Nature News highlights: 01 July 2014

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01 July 2014       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Laserglow Technologies: Lasers and Optics for Research Don't waste time on purchasing when you could be publishing! Our laser application experts want to help you achieve the best results. Save your time, save your budget, and produce quality data by choosing the right laser for your experiments. Contact us today for a free consultation: www.laserglow.com         • Featured               Nature Special: South American science ▶       The eyes of the world are on South America as the 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off in São Paulo. This Nature Special looks at the state of science across the continent, highlighting the pockets of excellence and the successes at reversing the brain drain but also the challenges for a region where most countries spend less than 1% of their GDP on research and development. Also, commentaries from ten South American research leaders and from Nobelist Torsten Wiesel, and much more. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Rhythm is heard best in the bass ▶ 30 June 2014     Better detection by the brain could explain why low-pitched notes carry the beat across musical cultures. Read More ▶             Supercooled livers last for days ▶ 29 June 2014     Solution that protects rat livers from freezing could extend transplant window for human organs. Read More ▶             Boom-and-bust cycles doomed passenger pigeon ▶ 27 June 2014     Humans may have caused the species's populations to grow huge as well as led to its demise. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Running cures blind mice ▶ 27 June 2014     Exercise combined with visual stimulation helps to quickly restore vision in unused eye. Read More ▶             LHC upgrades could reveal whether Higgs boson is 'standard' ▶ 27 June 2014     A new run at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 could open the door to new theories. Read More ▶             'Grabbed' land has potential to feed millions ▶ 26 June 2014     Ethically controversial land deals could improve food shortages in poor countries. Read More ▶             Earliest skeletal animals were reef builders ▶ 26 June 2014     Ecological reef-building adaptation in skeletal animals appeared much earlier than previously thought. Read More ▶             Bath-salt chemical promises safer solar cells ▶ 25 June 2014     But photovoltaics firms dispute cost savings from academic lab's finding. Read More ▶             Shared decisions benefit next generations ▶ 25 June 2014     Psychology experiment shows people can be nudged into cooperation. Read More ▶             Rural students are being left behind in China ▶ 25 June 2014     As the education gap between city and countryside widens, young people face an invisible barrier to scientific research, says Qiang Wang. Read More ▶             Seven days: 20–26 June 2014 ▶ 25 June 2014     The week in science: Chemist fined over burns death in lab; gravitational-waves team admits dust problems; and West African Ebola outbreak worsens. Read More ▶             Nutrition: Vitamins on trial ▶ 25 June 2014     After decades of study, researchers still can't agree on whether nutritional supplements actually improve health. Read More ▶             Love in the lab: Close collaborators ▶ 25 June 2014     Romance often sparks between colleagues, and scientists are no different. Nature profiles four super-couples who have combined love and the lab. Read More ▶             'Life on Earth' project gets under way ▶ 25 June 2014     Assessments by international biodiversity group aim to halt damage to world's ecosystems. Read More ▶             NASA carbon-monitoring orbiter readies for launch ▶ 25 June 2014     Satellite will map sources and sinks of greenhouse gas in unprecedented detail. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Antibiotic resistance focus of UK Longitude Prize Researcher reassigned in wake of disease centre's anthrax scare Mathematicians claim share of science's most lucrative prize Higgs particle linked to matter, not just force, particles NASA finds asteroids to visit but may lose an important tool for studying them Hubble telescope to search for spacecraft target beyond Pluto Germany pulls back from international mega-telescope project Environmental offsets under fire Last remaining support for controversial stem-cell papers collapses Public opinion key to harnessing synthetic biology more...                     nature.com webcasts   Macmillan Science Communication presents a custom webcast on: Biomarker discovery: Translating proteomics into clinical diagnostics   Now available on demand    Sponsored by:             NEW DEALS: Lab equipment and services   Browse our library of savings and information!   Check Marketplace first   VISIT MARKETPLACE TODAY          • Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Senior Research Manager     Cancer Research UK            Senior Lecturer in Medical Research     Lund University            Executive Director     International Council for Science (ICSU)            Senior Staff Associate     Columbia University            PhD Researcher     KU Leuven          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. 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