Nature News highlights: 16 April 2013

Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     16 April 2013       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               • 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. 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Read More ▶             Egyptian mummies yield genetic secrets ▶ 12 April 2013     Next-generation sequencing finds DNA preserved in hot climates. Read More ▶             Super-powered switches may decide cell fate ▶ 12 April 2013     Long chunks of DNA improve efficiency of gene activators. Read More ▶             Crick's DNA Nobel medal gets $2 million at auction ▶ 11 April 2013     Highest bidder is chief executive of Chinese regenerative-medicine company. Read More ▶             Ape-like fossils show hints of human ancestry ▶ 11 April 2013     The hominin Australopithecus sediba was a hodgepodge of simian and human-like features. Read More ▶             Climate change brings stormier weather to the US ▶ 11 April 2013     Thunderstorm damage has doubled since 1970 and transatlantic flights are set to become bumpier. Read More ▶             Organic pollutants poison the roof of the world ▶ 11 April 2013     Accumulation of DDT in Himalayas exceeds that seen in Arctic. Read More ▶             Obama plays scientific favourites ▶ 10 April 2013     Some science agencies fare well in US president's budget request, but proposal will meet stiff resistance. Read More ▶             Magic trick transforms conservatives into liberals ▶ 10 April 2013     'Choice blindness' can induce voters to reverse their party loyalty. Read More ▶             Can forensics establish whether Pablo Neruda was poisoned? ▶ 10 April 2013     Exhumation of Chilean poet's remains might raise as many questions as it answers. Read More ▶             Oldest dinosaur embryo fossils discovered in China ▶ 10 April 2013     Nesting site yields earliest known organic remains of a terrestrial vertebrate. Read More ▶             See-through brains clarify connections ▶ 10 April 2013     Technique to make tissue transparent offers three-dimensional view of neural networks. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. 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