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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedWhy are numerous reactions to the Nowak et al. paper so ferocious? And how is it possible that theorists even seem to disagree about mathematics? An important key to the heatedness of the debate is that many theory...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedDetails of BP's ten-year US$500-million research programme to monitor environmental damage from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were belatedly announced on 29 September. BP had pledged the money in May, but an edict...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedSheets of carbon with the potential to revolutionize electronics and materials science have bagged this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Andre Germ and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester, UK, have been...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedThe likelihood that a human embryo cultured during in vitro fertilization (IVF) will develop successfully to the five-day mark can be predicted with about 93% sensitivity and specificity from three early developmental...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedTo understand a neural circuit requires knowledge of its connectivity. Here we report measurements of functional connectivity between the input and ouput layers of the macaque retina at single-cell resolution and the...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedOver the past half-century, a great many things have changed in biomedical research. Along the way, postdoctoral training has become an established step in a research career. But this development has proved a...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedIn 'Science safe in Brazil elections' (Nature 467, 511-512; 2010) the graph should have read IIS$ billions not IIS$ millions. In 'Brawl in Beijing' (Nature 467, 511; 2010), the correct link to Fang Shimin's website...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedThis beautiful image of synchronized spore discharge from an ascomycete fungus comes from a book published in 1791. A cross-disciplinary group of researchers led by Marcus Roper and Agnese Seminara have now brought...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedGeorges Charpak, who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the principles behind modern particle detectors, died on 29 September aged 86. From 1959, he worked at CERN, Europe's premier particle-physics...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedPathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science Jim Al-Khalili Allen Lane 336pp. 25 [pounds sterling] (2010) Physicist, author and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers of early Arabic science. His...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedDocumented shifts in geographical ranges (1,2), seasonal phenology (3,4), community interactions (5), genetics (3,6) and extinctions (7) have been attributed to recent global warming (8-10). Many such biotic shifts have...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedFrance's ministry of science and higher education was spared deep cuts in the country's deficit-reducing budget for 2011, announced last week. Research minister Valerie Pecresse said the ministry would get a 4.7-billion...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedNowak and colleagues' explanation of the evolution of altruism in terms of individual-level selection might be reconciled with the views of their kin-selection opponents by striking an analogy with statistical...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedThis year, it was cottages. Chrome cube houses had been all the rage last year, but after the success of the Back-to-Nature gene mod range, everyone wanted an idyllic cottage. Dave McKillen was one of the few who...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedThe Grand Design: New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life STEPHEN HAWKING AND LEONARD MLODINOW Bantam Press: 2010. 208 pp. $28, 18.99 [pounds sterling] Despite publicity to the contrary, The Grand Design does...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedAmyris Biotechnologies, a synthetic-biology start-up co-founded by engineer Jay Keasling at the University of California, Berkeley, has had a modest stock-market debut. The firm, of Emeryville, California, engineers...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedA strength of kin-selection theory for explaining the evolution of altruism is that it generates multiple hypotheses that can fail in resulting tests, forcing principles to be re-examined. Lessons can be learned from...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedChina's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e 2, was due to be orbiting the Moon five days after its launch on 1 October. The probe is carrying a laser altimeter and a camera to survey prospective sites for a Moon...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedVery few scientists can say that four million people are alive because of their work, but Robert Edwards is one of those few. His development of the technique at the heart of that claim--in vitro fertilization...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7316) Peer-ReviewedIf severed, nerves outside the brain and spinal cord can reconnect and resume functioning. Unexpectedly, the molecular mechanism behind this remarkable ability turns out to involve fibroblasts--a type of cell that helps...