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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedChemicals deal: German chemicals company BASF will buy competitor Cognis in a deal worth about 3.1 billion [euro] (US$3.8 billion). BASF, based in Ludwigshafen, confirmed the acquisition on 23 June. It will pay 700...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedCell 141, 1135-1145 (2010) Genes alone are rarely sufficient to cause disease. Researchers now report one possible explanation for this in Crohn's disease, a common inflammatory bowel disorder. Thaddeus...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedThe News Feature 'Illuminating the brain' (Nature 465, 26-28; 2010) contained an incorrect statement regarding the experimental work of Philip Sabes. In fact, no needles were broken during the primate experiment....
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedDespite the scandals over leaked e-mails at the University of East Anglia, UK, and flawed data in the most recent assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific evidence for global...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedPatent sidestep: In a much-anticipated decision, the US Supreme Court on 28 June struck down a patent for a business method--but refused to define more broadly what constitutes a 'patentable process. A definition might...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedThe interplay between light and matter is the basis of many fundamental processes and various applications (1). Harnessing light-matter interactions in principle allows operation of solid state devices under new...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedMathematician Joseph Mazur examines the science of gambling in What's Luck Got to Do With It? (Princeton Univ. Press, 2010). From the dice-playing of Neolithic peoples to modern lotteries and casino capitalism, he...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedHunting in groups for gregarious prey is such a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom that it comes as a surprise that the first simple model of the process has only just been published, in the New Journal of...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedProc. R. Soc. B doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0877 (2010) Exposure of ancient tadpoles to novel foodstuffs may have awoken genetic variation previously hidden from natural selection, leading to the evolution of new eating...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedClimate authors: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Geneva, Switzerland, has announced the experts who will, unpaid, compile the panel's fifth assessment report (AR5), due in 2014. The 831...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedDo ancient hotspots hold magnetic record? go.nature.com/bnD27C...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedHuman activity can degrade ecosystem function by reducing species number (richness) (1-4) and by skewing the relative abundance of species (evenness) (5-7). Conservation efforts often focus on restoring or maintaining...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedType Ia supernovae form an observationally uniform class of stellar explosions, in that more luminous objects have smaller declinerates (1). This one-parameter behaviour allows type Ia supernovae to be calibrated as...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-Reviewed1 JULY Christiana Figueres replaces Yvo de Boer as head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. 2-7 JULY The Euroscience association, which promotes science and technology...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedAmong the variety of cancer-cell subpopulations that make up a tumour, it is thought that only a select few--cancer stem cells--can drive tumour formation. Whether there is a hierarchy for tumorigenic potential among...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedJapanese research: Japans science ministry has approved 14 projects worth a total of [yen] 56.4 billion (US$632 million), supplementing its [yen] 100-billion 'FIRST' initiative (Funding Program for World-Leading...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedNature Med. doi:10.1038/nm.2174 (2010) A tumour's genetic make-up holds important clues to its stage of development, and researchers are now closer to a tool that can 'read' this information. Soft-tissue cancers...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedVarious social behaviours in mice are regulated by chemical signals called pheromones that act through the vomeronasal system (1-3). Exocrine gland-secreting peptide 1 (ESP1) is a 7-kDa peptide that is released into...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedA Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Paul N. Edwards MIT Press: 2010. 528 pp. $32.95/24.95 [pounds sterling] Many people find climate models puzzling. As some...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7302) Peer-ReviewedAstron. Astrophys. 515, A98 (2010) Planets seem to have no effect on the X-ray output of their parent stars, say Katja Poppenhaeger and her colleagues at the University of Hamburg in Germany. Theorists have...