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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedThe US government is doing well to communicate uncertainty over swine flu. It must also help the public to visualize what a bad pandemic might be like, says Peter M. Sandman. Author(s): Peter M. Sandman 1 Author...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedNature Med. 15, 537-544 (2009) High doses of the drug ethionamide cause side effects that limit its use against tuberculosis. Now, Alain Baulard of the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, and his colleagues report that...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedSIR--In attempting to sustain natural ecosystems, we should not assume that imposing a price on goods and services that adversely affect the environment will also have a negative effect on the economy. Placing a value on...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedOnly 600 or so hand-picked students get to attend the annual Nobel Laureate Meetings at Lindau in Germany, but anyone can 'virtually' attend a selection of historical lectures. Alison Abbott, Nature's senior European...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedLunar rocks (1,2) and impact melts (3), lunar (4) and asteroidal meteorites (5), and an ancient martian meteorite (6) record thermal metamorphic events with ages that group around and/or do not exceed 3.9 Gyr. That such...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedMinister speaks out on proposed budget cuts. www.nature.com/news...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedTransmembrane sodium-ion gradients provide energy that can be harnessed by 'secondary transporters' to drive the translocation of solute molecules into a cell. Decades of study have shown that such sodium-coupled...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedHe who fell from grace was called the Professor--that is to say, one who professed grand skill and art. The term is now ironic, as his fall was great and its harm greater. She who sought to save us was the Doctor--the...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedIn a case that could determine the fate of gene patents, a group of cancer patients, clinicians, researchers and activists have sued the US Patent and Trademark Office and the owners of patents on two genes associated...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedInvasion Biology by Mark A. Davis Oxford University Press: 2009. 288 pp. $55 Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is a good example of the changes that invasive species can wreak. Its volcanic mountain tops...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedHandling money soothes physical pain and the hurt of rejection. www.nature.com/news...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedGeology 37, 443-446 (2009) Fossils of some of the largest trilobites ever found have been located in Portugal, and they bear witness to a very active social life in these extinct marine arthropods. Artur Sa at the...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedIn his 1972 paper "More is different", Philip Anderson (1) claimed that multi-component physical systems can exhibit macroscopic behaviour that cannot be understood from the laws that govern their microscopic parts--a...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedStudies of membrane proteins have revealed a direct link between the lipid environment and the structure and function of some of these proteins. Although some of these effects involve specific chemical interactions...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedThe Centennial Light, which hangs in a fire station in Livermore, California, is the oldest working light bulb on Earth. The four-watt night-light was switched on in 1901 and has been shining almost non-stop ever since,...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedAs bodies piled up, the United States' response to the 'Spanish flu' was to tell the public that there was no cause for alarm. The authority figures who glossed over the truth lost their credibility, says John M. Barry....
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedJ. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 6692-6694 (2009) Like a pen writing with molecular ink, the copper-coated tip of an atomic force microscope can attach molecules from a solution to anchored molecules on a surface through chemical...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedProbing the interiors of the Sun and other stars might sound tricky, but a technique similar to seismology provides a way. Just as seismic waves on Earth reveal information about the planet's interior, sound waves that...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedIn microorganisms, noise in gene expression gives rise to cell-to-cell variability in protein concentrations (1-7). In mammalian cells, protein levels also vary (8-10) and individual cells differ widely in their...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7245) Peer-ReviewedResearchers are closing in on a way to 'fingerprint' fossils to match them to their precise geological origins. Federal land managers and scientists have long dreamed of finding a way to link a potentially stolen...