Nature News highlights: 13 January 2015

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13 January 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               • Featured               2014 in science — and a look ahead at 2015 ▶       2014 was a roller coaster ride for scientists. They celebrated the first mission to land on a comet — and mourned the devastation wrought by the Ebola virus. Here, Nature rounds up the discoveries, stories and people that mattered in science this year. A separate special issue previews what science will look like in 2015. Read More ▶                   • Latest News               Political appointments spur concerns for Amazon ▶ 12 January 2015     Environmentalists worried after Brazilian president picks ministers with ties to agriculture lobby. Read More ▶             Blown-up brains reveal nanoscale details ▶ 09 January 2015     Material used in diaper absorbant can make brain tissue bigger and enable ordinary microscopes to resolve features down to 60 nanometres. Read More ▶             Monkeys seem to recognize their reflections ▶ 09 January 2015     Trained macaques studied themselves in mirrors, fuelling debate over animals' capacity for self-recognition. Read More ▶                 • More Stories               Game theorists crack poker ▶ 08 January 2015     An 'essentially unbeatable' algorithm for the popular card game points to strategies for solving real-life problems without having complete information. Read More ▶             Blacklist proposed for fossil fuels ▶ 08 January 2015     Analysis reveals which nations must refrain from exploiting much of their carbon-based energy resources if temperatures are to rise by no more than 2 °C this century. Read More ▶             Massive star reveals its unstable heart ▶ 07 January 2015     Three-dimensional tour probes hidden secrets of η Carinae. Read More ▶             2014 was the hottest year on record ▶ 07 January 2015     Global temperatures hit new high with no boost from El Niño. Read More ▶             Promising antibiotic discovered in microbial 'dark matter' ▶ 07 January 2015     Potential drug kills pathogens such as MRSA — and was discovered by mining 'unculturable' bacteria. Read More ▶             Seven days: 2–8 January 2015 ▶ 07 January 2015     The week in science: Discredited stem-cell findings linked to contamination; NASA balloon mission springs a leak; and US to consider protections for monarch butterfly. Read More ▶             Environmental science: Pollution patrol ▶ 07 January 2015     Step aside, fitness trackers. The next wave of personal sensors is giving people the ability to monitor the air they breathe. Read More ▶             Rave drug holds promise for treating depression fast ▶ 07 January 2015     Companies and clinicians turn to ketamine to treat mental-health disorder as pipeline of new drugs dries up. Read More ▶             Economic divide taking toll on European science ▶ 07 January 2015     The Horizon 2020 programme threatens to siphon away the best scientists from southern Europe, argues Colin Macilwain. Read More ▶             South Korean survey ships open up to science ▶ 06 January 2015     Vessels used mainly for seabed surveys will expand in focus. Read More ▶             Exoplanet bounty includes most Earth-like worlds yet ▶ 06 January 2015     Latest crop from the Kepler telescope brings small planets around Sun-like stars — and an ice world. Read More ▶             Military health: The insurmountable gulf ▶ 06 January 2015     Twenty-four years after the conflict ended, scientists and veterans are still fighting for recognition of Gulf War illness. 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