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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedRadioactive decay of uranium and thorium produces [sup.4]He, whereas ³He in the Earth's mantle is not produced by Radoactive decay and was only incorporated during accretion--that is, it is primordial (1). ³He/[sup.4]He...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedObjectivity by Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison Zone Books, MIT Press: 2007. 500 pp. 25.95 £, $38.95 All scientists think they know what objectivity is. But objectivity has a history full of fascinating changes of...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedIn India at the present moment the ravages of plague, though not so great as those of the Black Death or of the Great Plague in London, are nevertheless dreadful. During the first six months of this year no less than...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedProc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/ pnas.0703276104 (2007) Poplar trees are well equipped to clean up some of mankind's worst messes--if they are given a little help, that is, say researchers in the United States....
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedSunflower Electric Power Corporation had the documents in order for its plans to build a pair of 700-megawatt coal-fired power plants in Kansas, and all of the technical requirements had been met. A key state official...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedCalifornia has begun installing regional greenhouse-gas detection systems in metropolitan areas, becoming the first US state to gather such regional data. Sensors have been placed on Sutro Tower in San Francisco and...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedMost RNAs adopt defined three-dimensional structures that allow them to function properly. But RNAs also often misfold into inactive structures, which can persist for a long time (1). Fortunately, RNA chaperone proteins...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedThe retromer complex (1,2) is required for the sorting of acid hydrolases to lysosomes (3-7), transcytosis of the polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (8), Wnt gradient formation (9,10), iron transporter recycling (11) and...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedThe Kyoto Protocol is a symbolically important expression of governments' concern about climate change. But as an instrument for achieving emissions reductions, it has failed (1). It has produced no demonstrable...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedFactors with a graded distribution can program fields of cells in a dose-dependent manner (1,2), but no evidence has hitherto surfaced for such mechanisms in plants. In the Arabidopsis thaliana root, two PLETHORA (PLT)...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedThings That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science edited by Lorraine Daston (Zone Books, $21.95) This collection of nine essays, edited by science historian Lorraine Daston, explores how objects attract meanings...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedMonkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan has trouble making his way across a crowded conference room, not because, at 82, he walks with a slight stoop and an even slighter shuffle, but because he is intercepted at every step by a...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedEating is a necessity of animal life. So you might expect that individuals would do everything possible to maximize their food intake. An example, often invoked, is that lions live in prides because group hunting...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedThe Trouble With Physics by Lee Smolin (Houghton Mifflin, $15.95) The publication of Smolin's book and Not Even Wrong (see right) last year split the physics community with their claim that string theorists are...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedA push is underway, in the heartland of US dinosaur-hunting country, to introduce new laws to regulate the fate of non-human fossils found on Native American lands. The drive, initiated in Nebraska, is to create...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedSymmetry and the Monster: One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics by Mark Ronan (Oxford Univ. Press, $19.95, 8.99£) The quest to understand the mathematics of symmetry began 200 years ago in revolutionary France....
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedThe study of animal foraging behaviour is of practical ecological importance (1), and exemplifies the wider scientific problem of optimizing search strategies (2). Levy flights are random walks, the step lengths of which...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedCertain cancers are caused by oncogenic primary or 'driver' mutations in specific kinases--enzymes that regulate the activity of other proteins. Consequently, kinase inhibitors have been used in the clinic as effective...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedStem-cell researchers in Italy are worried that a shake-up of the country's bioethics advisory body could hinder a balanced representation of their ethical position on embryonic stem-cell research. Members of the...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 449, Issue 7165) Peer-ReviewedScience doi:10.1126/science.1147112 (2007) Microbes share genes between species so frequently that their evolutionary relationships aren't always clear. Edward Rubin of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute...