How elephants avoid cancer
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Pachyderms have extra copies of a key tumour-fighting gene.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18534
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Fragment of rat brain simulated in supercomputer
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Blue Brain Project announces results of a decade's work.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18536
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Epigenetic 'tags' linked to homosexuality in men
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Twin study reveals five DNA markers that are associated with sexual orientation.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18530
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Corals worldwide hit by bleaching
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Warm ocean waters combine with El Niño to turn reefs a stark white.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18527
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The biggest mystery in mathematics: Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof
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A Japanese mathematician claims to have solved one of the most important problems in his field. The trouble is, hardly anyone can work out whether he's right.
Nature 526 178 doi: 10.1038/526178a
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Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials
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Potential pain treatments are struggling to prove their worth over a rising placebo effect seen in US trials.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18511
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The week in science: 2–8 October 2015
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Medicine and physics Nobels awarded; world leaders unveil latest marine reserves; and three new neuroscience institutes funded.
Nature 526 168 doi: 10.1038/526168a
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How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop
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Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts.
Nature 526 182 doi: 10.1038/526182a
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Four challenges facing newly elected climate chief
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New leader of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Hoesung Lee, has a full in-tray.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18492
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South Korean economist to lead climate-science panel
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Nature assesses the challenges facing Hoesung Lee, the new chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18492
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Gene-editing record smashed in pigs
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Researchers modify more than 60 genes to enable organ transplants into humans.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18525
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Turkish biomed hub spurs hope amid political strife
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Centre in Izmir swims against the tide to produce world-class fundamental science.
Nature 526 171 doi: 10.1038/526171a
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CERN prepares to test revolutionary mini-accelerator
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Machines that ‘surf’ particles on electric fields could reach high energies at a lower price.
Nature 526 173 doi: 10.1038/526173a
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DNA repair sleuths win chemistry Nobel
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Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar share 2015 prize.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18515
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Make vaccine coverage a key UN health indicator
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Track progress towards universal care using a wide-reaching intervention that all countries can readily measure, says Seth Berkley.
Nature 526 165 doi: 10.1038/526165a
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Morphing neutrinos win physics Nobel
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Demonstration by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald that neutrinos oscillate between identities showed that the particles have mass.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18513
