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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedIt is a dark and angry time for scientists in Italy, faced as they are with a government acting out its own peculiar cost-cutting philo sophy. Last week, tens of thousands of researchers took to the streets to register...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedAlbion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain by Andy Roberts Marshall Cavendish: 2008. 288 pp. 18.99 £ LSD--lysergic acid diethylamide--is an evocative acronym: it strikes a rational fear into governments and...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedAlex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene Pepperberg HarperCollins: 2008. 240 pp. $23.95 Alex and Me is the conjoined life...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedIt was summertime. I had left my job as a senior investigator at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to take up a new role as head of health and environmental research programmes at the Department of Energy (DoE)....
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedCitrus: A History by Pierre Laszlo (Univ. Chicago Press, $17.00) Laszlo describes the chemistry of citrus fruits. "His succinct explanations of the Maillard and caramelization reactions when describing how to make...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedExpressing a light-sensitive protein in cells that normally mediate between the retina and the brain restores a degree of vision in blind mice. Retinal ganglion cells transmit signals that they receive from rod and...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedSince the time of ancient Egypt, societies have struggled to understand mental illness and to care for those affected by it. But, over the millennia, the idea that mental illness might have a biological cause arose only...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedKomatiites are volcanic rocks mainly of Archaean age that formed by unusually high degrees of melting of mantle peridotite. Their origin is controversial and has been attributed to either anhydrous melting of anomalously...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedMusicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (Random House, $14.95) Neurologist and medical writer Sacks delves into the world of music. Reviewing the hardback edition, Laura Garwin wrote: "Sacks is the...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-Reviewed'Promiscuous' chemicals that can inhibit two different classes of enzymes could aid in the design of new cancer therapies. Kevan Shokat of the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues screened a...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedDescartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto Doubleday: 2008. 320pp. $26 In spring 1666, the body of the French philosopher and scientist Rene Descartes was removed...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedIt is not surprising to find an Icelandic business doing badly these days; the country has arguably been hit the worst of any in the current financial crisis. But the serious problems being felt at Iceland's deCode...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedOn October 10, in the presence of the leading aeronautical experts of France, Mr. Wilbur Wright, with M. Painleve as a passenger, accomplished a flight of 1h. 9m. 45.6s in duration, the distance covered being estimated...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedThe US National Institutes of Health (NIH) handed out the first payments in a multi-million-dollar project to explore epigenomics last month. But some researchers are voicing concerns about the scientific and economic...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedThe case of Charles Nemeroff, who as chair of the psychiatry department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, allegedly underreported his income from drug companies, offers some stark revelations. Not only does it...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedExploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research Edited by Jennifer S. Hawkins and Ezekiel J. Emanuel (Princeton Univ. Press, $14.95) Scientists and philosophers delve into the moral implications...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedThe Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God by David J. Linden (Harvard Univ. Press, $17.95) Linden's introduction to brain science is enjoyable and accessible. "Even readers...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedNearly 2,000 Italian researchers will lose promised permanent positions under a law that is expected to come into force by the end of the year. They may have to leave public research altogether. Last week, the chamber of...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedEurope's ambitious climate plan was approved last week by the European Parliament's environment committee. But a group of eastern European countries, led by Poland, threaten to block reforms to the emissions-trading...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7215) Peer-ReviewedThis week, Nature publishes the last in a series of essays on 'Meetings that Changed the World', with an account of a conference held in 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that helped launch the human genome project (see page...