Nature News highlights: 06 June 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     06 June 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       The Naturejobs Career Expo London 2012 UK's largest career fair and conference focused exclusively on the scientific world. 20 September 2012 - Business Design Centre, London, UK  Register today! Career fair is FREE of charge. Conference fee is £40.               • Featured               Special Issue: Peopling the planet ▶       Not long ago, the story was simple. A vanguard of modern humans left their African birthplace 50,000–60,000 years ago and quickly conquered Asia. They turned left into Europe some 40,000 years ago, later crossing the Bering Strait and marching southward into the Americas. With their advance, Neanderthals and other earlier peoples dwindled and vanished. But in the past five years, the picture has grown more complex — and more interesting. 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Read More ▶                 • More Stories               President prunes forest reforms ▶ 04 June 2012     Rousseff rejects elements of Brazil's revised forest code. Read More ▶             Fruitfly development, cell by cell ▶ 03 June 2012     Multidirectional imaging of embryos allows researchers to track development of fruitflies in real time. Read More ▶             Mysterious radiation burst recorded in tree rings ▶ 03 June 2012     Spike in carbon-14 levels indicates a massive cosmic event — but supernovae and solar flares ruled out. Read More ▶             Europe science ministers approve 2014–20 funding framework ▶ 01 June 2012     Eastern states and the European Parliament push for more even distribution of funds. Read More ▶             Trade rules must be tightened to halt frog-killing fungus ▶ 01 June 2012     Science is not sufficient to save amphibians, says herpetologist Mark Auliya. Read More ▶             Tackling the US pain epidemic ▶ 01 June 2012     Drug and health agencies discuss uses and abuses of prescribed painkillers. Read More ▶             Andromeda on collision course with the Milky Way ▶ 31 May 2012     The two galaxies will meet head-on in 4 billion years, astronomers say. Read More ▶             'Old person smell' is real, but not necessarily offensive ▶ 31 May 2012     A new study confirms that people, like many animals, easily recognize a unique—but not unpleasant—eau de elderly. Read More ▶             Indonesian deforestation ban makes slow progress ▶ 31 May 2012     Halfway through moratorium, climate-change goal is still out of reach. Read More ▶             Tomato genome sequence bears fruit ▶ 30 May 2012     Work paves way for high-yield crops with good flavour. Read More ▶             DNA drawing with an old twist ▶ 30 May 2012     'Tiles' form complex structures without the need for a large scaffold. Read More ▶             Fukushima has positive fallout for marine science ▶ 30 May 2012     Radiation tracks movements of animals, water and atmosphere. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. 'Free' spy telescopes come to NASA with a cost All eyes on Venus New EU lab promises improved nuclear safeguards Star science-education researcher leaves the White House Texas cancer-centre head apologizes for promoting stock on television China's carbon intensity struggles Dissolved iron may have been key to RNA-based life Texas cancer institute to re-review controversial grant UK astronomers lament telescope phase-outs Dragon gets wet more...                           Emerging Microbes & Infections (EMI) - New open access journal launching in July 2012! 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