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Con artists are stealing the identities of real journals to cheat scientists out of publishing fees.

Nature 495 421 doi: 10.1038/495421a

A special issue of Nature looks at the transformation taking place in scientific publishing.

Nature 495 425 doi: 10.1038/495425a

Cheap open-access journals raise questions about the value publishers add for their money.

Nature 495 426 doi: 10.1038/495426a

As scientific publishing moves to embrace open data, libraries and researchersare trying to keep up.

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The explosion in open-access publishing has fuelled the rise of questionable operators.

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Discovery that fossilization distorts pigment structures casts doubt on reconstructed plumages.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12674

But genetic tests of 200,000 people reveal no clear cause-and-effect.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12675

Sex determination in the protozoan Tetrahymena is a roll of the genetic dice.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12684

Molecule changes shape to help organisms kick drugs out of cells. 

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12686

Turning 100 might have seemed unremarkable to the Hungarian-born mathematician.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12687

Bacteria transplant provides some of the benefits of gastric bypass surgery without the surgery.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12688

Space telescope culls exotic creation theories with ultra-precise microwave map.

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Tabletop Higgs particles may illuminate cosmic cousin.

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Italian health minister’s support for a controversial treatment appals the country’s scientists.

Nature 495 418 doi: 10.1038/495418a

Ageing study finds being alone is a health risk. 

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12673

Neuroimaging 'biomarker' linked to rearrest after incarceration.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12672

Can brain scans ever tell us why we like art?

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12640

Federal budget boosts clean-energy research and university infrastructure.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12663

Writers' expressions of sentiment have grown apart in recent decades.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12642

Dating technique pins down massive eruptions that may have triggered mass extinction.

Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.12657