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A Roundup of Headlines with Nature News

The Juno mission is helping to uncover Jupiter's secrets.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Roman Tkachenko
The Juno mission is helping to uncover Jupiter's secrets.

Living Lab Radio talks regularly with reporters at the weekly journal Natureto get an update on the stories they've been following. Here's our latest roundup of news with London-based reporter Heidi Ledford.

  • An Ebola vaccine has been approved for use in ongoing outbreak, though there’s no decision yet on whether to deploy it.

  • A Canadian foundation says its field research into dumping iron into the ocean could boost fisheries in Chile, but others doubt its motives.

  • A deep ammonia plume and a powerful magnetic field are among the surprises revealed by a NASA probe to Jupiter. 

  • When it comes to biodiversity, ecologists are increasingly looking at how richness of traits — rather than number of species — helps set the health of ecosystems.

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