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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedWe often face alternatives that we are free to choose between. Planning movements to select an alternative involves several areas in frontal and parietal cortex (1-11) that are anatomically connected into long-range...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedComparative genomics of nucleosome positions provides a powerful means for understanding how the organization of chromatin and the transcription machinery co-evolve. Here we produce a high-resolution reference map of...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedNeuroscientists have long thought that the brain uses different regions to locate sounds and to analyse them, as is known to be true for vision. Stephen Lomber of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, now...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedA quick scan through this article might take five minutes of your time. During this period, 16 people will have died of tuberculosis, 80 will have fallen ill with it, and an astounding 800 will have become infected with...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedLong-time NASA employee Ed Weiler has been named permanent director of the agency's US$5-billion science division, returning to a position he held between 1998 and 2004. Weiler, an astrophysicist, replaces Alan Stern,...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedTake Your Time: Olafur Eliasson MoMA New York Until 30 June 2008. The vast foyer of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is being dive-bombed by a small electric fan. Suspended from the ceiling by wire, it...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedAt first glance, pilot whales and cheetahs seem unlikely to have much in common, but researchers have found at least one similarity: a tendency to sprint after prey, sacrificing energy for speed. This is the first...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedWide mapping of stress helps to pinpoint when and where the Earth will crack. www.nature.com/news ---------- Please note: Some tables or figures were omitted from this article....
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedTo survive, organisms must adapt to their ever-changing environment. Animals rely mainly on behavioural adaptive responses such as fighting or fleeing. But being stationary, plants must adjust their shape and metabolism...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedUS lawmakers have agreed on wide-ranging agricultural legislation that would reduce the federal subsidy on ethanol produced from maize (corn) by 12%. It marks the first move to scale back government support for a biofuel...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedAtmospheric methane is an important greenhouse gas and a sensitive indicator of climate change and millennial-scale temperature variability (1). Its concentrations over the past 650,000 years have varied between ~350 and...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedSignificant changes in physical and biological systems are occurring on all continents and in most oceans, with a concentration of available data in Europe and North America. Most of these changes are in the direction...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedMethane outbursts from seafloor deposits are unlikely to have been the sole cause of an extreme episode of global warming around the time of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum some 55 million years ago. Karla...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedThe article by Rosenzweig and colleagues (1) that appears on page 353 of this issue is the first to formally link observed global changes in physical and biological systems to human-induced climate change, predominantly...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-Reviewed1. With the right asteroid it's easier than going to the Moon. 2. No one has been to an asteroid before. 3. Everyone loves Le Petit Prince. A NASA study outlining such a plan is due to be published soon in Acta...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedThe vasculature of solid tumours is morphologically aberrant and characterized by dilated and fragile vessels, intensive vessel sprouting and loss of hierarchical architecture (1). Constant vessel remodelling leads to...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedSIR--As a recent policy adviser to the United Nations in a programme intended to address environmental threats in the Amazon, I would caution readers of your Special Report 'Brazil goes to war against logging' (Nature...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedScientific informatics programmes require massive financial investment, so it is difficult for governments to decide which ones to support. One programme that has been successful in securing funding is the iPlant...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedA former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientist is suing the agency's officials and researchers at the University of Georgia in Athens, alleging that they manufactured and published false data to support the...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7193) Peer-ReviewedThe tectonic patterns and stress history of Europa are exceedingly complex (1) and many large-scale features remain unexplained. True polar wander, involving reorientation of Europa's floating outer ice shell about the...