Nature News highlights: 09 April 2013

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     09 April 2013       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.                       Special Offer: Complete Cell Analysis and Cell Sorting Package For a limited time you can buy the BD FACSJazz™ sorter and the BD Accuri™ C6 analyzer in a complete package and save $47,000. Package includes biosafety cabinet, workstations, software, BD CSampler™, and BD reagent discounts. Yellow-green laser configuration options available. bdbiosciences.com/go/plus               • Featured               Nature special issue: The future of publishing ▶       Scientific publishing is being thrust into a fast-paced online world. Our extensive coverage in this special issue looks at the questions raised by the appearance of cheap open-access journals, including some that may be on the dark side – or even scams that impersonate real journals. Other articles look at how libraries are trying to keep up with the changes; at objections raised about the Creative Commons licences; at the next push to hasten open access; and more. Read More ▶                           Nature Structural & Molecular Biology FOCUS ON EPIGENETIC DYNAMICS This Focus explores emerging themes and the functional implications of epigenetic dynamics. Access the Focus for FREE at: www.nature.com/nsmb/focus/epigeneticdynamics This Focus is freely available thanks to support from Active Motif               • Latest News               Bigger not always better for penis size ▶ 08 April 2013     Study reveals diminishing returns in attractiveness of larger-than-average genitalia. Read More ▶             Genetic 'kill switch' eradicates female silkworms for a better crop ▶ 08 April 2013     Transgenic technique developed for mosquito control could improve quality of industrial silk. Read More ▶             Monarch butterflies navigate with compass but no map ▶ 08 April 2013     Insects migrate thousands of kilometres guided by orientation alone. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Red meat + wrong bacteria=bad news for hearts ▶ 07 April 2013     Microbes turn nutrient in beef into an artery-clogging menace. Read More ▶             Entangled photons beat noise through teamwork ▶ 05 April 2013     'Quantum illumination' proof lights the way to improving quantum encryption and radar. Read More ▶             Scientists print self-assembling 'living tissue' ▶ 04 April 2013     Three-dimensional printer uses water and oil to create lipid networks that mimic biological feats. Read More ▶             Researchers see antibody evolve against HIV ▶ 03 April 2013     Study could aid development of more effective vaccines.  Read More ▶             How the West was built ▶ 03 April 2013     Seismic images suggest a different origin for North America's great mountain ranges. Read More ▶             Space-station experiment deepens antimatter enigma ▶ 03 April 2013     First results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer fall short of evidence for dark matter. Read More ▶             Seven days: 29 March–4 April 2013 ▶ 03 April 2013     The week in science: Canada leaves UN desertification treaty, China reports first human deaths from H7N9 bird flu, and UK open-access policies take effect. Read More ▶             Astrophysics: Fire in the hole! ▶ 03 April 2013     Will an astronaut who falls into a black hole be crushed or burned to a crisp? Read More ▶             If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing twice ▶ 03 April 2013     Researchers and funding agencies need to put a premium on ensuring that results are reproducible, argues Jonathan F. Russell. Read More ▶             Sizing up a slow assault on cancer ▶ 03 April 2013     Rise of immunotherapies spurs search for markers of response. Read More ▶             Novel bird flu kills two in China ▶ 02 April 2013     Scientists are racing to assess the pandemic potential of H7N9 flu virus. Read More ▶             Mars rover's search for signs of life may come up dry ▶ 02 April 2013     Scientists say lake muds unlikely to have created mountain at the heart of Curiosity's mission. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Medical researchers rally for funds in Washington DC Supply problems hamper 'magic mushroom' drug research Exoplanet satellite gets the nod from NASA Canada shutters research lakes facilities China's stealthy bird flu spreads Marcia McNutt tapped as editor-in-chief at Science Canada to investigate muzzling of scientists Obama launches multibillion-dollar brain-map project European Space Agency opts for radar mission to measure biomass First human deaths from H7N9 bird flu more...                           Special Issue on Falling Sperm Counts and Global Estrogen Pollution: Lessons Learned 20 Years On The March special issue of Asian Journal of Andrology discusses the claim that falling sperm counts worldwide are due to global estrogen pollution, which, when published in 1992, raised the most public, fervent and durable controversy in the short history of Andrology. 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