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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedJapan's science and education ministry has announced a ¥500-million (US$5-million) plan to pay companies to hire postdoctoral students. The scheme aims to deal with a glut of unemployed postdocs in the nation. The...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedRavelling, Unravelling Royal Institution of Great Britain, London Until 28 May 2009. A chance meeting between artist Naheed Raza and mathematician Steven Bishop led to Raza's recent year-long residency in the...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedTypically developing human infants preferentially attend to biological motion within the first days of life (1). This ability is highly conserved across species (2,3) and is believed to be critical for filial attachment...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedAstrophys. J. 697, L63-L67 (2009) Astronomers have spotted a star with an unique mix of chemical elements in the Milky Way's halo, suggesting that stars in the Galaxy's outer reaches are more varied than previously...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedAfter a prolonged lull in activity, sunspots, and their associated solar storms, are on the rise again. According to a panel of scientists led by the US Space Weather Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic and...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedPLoS Pathog. 5, e1000407 (2009) The bacterium associated with stomach ulcers creates a habitable environment by clinging to human cells and interfering with their polarity. Helicobacter pylori avoids the stomach's...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedA recent issue of the Australian Museum Magazine is devoted almost entirely to New Guinea ... The physical geography is described by D. F. McMichael and the geology by G. A. U. Stanley. J. S. Womersley discusses the...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedFruitflies show robust attraction to food odours, which usually excite several glomeruli. To understand how the representation of such odours leads to behaviour, we used genetic tools to dissect the contribution of each...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedNumerically, microbial species dominate the oceans, yet their population dynamics, metabolic complexity and synergistic interactions remain largely uncharted. A full understanding of life in the ocean requires more than...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedWhen it comes to buying light bulbs, consumer choice is pretty limited. Incandescent bulbs, the most popular option, are widely available and inexpensive, but most of the energy they produce is given off not as light but...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedParadise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery by Steve Nicholls University of Chicago Press: 2009. 536 pp. $30 "We don't need history," I recently heard a conservation scientist tell a group of...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedThe globe floating in the void might almost be the first, haunting glimpse of an alien world, blue-green and dense with life. But this is the view through a microscope, not a telescope, and the globe is a crucial...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedThe development of white organic light-emitting diodes (1) (OLEDs) holds great promise for the production of highly efficient large-area light sources. High internal quantum efficiencies for the conversion of electrical...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedUS President Barack Obama will convene a panel of experts to evaluate the future of NASA's human space-flight programme. The review will look at whether the International Space Station should be used past 2016, and at...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedWhy did you make a film about origami? I was working on Wall Street in New York, earning a living with the mathematics side of my head, but not happily. I was number crunching by day but coming home at night and...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedAt some stage in the origin of life, an informational polymer must have arisen by purely chemical means. According to one version of the 'RNA world' hypothesis (1-3) this polymer was RNA, but attempts to provide...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedGlob. Change Biol. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01875.x (2009) A study of larvae of fishes off southern California has shown for the first time how climate change can affect the distribution and abundance of species....
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedWomen scientists in India get some inspiration to go with their aspirations. Writing on the Indigenus blog, Nature India editor Subhra Priyadarshini highlights a new book, Lilavati's Daughters: The Women Scientists of...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-Reviewed"The mountain literally exploded. Boulders were flying in the air, along with earth and leaves," says Deng Linhua, recalling the Sichuan earthquake on 12 May 2008. "It was horrifying." Deng is a vet at the Wolong...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7244) Peer-ReviewedLike many other single-celled pathogens, the protozoan Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness in humans, undergoes antigenic variation--that is, it periodically switches its variant surface...