Nature News highlights: 19 November 2015

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19 November 2015       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.             • Featured               General Relativity at 100 ▶       In November 1915, Albert Einstein put the finishing touches on his radical reinvention of space, time, gravity and the Universe itself. In this special collection and companion e-book, we celebrate the milestone - which Einstein did not achieve alone - and look at how physicists have pushed the limits of our understanding of entanglement and quantum weirdness. Read More ▶                 • Latest News               NIH to retire all research chimpanzees ▶ 18 November 2015     Fifty animals held in “reserve” by the US government will be sent to sanctuaries. Read More ▶             Cultural differences determine when kids learn to play fair ▶ 18 November 2015     Children in many — but not all ― societies reject unfair deals by the age of eight. Read More ▶             China's bold push into genetically customized animals ▶ 18 November 2015     New kinds of dogs, goats, monkeys and pigs are being made quickly, though scientists voice worries about ethics. Read More ▶               • More Stories               The week in science: 13–19 November 2015 ▶ 18 November 2015     Space junk splashdown; glyphosate risk assessed; US space miners get rights. Read More ▶             The exoplanet files ▶ 18 November 2015     What we know about alien worlds — and what's coming next. Read More ▶             Time to cry out for academic freedom ▶ 18 November 2015     Giving staff and students a say in how institutions are run would strengthen governance and clip the wings of administrators, argues Colin Macilwain. Read More ▶             Wild toads saved from killer fungal disease ▶ 17 November 2015     But chemical treatment for chytrid infection may only work in specific habitats. Read More ▶             Freefall space cubes are test for gravitational wave spotter ▶ 17 November 2015     Europe's long-awaited LISA Pathfinder spacecraft has two metal cubes at its heart, which it will attempt to isolate from every force except for gravity. Read More ▶             Racial bias continues to haunt NIH grants ▶ 17 November 2015     Minorities still less likely to win biomedical funding. Read More ▶             Scientific groups revisit sexual-harassment policies ▶ 16 November 2015     Officials worry that under-reporting remains a problem. Read More ▶             'Supergene' determines wading birds' sex strategy ▶ 16 November 2015     Male ruffs look and behave differently around females, depending on their version of a 125-gene stretch of DNA. Read More ▶             Chile's scientists take to the streets over funding ▶ 16 November 2015     Researchers leave their labs to call for greater public support of research. Read More ▶             The quantum source of space-time ▶ 16 November 2015     Many physicists believe that entanglement is the essence of quantum weirdness — and some now suspect that it may also be the essence of space-time geometry. Read More ▶             Long-sought biological compass discovered ▶ 16 November 2015     Protein complex offers explanation for how animals sense Earth's magnetic pull. Read More ▶             Safety upgrade found for gene-editing technique ▶ 16 November 2015     Tweak reduces chance of a mutation escaping into the wild, and can help to undo a mutation after it has spread. Read More ▶                 Nature Insight: Precision Medicine This Insight examines the emerging framework that is bringing together researchers, clinical laboratories, clinicians and patients in a precision-medicine ?ecosystem?, progress in pharmacogenomics and gene therapy towards personalized treatments, and the need to redesign clinical trials to match patients with the most suitable trial. Available free online Produced with support from AstraZeneca             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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