Nature News highlights: 18 August 2016

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18 August 2016       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Free Naturejobs Career Expo London Registration is now open for the free Naturejobs Career Expo London on September 16, 2016. Be sure to attend this special 10 year anniversary of the London science career fair for your chance to meet employers face-to-face, attend all conferences and workshops, take part in our photo booth fun, win amazing prizes and so much more! Register Free today!         • Featured               Brexit & Science ▶       As the UK experiences its biggest political upheaval in generations, follow Brexit's fallout for science.    Read More ▶                   NEURAL CIRCUITRY OF EMOTION Presented by: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS | McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT | Nature Neuroscience November 2-4, 2016 | Shenzhen, China REGISTER NOW!         • Latest News               US personalized-medicine industry takes hit from Supreme Court ▶ 17 August 2016     Recent decisions appear to drive spike in patent rejections. Read More ▶             CRISPR's hopeful monsters: gene-editing storms evo-devo labs ▶ 17 August 2016     Easy gene alterations in weird creatures make CRISPR a killer app for evolutionary developmental biology. Read More ▶             The week in science: 12–18 August 2016 ▶ 17 August 2016     China launches quantum satellite; Polio re-emerges in Nigeria; and study reveals how a solar flare almost started a war. Read More ▶                 nature.com webcasts Nature Publishing Group presents a custom webcast on: Holistic workflow solutions to target, purify and characterize glycoprotein profiles Date: Thursday August 25, 2016 Time: 8AM PDT, 11AM EDT, 4PM BST, 5PM CEST Register for the webcast and live Q&A session: Sponsored by: Thermo Fisher          • More Stories               US endangered-species recovery surges to record high ▶ 17 August 2016     Nineteen species delisted from Endangered Species Act in past seven years. Read More ▶             Mosquito guns and heavy fines: how Cuba kept Zika at bay for so long ▶ 17 August 2016     It is one of the last Caribbean countries to get hit. Read More ▶             Bottles, bags, ropes and toothbrushes: the struggle to track ocean plastics ▶ 17 August 2016     Scientists know that there is a colossal amount of plastic in the oceans. But they don't know where it all is, what it looks like or what damage it does. Read More ▶             The plastics revolution: how chemists are pushing polymers to new limits ▶ 17 August 2016     Polymers have infiltrated almost every aspect of modern life. Now researchers are working on next-generation forms. Read More ▶             Define the Anthropocene in terms of the whole Earth ▶ 17 August 2016     Researchers must consider human impacts on entire Earth systems and not get trapped in discipline-specific definitions, says Clive Hamilton. Read More ▶             Controversial insecticides linked to wild bee declines ▶ 16 August 2016     Evidence against neonicotinoid chemicals mounts ahead of EU review. Read More ▶             Trump's border-wall pledge threatens delicate desert ecosystems ▶ 16 August 2016     Ecologists fear plan to seal off the United States from Mexico would put wildlife at risk. Read More ▶             A tale of two governments: the politician behind Argentina's science growth ▶ 16 August 2016     Lino Barañao, the only minister to stay in power after last year's elections, lays out his plans. Read More ▶             Scientists probe lightning hotspot to predict future strikes ▶ 15 August 2016     Forecasters hope to predict strikes months or even years in advance. Read More ▶             Spiking genomic databases with misinformation could protect patient privacy ▶ 15 August 2016     Technique that adds noise to genetic data would enable much faster access to large data sets. Read More ▶             One-man band: the solo physicist who models black holes in sound ▶ 15 August 2016     Working alone, Jeff Steinhauer has created a sonic analogue of Hawking radiation. Read More ▶             Artificial black hole creates its own version of Hawking radiation ▶ 15 August 2016     Result could be closest thing yet to an observation of the bizarre phenomenon. Read More ▶                 Read the latest key research on aging and age-related diseases from npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease, a new open access journal published in partnership with the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine (JAAM). Lifespan-regulating genes in C. elegans   Amyloid proteotoxicity initiates an inflammatory response blocked by cannabinoids            An online-only, open access journal publishing high-quality research on ways to help the human body repair, replace and regenerate damaged tissues and organs. 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