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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedIn an ironic twist, the decidedly authoritarian government of China has received much praise of late from Western environmentalists, who tend to cast themselves as anti--authoritarian types. China has indeed made...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedThe excavation of numerous 'Peking Man' fossils in the 1920s and 30s at Zhoukoudian, the site of a collapsed cave near Bejing, laid to rest disputes about whether previously discovered Homo erectus fossils were primitive...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedLithium, the lightest metal, has long been considered to have a 'simple' electronic structure that can be well explained within the nearly-free-electron model. But lithium does not stay 'simple' under compression: rather...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedMicrobial symbioses are essential for the normal development and growth of animals (1-3). Often, symbionts must be acquired from the environment during each generation, and identification of the relevant symbiotic...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedIn his attempt to track avian flu in China, Peng Gong ended up creating the only comprehensive wetlands map the country has. When Gong compared that map, described in an article published in Chinese last month, to...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedCorpus Extremus (LIFE+) Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue, New York Until 18 April 2009. www.exitart.org When images of the Vacanti mouse, the mouse with a cartilage ear growing on its back, were released in 1997, it...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedThe Longmen Shan mountain range, site of the devastating 12 May 2008 Wenchuan (M = 7.9) earthquake, defines the eastern margin of the Himalayan orogen and exhibits greater topographic relief than anywhere else in the...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedPLoS Biol. 7, e1000048 (2009) The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans and the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster (pictured, right) produce similar relative amounts of analogous proteins, even though levels of the...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedAladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World by John Freely Alfred Knopf: 2009. 320 pp. $27.95 Science and Islam: A History by Ehsan Masood Icon Books: 2009. 256 pp. 14.99 £ It...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedUbiquitin-like proteins (UBLs) can change protein function, localization or turnover by covalent attachment to lysine residues (1). Although UBLs achieve this conjugation through an intricate enzymatic cascade, their...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedMarine biologists have found seven new coral species, representing up to six new genera, in the deep waters of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument northwest of Hawaii. The colourful bamboo corals, some of...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedJerry Yang, who died on 5 February in Boston, Massachusetts, made exceptional contributions to research on animal biotechnology and cloning, and was a prominent figure in the scientific dialogue between the United States...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedProc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807047106 (2009) A remarkably well-preserved brain has been discovered in a 300-million-year-old fossil of a fish from Kansas. Philippe Janvier of the National Museum of...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedA Congress was held in Singapore during December 2-9 to celebrate "the Centenary of the formulation of the theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and the Bicentenary of the publication of the...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedThe long-awaited era of personalized genetic medicine may finally be arriving for people with cancer. Some cancer centres are preparing to screen all patients for genetic glitches associated with the disease, and...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedClimate scientists may soon be taking their work home and checking out their neighbours' lab notebooks. "Uncle Sam wants your observations of flowering and fruiting American plants," notes Anna Barnett on the Climate...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedAxions are very light, very weakly interacting particles, whose existence was posited more than 30 years ago in order to clean up our 'standard model' of particle physics. They close an annoying loophole in Kobayashi and...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedNASA officials said on 3 March that the agency may pursue a 2016 launch of an orbital mission to scout for methane hotspots on Mars, in preparation for a 2018 lander mission that would perform astrobiological tasks....
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedPresident Barack Obama's new policy on stem--cell research and his strong statement on restoring integrity to science (see page 130) are victories for science that hold key lessons for future science--policy debates. But...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 458, Issue 7235) Peer-ReviewedUnder pressure, metals exhibit increasingly shorter interatomic distances. Intuitively, this response is expected to be accompanied by an increase in the widths of the valence and conduction bands and hence a more...