Health
Millions of Doses of Ebola Vaccine to Be Ready by End of 2015
The World Health Organization is testing a handful of experimental vaccines. Hundreds of thousands of doses could be available before the end of June
Stories by Nature News Blog
The Sciences
CERN at 60: The Biggest Moments at the Famous Particle Physics Lab
Europe's particle-physics lab, made famous most recently for the discovery of the Higgs boson, turns 60 this week
The Sciences
Prime Numbers Scholar Wins 2014 MacArthur "Genius Grant"
The award, which comes with a no-strings-attached $625,000 stipend paid out over five years, also went to black carbon and nano materials researchers
Evolution
Newly Uncovered "Super Henge" Dwarfed Stonehenge
Digital mapping shatters the image of Stonehenge as a desolate site that was visited by few
Environment
"Keeling Curve" CO2-Monitoring Project Draws a Decent Donation
The five-year, $500,000 grant will allow for analysis of a backlog of air samples to discern the contribution of CO2 from man-made sources
The Sciences
Biology Student Faces Jail Time for Publishing Scientist's Thesis on Scribd
The thesis, about amphibian taxonomy, was posted with the intention of helping fellow students with their fieldwork, but prosecutors say the move was criminal
The Sciences
Book That Links Genetic Variation, Race and Evolution Said to Misrepresent Science
More than 100 scientists have signed a published letter asserting that author Nicholas Wade misappropriated their work for the arguments he made in A Troublesome Inheritance
Health
Journal Retracts Paper Linking "Swine Flu" Vaccine and Narcolepsy
The retraction represents a setback for those trying to explain a puzzling cluster of sudden-onset narcolepsy reported in 2010 in Europe
Space & Physics
Dig These Instruments That Will Be on NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
NASA says the rover will carry a zoomable camera, an oxygen-maker and instruments geared to the selection of samples that might be studied one day back on Earth
Space & Physics
Space Sex Gecko Experiment Is Safe—for Now
HBO's John Oliver can rest easy: Technicians have restored control over a satellite with which Roscosmos had lost contact last week. It's carrying five experimental geckos #gogetthosegeckos...
The Sciences
First "Buckyball" Molecules Created from Boron
Chemists have made the famous soccer ball–shaped molecule using a new element that allowed an unexpected atomic arrangement
Space & Physics
Carbon-Monitoring Satellite Finally Makes It to Space
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 will be the first probe dedicated to mapping the distribution of CO2 in the atmosphere. The launch of a nearly identical probe resulted in a crash in 2009...
Space & Physics
Telescope Will Search for Spacecraft's Post-Pluto Target
The Hubble space telescope could increase the chances of success for the New Horizons mission, which is currently nine tenths of the way to Pluto
Space & Physics
World's Largest Radio Telescope Abandoned by Germany
The Square Kilometer Array's loss of Germany's support would be "disappointing, but not catastrophic"
The Sciences
9 Exceptional Scientists Receive the 2014 Kavli Prizes
Cosmic inflation, nano-optics, memory and cognition are among the topics to earn recognition
Mind & Brain
IQ Cutoff for Death Penalty Struck Down by Supreme Court
The ruling acknowledges the inherent variability in IQ scores and their margin of error
Space & Physics
Comet Steams Off as Spacecraft Homes In
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft came out of a three-year hibernation period this winter and is set to attempt a soft-landing on 67P-Churyumov–Gerasimenko in November...
The Sciences
Sex and Race Discrimination in Academia Starts Even Before Grad School
A study of how likely faculty were to respond to a request to meet with a student to discuss research opportunities found that professors were more likely to respond to white men than women and black, Hispanic, Indian or Chinese students
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The Sciences
How to Make Graphene in Your Kitchen Blender
Buried in the supplementary information of a new research paper is a recipe for producing large quantities of clean flakes of the world’s thinnest, strongest material
The Sciences
Hunt for Whales by Japan Must Stop, Court Rules
Scientific whaling program judged unscientific
