Nature News highlights: 28 January 2014

If you are unable to see the message below, click here to view.

28 January 2014       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.             • Featured               Special collection: Woo Suk Hwang revisited ▶       Ten years ago, South Korean stem-cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang became a science celebrity, claiming that he had created stem cells from cloned human embryos. But those results were later revealed to be fraudulent. Now, Hwang has refashioned himself as an expert at cloning pets. Can the disgraced biologist redeem himself? This special collection includes all previous Nature coverage of the Hwang story. Read More ▶                 • Latest News               Russia's drug-resistant TB spreading more easily ▶ 26 January 2014     Newly discovered mutations help tuberculosis to stay infectious while evolving resistance to multiple drugs. Read More ▶             Grand Canyon is not so ancient ▶ 26 January 2014     Parts of famous chasm are tens of millions of years old, but integration happened more recently. Read More ▶             Stem-cell company in crisis ▶ 24 January 2014     Financial woes threaten Advanced Cell Technology. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Telescope array could usher in astronomy revolution in Africa ▶ 24 January 2014     The Square Kilometer Array will be the world's biggest radio observatory and promises to spur science and economic development in Africa. Read More ▶             Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes' ▶ 23 January 2014     Notion of an 'event horizon', from which nothing can escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, physicist claims. Read More ▶             El Niño monitoring system in failure mode ▶ 23 January 2014     US budget woes cripple a key mooring array in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Read More ▶             Old Mars rover finds signs of ancient water ▶ 23 January 2014     Ten years on, Opportunity pushes back the date of habitable environments on the red planet. Read More ▶             How a contagious dog tumour went global ▶ 23 January 2014     Sexually transmitted canine cancer has acquired almost 2 million mutations and is still going strong. Read More ▶             Mantis shrimp's super colour vision debunked ▶ 23 January 2014     One of the animal kingdom's most complex eyes is really quite simple. Read More ▶             Supernova erupts in nearby galaxy ▶ 22 January 2014     One of the nearest stellar explosions observed since 1987 could soon be visible with binoculars. Read More ▶             Massive asteroid seen steaming off ▶ 22 January 2014     Ceres spews intermittent plumes of water vapour, but their origin is unclear. Read More ▶             Plant killers protect rainforest diversity ▶ 22 January 2014     Fungi that feed on vegetation can keep any one species from dominating. Read More ▶             Seven days: 17–23 January 2014 ▶ 22 January 2014     The week in science: H7N9 flu makes a resurgence in China, comet-hunting Rosetta spacecraft wakes from hibernation, and Illumina claims $1,000 genome. Read More ▶             'Modest' EU climate targets criticized ▶ 22 January 2014     Planned greenhouse-gas cuts for 2030 might not be enough to avoid disastrous temperature rises. Read More ▶             Don't stop the quest to measure Big G ▶ 22 January 2014     Pinning down the coupling constant in Newton's law of gravity is challenging, but with ultra-stable labs it can be done, says Terry Quinn. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. One-quarter of shark and ray species are in trouble Rosetta wakes up and phones home Climate comments push open-access publisher to terminate journal New revelations on controversial stem-cell foundation in Italy Even after prodding, animal researchers omit key details China crushes tonnes of seized ivory India's heavy-lift rocket passes crucial test Lack of transparency casts doubt on Tamiflu's efficacy, say UK politicians NASA lays out long-term vision for astrophysics Novel China flu seems to pose low risk to humans more...                   Nature Biotechnology FREE POSTER Antibody-drug conjugates for cancer therapy    Made available with the generous support of Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company and Seattle Genetics           Nature Medicine Focus on Targeted Cancer Therapies   In this special Focus, Nature Medicine is proud to present a collection of Reviews and a Perspective tackling some of the most exciting issues in translational cancer research, discussing recent advances and providing a view of what to expect in the near future.   Click here to access this Focus for free!   Sponsored by: Genentech          • Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Fellow     Mayo Clinic            Post Doctoral Research Fellow     University Medical Center Mainz            Postdoctoral Research Assistant     Queen Mary University of London            Postdoctoral positions     Royal Institute of Technology            Research Group Leaders     Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) Mainz          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. Keep up-to-date with the latest sector trends, vote in our reader poll and sign-up to receive the monthly Naturejobs newsletter.                   Your email address is in the Nature News Weekly Alert mailing list. You have been sent this Table of Contents Alert because you have opted in to receive it. You can change or discontinue your e-mail alerts at any time, by modifying your preferences on your nature.com account at: www.nature.com/nams/svc/myaccount (You will need to log in to be recognised as a nature.com registrant). For further technical assistance, please contact subscriptions@nature.com For print subscription enquiries, please contact feedback@nature.com Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick Street, 9th floor | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA Nature Publishing Group's offices: Principal offices: London - New York - Tokyo Worldwide offices: Basingstoke - Boston - Buenos Aires - Delhi - Hong Kong - Madrid - Melbourne - Munich - Paris - San Francisco - Seoul - Washington DC Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales under company number 785998 and whose registered office is located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.