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Biotech leaders stand up for a free press 

This week’s issue of Nature Biotechnology features an open letter signed by 169 of the field’s leaders in support of a free press. They are speaking out because biotech in particular benefits from a robust media that can highlight bad science and disseminate new research advances in a trustworthy way, says an accompanying editorial. “In this context, partisan attacks undermining the mainstream media — and alienating the public from journalists — pose an existential threat to the biotech industry,” argues the editorial.

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“He could have been given three Nobels” 

Chemist Thomas Steitz, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for illuminating the structure and function of the ribosome, has died aged 78. Colleagues recall his “indescribable” talent, his terrible puns and his wide-ranging influence on the field. 

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Straight talk with Donna Strickland 

“I will have to practise not just saying the first thing that comes into my mind,” says physicist Donna Strickland about the platform that comes with winning the Nobel prize. Happily for us, we got to her before that happened, and the result is a delightful interview with the straight-talking scientist in this week’s Nature podcast. Also in this episode, how a vestigial organ turned out to have a key role in ant castes, a hiccup halts the Hubble and how to prod a superconductor.