 12th June 2015 | ||
| Our pick of today's science stories Quantum questions. Can human eyes detect a single photon – and see it in two places at once? (Nature news story) Ebola trials. Ghana has suspended a trial for an Ebola vaccine after complaints that locals were being needlessly used as 'guinea pigs' in a country currently free of the disease. (Yahoo News) Cracked up. Injecting water into a geological fault causes the rock to move harmlessly for a short time before building up to an earthquake. The finding could help to control induced earthquakes from energy exploration. (Nature news story; Science paper) Genetic trigger. Japanese scientists have identified a gene that controls whether germ cells eventually become sperm or eggs. (Reuters; Science Express paper) Science on strike. Frustrations at Australia's premier science agency CSIRO have boiled over – staff will be staging a series of strikes from next week. (Nature news story) Targets revealed. Grant income targets for individual academics, which were blamed for the suicide of a professor at Imperial College London, exist in some form in about one in six UK universities. (Times Higher Education) Philae found? Painstakingly piecing together images and radio signals, Rosetta mission scientists think they've pinned down the location of the lost Philae lander on the surface of comet 67P. (Nature news story; ESA blog) Costly correspondence. More than two dozen of Albert Einstein's letters, on subjects ranging from God to geometry, have been sold at auction for US$420,625. (NBC News) Cannabis cash. Sydney University scientists will be given more than AUS$30 million to research the medical applications of cannabis, the largest research donation in the university's history and among the largest to any university in Australian history. (Sydney Morning Herald) Rockey hits the road. Sally Rockey, the deputy director for extramural research at the US National Institutes of Health, has resigned from the agency. She's moving to head up a foundation that supports agricultural research. (Nature news story) Today's good read "If visionary biotechnologies are inevitable, it's DARPA's duty to race ahead and invent them." The Pentagon's avant-garde research arm is making a big push into biological research — but some scientists question whether its high-risk approach can work. Read more: The Pentagon's gamble on brain implants, bionic limbs and combat exoskeletons in Nature. For more daily science news, check in at www.nature.com/news; @NatureNews on Twitter; or on our Facebook page. This newsletter is new and evolving — tell us what you think! Please send feedback to daily@nature.com. | ||
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