Nature News highlights: 10 September 2015

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Can't view this email? Click here to view in your browser.     10 September 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.               Naturejobs Career Guide Asia-Pacific   Opportunities for scientific jobseekers in Asia-Pacific abound. But moving overseas is a big decision. This Career Guide provides practical advice,first-hand accounts and useful facts and figures for those considering a change.         • Latest News               Crowdsourcing digs up an early human species ▶ 10 September 2015     Palaeoanthropologist invites excavators and anatomists to study richest fossil trove in Africa. Read More ▶             Autopsies reveal signs of Alzheimer’s in growth-hormone patients ▶ 09 September 2015     Brain plaques may have been seeded by contaminated hormone extracts from cadavers. Read More ▶             The week in science: 4–10 September 2015 ▶ 09 September 2015     Pentagon freezes pathogen research; El Niño set to be a record breaker; and Lasker awards announced. Read More ▶               • More Stories               Trillions of trees ▶ 09 September 2015     Survey of surveys finds 422 trees for every person on Earth. Read More ▶             The revolution will not be crystallized: a new method sweeps through structural biology ▶ 09 September 2015     Move over X-ray crystallography. Cryo-electron microscopy is kicking up a storm by revealing the hidden machinery of the cell. Read More ▶             Reproducibility will not cure what ails science ▶ 09 September 2015     A bill to make data for environmental regulation more transparent reveals the fuzzy boundary between science and ideology, argues Daniel Sarewitz. Read More ▶             Cancer immunotherapy pioneer wins prestigious Lasker Award ▶ 08 September 2015     James Allison is enlisting the body’s own defenses to fight tumours. Read More ▶             Online security braces for quantum revolution ▶ 08 September 2015     Encryption fix begins in preparation for arrival of futuristic computers. Read More ▶             Fishing for the first Americans ▶ 08 September 2015     Archaeology is moving underwater and along riverbanks to find clues left by the people who colonized the New World. Read More ▶             Wikipedians reach out to academics ▶ 07 September 2015     London conference discusses efforts by the online encyclopaedia to enlist the help of scientists. Read More ▶             Germany claims success for elite universities drive ▶ 04 September 2015     Report praises US$5-billion scheme for making leading universities more competitive — but some smaller institutions have done just as well. Read More ▶             LHC signal hints at cracks in physics' standard model ▶ 03 September 2015     Collider spots same anomaly seen by two other experiments, but more data are needed to claim a discovery. Read More ▶             The journal of proposals, ideas, data and more ▶ 03 September 2015     New journal aims to publish from ‘all stages of the research cycle’. Read More ▶             US agencies plan research-ethics overhaul ▶ 03 September 2015     Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects. Read More ▶             Global count reaches 3 trillion trees ▶ 02 September 2015     Approach combines ground-based surveys with satellite imaging to find higher density than anticipated. Read More ▶                       npj Computational Materials is a new online only, fully open access journal dedicated to publishing the finest articles on materials by design and integrated computational and experimental materials research. 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