Nature News highlights: 19 June 2012

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     19 June 2012       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Lindau Nobel Community The Interactive home of the Lindau Meetings The 62nd Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates is dedicated to physics. We invite you to visit the Lindau Nobel Community site to access multilingual blogs, follow tweets about the event and view pictures from Instagram. You can watch footage by Nature Video from past and present meetings and more. Access the site online.               • Featured               Special: The global sanitation crisis ▶       Thinking big comes naturally to architects and designers. A few are tackling arguably today's biggest development issue: the global sanitation crisis. Over 40% of the world's population lacks basic sanitation. Meanwhile, richer countries often struggle with ageing, inadequate sewage infrastructure. The cost to health and the environment is mindboggling. In our sanitation special, Nature meets a band of design innovators transforming communities, one toilet at a time. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Romanian prime minister accused of plagiarism ▶ 18 June 2012     Allegations prompt questions about government's ability to tackle misconduct in academia. Read More ▶             Budget cuts threaten Japanese scientists' pay ▶ 18 June 2012     Government diverts public-sector salaries to disaster relief. Read More ▶             Risk assessment of US agro-biosafety lab found wanting ▶ 15 June 2012     Review finds dangers associated with human error underestimated. Read More ▶                         2012 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science Nominations are now open. The 2012 awards focus on the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Two prizes of €10,000 will be awarded, one for mid-career and one for lifetime achievement. Nominations close on Monday 13 August 2012. Nominate your mentor!               • More Stories               Biologists grow human-eye precursor from stem cells ▶ 15 June 2012     Achievement raises hopes for optic repair in the clinic. Read More ▶             Monsanto may lose GM soya royalties throughout Brazil ▶ 15 June 2012     Farmers notch up another victory in legal fight. Read More ▶             Boron finally gets a triple bond ▶ 14 June 2012     Compound could be useful in organic electronic materials. Read More ▶             Spain claims top spot for world's oldest cave art ▶ 14 June 2012     Archaeologists say red disk that is more than 40,000 years old could have been painted by Neanderthals. Read More ▶             Stressed grasshoppers slow plant decay ▶ 14 June 2012     Fear of predators affect nutrient cycling in whole ecosystem. Read More ▶             Italian scientists win battle to halt controversial research ▶ 13 June 2012     Minister says 'piezonuclear fission' proposals will be reviewed. Read More ▶             Antibody cocktail cures monkeys of Ebola ▶ 13 June 2012     Regime extends treatment window from minutes to hours. Read More ▶             'Hippie chimp' genome sequenced ▶ 13 June 2012     Genetic sequence could solve mystery of why bonobos are more peaceful than other chimpanzees. Read More ▶             Tropical lakes on Saturn moon could expand options for life ▶ 13 June 2012     Subsurface source of liquid methane may be replenishing equatorial lakes on Titan. Read More ▶             European fisheries reform stumbles forward ▶ 13 June 2012     Discarding unwanted fish will be banned, but questions remain over how and when rules will be enforced. Read More ▶             Neuroscience: The mind reader ▶ 13 June 2012     Adrian Owen has found a way to use brain scans to communicate with people previously written off as unreachable. Now, he is fighting to take his methods to the clinic. Read More ▶             Metallic hydrogen: Hard pressed ▶ 13 June 2012     Two physicists say they have forced hydrogen to become an exotic metal thought to exist only in the hearts of giant planets. Now they must face their critics. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. 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