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By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine Analysis of fossil traits suggests that Archaeopteryx is not a bird at all. [More]

The new Personal Genome Machine was used to decode the DNA of the deadly strain of E. coli that ravaged Europe this spring

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine As cheat sheets go, it is a long one. [More]

By Duncan Graham-Rowe of Nature magazine Flexible, transparent lithium-ion batteries have been made by a team of researchers at Stanford University in California, a technological leap that could spawn see-through electronic gadgets such as translucent iPads. Many electronic components can be fabricated to be transparent, but so far this hasn't been possible for the power supply, says materials scientist Yi Cui, who led the work, which is published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Batteries are normally made up of a pair of electrodes separated by an electrolytic solution, with something to conduct the current to an external circuit, and packaging to hold it all together.

By Sid Perkins of Nature magazine Climate change could increase the number of large wildfires in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and the surrounding region in the coming decades. [More]

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine GRENOBLE, FRANCE When its experiments started in earnest earlier this year, many scientists hoped that the world's most powerful collider would turn up new particles, additional dimensions and perhaps even a small black hole or two. [More]

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine One of the coral species hit hardest by climate change has become the first to have its genome published. [More]

By Ron Cowen of Nature magazine Newly released observations of the top quark -- the heaviest of all known fundamental particles -- could topple the standard model of particle physics. [More]

ByGwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine it Parker doesn't just study traumatic brain injury in the lab, he's also seen it at close range while serving in Afghanistan. [More]

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine For now, physicists are only willing to call them "excess events," but fresh data from two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are hinting at something unusual--and it could be the most sought-after particle in all of physics. Both ATLAS and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiments are seeing an unusual surplus of events in a rough mass range of 130-150 gigaelectronvolts (energy and mass are used interchangeably in particle physics). [More]

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine A prominent paper that claimed to reveal the genetic factors that help people live to 100 or older has been retracted, a year after it was first released. The study, published in Science , reported 150 genetic variations that could be used to predict whether a person was genetically inclined to see their 100th birthday

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine Early next year, a drug for cystic fibrosis is expected to come before the US Food and Drug Administration for approval. [More]

By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine Like the computer chips made by Intel, the company that Moore co-founded, the Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM) exploits semiconductor technology, with its ability to deliver ever-increasing speed and lower costs--a trend predicted by 'Moore's law' some 50 years ago. [More]

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine When the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced this month that it did not have the authority to oversee a new variety of genetically modified (GM) Kentucky bluegrass, it exposed a serious weakness in the regulations governing GM crops. [More]

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