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• Cautious welcome for UK's vague £2 billion research pledge

  Posted:2016-11-21

  Questions remain around commitment to boost science investment.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.21022

  

• Geneticists hope to unlock secrets of bats’ complex sounds

  Posted:2016-11-18

  Project to sequence the DNA of more than 1,000 species seeks to reveal how bats learn to communicate.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20997

  

• Brazil’s scientists battle to escape 20-year funding freeze

  Posted:2016-11-18

  Cap at current spending levels could spell 'end of science in Brazil', researchers say.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.21014

  

• UK politicians demand Brexit guarantee for EU scientists

  Posted:2016-11-18

  Influential committee says researchers need assurances that they can stay after UK leaves European Union.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.21015

  

• Long-sought signal deepens mystery of fast radio bursts

  Posted:2016-11-17

  A discovery that was supposed to help reveal how the bursts arise only thickens the plot.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20993

  

• Rock core from dinosaur-killing impact reveals how enormous craters form

  Posted:2016-11-17

  Drilling into Mexico’s Chicxulub basin also finds shattered rock where underground life could thrive.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20994

  

• Laser used to control mouse's brain — and speed up milkshake consumption

  Posted:2016-11-17

  The ability to control very small groups of neurons could have big implications for brain science.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20995

  

• Argentina president's first budget angers scientists

  Posted:2016-11-17

  Researchers chafe at spending cuts and fear a brain drain.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.21013

  

• The mathematics of science's broken reward system

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Theoretical models of how science works provide valuable insights, says Philip Ball.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20987

  

• Reality must trump rhetoric after US election shock

  Posted:2016-11-16

  It is time for scientists and politicians alike to constructively engage with core issues — from climate change and energy independence to social inequality.

  Nature 539 329 doi: 10.1038/539329a

  

• Being able to explain your work to passers-by is laudable — but not always possible

  Posted:2016-11-16

  The first person to invoke the ‘man on the street’ has been identified, but sometimes maths is just too difficult to make simple.

  Nature 539 330 doi: 10.1038/539330a

  

• Fed up of Earth? Try Mars

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Establishing a Martian outpost is likely to bring many of the same societal problems we face on Earth.

  Nature 539 330 doi: 10.1038/539330b

  

• Animal behaviour: Plastic smells good to marine birds

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 332 doi: 10.1038/539332a

  

• Photonics: Nanolasers for precision imaging

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 332 doi: 10.1038/539332b

  

• Geochemistry: Plants take up more carbon

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 332 doi: 10.1038/539332c

  

• Cancer immunotherapy: Gene-edited cells fight cancer

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 332 doi: 10.1038/539332d

  

• Neuroscience: Brain circuit for tickling found

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 333 doi: 10.1038/539333a

  

• Cardiovascular biology: Food chemical protects the heart

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 333 doi: 10.1038/539333b

  

• Materials: Elastic polymer mimics muscles

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 333 doi: 10.1038/539333c

  

• Infection: Red squirrels get leprosy

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 333 doi: 10.1038/539333d

  

• Palaeontology: Early dinosaurs emerged gradually

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 333 doi: 10.1038/539333e

  

• Archaeology: Old DNA reveals fishing habits

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 333 doi: 10.1038/539333f

  

• Carbon dioxide emissions still stable, bird flu in Europe and LIGO restarts

  Posted:2016-11-16

  The week in science: 11–17 November 2016.

  Nature 539 334 doi: 10.1038/539334a

  

• How much longer can Antarctica’s hostile ocean delay global warming?

  Posted:2016-11-16

  The waters of the Southern Ocean have absorbed much of the excess heat and carbon generated by humanity.

  Nature 539 346 doi: 10.1038/539346a

  

• Public health: Gore and glory

  Posted:2016-11-16

  David Dobbs extols a history of New York's Bellevue hospital, a crucible of discovery in medicine.

  Nature 539 354 doi: 10.1038/539354a

  

• Books in brief

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week's best science picks.

  Nature 539 355 doi: 10.1038/539355a

  

• History: Untangling Alice

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Gillian Beer reveals the currents in Lewis Carroll's worlds.

  Nature 539 356 doi: 10.1038/539356a

  

• UK research reform: protest now

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 357 doi: 10.1038/539357a

  

• UK research reform: poor timing

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 357 doi: 10.1038/539357b

  

• UK research reform: get the facts straight

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 357 doi: 10.1038/539357c

  

• Community genetics: Genetics boosts US–Cuban links

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 357 doi: 10.1038/539357d

  

• Molecular medicine: Precision oncology is not an illusion

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Nature 539 357 doi: 10.1038/539357e

  

• Joseph L. Birman (1927–2016)

  Posted:2016-11-16

  Physicist who helped hundreds of scientists to escape oppression.

  Nature 539 358 doi: 10.1038/539358a

  

• Box 27

  Posted:2016-11-16

  A question of definition.

  Nature 539 462 doi: 10.1038/539462a

  

• The flip side of personal genomics: When a mutation doesn't spell disease

  Posted:2016-11-15

  Researchers worry about misinforming people about the risk of disease.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20986

  

• CRISPR gene-editing tested in a person for the first time

  Posted:2016-11-15

  The move by Chinese scientists could spark a biomedical duel between China and the United States.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20988

  

• European diseases left their mark on First Nations' DNA

  Posted:2016-11-15

  Change to immune-system genes in indigenous Canadians linked to epidemic introduced by Europeans.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20992

  

• Science and innovation policies for Donald Trump

  Posted:2016-11-15

  Daniel Sarewitz says the new US president will need to promote creative science to benefit the disaffected millions who voted for him.

  Nature 539 331 doi: 10.1038/539331a

  

• US to launch its most advanced weather satellite yet

  Posted:2016-11-14

  GOES-R can snap an image every 30 seconds and will improve responses to severe storms.

  Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.20970

  

• Disgraced stem-cell entrepreneur under fresh investigation

  Posted:2016-11-14

  Davide Vannoni is barred from offering a controversial stem-cell therapy in Italy but may be continuing his work abroad.

  Nature 539 340 doi: 10.1038/539340a

  

• Rwanda feels the pinch as donors slash health aid

  Posted:2016-11-14

  Country's progress on public health and science prompts funding shift to more-troubled nations.

  Nature 539 342 doi: 10.1038/539342a

  

• Carbon is not the enemy

  Posted:2016-11-14

  Design with the natural cycle in mind to ensure that carbon ends up in the right places, urges William McDonough

  Nature 539 349 doi: 10.1038/539349a

  

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