Nature News highlights: 4 June 2015

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04 June 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.             • Latest News               US lawmakers approve controversial spending bill ▶ 03 June 2015     Proposal for NSF and NASA would take from Earth and social sciences, and give to planetary exploration. Read More ▶             Pluto's moons move in synchrony ▶ 03 June 2015     Gravity binds together three satellites of dwarf planet. Read More ▶             Sluggish data sharing hampers reproducibility effort ▶ 03 June 2015     Initiative trying to validate 50 cancer papers finds difficulty in accessing original study data. Read More ▶               • More Stories               The week in science: 29 May–4 June 2015 ▶ 03 June 2015     The breakdown of global hunger; Rosetta's spectacular cometary close-up; and conservationists are happy with China's latest move. Read More ▶             CRISPR, the disruptor ▶ 03 June 2015     A powerful gene-editing technology is the biggest game changer to hit biology since PCR. But with its huge potential come pressing concerns. Read More ▶             Supercharged LHC tackles Universe's big questions ▶ 03 June 2015     A graphical guide to the science ahead at the Large Hadron Collider. Read More ▶             Will China's new ivory controls make a difference? ▶ 03 June 2015     Conservationists welcome move but problems for African elephants remain. Read More ▶             Ebola outbreak thrusts MSF into new roles ▶ 03 June 2015     Relief agency sees its mission expanding after leading response to West Africa epidemic. Read More ▶             Business: The billion-dollar biotech ▶ 03 June 2015     Moderna Therapeutics has big ambitions and a bankroll to match. How a fledgling start-up became one of the most highly valued private drug firms ever. Read More ▶             Large Hadron Collider starts doing science again ▶ 03 June 2015     Particle collisions at record energies will push the boundary of human knowledge. Read More ▶             Light opens up the larynx ▶ 02 June 2015     Muscles engineered to be photosensitive could lead to treatments for paralysis. Read More ▶             Retracted gay-marriage study debated at misconduct meet-up ▶ 02 June 2015     Over rum cocktails at the World Conference on Research Integrity, experts discussed what can be learnt from the fallout of a flawed political-science paper. Read More ▶             Take concepts of chemistry out of the classroom ▶ 02 June 2015     The public image of chemistry is not as negative as some assume — but many people find it hard to connect the field to the real world, says Chiara Ceci. Read More ▶             Hyper-precise atomic clocks face off to redefine time ▶ 02 June 2015     Next-generation timekeepers can only be tested against each other. Read More ▶             Hawaii prunes Mauna Kea telescope hub ▶ 02 June 2015     Cultural fight over sacred mountain accelerates observatory closures. Read More ▶                       Nature Outlook: Colorectal Cancer Colorectal cancer is the world's fourth most deadly cancer, killing almost 700,000 people every year. And it is expected to become more common as more people adopt Western diets and lifestyles, which are implicated as risk factors. But research into screening, prevention and treatments is helping to fight the disease.  Access the Outlook free online for six months. 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