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• Beyond Trump vs Clinton: A scientist’s guide to the US election

  

  The congressional races and state ballot measures that could shape US science.

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• Breaking NewsEmbattled mega-telescope gets back-up site in Canary Islands

  

  Continued opposition at Hawaii construction site drives the Thirty Meter Telescope's backers to consider a Plan B.

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• Mining the secrets of college syllabuses

  

  The creators of the Open Syllabus Project hope that sharing data can both improve and reward teaching.

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• Trend watchWildlife in decline: Earth's vertebrates fall 58% in past four decades

  

  Living Planet Report predicts that by 2020, populations will have declined by two-thirds from 1970.

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• Martian clouds form, a frozen ship heads home and an orangutan goes climbing

  

  October’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

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• Cosmic rays may threaten space-weather satellite

  

  DSCOVR’s computer may be suffering from radiation-induced glitches, months after it became the primary sentinel for incoming solar storms.

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• World’s largest marine reserve hailed as diplomatic breakthrough

  

  Antarctic agreement follows years of failed discussions and represents the first major conservation effort in the high seas.

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• Climate change could flip Mediterranean lands to desert

  

  Warming beyond 2 ºC could send the region's forests moving north, and cause extensive drying.

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• Q&AControversial head of French agricultural agency speaks out

  

  Philippe Mauguin discusses the balance between basic and applied research, a return to GM crops — and how scientists have settled down since his appointment.

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• Record-breaking common swifts fly for 10 months without landing

  

  The small birds spend most of their lives on the wing.

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• HIV’s Patient Zero exonerated

  

  A study clarifies when HIV entered the United States and dispels the myth that one man instigated the AIDS epidemic in North America.

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• FeatureThe plight of young scientists

  

  A special issue explores how the research enterprise keeps early-career scientists
  from pursuing the most important work, and what can be done to help.

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• Q&AUS mental-health chief: psychiatry must get serious about mathematics
• Seven DaysHungarian science spat, Kuwait’s DNA law and a transparency milestone
• Rio fights Zika with biggest release yet of bacteria-infected mosquitoes
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