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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Cyranoski Shanghai [illus. 1] Interdisciplinary boundaries are rarely stricter than those that separate the 100-plus research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, home to some 40,000 of the...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Ralph Tollrian [1] Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture by Massimo Pigliucci Johns Hopkins University Press: 2001. 384 pp. £25, $75 Phenotypic plasticity describes the ability of a...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Quist; Ignacio H. Chapela (corresponding author) Quist and Chapela reply Our original publication [1] contained two separate conclusions derived from two methodological approaches. First, using PCR,...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): A. Townsend Peterson (corresponding author) [1]; Miguel A. Ortega-Huerta [2]; Jeremy Bartley [3]; Victor Sánchez-Cordero [4]; Jorge Soberón [5]; Robert H. Buddemeier [3]; David R. B. Stockwell [6] Global...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedThe threat posed by global warming was not a top priority for President George W. Bush at the time of his election and appears to be even less of one now. Since his administration announced its intention of walking away...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Paul Smaglik [1] [illus. 1] After centuries at the hub of central European politics, Vienna is creating a new role at the heart of a fledgling science empire. Three biological institutes are to open there in...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): A. Osterloh [1, 2]; Luigi Amico [1, 2]; G. Falci [1, 2]; Rosario Fazio (corresponding author) [2, 3] Classical phase transitions occur when a physical system reaches a state below a critical temperature...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Peter Olson (corresponding author) The motion of the Earth's liquid core is the geodynamo that generates the planet's magnetic field. Because the electrical conductivity of the molten iron in the core is...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Tony Reichhardt Washington The US government has compromised on export restrictions applying to researchers building satellites and other space hardware. But space scientists will still face obstacles in...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Franklin Huang [1]; Matt Stremlau [2] Sir Of the approximately 300 molecular-biology PhD candidates at Harvard Medical School, only two carry out research on malaria, a disease that kills one child every...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): John Grace (corresponding author); Yadvinder Malhi [1] Rainforests contain not only trees but also lots of water, largely in the form of river systems. The Amazon is by far the largest such system in the...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Josette Chen Unease among researchers at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the world's largest museum complex, deepened last week with the announcement that Dennis O'Conner, its undersecretary...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Tom Clarke Astronomers are celebrating the return of a comet last seen during the seventeenth century. Ikeya-Zhang, named after the Japanese and Chinese amateur astronomers who spotted it on 1 February of...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): John Polkinghorne [1] Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries by Steven Weinberg Harvard University Press: 2001. 304 pp. £17.95, $26 Collections of occasional writings do not always make good...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sally Goodman [illus. 1] Italy's national research council, the CNR, has been found guilty of unfair treatment towards an Italian astrophysicist during the selection process for a directorship at one of its...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Adam London [illus. 1] Out of date, out of shape and in need of heavy investment, the laboratories of Britain's universities have joined its railways and health service as a cause of national lament...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Nick Kaplinsky (corresponding author) [1]; David Braun [1]; Damon Lisch [1]; Angela Hay [1, 2]; Sarah Hake [1, 2]; Michael Freeling [1] Quist and Chapela's conclusion [1] that the transgenes they claim to...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Richard Turner As the sequencing of the human genome nears completion, the full catalogue of encoded genes is coming into focus. In an effort to find out where and when each of these genes may be active in...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Robert Triendl [1] [illus. 1] On the outskirts of Yokohama, just outside Tokyo, a very special computer has been assembled. Housed in a building the size of an aircraft hangar, the Earth Simulator boasts...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 416, Issue 6881) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Declan Butler The two public groups and two private companies sequencing the rice genome are discussing ways to merge their efforts into a single joint project. [illus. 1] Researchers believe that such...