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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Quirin Schiermeier [1] Many of those who lost their lives in Galtür on 23 February 1999 never knew what hit them. Until that afternoon, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of snow lay banked on the high ridges...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Andrew A. Meharg (corresponding author); Kenneth Killham Dioxins and furans (together referred to as dioxins) are ubiquitous, toxic and environmentally persistent organochlorine compounds, which have until...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Natasha McDowell London [illus. 1] Plans for a new UK Energy Research Centre and a dedicated facility to test ocean-wave energy are the highlights of the research component of Britain's energy strategy,...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): R. R. Hartley; R. P. Behringer (corresponding author) Many models of slow, dense granular flows [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] assume that the internal stresses are independent of the shearing rate. In contrast,...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Marieke Degen Munich The future of science in the European Union (EU) began to take shape last week, as plans for a new basic-research funding agency gained momentum. A high-level expert group met for...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Catherine Zandonella [1] [illus. 1] Perhaps it was just millennial hubris, but in 1999 the world seemed full of enthusiasm for science and technology. The NASDAQ high-tech stock market was booming; the Human...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Katherine A. McCulloh (corresponding author); John S. Sperry; Frederick R. Adler The optimal water transport system in plants should maximize hydraulic conductance (which is proportional to photosynthesis...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-Reviewed100 YEARS AGO A few weeks ago we described some of the excellent results obtained by Messrs. Heraeus, of Hanau, in their attempts to produce apparatus of "silica glass," and Prof. Dewar had added point to our remarks...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Hannah Hoag Washington Our knowledge of the Arctic and Antarctic has been transformed since the first successful expeditions to the poles nearly a century ago. Now, the US National Academy of Sciences has...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Joel Peck [1] Encyclopedia of Evolution Oxford University Press: 2002. 1,234 pp. £185, $325 Evolutionary biology is the study of how populations of organisms change over time. Given the relatively small...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Lizhao Wu [1]; Alain de Bruin [1]; Harold I. Saavedra [1]; Maja Starovic [2]; Anthony Trimboli [1]; Ying Yang [3]; Jana Opavska [1]; Pamela Wilson [1, 4]; John C. Thompson [4]; Michael C. Ostrowski [4, 5];...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): George Gray [1] Sir In your News item, "Transgenic salmon still out in the cold in the United States" (Nature 421, 304; 2003), you state that Aqua Bounty Farms is working with us "to perform an...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Arnold L. Gordon (corresponding author) An intriguing class of ocean-circulation pattern is that exhibiting a retroflection -- one in which a swift current, flowing along the western boundary of a continent,...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAutomated weighing stations Tecan http://www.tecan.com Time-saving measures Tecan's automated weighing systems can do many of the tasks associated with gravimetric analysis of samples. They can also be configured...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Cas Kramer [1]; Jennifer J. Loros [2, 3]; Jay C. Dunlap [3]; Susan K. Crosthwaite (corresponding author) [1] The prevalence of antisense RNA in eukaryotes is not known and only a few naturally occurring...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Mark A. Cochrane (corresponding author) [1, 2] Fires in the tropics generally bring to mind decades of media images of deforestation fires where slash-and-burn practices are used to convert lush rainforests...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Kevin J. Gaston (corresponding author) In the field of biodiversity, Rudyard Kipling's "six honest serving men" [1] have progressed at very different speeds. What, Who, Where and When have established much...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Philip Ball In the furore that followed last year's revelation that Jan Hendrik Schön had fabricated data in a string of high-profile papers, one question remained unanswered: was there a nugget of truth in...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): David Spurgeon Montreal The farewell budget from Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, announced on 18 February, contains substantial spending hikes in many areas, including science. As Chrétien...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 421, Issue 6926) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Martin Bizzarro (corresponding author) [1, 2]; Joel A. Baker [2]; Henning Haack [1]; David Ulfbeck [2]; Minik Rosing [1, 2] The 176 Lu to 176 Hf decay series has been widely used to understand the nature of...