Valleytronics? More 'Borrowed' Phrasing...

Update: 8/9/13: Editors respond...

@SeeArrOh Thank you so much for this. We have taken notice, and we will act as soon as possible. @NatureNano
— Nature Materials (@NatureMaterials) August 9, 2013

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Tonight must be "Twitter tipster" and "authors behaving badly" night!

From the 'News & Views' pages of two vaunted Nature publishing journals come the latest chunks of potentially plagiarized text. Please open your browsers to this 2012 Nature Nanotech article, and then this 2013 Nature Materials piece. Now, I'm not going to pretend I'm a p-chem or 'valleytronics' expert, but I can certainly spot duped text on command:

NN paragraph 2:

"Electrons travel through a crystal as waves, which are described by a momentum (which is a continuous variable) and a spin (which is a discrete index). It is possible for a crystal to have two or more crystal axes that differ in their orientation, but are otherwise identical: such axes can support electron waves that are also identical apart from their direction (or, more precisely, their momentum)."

NM paragraph 2:

"Electrons travel through a crystal as waves, which are described by a momentum (which is a continuous variable) and a spin (which is a discrete index). It is possible for a crystal to have two or more crystal axes that differ in their orientation, but are otherwise identical: such axes can support electron waves that are also identical apart from their direction (or, more precisely, their momentum)."

Missed the changes? There are none; this is lifted word-for-word.

Another, perhaps?

NN graf 3:

"As in spintronics, there are two main challenges facing researchers trying to make valleytronic devices. The first is restricting electrons to one quantum number, which for valleytronics means localizing them to one momentum valley. This is also referred to as achieving valley polarization. The second challenge is to detect the valley-polarized current."

NM graf 3:

"As in spintronics, there are two main challenges facing researchers trying to make valleytronic devices. The first is restricting electrons to one quantum number, which for valleytronics means localizing them to one momentum valley. This is also referred to as achieving valley polarization. The second challenge is to detect the valley-polarized current."

Hope you didn't blink much, 'cause that one's identical, too.

Although I don't excuse it, I can understand the pressure to grab text under a research deadline, or to emulate a master author. But for news write-ups?!? Looks like someone's got some 'splaining to do...