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Science in court Academics are too often at loggerheads with forensic scientists. A new framework for certification, accreditation and research could help to heal the breach. Handle with care Britain's Department of Health must respond to concerns about electronic medical records. Setting the bar Europe's chief science adviser must be given authority and support to deliver across the board. Geoscience: Wind-blown ice Materials science: Ultrathin fibres heat up Palaeontology: Egg-stracting DNA Neuroscience: Rats on the wagon Neuron65, 682?694 (2010) 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.02.015Rats that regularly consume alcohol and are then denied it show increased activity in a specific brain region.F. Woodward Hopf, at the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues gave rats access Virology: Infectious inheritance Conservation: Heavy metal history Archaeology: Adoption or migration? J. Archaeol. Sci.37, 866?870 (2010) 10.1016/j.jas.2009.11.016The origin of farming in Britain is hotly debated: did the indigenous population adopt farming practices through trade and exchange with continental Europe or did migrants bring farming from the mainland?Mark Neuroscience: Memory reading Genomics: We are family Journal club A computational biologist looks at how identical cells come to differ.My main interest is in understanding how complex biological behaviours are encoded by DNA. An example of such behaviour is the ability of genetically identical cells to generate diversity in their phenotypes, or observable Tsunami: unexpected blow foils flawless warning system The trans-Pacific tsunami generated by the magnitude-8.8 Chile earthquake on 27 February exposed a problem with Australia's tsunami early-warning system.Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the Australian government has spent Aus$70 million (US$64 million) on the development and deployment of the Australian Tsunami Warning Tsunami: time for models to be tested in warning centres You highlight, in a News story, the controversy over the reliance of tsunami early-warning systems on model-based forecasts (Nature464, 14?15; 10.1038/464014a2010). Important advances have been made in near-real-time model-based tsunami forecasting since 2004, by scientists such as Researchers' petition aims to simplify European funding Your call for simplification of European research funding ( Smoking out the big tobacco-users ? and they're not in China The photograph of an Asian person puffing on a cigarette and the map of the top cigarette-consuming countries, both shown in J. M. Samet and H. L. Wipfli's Opinion article (Nature463, 1020?1021; 2010), make China look like a Waterfall is the clue to a case of mistaken identity A photograph (Nature463, 1007; 10.1038/4631007a2010) captioned to imply that it shows the coastline of Monterey Bay actually shows the cove at the mouth of McWay Canyon, about 50 km south of Monterey Bay. The give-away is the ribbon waterfall Making forensic science more scientific The US Congress should create an office to study, standardize and certify those who apply science to crime as well as the techniques they use, urge Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck. Tales from the climate-change crossroads Four books by prominent global-warming pundits illustrate that exhortation and authority are not enough to solve the climate crisis ? it is time for some humility, concludes Roger Pielke Jr.