Nature News highlights: 11 May 2017

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11 May 2017       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                         • Latest News               Century-old tumours offer rare cancer clues ▶ 10 May 2017     DNA sequences from 100-year-old tumour samples could bolster childhood cancer research. Read More ▶             DIY gene engineering, an attack on Darwinism and a probe into Nazi science. ▶ 10 May 2017     The week in science: 5–11 May 2017. Read More ▶             Science publishers try new tack to combat unauthorized paper sharing ▶ 10 May 2017     Rise in copyright breaches prompts industry to discuss ways to allow ‘fair sharing’ of articles. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               The secret war against counterfeit science ▶ 10 May 2017     China has a lucrative market for fake research reagents. Some scientists are fighting back. Read More ▶             How dingoes could be shaping Australia’s landscape ▶ 09 May 2017     New study informs a long-standing debate about how predators shape ecosystems. Read More ▶             Former US mental-health chief leaves Google for start-up ▶ 09 May 2017     Tom Insel will help to launch a company to analyse behaviour and mental illness using smartphone data. Read More ▶             Ghana telescope heralds first pan-African array ▶ 09 May 2017     By converting a defunct communications dish, astronomers are breaking ground on Earth and beyond. Read More ▶             Satellite images reveal gaps in global population data ▶ 09 May 2017     Algorithms help to produce precise maps of where people in developing countries live and work. Read More ▶             Science struggles on in my ravaged country ▶ 09 May 2017     Venezuela’s researchers strive to work amid the breakdown of democracy, often without water or power, says Benjamin Scharifker. Read More ▶             Small-brained early human lived more recently than expected ▶ 09 May 2017     Homo naledi fossils are dated to a few hundred thousand years ago, and may have overlapped with Homo sapiens. Read More ▶             Science can tell us only so much about Stradivarius violins ▶ 08 May 2017     There might be more to the reputation of these instruments than can be easily assessed with blind testing, says Philip Ball. Read More ▶             Scientists relieved by Emmanuel Macron’s French election victory ▶ 08 May 2017     France's next president has vowed to ring-fence research budgets and boost innovation. Read More ▶             French plan to create €5-billion science ‘super-campus’ in disarray ▶ 05 May 2017     Proposal to create integrated research university near Paris stymied by elite institutions’ fears of losing autonomy. Read More ▶             NIH grant limits rile biomedical research community ▶ 05 May 2017     Scientists are split over whether limiting grant support to individuals will help young researchers or hurt collaboration. Read More ▶             Human noise in US parks threatens wildlife ▶ 04 May 2017     Sounds of traffic and industry invade over half of protected areas. 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