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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Alberto E. Minetti (corresponding author) A nineteenth-century equation used for building model ships allows us to compare the motion of animals of different sizes and gaits. It may also give us an idea of...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Thomas J. Mills [1]; Ariel E. Lugo [2] Sir We agree with your Editorial (Nature 406, 661; 2000) in that the spectacular fires of last year should be a stimulus for improving management of forest ecosystems...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Harry Y. McSween, Jr (corresponding author) [1]; Timothy L. Grove [2]; Rachel C. F. Lentz [1]; Jesse C. Dann [2]; Astrid H. Holzheid [2]; Lee R. Riciputi [3]; Jeffrey G. Ryan [4] Observations of martian...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Dickson London British scientists have been given the go-ahead to carry out research on cloned human embryos aimed at the treatment of diseases. Such research -- which is likely to remain outlawed in...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Matthew Davis; Goodwin Washington The two cabinet secretaries who will oversee most US science in the new Bush administration sought confirmation from the Senate last week. But as Tommy Thompson, the...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedThe Promise of Sleep: A Scientific Connection Between Health, Happiness and a Good Night's Sleep by William C. Dement with Christopher Vaughan Pan/Dell, £6.99/$14.95 Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Crispin Tickell [1] Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist by James Lovelock Oxford University Press: 2000. 396 pp. £19.99 James Lovelock has been called many things in his long life,...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Georgina Kenyon London The British government is under intense pressure to do more to protect people associated with companies that perform experiments on animals, following last week's near-collapse of...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Bert van Zutphen [1] Sir Rodents are currently excluded from the protective regulations of the US Animal Welfare Act. Last September the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) decided to take steps to include...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Paul Smaglik Washington The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week put forward proposals to make clinical trials in gene therapy and xenotransplantation more transparent. The move drew support...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Maurice Riordan [1] There is a line about moonlight by Sylvia Plath that I find haunting: "This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary." My ear is arrested by the rhythm -- by the way the line runs...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Alison Abbott Munich What becomes of research students who study the fundamental forces of the Universe? According to a survey of students who pass through CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedIn Heike Langenberg's meeting report, "Meteorology: Oscillating opinion" (Nature 408, 924-925; 2000), the "new index" for the North Atlantic Oscillation, attributed to P. Yiou, refers to a poster by V. C. Slonosky and P....
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Spurgeon Montreal Canadian scientists are watching closely to see whether the new industry minister in the Liberal government, which was re-elected last November, will continue with the pro-science...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Etienne Guyon [1] The Science of Cooking by Peter Barham Springer: 2001. 244 pp. £19.95, $34.95 [illus. 1] Nicholas Kurti, a physicist from Oxford who died in 1998, was better known for his...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Xavier Bosch [1]; Alison Abbott [2] [illus. 1] For a boy who dreamed of being an artist, but started his career apprenticed to first a barber and then a cobbler, Santiago Ramón y Cajal made a distinguished...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Quirin Schiermeier Munich [illus. 1] Global warming is liable to become an even more acute problem than anticipated, according to the new assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)....
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Chien Liu (corresponding author) [1, 2]; Zachary Dutton [1, 3]; Cyrus H. Behroozi [1, 2]; Lene Vestergaard Hau [1, 2, 3] Electromagnetically induced transparency [1, 2, 3] is a quantum interference effect...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Martin Kemp [1] Cassini's craft Contributions of a seventeenth-century astronomer. Spectacular images of Jupiter's 'red spot' -- assembled from data sent back by the latest space probe to skirt the...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 409, Issue 6819) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Nicole T. Perna (corresponding author) [1, 2]; Guy Plunkett, III [3]; Valerie Burland [3]; Bob Mau [3]; Jeremy D. Glasner [3]; Debra J. Rose [3]; George F. Mayhew [3]; Peter S. Evans [3]; Jason Gregor [3];...