Nature News highlights: 30 July 2015

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30 July 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               • Latest News               Charismatic lion's death highlights struggles of conservation scientists ▶ 29 July 2015     Wildlife conservationist David Macdonald studied Cecil the lion, whose killing made headlines around the world. Read More ▶             Could students solve the irreproducibility crisis? ▶ 29 July 2015     Scientists on social media debate a call to require PhD students to replicate research before they can graduate. Read More ▶             Hacked molecular machine could pump out custom proteins ▶ 29 July 2015     Engineered ribosomes pave way for designer enzymes and synthetic cells. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               The week in science: 24–30 July 2015 ▶ 29 July 2015     Warning about the dangers of AI weapons; Nigeria free of polio; and a hazy halo around Pluto. Read More ▶             The boom in mini stomachs, brains, breasts, kidneys and more ▶ 29 July 2015     Biologists are building banks of 'organoids', and learning a lot about human development on the way. Read More ▶             'Half-pipe' telescope will probe dark energy in teen Universe ▶ 29 July 2015     Canadian observatory aims to chart cosmic expansion rate between 10 billion and 8 billion years ago. Read More ▶             Neanderthals had outsize effect on human biology ▶ 29 July 2015     From skin disorders to the immune system, sex with archaic species changed Homo sapiens. Read More ▶             Historic human burials identified ▶ 28 July 2015     Forensic tools help to name the occupants of four unmarked graves in Jamestown, Virginia. Read More ▶             Exclusive: Genomics pioneer Jun Wang on his new AI venture ▶ 28 July 2015     Visionary leader of China's BGI tells Nature why he is stepping down to build a health-monitoring system based on a million genomes. Read More ▶             Budget showdown leaves US science agencies in limbo ▶ 28 July 2015     Lawmakers face looming deadline to reach a deal — or risk government shutdown. Read More ▶             Hospital checklists are meant to save lives — so why do they often fail? ▶ 28 July 2015     An easy method that promised to cut complications in surgery may not be so simple after all. Read More ▶             NASA launches mission to Greenland ▶ 28 July 2015     Ship and planes will probe water–ice interface in fjords. Read More ▶             Faith and science can find common ground ▶ 28 July 2015     Pope Francis has found a meeting place for those with extreme religious and environmentalist stances, says David M. Lodge. Read More ▶             Oil droplets turn cells into tiny lasers ▶ 27 July 2015     Injecting single cells with spheres of fluorescent dye could open new research and treatment avenues using light. Read More ▶             Nitrogen glaciers flow on Pluto ▶ 24 July 2015     Data from New Horizons mission also reveal a hazy atmosphere that is growing colder and thinner. Read More ▶                       Nature Insight: Origin and evolution of vertebrates Vertebrates have many special features - from large brains to unique tissues. But how they evolved from invertebrates is obscure. This Insight looks at the many theories to explain vertebrate origins, the fossil evidence, a new perspective on the origin of the head and a uniquely vertebrate feature called the neural crest. 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