2017 Read More ▶                 • More Stories               California's $3-billion bet on stem cells faces final test ▶ 26 April 2017     Major investment in regenerative medicine enters its last stage — and the money might run out before treatments are ready. Read More ▶             The next big hit in molecule Hollywood ▶ 26 April 2017     Superfast imaging techniques are giving researchers their best views yet of what happens in the atomic world. Read More ▶             Dog family tree reveals hidden history of canine diversity ▶ 25 April 2017     Genetic map showing how dog breeds are related provides a wealth of information about their origins. Read More ▶             Climate change is making algal blooms worse ▶ 25 April 2017     Rising ocean temperatures drive more intense and longer lasting toxic outbreaks. Read More ▶             Surprise El Niño causes devastation but offers lessons for ecologists ▶ 25 April 2017     How Peruvian coastal deserts respond to rains will aid future disaster response. Read More ▶             Planetariums — not just for kids ▶ 25 April 2017     Planetariums are not just for education, or even astronomy: they could display all sorts of data, if only scientists thought to use them, says Tom Kwasnitschka. Read More ▶             Ripple effects of New Zealand earthquake continue to this day ▶ 24 April 2017     November tremor sparked slow, deep movements in Earth's crust that increase the chances of a similar severe quake within a year. Read More ▶             What happened at March for Science events around the world ▶ 21 April 2017     Nature reported from marches in cities including Sydney, Washington DC and Paris, as people took to the streets in support of science. Read More ▶             What all those scientists on Twitter are really doing ▶ 20 April 2017     Analysis reveals that female researchers are over-represented on the social-media site and that mathematicians and life scientists are less likely to use it. Read More ▶             Mining threatens Chinese fossil site that revealed planet's earliest animals ▶ 20 April 2017     Protests sparked by the destruction of three key fossil-hunting areas result in a temporary halt of phosphate mining. Read More ▶             Physicists excited by latest LHC anomaly ▶ 19 April 2017     A series of odd findings have theorists hoping for new particles. Read More ▶             DNA's secret weapon against knots and tangles ▶ 19 April 2017     A simple process seems to explain how massive genomes stay organized. But no one can agree on what powers it. 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