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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedThis picture of sperm developing in a testis is one of 23 winning images in the 2008 Wellcome Image Awards, which focus on the visual wonder of the microscopic world. The cell nuclei are shown in blue and the...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedHOUSTON, TEXAS Scientists have made the crucial measurement of oxygen composition at the birth of the Solar System. The discovery fulfils the top science priority of the NASA Genesis probe, which slammed into the Utah...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedMany people regard access to safe drinking water as a human right. Yet some fear that the switch from state-run utilities to private ownership will lead to a world where water flows towards the rich as surely as it flows...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedTranscriptional activation of cytokines, such as type-I interferons (interferon (IFN)-α and IFN-β), constitutes the first line of antiviral defence. Here we show that translational control is critical for induction of...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedNano Lett. doi:10.1021/nl073322a (2008) Sorting cells in the lab generally means labelling them with chemicals and using expensive cell-sorting equipment. Robert Langer and collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedMartial-arts legend Jackie Chan has opened a science-education centre to showcase medical research at the Australian National University, located in Canberra, where his family moved in 1962 and he was first nicknamed...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedProc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/ pnas.0710262105 (2008) Ant societies seem to be models of cooperation; queens monopolize reproduction and are maintained by sterile female workers. But William Hughes and Jacobus...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedWater has always been a volatile topic in Australia, the world's driest inhabited continent, but the political row that broke out last week was perhaps surprising. Protesters are complaining that a planned desalination...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedIn January 2008 at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged business and political leaders that the looming crisis over water shortages should be at the top of the...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedEqual amounts of matter and antimatter are predicted to have been produced in the Big Bang, but our observable Universe is clearly matter-dominated. One of the prerequisites (1) for understanding this elimination of...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedSIR--In your Editorial 'Genetics benefits at risk' (Nature 451, 745-746; 2008), you indicate that the entire scientific and medical community adamantly supports the US Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, because...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedLest some readers should infer from your obituary note on Sir Denzil Ibbetson (March 12, p. 443) that this distinguished anthropologist invented the word "godlings" for the rural deities of India, it is worth noting that...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedThe US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is once again under fire for ignoring its science advisers--this time in setting a new air-quality standard for ozone, a primary component of smog. The agency's decision on...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedSIR--In their Letter 'Global trends in emerging infectious diseases' (Nature 451, 990-993; 2008), Kate Jones and colleagues reveal that emerging human infectious diseases are becoming globally more prevalent,...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedWhen the European Parliament approved the controversial European Institute of Innovation and Technology on 11 March, one dissenting parliamentarian complained that the "initiative has degenerated into a farce". He judged...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedElsewhere in this issue, the Belle collaboration, based at the electron-positron particle collider of the high-energy accelerator laboratory KEK in Japan, announces their measurement of an anomalous asymmetry in the...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedA key aspect of human behaviour is cooperation (1-7). We tend to help others even if costs are involved. We are more likely to help when the costs are small and the benefits for the other person significant. Cooperation...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedIn the phenomenon known as the Aharonov-Bohm effect, magnetic forces seem to act on charged particles such as electrons--even though the particles do not cross any magnetic field lines. Is this evidence for...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedThe International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology was to be to agriculture what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to climate: the definitive statement of the scientific art. Hundreds of...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 452, Issue 7185) Peer-ReviewedWe have become accustomed to the idea that, in nature, time frequently manifests itself in layers. We may think of the rings in trees or the ridges in shells, both formed by patterns of unequal growth. Over the longer...