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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedThe Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication Edited by John Baines, John Bennet and Stephen Houston Equinox: 2008. 384 pp. 65.00 £ For more than 3,000 years, hieroglyphs were...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedNeuron 60, 162-173 (2008) An animal's response to a stimulus depends on context, and it has now been shown that the connections between individual neurons depend on context as well. Marlene Cohen and William Newsome of...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedIt is report-card season for US science agencies, and the grades are in on their media skills. The Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has ranked the public-relations...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedThe US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revised the airborne lead standard for the first time in 30 years, reducing the maximum permissible concentration by 90%. The new standard of 0.15 micrograms per cubic...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedWhat are the origins of the field? The idea that changes in tissues and biological fluids are indicative of disease goes back at least as far as ancient Greece. Diagnostic 'urine charts' were widely used from the...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedRadiologist Anders Persson of Linkoping University Hospital, Sweden, reveals the body's hidden structures to clinicians by applying new techniques in magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography to produce stunning...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedNEW YORK Rarely do research subjects attend scientific meetings. Yet at the inaugural Cold Spring Harbor Personal Genomes meeting this month on Long Island in New York, the Nobel-prize winning biologist James Watson...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedGALVESTON, TEXAS On 11 November, US officials will dedicate a new research complex containing high-containment labs for deadly pathogens: the $175-million Galveston National Laboratory in Texas. Yet even as questions...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedType 1 diabetes (T1D) is a debilitating autoimmune disease that results from T-cell-mediated destruction of insulin-producing β-cells. Its incidence has increased during the past several decades in developed countries...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedDurchleuchtet Artpoint 222, Vienna, Austria 25 October until 27 November 2008 Margaret Oechsli goes on extraordinary journeys with her microscope. Peering at a smudge of a dried chemical, such as crystallized...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedIs the worst financial storm in nearly 80 years having a deleterious effect on climate policy? It seemed that way last week, when European Union (EU) leaders failed to agree on a new set of market-based tools to cut the...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedRoughly 2.4 billion years ago, enough molecular oxygen began being produced to support the evolution of oxygen-dependent 'aerobic' organisms. This period has been dubbed the Great Oxidation Event. But how the oxygen was...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedIn the Essay "Beijing 1987: China's coming-out party" (Nature 455, 598-599; 2008), we misspelt the name of Julia Marton-Lefevre; this has been corrected in the online version....
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedJ. Am. Chem. Soc. doi:10.1021/ja804164y (2008) Carbon nanotubes produced by the commonly used high-pressure carbon monoxide method are normally one-third metallic or semi-metallic and two-thirds semiconductor, and of...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedUS senator Charles Grassley (Republican, Iowa) is no Sigmund Freud, but since early this year he has succeeded in putting the psychiatric establishment on the couch. Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate finance...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedCell 135, 295-307 (2008) Once a strain of bacteria has built up resistance to an antibiotic, a new antibiotic with a different mechanism is our next move in the arms race against pathogens such as tuberculosis. To this...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedThis spindly creature is the new holder of the title 'world's longest insect'. The Chan's megastick (Phobaeticus chani) was officially described in a paper last week and has a body that is 35.7 centimetres long. With...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedDetails of last month's accident at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's premier particle accelerator, are emerging--and confirm that the machine will not restart before late May or early June 2009. Officials...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedIs religion a product of our evolution? The very question makes many people, religious or otherwise, cringe, although for different reasons. Some people of faith fear that an understanding of the processes underlying...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 455, Issue 7216) Peer-ReviewedTo prosper and flourish in a rapidly changing world, we must make the most of all our resources--both mental and material. Globalization and its associated demands for competitiveness are increasing the pressures in our...