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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedMikhail Kovalchuk's rise to the top position in Russian science seemed a done deal. But the general assembly of the Russian Academy of Sciences has thwarted plans for the head of its newly established division for...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedAngew. Chem. Int. Edn doi:10.1002/anie.200801516 (2008) A family of molecular proton sensors that can be programmed to sit at specific distances from the surface of a membrane has been devised by Seiichi Uchiyama and...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedMammalian lungs are branched networks containing thousands to millions of airways arrayed in intricate patterns that are crucial for respiration. How such trees are generated during development, and how the...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedFirst author Obesity is an increasing health concern worldwide, yet little is known about the timing and regulation of fat-cell, or adipocyte, formation. Work by Kirsty Spalding, a molecular biologist at the...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedThe California Senate has voted to ban helium-filled metallic balloons because they, too, frequently escape, and can get tangled in electrical lines. They have apparently caused hundreds of power outages in recent...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedThe End of Food by Paul Roberts Houghton Mifflin/Bloomsbury: 2008. 416 pp. $26/12.99 [pounds sterling] Sometimes an author gets lucky, or is truly prescient. He can work for years researching a complex and...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedSIR--In his Correspondence 'Hall and Keynes join Arbor in the citation indexes' (Nature 452, 282; 2008), Daniel Postellon describes the distinguished careers of Milton Keynes, Walton Hall and Ann Arbor. In the last...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedScience 320, 1181 (2008) Careful measurement of the fixed nitrogen in water that drips through the foliage of boreal forests (pictured below) at a dozen sites in northern Sweden has helped researchers pin down how...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedElaborate branching is everywhere in nature. From riverbeds to oilfields, from trees to blood vessels, branching connects the large to the small. The lung is also a prime example of a reproducible branching system,...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-Reviewed"What in Heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?" embittered hero Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is asked early on in the movie. The same might be asked of the millions of people who continue to watch Casablanca more...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedOn 28 May, Francis Collins announced that he is stepping down after 15 years as head of the US National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), where he helped lead the international effort to sequence the entire human...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedConcerning the Origin of Malignant Tumours by Theodor Boveri. Translated and annotated by Henry Harris Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: 2008. 82 pp. Theodor Boveri (1862-1915) was a towering figure in...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedEvolutionary novelties in the skeleton are usually expressed as changes in the timing of growth of features intrinsically integrated at different hierarchical levels of development (1). As a consequence, most of the...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedHigh-harmonic generation by focusing a femtosecond laser onto a gas is a well-known method of producing coherent extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) light (1-3). This nonlinear conversion process requires high pulse intensities,...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedFood is not, in general, spread equally around the world; it comes in lumps. Foragers thus need a strategy for finding those lumps. One appealing option is a Levy flight--a mathematical concept used in physics. Levy...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedIf there are two things I love, they are warm hugs and simple answers to long-standing questions. Why must proteins bend in order to bind to their partners? This bending, known as induced fit, is puzzling, because it...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-Reviewed830 years ago the Tower of Pisa first began to lean. It has now officially stopped moving. 28 years ago, the latest attempts to un-tilt the tower began. 70 tonnes of earth were shifted to prop up it up. 300...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedDrosophila endogenous small RNAs are categorized according to their mechanisms of biogenesis and the Argonaute protein to which they bind. MicroRNAs are a class of ubiquitously expressed RNAs of ~22 nucleotides in...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedThe Horse American Museum of Natural History, New York Until 4 January 2009. Noble, speedy, dependable and strong, the horse changed the course of human history. The domestication of Equus caballus some...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 453, Issue 7196) Peer-ReviewedSome of Saturn's rings have constantly changing structures, making it difficult for researchers to decipher the processes that shape them. Yet such knowledge could provide a window on the formation of the Solar System....