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Bacterium helps to regulate metabolism in mice.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12975

Comparison between hominins suggests modern middle-ear bones evolved early.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12976

Controlled explosions could aid monitoring of active eruptions.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12970

Talk to experts in a Google Hangout about what's being done to save these important insects

Funding goal for 2020 revised from 3% of GDP to 2%, and state share will be cut.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12964

Phylogeneticists examined the reasons why large-scale tree-of-life studies are producing contradictory results and have proposed a suite of novel techniques to resolve the conflicts.

Protein relieves age-related stiffening and thickening of cardiac muscle.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12971

Critics say clinical manual unfit for mental-health research.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12972

Scientists have revealed a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) from Iraq, which revolutionizes our understanding of the evolution and extinction of these ancient marine reptiles.

A study into the brooding behavior of birds has revealed their dinosaur ancestors shared the load when it came to incubation of eggs.

Scientists use high-resolution scanning technique to peer inside developing butterfly

Wolves no longer seen as sole killer of elk

Research consortium finally pegs impact of melting ice sheets

Researchers braced for budget cuts.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12934

Merging the information of two photons could boost quantum-optical technologies.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12942

Researchers harness bacteria to cripple insects that transmit disease.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12962

Chemical fingerprints of lunar rocks suggest both bodies already had their water at birth.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12963

Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world's oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers.

The country's air-pollution crisis offers a lesson in the power of civil society, says Qiang Wang.

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New research has revealed that the evolution of the complex, weight-bearing hips of walking animals from the basic hips of fish was a much simpler process than previously thought.