Nature News highlights: 26 March 2013

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     26 March 2013       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       High quality BD reagents are now more affordable Lower pricing on BD Biosciences reagents means that you don't have to sacrifice quality. Now the consistency and reliability of BD flow cytometry reagents are more affordable, including thousands of proven products and innovative new brilliant dyes. Find the right product for your needs here. bdbiosciences.com/reagents               • Featured               Nature special issue: Women in science ▶       Science remains institutionally sexist. This special issue of Nature takes a hard look at the gender gap and at what is being done to close it. Three feature articles describe how women in science are still paid less than men, they are kept out of biotech companies' boardrooms, and they face challenges when starting a family while pursuing an academic career. Four comment piece raise issues ranging from subtle biases in men's favour to the disadvantages of gender quotas. Read More ▶                           Nature Outlook: Gold Gold nanoparticles can help pinpoint a tumour - and then carry drugs to it. Gold also holds promise for making extremely efficient solar cells, among other photonic applications. Nature Outlook: Gold reports on what's driving the twenty-first-century gold rush. Access the Outlook free online for six months. Produced with support from: World Gold Council               • Latest News               Brain scans predict which criminals are more likely to reoffend ▶ 25 March 2013     Neuroimaging 'biomarker' linked to rearrest after incarceration. Read More ▶             Social isolation shortens lifespan ▶ 25 March 2013     Ageing study finds being alone is a health risk.  Read More ▶             Neuroaesthetics is killing your soul ▶ 22 March 2013     Can brain scans ever tell us why we like art? Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Canada puts commercialization ahead of blue-sky research ▶ 21 March 2013     Federal budget boosts clean-energy research and university infrastructure. Read More ▶             DNA folding takes a fresh direction ▶ 21 March 2013     Interlocking grids guide the production of two- and three-dimensional structures. Read More ▶             Triassic extinction tied to massive lava spills ▶ 21 March 2013     Dating technique pins down massive eruptions that may have triggered mass extinction. Read More ▶             Serotonin receptors offer clues to new antidepressants ▶ 21 March 2013     Shapes of binding sites could help drug discovery and the study of consciousness. Read More ▶             Text mining uncovers British reserve and US emotion ▶ 21 March 2013     Writers' expressions of sentiment have grown apart in recent decades. Read More ▶             So, has Voyager 1 left the Solar System? Scientists face off ▶ 21 March 2013     Cosmic-ray fluctuations could mean the craft has exited the Sun's magnetic field. Read More ▶             Planck telescope peers into primordial Universe ▶ 21 March 2013     Analysis of cosmic microwave background backs sudden 'inflation' after Big Bang. Read More ▶             'Hologram-lite' idea for 3D phone displays ▶ 20 March 2013     Tiny gratings in a visual display could beam images in different directions. Read More ▶             Wide support in UK for novel DNA 'transplants' in human egg cells ▶ 20 March 2013     Technique to prevent inheritance of disease-causing mitochondria moves closer to clinic. Read More ▶             Engineered immune cells battle acute leukaemia ▶ 20 March 2013     Modified T cells seek out and destroy blood cancer. Read More ▶             Seven days: 15–21 March 2013 ▶ 20 March 2013     The week in science: AstraZeneca cuts research posts as part of restructuring plans; Japan recovers methane from seabed hydrates; and Internet innovators win million-pound prize. Read More ▶             Astronomy: Star tracker ▶ 20 March 2013     As an early adopter of astronomical technology, Andrea Ghez is revealing secrets about the giant black hole at the Galaxy's centre. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. 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