December 2007

• Year of the what?

  Nature News tracks who's celebrating their year in 2008.

  31 December 2007

• Budget blow to US science

  Physics takes a hit despite earlier promises.

  24 December 2007

• Mars mission delayed

  Conflict of interest on review panel pushes launch back two years.

  21 December 2007

• Disgraced cloner Woo Suk Hwang attempts a comeback

  Work continues to be published under Hwang's name.

  21 December 2007

• Whatever happened to...

  Nature News revisits some old stories to find out what happened next.

  21 December 2007

• MUSE: We're all going to die

  Can humanity be saved from catastrophe, and is the cost worth it?

  21 December 2007

• A lab model of the early Universe

  Helium-3 experiment replicates colliding-brane theory of cosmology.

  21 December 2007

• Feds block state emission plan

  Washington denies California's request to set its own greenhouse-gas standards.

  20 December 2007

• MUSE: Wise words from the Vatican

  Popes are not noted for enlightened views on science and technology. But the latest papal statements are encouraging, says Philip Ball.

  20 December 2007

• Ancient algal mixup sorted

  Sequencing one of Carl Linnaeus's seaweeds shows modern samples aren't what we thought.

  20 December 2007