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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedCurr. Biol. 19, 10.1016/j.cub.2009.05.009 (2009) Tool use can alter people's perception of the size and position of their body parts. INSERM's Alessandro Farne and Lucilla Cardinali at Claude Bernard University in...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedThe Italian government has caught scientists off guard by cancelling the G8 science and technology meeting that was to have begun on 25 June. The meeting would have brought together science ministers of the G8 nations...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedRab GTPases and SNAREs (soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors) are evolutionarily conserved essential components of the eukaryotic intracellular transport system. Although pairing of...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedThe discovery of water vapour and ice particles erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus fuelled speculation that an internal ocean was the source (1-3). Alternatively, the source might be ice warmed, melted or crushed by...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedIn 1956, as an experiment, an agency was started in the London area to put women graduates in touch with any suitable part-time work ... Many potential employers are prejudiced against part-time workers; it was felt that...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedIn March and early April 2009, a new swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus (S-OIV) emerged in Mexico and the United States (1). During the first few weeks of surveillance, the virus spread worldwide to 30 countries (as...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedSIR--Your News Feature 'Sucking it up' (Nature 458, 1094-1097; 2009) reports on the issue of the capture of carbon dioxide from air. This is timely, as in February this year, President Obama and the Canadian Prime...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedTAIPEI Warming scientific relations between Taiwan and mainland China were on view last week at a meeting in Taipei of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA). Historically a Taiwanese-dominated...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedA single electron or hole spin trapped inside a semiconductor quantum dot forms the foundation for many proposed quantum logic devices (1-6). In group III-V materials, the resonance and coherence between two ground...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedProtein structures are getting regular makeovers with the help of 're-refinement' software developed by Dutch structural biologists. The Protein Data Bank (PDB) holds nearly 53,000 three-dimensional structures of...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedIt was difficult to avoid a sense of despair after last week's Pacific Health Summit, in Seattle, Washington. The meeting--an annual gathering of researchers, public-health policy-makers, drug regulators and heads of...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedSaturn's moon Enceladus emits plumes of water vapour and ice particles from fractures near its south pole (1-5), suggesting the possibility of a subsurface oceans (5-7). These plume particles are the dominant source of...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedGraphene is an atom-thick sheet of carbon in which electrons behave as if they have no mass. Atomic carbon layers have been grown epitaxially--that is, perfectly aligned with atoms in an underlying crystal surface--on...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedGenome-wide copy number analyses of human cancers identified a frequent 5p13 amplification in several solid tumour types, including lung (56%), ovarian (38%), breast (32%), prostate (37%) and melanoma (32%). Here, using...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedThis March, Michael Perfit, chair of the geology department at the University of Florida in Gainesville, learned that budget cuts might slash 11 of the 24 faculty and staff positions in his group. "It was like someone...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedAcademic reports may sound alarm bells, but do not necessarily spur governments into action. In a post on Indigenus, Nature India editor Subhra Priyadarshini highlights two recent publications on the effects of climate...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedSIR--In his Essay 'Is free will an illusion?' (Nature 459, 164-165; 2009), Martin Heisenberg argues that humans must have free will because freedom of action has been demonstrated in other animals--including those as...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedWhat should any researcher expect from a journalist beyond the keen intelligence needed to see the newsworthiness of the researcher's work, and the ability to spell his or her name correctly? For some scientists, the...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedThe modern Eastern Equatorial Pacific (EEP) Ocean is a large oceanic source of carbon to the atmosphere (1). Primary productivity over large areas of the EEP is limited by silicic acid and iron availability, and because...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 459, Issue 7250) Peer-ReviewedModern refrigerants designed to protect the ozone layer are poised to become a major contributor to global warming because of their future explosive growth in the developing world, scientists report this week....