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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-Reviewed"So you don't consider [Francis] Collins to be a true scientist?" "Let's just say he's a government administrator." Craig Venter opines on the current director of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedPercival's Planet: A Novel by Michael Byers Henry Holt: 2010. 432 pp. $27 Eighty years ago, the hunt for a mysterious Planet X culminated in the discovery of Pluto. Lying beyond Neptune in the Solar System, the...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedSampling techniques could skew results. go.nature.com/gU9UV7...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedScience 329, 559-562 (2010) Many plants, insects and microbes naturally produce small quantities of alkanes and alkenes--long-chain carbon and hydrogen molecules that are major components of fossil fuels. The...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedRare-earth offering: Molycorp, a US company that owns one of the largest deposits of rare-earth minerals outside China, raised US$394 million at $14 a share in an initial public offering on 29 July, although its share...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedPeople exert large amounts of problem-solving effort playing computer games. Simple image- and text-recognition tasks have been successfully 'crowd-sourced' through games (1-3), but it is not clear if more complex...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedQuantum entanglement is among the most fascinating aspects of quantum theory (1). Entangled optical photons are now widely used for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics (2) and applications such as quantum...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedOn 12 May, Vernon Asper was cruising through the Gulf of Mexico, just a few kilometres south of where the Macondo well was gushing tens of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Asper, an oceanographer at the...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedSnapshots of ultrafast dynamics in the microworld are traditionally made in a 'pump-probe' set-up. A first (pump) pulse of light plays the role of a starter gun, initiating the dynamics. A second, delayed (probe) pulse...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedIn his review of my book Massive, Frank Close wonders how physicist Peter Higgs alone came to be associated with the elusive boson that bears his name (Nature 465, 873-874; 2010). The story, as recalled by Higgs and...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedAngew. Chem. Int. Edn doi: 10.1002/anie.201003110 (2010) The ability to split water into hydrogen and oxygen could be an important step in the development of renewable fuels. The use of haematite, a form of iron...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedWith a simple body plan lacking organs, muscles and nerve cells, the sea sponge hardly seems a rich avenue for study. Yet this humble organism squats firmly at the doorway to one of life's great mysteries: the leap to...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedReporting in Angewandte Chemie, Apostolidis et al. (1) describe how they combined synthesis, spectroscopy and computational modelling to identify, for the first time, a series of complexes in which water molecules bind...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedISS glitch: The crew of the International Space Station is not in danger, NASA says, despite an electrical spike that shut down a pump module feeding ammonia coolant into the starboard cooling system on 31 July. The...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedIn the ethically fraught field of human-embryo research, Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has long been regarded as a world leader in regulating and advising scientists. But now the HFEA...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedNo, I'm not a Communist, but I'm not a capitalist either, not having the capital to finish the work any further myself, and that's the only reason I'm on my way to Cuba. If I can get there and convince the Cubans, the...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedThe Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering by Melanie Thernstrom Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2010. 384 pp. $27 We all experience pain, yet...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedCarbon offsets: A United Nations panel in charge of carbon offsets asked for further investigation into projects that reduce emissions of hydrofluorocarbon gases (HFCs) last week--but was criticized for not immediately...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedNature Med. doi: 10.1038/nm.2186(2010) Growing tumours rely on a good blood supply to feed them, so the identification of a small RNA molecule that switches on bloodvessel growth in tumours provides a potential...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 466, Issue 7307) Peer-ReviewedBritain's biomedical establishment has given an enthusiastic welcome to the incoming chief executive of the Medical Research Council (MRC). John Savill was named last week as the man who will steer the agency through...