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• The balance of probabilities

  IPCC members last week considered the best way to quantify uncertainty. They are not alone in needing to do so — the media must also take a firm line when it comes to scientific reporting.

• Save our cities

  Scientists researching problems such as water management should focus more on urban areas.

• A hammer blow to national ethics

  China needs to act on broader science failures, not simply condemn an isolated case.

• Scientists vs engineers: this time it's financial

  

  As public funds dwindle, long-standing divisions between engineers and scientists over their status in society will be laid bare, says Colin Macilwain.

Selections from the scientific literature:

• Oceanography: Cold water rising in the Pacific

• Ecology: Plant patterns predict collapse

• Drug development: Worm surgery on a chip

• Energy: Plenty of energy, not well shared

• Addiction: Brain's balancing act with cocaine

• Metabolism: Night light, weight gain

• Biosynthesis: Yeast yields plastic ingredient

• Neuroscience: The motor skills of musical minds

• Microbiology: Salmonella gets help from host

• Community Choice

  Geoscience: Volcanoes respond to earthquakes

• Cities: The urban equation

  

  With the majority of the human population now living in cities, Nature takes a look at the implications for scientists.

• Climate economics: Hot in the city

  Robert Buckley cautions that financial incentives alone will not fuel urban adaptation to climate change.

  • Review of Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future Matthew E. Kahn

• Synthetic biology: Living quarters

  Synthetic biology could offer truly sustainable approaches to the built environment, predict Rachel Armstrong and Neil Spiller.

• Genes and development: The importance of childhood

  Our emotional brains are shaped by social interactions during infancy, finds Morten Kringelbach.

  • Review of The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind Melvin Konner

• Books in brief

• Setting the record straight (again)

  • Michael E. Mann
  • Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Stefan Rahmstorf

• Nature redesign: what's not to like?

  • George Russell

• Nature redesign: what is to dislike

  • Andrew Sutter

• Concrete evidence of confusion

  • Simon J. Teague

• Let's keep the debate focused

  • Karl Sigmund

• Biomedical science: Putting research into practice

  • Laura Bonetta

• The best contacts

  • Peter Fiske

• Biomedical investment

• Huge scholarship rise

• Early-career praise

• Out of time

  A vision to behold.

  • Elizabeth Counihan

• Metabolic disorders: Fathers' nutritional legacy

  • Michael K. Skinner

  See also

  • Letter by Ng et al.

• Nanotechnology: Beyond the confines of templates

  • Younan Xia
  • Byungkwon Lim

• Astronomy: Galaxy sets distance mark

  • Michele Trenti

  See also

  • Letter by Lehnert et al.

• Structural biology: Last of the multidrug transporters

  • Hendrik W. van Veen

  See also

  • Letter by He et al.

• Atmospheric physics: Chorus keeps the diffuse aurora humming

  • Patrick T. Newell

  See also

  • Letter by Thorne et al.

• 50 & 100 years ago

• Single-molecule analysis of Mss116-mediated group II intron folding

  • Krishanthi S. Karunatilaka
  • Amanda Solem
  • Anna Marie Pyle
  • David Rueda

• Spectroscopic confirmation of a galaxy at redshift z = 8.6

  • M. D. Lehnert
  • N. P. H. Nesvadba
  • J.-G. Cuby
  • A. M. Swinbank
  • S. Morris
  • B. Clément
  • C. J. Evans
  • M. N. Bremer
  • S. Basa

  See also

  • News & Views by Trenti

• Scattering by chorus waves as the dominant cause of diffuse auroral precipitation

  • Richard M. Thorne
  • Binbin Ni
  • Xin Tao
  • Richard B. Horne
  • Nigel P. Meredith

  See also

  • News & Views by Newell

• Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal

  • Oleg D. Lavrentovich
  • Israel Lazo
  • Oleg P. Pishnyak

• Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

  • Martin Jung
  • Markus Reichstein
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Sonia I. Seneviratne
  • Justin Sheffield
  • Michael L. Goulden
  • Gordon Bonan
  • Alessandro Cescatti
  • Jiquan Chen
  • Richard de Jeu
  • A. Johannes Dolman
  • Werner Eugster
  • Dieter Gerten
  • Damiano Gianelle
  • Nadine Gobron
  • Jens Heinke
  • John Kimball
  • Beverly E. Law
  • Leonardo Montagnani
  • Qiaozhen Mu
  • Brigitte Mueller
  • Keith Oleson
  • Dario Papale
  • Andrew D. Richardson
  • Olivier Roupsard
  • Steve Running
  • Enrico Tomelleri
  • Nicolas Viovy
  • Ulrich Weber
  • Christopher Williams
  • Eric Wood
  • Sönke Zaehle
  • Ke Zhang

• Continental warming preceding the Palaeocene–Eocene thermal maximum

  • Ross Secord
  • Philip D. Gingerich
  • Kyger C. Lohmann
  • Kenneth G. MacLeod

• Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts

  • Daniel F. Doak
  • William F. Morris

• Chronic high-fat diet in fathers programs β-cell dysfunction in female rat offspring

  • Sheau-Fang Ng
  • Ruby C. Y. Lin
  • D. Ross Laybutt
  • Romain Barres
  • Julie A. Owens
  • Margaret J. Morris

  See also

  • News & Views by Skinner

• Generation of pathogenic T_H17 cells in the absence of TGF-β signalling

  • Kamran Ghoreschi
  • Arian Laurence
  • Xiang-Ping Yang
  • Cristina M. Tato
  • Mandy J. McGeachy
  • Joanne E. Konkel
  • Haydeé L. Ramos
  • Lai Wei
  • Todd S. Davidson
  • Nicolas Bouladoux
  • John R. Grainger
  • Qian Chen
  • Yuka Kanno
  • Wendy T. Watford
  • Hong-Wei Sun
  • Gérard Eberl
  • Ethan M. Shevach
  • Yasmine Belkaid
  • Daniel J. Cua
  • WanJun Chen
  • John J. O’Shea

• Oxidative stress induces angiogenesis by activating TLR2 with novel endogenous ligands

  • Xiaoxia Z. West
  • Nikolay L. Malinin
  • Alona A. Merkulova
  • Mira Tischenko
  • Bethany A. Kerr
  • Ernest C. Borden
  • Eugene A. Podrez
  • Robert G. Salomon
  • Tatiana V. Byzova

• Maternal Rnf12/RLIM is required for imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mice

  • JongDae Shin
  • Michael Bossenz
  • Young Chung
  • Hong Ma
  • Meg Byron
  • Naoko Taniguchi-Ishigaki
  • Xiaochun Zhu
  • Baowei Jiao
  • Lisa L. Hall
  • Michael R. Green
  • Stephen N. Jones
  • Irm Hermans-Borgmeyer
  • Jeanne B. Lawrence
  • Ingolf Bach

• Satellite phage TLCφ enables toxigenic conversion by CTX phage through dif site alteration

  • Faizule Hassan
  • M. Kamruzzaman
  • John J. Mekalanos
  • Shah M. Faruque

• TAp63 suppresses metastasis through coordinate regulation of Dicer and miRNAs

  • Xiaohua Su
  • Deepavali Chakravarti
  • Min Soon Cho
  • Lingzhi Liu
  • Young Jin Gi
  • Yu-Li Lin
  • Marco L. Leung
  • Adel El-Naggar
  • Chad J. Creighton
  • Milind B. Suraokar
  • Ignacio Wistuba
  • Elsa R. Flores

• Structure of a cation-bound multidrug and toxic compound extrusion transporter

  • Xiao He
  • Paul Szewczyk
  • Andrey Karyakin
  • Mariah Evin
  • Wen-Xu Hong
  • Qinghai Zhang
  • Geoffrey Chang

  See also

  • News & Views by van Veen

• The energetics of genome complexity

  • Nick Lane
  • William Martin