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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-Reviewed25-30 OCTOBER St Louis, Missouri, hosts the 9th International Plant and Molecular Biology congress. * www.ipmb2009.org 26-30 OCTOBER The Acoustical Society of America meets in San Antonio, Texas. *...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedIn the ancient Indian tale of six blind men encountering an elephant, each man approaches the creature from a different direction. One finds the trunk, another a leg, the third the tail, and so on, whereupon they...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedKaka Tshering loops a piece of frayed jute rope around a 150-kilogram boulder. A handful of his fellow workers line up on either end and pull the rope taught. "Shochi, Shoni," the workers call in unison, as they heave....
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedThe prime objective for every life form is to deliver its genetic material, intact and unchanged, to the next generation. This must be achieved despite constant assaults by endogenous and environmental agents on the...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedScience park: Plans for a multi-million-pound science park in Britain were unveiled last week by the UK government, the Wellcome Trust and drug company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The park will be located at GSK's existing...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedArising from: 5. N. Gorb et al. Nature 443, 407 (2006) As with all spiders, tarantulas spin silk from specialized structures in the abdomen called spinnerets, which are key features unique to the group. Recently Gorb...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedIn the early Jurassic period, about 200 million years ago, the most common flying vertebrates were primitive long-tailed pterosaurs. One hundred million years or so later, the more advanced, short-tailed pterodactyloids...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedIn a multifaceted exercise in palaeoecology, Michael Graham and colleagues have taken the subject underwater. Their study is an investigation of how the distribution and productivity of giant kelp have changed since the...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedBRUSSELS Europe is inching closer to realizing its far-reaching plans for Earth-observing. Last week Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission (EC), publicly confirmed his support for the Galileo and...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedSex determination in plants leads to the development of unisexual flowers from an originally bisexual floral meristem (1,2). This mechanism results in the enhancement of outcrossing and promotes genetic variability, the...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedThe cause of the bush fires that swept across southeastern Australia in February, killing more than 170 people, can be traced back to shifting ocean patterns. Researchers know that when sea-surface temperatures are...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedSIR--You cite compelling reasons for the scientific community to share data (Nature 461, 145 and 168-173; 2009). But there is also a case for extending this to the broader community, including the general public....
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedResignation: Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland, resigned abruptly on 17 October from the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, a...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedUniversities told international collaborations will be key. go.nature.com/ACNYtr...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedHigh-copy-number transposable elements comprise the majority of eukaryotic genomes where they are major contributors to gene and genome evolution (1). However, it remains unclear how a host genome can survive a rapid...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedAcross the subduction zones of Japan, where one tectonic plate dives beneath another, the propagation of seismic waves varies from place to place. Earth scientist Ikuo Katayama of Hiroshima University in Japan sought to...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedEquipped with waterproof markers, whiteboards and a keen sense of theatre, government ministers from the Maldives held a half-hour underwater meeting on 17 October to highlight the threat of rising waters to their...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-Reviewed
Time running out for climate talks: rift between developed and developing nations might be too great
With just five negotiating days left before the global-warming summit in Copenhagen this December, the international climate community has tempered its expectations and begun to look for a graceful exit. Pressure on... - 19From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedOn page 1098 of this issue, Verbiscer and colleagues (1) report the discovery of an enormous ring around Saturn. The authors found this most tenuous of Saturn's known rings, which covers some 10,000 times as much area...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 461, Issue 7267) Peer-ReviewedGreg Asner peers out an open window, taking stock of the jungle as the single-engine prop plane chugs over a pair of scarlet macaws gliding among the treetops 120 metres below. The Peruvian Amazon stretches in all...