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Unhatched turtles move to beat the heat
Embryos shift in their eggs to adjust temperatures — which determine sex.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13185
How nails regenerate lost fingertips
Study of mouse toes reveals pathways that could offer clues for regenerating human limbs.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13192
Economic return from Human Genome Project grows
Report finds genomics effort has added US$1 trillion to US economy.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13187
Space plasmas share a secret
Superhot clumps of matter behave according to a surprisingly universal rule.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13159
‘Invisibility cloak’ hides cats and fish
Arrangement of glass prisms routes light around an object but cannot hide itself.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13184
Rock samples suggest meteor caused Tunguska blast
Grains from Siberian peat bog may be remnants of the biggest Earth impact in recorded history.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13163
US science fleet's future is far from ship-shape
Costs and ageing vessels pile pressure on oceanographic research.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13164
Skeletons show rickets struck the Medici family
Indoor life and poor nutrition condemned the children of Florence's rulers to bone disease.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13156
London biomedical hub sets its research agenda
Paul Nurse, director of the Francis Crick Institute, tells Nature about the centre's scientific strategy.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13143
UK official defends badger cull
Top government environmental scientist says wildlife control still necessary to stem bovine tuberculosis.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13136
Compulsive behaviour triggered and treated
Pulses of light start and stop obsessive grooming in mice.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13144
How the chicken lost its penis
Molecules that signal cell death quash nascent rooster genitals.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13152
Disturbing rumours embroil GSK China
Data in a 2010 Nature Medicine paper are under investigation.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13154
US clinical-research system in need of review
An imminent rethink is required on the country’s approach to government-supported health and pharmaceutical studies, says Arthur J. Ammann.
Nature 498 7 doi: 10.1038/498007a
Seven days: 31 May–6 June 2013
The week in science: Transgenic wheat escapes from US testing fields, H7N9 returns after lull in China, and Martian minerals get mapped.
Nature 498 10 doi: 10.1038/498010a
Europe reforms its fisheries
Agreement would set catch limits that are in line with scientific advice.
Nature 498 17 doi: 10.1038/498016a
Quantum physics: The quantum atom
One hundred years after Niels Bohr published his model of the atom, a special issue of Nature explores its legacy — and how much there is still to learn about atomic structure.
Nature 498 21 doi: 10.1038/498021a