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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedThere is wide agreement that type Ia supernovae (used as standard candles for cosmology) are associated with the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars (1,2). The nuclear runaway that leads to the explosion could...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedOne important factor is missing from your Editorial on batting for science in the current UK economic climate (Nature 463, 402; 2010): the need for scientists to engage more fully in the political arena, and, in...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedNature Chem. doi:10.1038/nchem.544 (2010) A little help from a template has allowed a long, straight molecule to be tied into a knot. Molecular knots occur naturally in DNA and proteins, but are difficult to make...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedThe cancer genome is moulded by the dual processes of somatic mutation and selection. Homozygous deletions in cancer genomes occur over recessive cancer genes, where they can confer selective growth advantage, and over...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedAt the heart of every large galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole, typically a million to a billion times more massive than the Sun. Most of these black holes are gentle giants, hiding quietly among the stars and dust...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedLaser blasts missile: On 11 February, the Missile Defense Agency in Washington DC used a powerful chemical laser mounted on an aircraft to destroy a short-range ballistic missile shortly after launch. A solid-fuel...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedEngineering needs an image boost--one that is delivered by Henry Petroski in The Essential Engineer Knopf, 2010) Explaining how the discipline can solve the planet's problems, he discusses how engineers turn the...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedIn 2009, the number of international patent applications dropped on the back of a double-digit fall in US applications (see chart). The dip was the first in the 31-year history of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, set up...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedSince the origin of evolutionary science, biologists have insisted that adaptation is an achingly slow process. 'Natura non facit saltum (nature does not take leaps) was a favourite incantation of Charles Darwin. As the...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedThe grey, sulphur-laden skies overlying parts of Asia have a bright side--they reflect sunlight back into space, moderating temperatures on the ground. Scientists are now exploring how and where pollution from power...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedScientific fraud is indeed rampant in China (Nature 463, 142-143; 2010). Sanctions against guilty individuals can help in countries everywhere, but these aren't enough in the longer tem to correct a dangerous...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedAs the current headlines make all too clear, controversies over scientific conclusions in fields such as climate change can have the effect--deliberate or otherwise--of undermining the public's faith in science. As...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedUbiquitin and ubiquitin-like (Ubl) proteins function by becoming attached to their target proteins and modulating the activities of those targets in various ways. They thus regulate many physiological and...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the notion of an early origin and diversification of life on Earth during the Archaean eon has received increasing support in geochemical, sedimentological and palaeontological evidence, ambiguities and...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedClimate scientists are engaged in a lively debate about how--or whether--the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should reform itself (see Nature 463, 730-732; 2010). At a minimum, the panel needs to hold...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedGraphene is high on the list of hot new materials. The one-atom-thick sheets of carbon have exceptional mechanical, thermal and optical properties, which researchers are impatient to exploit. Graphene is also...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedAnimal testing is unavoidable for scientific progress, but mainland Europe has no equivalent to the UK group Pro-Test to speak out for it. Our negative experience demands that scientists and politicians rectify this...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedOne of the central predictions of metric theories of gravity, such as general relativity, is that a clock in a gravitational potential U will run more slowly by a factor of 1 + U/[c.sup.2], where c is the velocity of...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedWhen faced with environmental change, plants cannot relocate to more favourable conditions, and so they must adapt. Consequently, they are highly attuned to their environment and respond rapidly to change in order to...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-ReviewedHeterozygous mutations in the gene encoding the CHD (chromo-domain helicase DNA-binding domain) member CHD7, an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeller homologous to the Drosophila trithorax-group protein Kismet (1,2),...