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The microscopic ecosystems in health-care centres mirror those of their patients.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13057

Critics raise questions about rush to publication.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13060

Identification of distinct neural circuit distinguishes the sensation from pain.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13061

Congressman Lamar Smith hopes to ‘improve’ peer review by adding a layer of accountability, but his bill aims at imaginary ideals, argues Daniel Sarewitz.

Nature 497 411 doi: 10.1038/497411a

The week in science: Chile pushes for a national science ministry, Indonesia protects its forests, and Nobel laureate Heinrich Rohrer dies.

Nature 497 414 doi: 10.1038/497414a

Reform is in the air at the nation’s oldest research body.

Nature 497 420 doi: 10.1038/497420a

Multi-nation effort is a test of scientific diplomacy.

Nature 497 421 doi: 10.1038/497421a

Honeycomb lattices in different materials enable experiments impossible in the real thing.

Nature 497 422 doi: 10.1038/497422a

Ed Stone has spent 36 years guiding the twin Voyager spacecraft through the Solar System. Next stop, interstellar space.

Nature 497 424 doi: 10.1038/497424a

Self-assembling nanoparticles could make updating seasonal vaccines easier.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13042

More and more studies show that being overweight does not always shorten life — but some public-health researchers would rather not talk about them.

Nature 497 428 doi: 10.1038/497428a

As government funding ebbs, scientists launch commercial company to continue analysis efforts.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13041

Chemicals in primate teeth reveal transition to solid food.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13047

Space telescope’s mission to find planets outside the Solar System is probably over.

Nature 497 417 doi: 10.1038/497417a

Political squabbles leave US science agencies without heads.

Nature 497 418 doi: 10.1038/497418a

Sequestration threatens records of snow and stream levels in western United States.

Nature 497 419 doi: 10.1038/497419a

Two satellites of the Milky Way contributed to the Magellanic Stream.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13020

Strain caused more than a million to die of hunger but was less aggressive than modern ones.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13021

The need to swim efficiently makes seabirds poor fliers.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13024

Phages in mucus aid immune system by killing invading bacteria.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13023