Nature News highlights: 29 July 2014

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29 July 2014       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Save on best-in-class personal flow cytometry  With a combined value package, you can save 10% on the BD Accuri™ C6 personal flow cytometer and 40% on high quality BD Pharmingen™ reagents for 2 full years. There's never been a better time to buy and get the best-in-class power, flexibility, and insight personal flow cytometry can offer. Flow cytometry within reach™. bdbiosciences.com/go/accuri         • Featured               News Special: HIV workers on Flight MH17 ▶       Following the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, in which all 298 passengers are presumed dead, the HIV-AIDS research and health-care community is reeling. The flight was carrying several delegates to the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. Among them was Dutch researcher Joep Lange, who spearheaded the development of antiretroviral therapy and efforts to bring treatments to the developing world. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Flaws emerge in RNA method to build tree of life ▶ 28 July 2014     Study finds problems with alluringly simple way to tease out evolutionary relationships through microRNA. Read More ▶             Dinosaur-killing asteroid hit at just the wrong time ▶ 28 July 2014     Animals might have survived if impact happened a few million years earlier or later. Read More ▶             Satellites reveal extent of groundwater loss in western United States ▶ 25 July 2014     Drought-stricken Colorado River basin is drawing down underground supplies. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               'Hot Jupiter' measurements throw water on theory ▶ 24 July 2014     Dry atmospheres of three exoplanets challenge ideas of how planets form. Read More ▶             Researchers call for easy access to contraception ▶ 23 July 2014     Innovative and existing methods are needed to tackle overpopulation. Read More ▶             Transistor successor set to bring on "The Machine" age soon ▶ 23 July 2014     A successor to an essential part in today's computers may arrive in just a few years. Read More ▶             Seven days: 18–24 July 2014 ▶ 23 July 2014     The week in science: Spacecraft chases duck-shaped comet; Darwin's library online; and a new journal for workplace fatigue. Read More ▶             Chile needs better science governance and support ▶ 23 July 2014     Its scientists have much to offer the world, but are being held back by scattered administration and changing policies, argues Pablo Astudillo Besnier. Read More ▶             Plasma physics: The fusion upstarts ▶ 23 July 2014     Fuelled by venture capital and a lot of hope, alternative fusion technologies are heating up. Read More ▶             Science and politics: Hello, Governor ▶ 23 July 2014     When California's governor enlisted the aid of two palaeoecologists, their careers took an unusual turn. Read More ▶             Mars slow to yield its secrets ▶ 23 July 2014     Scientists seek fresh approaches to deciphering red planet's history. Read More ▶             Kenyan doctors win landmark discrimination case ▶ 22 July 2014     Judge says joint UK–Kenya programme thwarted careers of six local researchers. Read More ▶             China plans super collider ▶ 22 July 2014     Proposals for two accelerators could see country become collider capital of the world. Read More ▶             Error discovered in Antarctic sea-ice record ▶ 22 July 2014     Misalignment in data between satellites may be fixed now, but went undetected for years. Read More ▶             Delegates mourn MH17 passengers ▶ 22 July 2014     AIDS conference tries to draw inspiration from lost scientists. Read More ▶               • Newsblog               Read up to the minute coverage of research and science policy. NIH advocates gear up for budget fight Three HIV insights from sombre global meeting Scripps president resigns after faculty revolt São Paulo state joins mega-telescope Mosquitoes transmit chikungunya in continental US Google maps methane leaks Mars rover facing harshest journey yet Wellcome Trust looks to youth and 'high-risk' research Scientists praise outgoing UK science minister Mars probe to get rare view of comet more...                   Nature Milestones in Crystallography Nature Milestones in Crystallography is a collaboration from Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, and celebrates the International Year of Crystallography 2014. 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