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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Crown: 2010. 320 pp. $26 One day in 1951, a young woman named Henrietta Lacks noticed blood on her underwear. She had been feeling pains for months that...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedGeophys. Res. Lett. doi: 10.1029/2009GL041753(2010) Gamma rays are bursts of high-energy radiation normally associated with powerful astronomical events, but they have also been observed on Earth. Electrons...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedAnyone who has seen a spider web after the early morning dew will have noticed water droplets strung along its fine threads. When Lei Jiang first observed the phenomenon, he was intrigued. "How does that happen?" He...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedAt one time, sequencing the whole human genome seemed almost impossible. But even as it was being completed, biologists were realizing that the genes encoded within it would reveal little about what makes each of us...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedThe first extrasolar planet found to be orbiting a Sun-like star was detected less than 15 years ago. As astronomers detect more and more planets orbiting stars other than the Sun in our Galactic neighbourhood,...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedThe M2 protein of influenza A virus is a membrane-spanning tetrameric proton channel targeted by the antiviral drugs amantadine and rimantadine (1). Resistance to these drugs has compromised their effectiveness against...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedTertiary education is poised for greater changes during the next decade than John Hennessey's vision implies (Nature 463, 28-29; 2010). The rising demand for university education in the developing world could affect...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedNature Phys. doi: 10.1038/ nphys1510(2010) Charged particles trapped in Earth's magnetic field form a plasma, and tend to clump together when disturbed by the turbulent solar wind. This 'pinching' effect has been...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedIn the first federal budget proposal to fully reflect his priorities, US President Barack Obama has signalled strong support for science and technology. His fiscal year 2011 budget request, announced on 1 February,...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedPlasmodium falciparum causes the virulent form of malaria and disease manifestations are linked to growth inside infected erythrocytes. To survive and evade host responses the parasite remodels the erythrocyte by...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedJames Prescott Joule, the nineteenth-century British physicist whose research on electricity and heat led to the first law of thermodynamics, is eponymous with Joule heating. This is the mechanism by which an electrical...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedIn your prognostications about the future of science, you might have featured only women as authors, given that the ancient prophesying Sibyls were always female. However, there was just one woman among the twenty...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedAstrophys. J. 710, 236-247 (2010) A surplus of high-energy electrons reported by instruments such as NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been interpreted as an indirect signal of dark matter, which is thought...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedRats have innate mapping abilities--scientists discovered in 2005 that the rodents maintain a grid-like map of their location by means of a network of brain neurons dubbed 'grid cells'. These cells have also been found...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedJust over two years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the United Nations panel on climate change is undergoing a period of soul-searching. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has always been a...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedCurr. Biol. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.070(2010) Adult bonobos are youthful in play and share food easily. Certain aspects of their behaviour and cognition seem to be developmentally delayed forms of those same...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedMany biological surfaces in both the plant and animal kingdom possess unusual structural features at the micro-and nanometrescale that control their interaction with water and hence wettability (1-5). An intriguing...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedThe success of Peter Atkins's classic textbook Physical Chemistry led him to trade research for full-time writing and teaching in the 1980s. In the first of a series of five interviews with authors who each write...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedScientists who study the world's biodiversity are facing a dilemma: proposals to regulate access to the riches of ecological hotspots may hamper the research needed to monitor these areas. The warning comes as...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7281) Peer-ReviewedOncologist Ronald DePinho of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, may be unaware of the impact of his innocent question at a meeting in 2004 on cancer epigenetics, a field then just starting to burgeon. But it...