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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedClimate rift: Exelon of Chicago, Illinois, the largest US nuclear-power provider, has become the latest company to quit the US Chamber of commerce because of differences over climate change. In recent months the...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedOn the 9 November 1989, the lights were out early for Pavel Jungwirth. Jungwirth had recently graduated from Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and he was hoping eventually to pursue a PhD in physics. But his...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedTopoisomerases regulate DNA topology and are fundamental to many aspects of chromosome metabolism (1,2). Their activity involves the transient cleavage of DNA, which, if it occurs near sites of endogenous DNA damage or...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedIn keeping with the principle that there's safety in numbers, animals gain various anti-predatory benefits from forming groups. One such benefit is that an individual in a group can be alerted to danger by a group-mate,...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedPrompted by the increasing practice of organ transplantation, and thus the need to procure donor organs that are as fresh as possible, many countries have modelled their legal definition of death on a US law passed in...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedHigh-risk awards: The US national Institutes of Health announced 115 new awards for high-risk research on 24 September. The grants, which total US$348 million over five years, come in three varieties: Pioneer Awards for...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedNuclear curbs: The United Nations Security Council unanimously backed a non-binding resolution to bolster efforts aimed at slowing the spread of nuclear weapons. It endorsed strengthening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedInduced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have been generated from mouse and human somatic cells by ectopic expression of four transcription factors (OCT4 (also called POU5F1), SOX2, c-Myc and KLF4) (1-7). We previously...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedWith antibiotic-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on the rise, the development of new drugs that combat this bacterium and treat tuberculosis has become an urgent public-health need. Biophysicist Huilin Li...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedI am usually reluctant to claim anything to be a 'fact'. Likewise, I shy away from the word 'proof ' beyond the certainties of mathematics. But, as Richard Dawkins makes plain in The Greatest Show on Earth, cautious...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedTHE BUSINESS OF BIOFUELS This year was supposed to be a big year for BlueFire Ethanol. The company, based in Irvine, California, had planned to start operating its first commercial cellulosic biofuel plant by the end...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedThe fact that certain forms of polarized light can carry a spin angular momentum has been known since the early twentieth century (1)--today we associate this quantity with individual photons. But light can also carry...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedResearchers have worked out a new mechanism by which T cells are blocked from attacking the body's own tissues and causing autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes. Brian Fife of the University of Minnesota in...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedThe early evolution of the major groups of derived non-avialan theropods is still not well understood, mainly because of their poor fossil record in the Jurassic. A well-known result of this problem is the 'temporal...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedDrug deal: The drug company Abbott Laboratories in Abbott Park, Illinois, is to buy Solvay Group's pharmaceutical business for 4.5 billion [euro] (US$6.6 billion). The company will pay cash for the deal, which includes...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedThe reactions of molecules with one another often proceed through intermediates before the final products are formed. Such intermediates are frequently short-lived and unstable, which restricts our ability to...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedUS President Barack Obama travelled to a struggling city in upper New York state last week to unveil a 22-page "Strategy for American Innovation". The Obama administration is genuinely interested in developing policies...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedGeologists have pinned down the geometry of the fault that ruptured in China's Sichuan province in May 2008 (pictured, left), killing at least 70,000 people. The researchers used data from the Global Positioning...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedSIR--In response to your News story 'Nanoparticle safety in doubt' about lung damage in Chinese factory workers (Nature 460, 937; 2009), we would like to stress that China has been paying close attention to research...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7264) Peer-ReviewedA university spin-off company has got battery investors buzzing. A123Systems, which makes rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, raised US$380 million at $13.50 a share at its initial public offering, before watching its...