Black holes, stem cells and the changing face of academic publishing were popular topics for our readers in 2014.
Notion of an 'event horizon', from which nothing can escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, physicist claims.
24 January 2014
Tigerfish swallows swallows after grabbing them out of the air over African lake.
9 January 2014
Publisher permits subscribers and media to share read-only versions of its papers.
2 December 2014
Just squeezing or bathing cells in acidic conditions can readily reprogram them into an embryonic state.
29 January 2014
Conference proceedings removed from subscription databases after scientist reveals that they were computer-generated.
24 February 2014
Surgeons implanted retinal tissue created after reverting the patient's own cells to 'pluripotent' state.
12 September 2014
Japanese research institute launches inquiry after allegations of irregularities in blockbuster papers.
17 February 2014
Carbon layers grown on silicon carbide conduct electricity even better than theory predicted.
6 February 2014
Leaping beads get a push from the pot.
15 February 2014
Agency recommends global system to monitor spread of resistant microbes.
30 April 2014
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The most-read Nature news stories of 2014. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.16550
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