Newsblog: Readers choice of 2013 : Nature News & Comment.
Keeping up with the well-established tradition of year-end lists, here is one from Nature’s blog:
1. Experiments reveal that crabs and lobsters feel pain
7 August 2013
2. 66 journals banned for boosting impact factor with self-citations
19 June 2013
3. Another dark-matter sign from a Minnesota mine
15 April 2013
4. White House announces new US open-access policy
22 February 2013
5. Laser images hint at archaeological discoveries
15 May 2013
6. Scientists join journal editors to fight impact-factor abuse
16 May 2013
7. US government researchers barred from scientific conferences
4 October 2013
8. US justice ‘overreach’ blamed in suicide of Internet-freedom activist
14 January 2013
9. Taiwan court set to decide on libel case against scientist
29 August 2013
10. Why has the Yangtze River turned red?
11 September 2013