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Summaries of newsworthy papers: Cancer and copy number, General relativity tested in the lab, Multi-wavelength view of an astrophysical jet, iPS to understand diseases, Supernova progenitors constrained by their X-rays and Learning to sing changes the brain

Read more of the article entitled 'Lessons from the Haiti earthquake'

The complete genome sequences of an indigenous hunter-gatherer from Namibia’s Kalahari Desert and of a Bantu from southern Africa are presented in this week’s Nature. Alongside these genomes are presented the sequences of the protein-coding regions from three other hunter-gatherer groups from the Kalahari.

Read more of the article entitled 'Genomes: Comparing southern African sequences'

Summaries of newsworthy papers: Variants associated with dementia, Makeover to yield designer proteins?, Unprecedented pressure from ocean acidification, A new villain in multiple sclerosis, Deletion associated with childhood developmental delay and Melting glaciers in Greenland fjords

Read more of the article entitled 'Full solar-cell performance with only one percent of material used'

A new breed of cherry blossom tree that blooms all year round has been created by RIKEN scientists using heavy ion beams at RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerated-Based Science.

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Studies on mutant plants provide insights into the role of strigolactone, a plant hormone that inhibits shoot branching and attracts both beneficial symbionts and damaging root parasites

Read more of the article entitled 'Discovery of a plant hormone that affects other organisms'