Nature News highlights: 30 June 2016

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30 June 2016       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Are you worried about antibody specificity? You should be - because the NIH is. Free access to a new white paper on commercial antibody specificity testing using high-content proteome microarrays. Includes background, methods and data.           Advancing the Microbiome Research Symposium Practical insights on setup and execution of preclinical microbiome studies. View the videos from the symposium held on April 26th: Considerations in monitoring colony microbiome Comparing IVCs and isolators for short term studies Stability of complex microbiota in IVCs over time Watch the presentations now          • Latest News               Science academies blast US government's planned research-ethics reforms ▶ 29 June 2016     Advisory panel recommends scrapping proposed changes to 'Common Rule' that governs research involving human subjects. Read More ▶             Dry Amazon could see record fire season ▶ 29 June 2016     Forecasters warn that high ocean temperatures presage intense blazes in rainforest. Read More ▶             Publisher under fire for fake article webpages ▶ 29 June 2016     'Trap' URLs can help publishers to catch automated downloading, but critics say that the approach is clumsy. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Interdisciplinary proposals struggle to get funded ▶ 29 June 2016     Agencies are less likely to fund studies that straddle multiple fields, a study of Australian grants finds. Read More ▶             The week in science: 24–30 June 2016 ▶ 29 June 2016     Ill workers rescued from Antarctic station; controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini faces manslaughter charges; and China dominates list of fastest supercomputers. Read More ▶             Dolly at 20: The inside story on the world's most famous sheep ▶ 29 June 2016     From incubation in a bra to an afterlife under glass, how a cloned sheep attained celebrity status. Read More ▶             ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul ▶ 29 June 2016     Users urge caution in revamp of service at the heart of physics. Read More ▶             Stressed Indus River threatens Pakistan's water supplies ▶ 29 June 2016     Cooler, cloudier summers slow snowmelt in Himalayas Read More ▶             Bird wings trapped in amber are a fossil first from the age of dinosaurs ▶ 28 June 2016     Preserved feathers and tissue provide a picture of hatchlings from the Cretaceous. Read More ▶             UK scientists in limbo after Brexit shock ▶ 28 June 2016     Researchers organize to lobby for science as country prepares for life outside the EU. Read More ▶             NASA's Juno spacecraft prepares to probe Jupiter's mysteries ▶ 28 June 2016     The mission will peek through the gas giant's swirling clouds in search of a planetary core. Read More ▶             Why ultra-powerful radio bursts are the most perplexing mystery in astronomy ▶ 28 June 2016     Strange signals are bombarding Earth. But where are they coming from? Read More ▶             Stop teaching Indians to copy and paste ▶ 28 June 2016     Major reform of education in India should encourage original thinking to boost the nation's research, argues Anurag Chaurasia. Read More ▶             How scientists reacted to the Brexit ▶ 24 June 2016     Researchers respond to the UK's momentous decision to leave the EU. Read More ▶             Expansion of early Universe modelled in unprecedented detail ▶ 24 June 2016     Pioneering techniques could settle longstanding controversy about the accuracy of previous simulations. 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