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This week: looking back at malaria interventions, using private data for research, and how to twist a travelling neutron.

This week: Air pollution deaths, sperm whale languages, climate scientists, hiding nanoparticles, using theatre to communicate the food crisis, detecting gravity waves and anti-venom stocks dwindle in Africa.

This week: Embracing neurodiversity, explaining dark matter, giant frozen viruses, plankton poop ice clouds, safeguarding against quantum hackers and Wikipedia courts scientists. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

It will come as no news to the audience of Genetics in Medicine that keeping up with our field and securing adequate reimbursement is getting harder and harder. At least part of this is a result of our success and reflects the growing relevance of genetics to patient care. In this month's GenePod, the podcast of Genetics in Medicine, this topic is explored with reference to a recent article publis...

This week: Celebrating the 400th Nature Podcast, Earth's two water worlds, weather forecasting, controlling toad populations, how plastic pollution affects seabirds and quantum ‘spookiness’ passes new test. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: The modern scientific revolution, squashing osmium, the search for dark matter, how hummingbirds drink, plasma particle accelerator, a Greenhouse gas loophole and the growing field of urban ecology. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: Chinese emissions, the climate footprint of beef, dreaming eye movement, lessons from hurricane Katrina, sideways gene transfer, hydrogen sulphide superconductors and the Winter Olympic ski site outcry. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: Chemical capsules as glove box alternatives, venomous head-butting frogs, the potential for another Nepal earthquake, corrections to 400-year-old sunspot records and anti-GM activists want access to scientist’s inboxes. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: Scientists after Hiroshima, new species of carnivorous plant, gut microbes boost red-meat cancer risk, lessons from Ebola, ancient macro-organism reproduction, cancer research gets physical and graphenes new cousin stanene. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

Listen to GenePod, the Genetics in Medicine podcast, for an exploration of privacy and the sale of information by DTC genetic testing companies. www.nature.com/gim/index.html

This week: Folding and cutting graphene, how snakes kill, medical marijuana, growing miniature organs, how mitochondria power muscle cells, treating Alzheimer’s and genes from Neanderthals. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

Our bodies are home to more bacterial cells than human cells. These bugs are collectively known as our microbiota. But when we're born, we have very few. Max Vento studies how infants amass their community of bugs and what effect being born preterm has. And it's the subject of a review, in which he and his colleagues also outline how the microbiota of preterm babies can be impaired, and how to coa...

This week: Could eyedrops treat cataracts, engineering rice to produce less methane, hand evolution, structural importance of RNA, teenager free of HIV symptoms and a boost to SETI funding. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

Adoptees and others often have little or no access to family medical history, which puts them at a clear disadvantage with regard to aspects of their medical care. Could genomic analysis help to close this health disparity? Listen to GenePod, the Genetics in Medicine Podcast for an exploration of how genomic testing might be used in this context. http://www.nature.com/gim/index.html

This week: Geologists on earthquake alerts, why seahorse tails are square, a 1500-year-old volcanic climate mystery, stopping HIV, New Horizons nears Pluto and prison for falsifying HIV vaccine data. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: A complex single cell that can see, lizards that swap sex with climate change, can air-pollution cause flooding? Tatooine-like planets possible, teaching robots to be ethical, engineered super pigs, and big steps in super-conducting.

This week: Antartica’s surprising biodiversity, how weather circulation patterns are affecting global temperature events, left-handed kangaroos, rewinding colon cancer, pancreatic cancer biomarkers, and the genomes of two ancient humans are discussed. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: what scientists can learn from measuring the mass of exoplanets, we ask if plants can be intelligent, dinosaur specimen contains soft tissue and maybe even blood cells, positive memories help fight depression in mice, and Philae is awake and back in business. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: genomes from the Bronze Age, chimps get a taste for cooked food, the US military’s biology arm, tackling homophobia with science, and the genetic mutation that protects against a deadly disease. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: the latest in CRISPR gene editing, the bizarre behaviour of Pluto’s moons, Italian scientists being investigated by the police, and the mystery of Greenland’s disappearing lakes. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

At the moment of birth, babies go through the most disruptive physiological transition they will ever experience: they rid their lungs of fluid and start to breathe. Then the umbilical cord is clamped, shutting off air and blood supply from the mother and cementing their independence. New insights into this process, detailed in a review article by Stuart Hooper and colleagues, could help ease the...

This week: redefining the Kelvin scale, laser weapons become a reality, the ethics of killer robots, and scientists find bubbles of air that are one million years old – the oldest air ever studied. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: making opiates from yeast, why sex is worth doing, how zebrafish make their own sunscreen, and the oldest stone tools ever discovered. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: the latest result from the Large Hadron Collider, brainy birds pass a spot-the-difference test that monkeys fail, a look at India’s scientific landscape, and what the UK election might mean for science. www.nature.com/nature/index.html

This week: computers that mimic the human brain, the origins of complex cells, how to clone a mammoth – and should older researchers retire to make room for young blood? www.nature.com/nature/index.html