The week in science: 18–24 March 2016
Mar 22, 2016, 8:00 pm By NaturePublic vote for unlikely research-ship name; China’s gravitational-wave hunt progresses; and…Set up a ‘self-retraction’ system for honest errors
Mar 21, 2016, 8:00 pm By Daniele Fanelli
Notices should make obvious whether a withdrawal of research is the result of misconduct or a…Scientists clash over lifespan of captive killer whales
Mar 21, 2016, 8:00 pm By Ewen Callaway
Two conflicting studies are at centre of row. Nature 531 426 doi: 10.1038/531426aThe secret lives of jellyfish
Mar 21, 2016, 8:00 pm By Garry Hamilton
Long regarded as minor players in ocean ecology, jellyfish are actually important parts of the…Australian cryptologists concerned by restrictive exports law
Mar 21, 2016, 8:00 pm By Bianca NogradyOther scientists also say the need to get a permit for applied ‘dual-use’ research may constrain…Excluded, intimidated and harassed: LGBT physicists face discrimination
Mar 21, 2016, 8:00 pm By Elizabeth Gibney
Transgender people are the most affected. Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.19614Massive network of robotic ocean probes gets smart upgrade
Mar 21, 2016, 8:00 pm By Jeff Tollefson
Initiatives aim to measure global warming’s impact on high seas and deep currents. Nature 531 421…China’s carbon emissions could peak sooner than forecast
Mar 20, 2016, 8:00 pm By Jeff TollefsonCountry's 13th Five-Year Plan advances a broad goal to phase down coal and expand renewable energy.…Zika and birth defects: what we know and what we don’t
Mar 20, 2016, 8:00 pm By Declan Butler
Experts fear a major epidemic of Zika-linked birth defects, but can't yet be sure. Nature News doi:…Transgenic zebrafish forms technicolour 'skinbow'
Mar 20, 2016, 8:00 pm By Adam Levy
Fluorescent proteins used to track individual skin cells in real time. Nature News doi:…Mobile-phone health apps deliver data bounty
Mar 20, 2016, 8:00 pm By Erika Check Hayden
Smartphone programs allow researchers to recruit large numbers of participants and monitor them in…Biological specimen troves threatened by funding pause
Mar 20, 2016, 8:00 pm By Anna Nowogrodzki
Decision by US National Science Foundation could hamper research on conservation biology, climate…South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock'
Mar 17, 2016, 8:00 pm By Mark Zastrow
Historic win by Google DeepMind's Go-playing program has South Korean government playing catch-up on…What China’s latest five-year plan means for science
Mar 17, 2016, 8:00 pm By David Cyranoski
Oceanography, brain science and stem cells among research fields that look set to grow. Nature News…Weird and wonderful Pluto spills its secrets
Mar 16, 2016, 8:00 pm By Jeff Hecht
Data from NASA’s New Horizons mission begin to reveal the stories behind the dwarf planet's…Hints of new LHC particle get slightly stronger
Mar 16, 2016, 8:00 pm By Davide Castelvecchi
One fresh analysis keeps alive physicists' hope for a breakthrough, but another is disappointing.…Turkish academics jailed for ‘making terrorism propaganda’
Mar 15, 2016, 8:00 pm By Alison Abbott
Arrests could be first of many after peace petition led to 30 academics being fired. Nature News…Memories retrieved in mutant ‘Alzheimer’s’ mice
Mar 15, 2016, 8:00 pm By Sara Reardon
Study suggests that patients with Alzheimer's disease can still form memories, raising hopes of new…Dengue vaccine aces trailblazing trial
Mar 15, 2016, 8:00 pm By Erika Check Hayden
Protection against virus raises hopes of vaccine development for dengue and even Zika. Nature News…The red-hot debate about transmissible Alzheimer's
Mar 15, 2016, 8:00 pm By Alison Abbott
A controversial study has suggested that the neurodegenerative disease might be transferred from one…
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