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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-Reviewed50 Years Ago Lord Halsbury introduced the subject [of automation] by saying that the public is substantially misinformed about it... "The automatic factory and the automatic office," he said, "have arrived, but they...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Antonino Zichichi [1] Sir In your News story "Neutrinos make a splash in Italy" (Nature 443, 126; 2006), you highlight a project, "first sketched out 25 years ago", to attempt to discover whether...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedThe duplication of entire genomes has long been recognized as having great potential for evolutionary novelties, but the mechanisms underlying their resolution through gene loss are poorly understood. Here we show that...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): A. Abdul Ajees [1]; K. Gunasekaran [1]; John E. Volanakis [2]; Sthanam. V. L. Narayana [1]; Girish J. Kotwal [3]; H. M. Krishna Murthy (corresponding author) [1] The human complement system is an important...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedScorecard Property rights 'Air rights' above land have a value to high-rise developers separate from the plot itself. So conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has bought the rights to the higher dimensions predicted in...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): John Carmody [1] by Thomas Dormandy Yale University Press: 2006. 560 pp. $35, £19.99 Some years ago Australian poet Les Murray wrote a set of sonnets about his student days at Sydney University. The...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Bart Kahr [1] by Martin Kemp Oxford University Press: 2006. 368 pp. £25, $45 [illus. 1] When British newspaper The Independent published a false-coloured image of Jupiter's atmosphere compiled from data...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Erika Check [illus. 1] Anyone who has ever put together self-assembly furniture knows that having the right parts is important, but what you do with them can make or break the project. The same seems to be...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Nathan C. Eddingsaas [1]; Kenneth S. Suslick (corresponding author) [1] Mechanoluminescence, also known as triboluminescence or fractoluminescence, is light emission induced as a result of mechanical...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Keith Schwab [1] In the past 20 years, physicists have learnt a tremendous amount about the transport of matter and energy through devices small enough for quantum effects to come into play. One surprising...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): John A. Long (corresponding author) [1, 2, 3]; Gavin C. Young [2]; Tim Holland [1, 3]; Tim J. Senden [4]; Erich M. G. Fitzgerald [1, 3] The transition from fishes to tetrapods was one of the most dramatic...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Alison Holt [1] Sir R. M. Ewers and A. S. L. Rodrigues, in Correspondence ("Speaking different languages on biodiversity" Nature 443, 506; 2006 doi:10.1038/443506a), raised the issue of vocabulary...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Wuge H. Briscoe [1]; Simon Titmuss [1]; Fredrik Tiberg [1, 3]; Robert K. Thomas [1]; Duncan J. McGillivray [1, 3]; Jacob Klein (corresponding author) [1, 2] Boundary lubrication, in which the rubbing...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Lesley Anson It seems an unlikely connection. But as they report in this issue, David Julius and colleagues have identified a common factor in the way that a tarantula spider and a chilli plant defend...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jane C. Stinchcombe; Endre Majorovits; Giovanna Bossi; Stephen Fuller; Gillian M. Griffiths Nature 443, 462-465 (2006) In the print and PDF versions of this Letter, Figure 2 was printed incorrectly....
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Michael Carroll [1] Some of the oldest molecules involved in defence in the animal kingdom are found in the thioester protein family, which dates back more than 500 million years [1]. The power of these...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Laura Spinney Xavier Lucchesi's exhibition, 'Picasso XRAYS', can be seen at the National Picasso Museum in Paris (http://www.musee-picasso.fr) until 8 January 2007. [illus. 1] At just over 60...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedBy fine-tuning their techniques, researchers are refining their ability to measure ever more precisely the ticking of Earth's geological clock. For decades, geologists and palaeontologists have had only ball-park...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedIt is the intention of every government on Earth to inspire increased research, development and innovation in the private sector. How this should actually be done remains something of a mystery, however. Last week, the...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 444, Issue 7116) Peer-ReviewedChimpanzees are recognized as the primary primate reservoir for simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIV) -- the most closely related virus to HIV-1, which causes AIDS in humans. Earlier this year, the origins of both a...