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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedThe basic quantity of magnetic recording--the working principle of a computer's hard disk--is an electron's spin. Although the technology for magnetic recording is reaching recording densities as high as 1 terabit per...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the cochlea is an amplifier and a remarkably sensitive and finely tuned detector of sounds, it also produces conspicuous mechanical and electrical waveform distortions (1). These distortions reflect nonlinear...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedMonsoons are driven in large part by contrasts between land and sea temperatures, which are key to their prediction. However, other factors are also at play, such as soil moisture; higher moisture makes the transfer of...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedThe integrity of the cornea, the most anterior part of the eye, is indispensable for vision. Forty-five million individuals worldwide are bilaterally blind and another 135 million have severely impaired vision in both...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedA material's electronic properties depend largely on its density of mobile charge carriers (electrons and holes). The most common way of tuning that density is 'doping'. This involves carefully adding atoms or molecules...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedA basic requirement for quantum information processing systems is the ability to completely control the state of a single qubit (1-6). For qubits based on electron spin, a universal single-qubit gate is realized by a...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedThousands of scientists could be unwittingly ruining their experiments merely by using standard plastic lab equipment, according to a study published in Science. Andrew Holt of the University of Alberta in Edmonton,...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedBEIJING The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) should set up an inter-government agency to help developing countries tackle climate change, international representatives agreed last week at...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedThe creativity and innovation shown by entrepreneurs is a crucial source of employment and economic growth. Although there is potential for considerable profit in making the decision to 'go it alone', rather than working...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedThe biological machinery used by microorganisms to synthesize complex, antibiotic peptides is often compared to Henry Ford's car assembly line: different protein modules line up, each with their own specific synthetic...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedIn some invertebrates, such as horseshoe crabs, the presence of bacteria can directly trigger blood clotting, which stops infection from spreading. But the initiation of vertebrate blood clotting was thought to require a...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedVoltage-gated ion channels are pore-forming transmembrane proteins that open and close (gate) in response to changes in transmembrane voltage, enabling carefully controlled movement of ions across cell membranes. The...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedSystems for protein degradation are essential for tight control of the inflammatory immune response (1,2). Autophagy, a bulk degradation system that delivers cytoplasmic constituents into autolysosomes, controls...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedHoneybees that find nectar tell the rest of the hive about it by dancing. But bumblebees instruct nestmates through smell, find Mathieu Molet and his colleagues at Queen Mary, University of London. They exposed...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedBiosensors are under commercial development for all sorts of applications -detecting human and animal pathogens, measuring clinical markers for heart attack and cancer, and monitoring environmental pollutants. The most...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedDuring early fasting, increases in skeletalmuscle proteolysis liberate free amino acids for hepatic gluconeogenesis in response to pancreatic glucagon. Hepatic glucose output diminishes during the late protein-sparing...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedMonowai Cone (pictured below) is an undersea volcano north of New Zealand. It is probably the world's most active, making it a good model system for studying how submarine eruptions cause landslides, and how both of...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedThe modern chemical industry uses heterogeneous catalysts in almost every production process (1).They commonly consist of nanometre-size active components (typically metals or metal oxides) dispersed on a...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedThe European Commission last week unveiled a proposal to reform the regulation of scientific experiments that use animals. The commission's suggested update to the 20-year-old 86/609/EEC directive will now be...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 456, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedIn its November editorial, Nature Reviews Microbiology (6, 794; 2008) reports that the archive of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM) has been made available free online: a boon...