Nature News highlights: 25 November 2014

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25 November 2014       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Avoid accidental plagiarism with this free white paper by an AJE editor & PhD.   Make sure you're citing correctly and thoroughly. Avoid common pitfalls (and the resulting embarrassment when a journal notices). Download "In Your Own Words: Best Practices for Avoiding Plagiarism." AJE© provides publication services and resources for researchers. A division of Research Square©.         • Featured               Nature Special: The great depression ▶       Depression causes a greater burden of disability than any other condition, yet it is widely undiagnosed and untreated. In this special collection, Nature provides a global view of the burden caused by the illness, and considers why it is so often ignored in medical research – what if depression were cancer? We also look at how science is unpicking how cognitive behavioural therapy works, and the future for psychiatric drug discovery. Read More ▶                       • Latest News               Wellcome Trust wants research dreams to flourish ▶ 24 November 2014     Director Jeremy Farrar on new plans to support more young scientists and ambitious projects, large and small. Read More ▶             Robot reveals surprisingly thick Antarctic sea ice ▶ 24 November 2014     Underwater survey questions longstanding assumptions about ice surrounding continent. Read More ▶             ITER's new chief will shake up troubled fusion reactor ▶ 21 November 2014     Bernard Bigot, the next director-general of ITER, plans to reform the decentralized structure of the project. Read More ▶                     • More Stories               Mathematical time law governs crowd flow ▶ 21 November 2014     Pedestrians avoid bumping into each other by anticipating when their paths would collide. Read More ▶             Lucy discoverer on the ancestor people relate to ▶ 21 November 2014     Donald Johanson reflects on the enduring charisma of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil he found 40 years ago. Read More ▶             Barley fuelled farmers' spread onto Tibetan plateau ▶ 20 November 2014     Cold-tolerant crop enabled high-altitude agriculture some 3,600 years ago. Read More ▶             US government cracks down on clinical-trials reporting ▶ 19 November 2014     Proposed regulations would close loopholes that allow researchers to hide negative data. Read More ▶             India's 'yoga ministry' stirs doubts among scientists ▶ 19 November 2014     Ancient remedies and practices see a boost in government support, but evidence of their effectiveness is scarce. Read More ▶             Banking culture primes people to cheat ▶ 19 November 2014     Individual bankers behave honestly — except when they think about their jobs. Read More ▶             Indirect costs: Keeping the lights on ▶ 19 November 2014     Every year, the US government gives research institutions billions of dollars towards infrastructure and administrative support. A Nature investigation reveals who is benefiting most. Read More ▶             Seven days: 14–20 November ▶ 19 November 2014     The week in science: China and United States announce plans to cut emissions; European Commission scraps chief science adviser post; and pharma firm Actavis announces a US$66-billion takeover. Read More ▶             Openness in science is key to keeping public trust ▶ 19 November 2014     Silence stifles progress, says Mark Yarborough. The scientific enterprise needs a transparent culture that actively finds and fixes problems. Read More ▶             Crowdfunded Moon mission is serious about science ▶ 19 November 2014     Celebrity-backed lander aims to drill the lunar south pole within a decade. Read More ▶             Crisis mappers turn to citizen scientists ▶ 19 November 2014     Crowdsourced disaster surveys strive for more reliability in online collaboration. Read More ▶             Developing world: Far-flung physics ▶ 18 November 2014     The International Centre for Theoretical Physics was set up to seed science in the developing world; 100,000 researchers later, it is still growing. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Gates Foundation announces world's strongest policy on open access research Energy outlook sees continuing dominance of fossil fuels Private rocket explodes on launch to space station WHO plans for millions of doses of Ebola vaccine by 2015 US research ethics agency upholds decision on informed consent Western Australia abandons shark cull Fundamental overhaul of China's competitive funding AstraZeneca neither confirms nor denies that it will ditch antibiotics research More than half of 2007-2012 research articles now free to read Outbreak of great quakes underscores Cascadia risk more...                   Announcing the Nature Index: A global indicator of high-quality research The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. Updated monthly, the Nature Index presents research outputs by institution and country. 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