Nature News highlights: 21 July 2016

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21 July 2016       nature news alert • Read Nature's news online • Subscribe to Nature Your weekly update from Nature's global news team.             • Latest News               Human brain mapped in unprecedented detail ▶ 20 July 2016     Nearly 100 previously unidentified brain areas revealed by examination of the cerebral cortex. Read More ▶             The week in science: 15–21 July 2016 ▶ 20 July 2016     Turkey purges all university deans after failed coup; engineered mosquitos show apparent success against dengue; and Romania joins CERN. Read More ▶             Dutch agency launches first grants programme dedicated to replication ▶ 20 July 2016     Three-year pilot devotes €3 million to verifying other studies. Read More ▶               • More Stories               The unsung heroes of CRISPR ▶ 20 July 2016     The soaring popularity of gene editing has made celebrities of the principal investigators who pioneered the field — but their graduate students and postdocs are often overlooked. Read More ▶             The bicycle problem that nearly broke mathematics ▶ 20 July 2016     Jim Papadopoulos has spent a lifetime pondering the maths of bikes in motion. Now his work has found fresh momentum. Read More ▶             South China Sea ruling sparks conservation fears ▶ 20 July 2016     Court decision escalates tensions in ecologically sensitive region, but may also push nations to cooperate. Read More ▶             Turkey purges universities after failed coup ▶ 19 July 2016     Political turmoil spreads to education sector. Read More ▶             People can sense single photons ▶ 19 July 2016     Experiment suggests that humans are capable of perceiving even the feeblest flash of light. Read More ▶             Cell biologists should specialize, not hybridize ▶ 19 July 2016     Dry cell biologists, who bridge computer science and cell biology, should have a pivotal role in driving effective team science, says Assaf Zaritsky. Read More ▶             Older men and young women drive South African HIV epidemic ▶ 18 July 2016     Genetics study confirms social cycle that helps infection to spread. Read More ▶             Atom wranglers create rewritable memory ▶ 18 July 2016     Chlorine atoms arranged into grids bring researchers closer to data-storage devices that could hold the US Library of Congress. Read More ▶             Science under siege: how Venezuela's economic crisis is affecting researchers ▶ 18 July 2016     Chemist Claudio Bifano tells Nature about daily life in a country gripped by hunger, scarcity and violence. Read More ▶             First Greek science agency is rare source of joy for beleaguered researchers ▶ 15 July 2016     European Investment Bank provides surprise loan to halt startling brain drain. Read More ▶             Algae are melting away the Greenland ice sheet ▶ 15 July 2016     'Black and Bloom' project explores how microorganisms help to determine the pace of Arctic melting. Read More ▶             Science's status shifts in new Brexit government ▶ 14 July 2016     Reshuffled UK administration signals change for research and science policy. Read More ▶                 npj Clean Water: open for submissions  An open access, online-only journal, dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that describe the significant and cutting-edge research that continues to ensure the supply of clean water to populations. 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