Nature News
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Role of chaos in deep ocean turned upside down
Reversal could change timeline of heat and carbon storage in the seas
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Modern Milgram experiment sheds light on power of authority
People obeying commands feel less responsibility for their actions.
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The truth about exoplanets
Astronomers are beginning to glimpse what exoplanets orbiting distant suns are actually like.
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Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors
Mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard to fix, report David B. Allison and colleagues.
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Scientists swab C-section babies with mothers’ microbes
Newborns were exposed experimentally to vaginal microbes to restore the microbiomes they missed.
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Hawking’s latest black-hole paper splits physicists
Some welcome his latest report as a fresh way to solve a black-hole conundrum; others are unsure of its merits.
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More evidence emerges for ‘transmissible Alzheimer’s’ theory
Autopsies reveal plaques in the brains of people who died after receiving grafts from cadavers.
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Evidence grows for giant planet on fringes of Solar System
Gravitational signature hints at massive object that orbits the Sun every 20,000 years.
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‘Cave of forgotten dreams’ may hold earliest painting of volcanic eruption
France’s iconic Chauvet cave holds mysterious spray-shaped imagery, made around the time when nearby volcanoes were spewing lava.