Nature News highlights: 04 October 2011

04 October 2011       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                   • Featured               Special: Beyond the bomb: Science and the military ▶       The military has for many years been one of the biggest investors in scientific research. In an online collection, Nature takes a close look at the current relationship between science and the military: from the emerging science of traumatic brain injury in troops, to the ethical quandaries that come with killer robots. Read More ▶                           Strands of life - 5 short films on physiology and medicine Recorded at the 2011 Meeting of Nobel Laureates, the films capture conversations between young researchers and Nobel prizewinning scientists. Watch last week's release "Bench or bedside?" featuring Ferid Murad. Supported by Mars, Incorporated and published weekly from Sept 15th - Oct 13th               • Latest News               Nobel announcement marred by winner's death  ▶ 03 October 2011     Immunology takes prize for medicine, but award comes three days too late for one recipient. Read More ▶                   Drug shortage slows clinical trials  ▶ 03 October 2011     US researchers faced with cancer-drug shortfall struggle to keep trials on track. Read More ▶                   Saturn's moon has never-ending winter  ▶ 03 October 2011     Millions of years of snowfall on Enceladus boost promise of subsurface ocean. Read More ▶                       • More Stories               Renewable rubber hits the road ▶ 30 September 2011     Deal between Amyris and Michelin highlights industry's hunt for a profitable niche. Read More ▶                   Scientists push for agricultural monitoring ▶ 30 September 2011     Network would collect environmental and socioeconomic data from around the world. Read More ▶                   The seven suns of Rome ▶ 30 September 2011     A diagram lost for more than 350 years documents a spectacular sky of 1630. Read More ▶                   Future of Chernobyl health studies in doubt ▶ 30 September 2011     European Commission unlikely to fund lifetime studies of those affected by fallout. Read More ▶                   Close-ups reveal a weirder Mercury ▶ 29 September 2011     MESSENGER spacecraft results challenge theories about the planet's early history. Read More ▶                   Secrets of artificial leaf revealed ▶ 29 September 2011     Sunlight falling on a catalyst-coated silicon wafer splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Read More ▶                   Draft guidelines for nanomedicine unveiled ▶ 28 September 2011     With hundreds of nanoproducts currently being tested in humans, recommendations aim to safeguard trial participants. Read More ▶                   Mystery of Canada's missing salmon continues ▶ 28 September 2011     Multi-million dollar judicial inquiry expected to offer few solutions to declining fish stocks. Read More ▶                     • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Superluminal neutrinos would wimp out en route UK politicians embrace graphene 2011 Nobel Prize for Medicine Postdoc Leapfrog Bottle-loving beetles, alarming wasabi powder, and tired tortoises: The 2011 Ig Nobel Prizes SPICE put on ice Goodbye, Tevatron Ranking AIDS priorities NASA meets asteroid discovery goal China's space lab lifts off more...                           Nature Reviews Immunology turns 10 Nature Reviews Immunology celebrates with a special anniversary issue in October. In addition, we bring you an immunology-themed crossword puzzle in the October anniversary issue. www.nature.com/nri/pdf/crossword.pdf The answers will be published in the November issue. Good luck!                         Online submission is now open Asia Materials is aimed at an audience of scientists and researchers across the full spectrum of materials research, and publishes articles from the physical and chemical sciences, biotechnology and nanotechnology. 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