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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedThe world currently produces more than enough energy to provide a high standard of living for all of its human inhabitants, researchers say. Julia Steinberger at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna and Timmons...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedAt the start of the twenty-first century, cities emerged as the source of the greatest challenges that the planet has faced since humans became social. Although they have proven to be humanity's engines of creativity,...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedOne of the largest projects ever proposed to mine for coal by stripping the tops off mountains--in the Appalachians (pictured)--looks set to be derailed after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was told it...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedAs a chemist and one of the 'groaners' about DNA's oft-misrepresented chirality (Nature 467, 789; 2010), I have made a point of complaining whenever I find a left-handed helix in a biotech company logo, on an...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedEarth's diffuse aurora occurs over a broad latitude range (1) and is primarily caused by the precipitation of low-energy (0.1-30-keV) electrons originating in the central plasma sheet (2), which is the source region for...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedRajendra Pachauri will remain chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which held its 32nd plenary session in Busan, South Korea, last week. Delegates discussed how the panel should change after...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedBefore the US government released its long-awaited guidelines for purveyors of synthetic DNA last week, some scientists were concerned that the standards, meant to foil would-be bioterrorists, would also hamper...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedScientists are city people. More than one-tenth of the workforce in the Washington DC metropolitan area are scientists and engineers. Beijing has more than 160,000 professionals in research and development. Worldwide,...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedPink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women's Health Gayle A. Sulik OXFORD UNIV. PRESS 424 pp. $29.95 (2010) Examining the 'pink ribbon' culture of fund-raising for breast-cancer research,...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedWidely used oil-based plastics could be replaced with bioplastics made from renewable resources. But one potential type of building block for such materials, omega-hydroxy fatty acids, is difficult and expensive to...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-Reviewed
Living quarters: synthetic biology could offer truly sustainable approaches to the built environment
Architects have long drawn inspiration from the forms and functions of natural systems. Yet biological cells and organisms have requirements--such as nutrition and growth-support structures--that limit their use in... - 12From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedIn recent months, UK scientists have fretted, lobbied and protested in anticipation of the government's comprehensive spending review--a four-year budget to be unveiled this week that is designed to slash the country's...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedMarine and continental records (1) show an abrupt negative shift in carbon isotope values at ~55.8 Myr ago. This carbon isotope excursion (CIE) is consistent with the release of a massive amount of isotopically light...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedControlling the morphology of metal nanostructures is central to many applications because it provides an effective means of tailoring the electronic, optical and catalytic properties of those structures (1). Reporting...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedSamir Okasha (Nature 467, 653-655; 2010) deplores the dispute triggered by the latest broadside against inclusive-fitness theory (Nature 466, 1057-1062; 2010). But his concerns that it could threaten research funding...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedIndia's particle physicists have won permission to build a US$225-million neutrino laboratory--one of the country's biggest physics projects--under the Bodi West Hills in the state of Tamil Nadu. The environment...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedCocaine's rewarding effects are controlled by the opposing actions of the two main cell types in the brain's reward centre, the nucleus accumbens. The cells differ, in part, in which receptor they express for the...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedElectrophoresis is a motion of charged dispersed particles relative to a fluid in a uniform electric field (1). The effect is widely used to separate macromolecules, to assemble colloidal structures and to transport...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedThis summer, statistics PhD graduate Genevera Allen took on a new position --a joint assistant professorship between the statistics department at Rice University and the department of paediatrics and neurology at the...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedI find nothing to dislike in your redesign (Nature 467, issue 7314; 2010). In fact, I enjoy being directed to material that is of interest to me, including to papers and articles that I didn't know would be of interest...