Nature News highlights: 08 July 2014

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08 July 2014       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               • Featured               Nature Special: The rise and fall of STAP ▶       Two papers published in Nature in January described how simply putting mature body cells under stress can 'reprogram' them and make them able to develop into any type of tissue in the body. But errors were found in the papers, attempts to replicate the experiments failed and Haruko Obokata, the lead author, was found guilty of misconduct. In this special collection you can follow a timeline of the controversy through Nature's news coverage of it and read the journal's editorial on the retractions, a feature article on STAP's significance for research integrity and much more. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Row hits flagship brain plan ▶ 07 July 2014     Changes in scope and focus of European project anger factions of neuroscience community. Read More ▶             Wastewater pumping ups Oklahoma's seismic activity ▶ 04 July 2014     Recent surge of small quakes in the state linked to injections at oil-drilling and fracking wells. Read More ▶             We dislike being alone with our thoughts ▶ 03 July 2014     Many people would rather endure physical pain than suffer their own wandering cogitations. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Science joins push to screen statistics in papers ▶ 03 July 2014     New policy follows efforts by other journals to bolster standards of data analysis. Read More ▶             Enigmatic foundations of maths put to music ▶ 03 July 2014     A composition inspired by Kurt Gödel's 'incompleteness theorems' will premiere at the awards ceremony that bears his name. Read More ▶             Cheap test slashes time taken to diagnose TB ▶ 03 July 2014     Enzyme-based method could become the fastest tuberculosis test yet. Read More ▶             Research integrity: Cell-induced stress ▶ 03 July 2014     As a much-hailed breakthrough in stem-cell science unravelled this year, many have been asking: 'Where were the safeguards?' Read More ▶             Cloned stem cells offer high fidelity ▶ 02 July 2014     Stem cells made by nuclear transfer seem more faithful to originals than are cells that have been reprogrammed. Read More ▶             Seven days: 27 June–3 July 2014 ▶ 02 July 2014     The week in science: Retracted GM study republished; Mars landing gear passes first test; and UK public votes for antibiotics research in Longitude Prize. Read More ▶             Papers on 'stress-induced' stem cells are retracted ▶ 02 July 2014     High-profile reports claiming an easy way to create pluripotent cells were flawed, Nature announces. Read More ▶             Stem cells: Hope on the line ▶ 02 July 2014     A decade ago, voters in California changed the biomedical research landscape by directly funding embryonic stem-cell research. Now the organization they created needs a hit to survive. Read More ▶             Academy 'reform' is stifling Russian science ▶ 02 July 2014     Insufficient funding, more bureaucracy and an inefficient government funding system are sapping the life from Russian research, says Alexey Yablokov. Read More ▶             Astronomy: Planets in chaos ▶ 02 July 2014     The discovery of thousands of star systems wildly different from our own has demolished ideas about how planets form. Astronomers are searching for a whole new theory. Read More ▶             Electroceuticals spark interest ▶ 02 July 2014     Industry and academia invest in treating diseases by delivering electrical charges to nerves. Read More ▶             Fungi borrowed bacterial gene again and again ▶ 01 July 2014     Multiple independent gene transfers gave fungi ability to colonize plant roots. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. Chimps from controversial lab move to retirement home Imperial College under renewed pressure over animal research NASA launches carbon-monitoring satellite French science needs 'smarter' spending, OECD says 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 more...                   Nature Outlook Vaccines   Waging a global battle to prevent disease   Access the Outlook free online for six months.   Produced with support from the New Venture Fund, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and GAVI Alliance, with additional support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.            Announcing Nature Plants: From Bench to Biosphere    Launching in January 2015, Nature Plants will be a new monthly journal concerned with all aspects of plants be it their evolution, genetics, development or metabolism, their interactions with the environment, or their societal significance.   Visit the site to find out more, register for updates and to submit your paper!          • Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Fellow     Trinity College Dublin            Research Associate     University of Glasgow            Research Associate     The University of Sheffield            Postdoctoral fellow     New York University Medical Center          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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