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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedReconstructing the early evolutionary history of anthropoid primates is hindered by a lack of consensus on both the timing and biogeography of anthropoid origins (1-3). Some prefer an ancient (Cretaceous) origin for...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) last week found a way to avoid awarding a controversial science prize sponsored by an African dictator, whose regime is widely viewed as...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedBy now, the scenario is familiar: a distant light in the spacecraft's cameras becomes a fuzzy blob, which brightens and grows until the craft is suddenly plunging through an ionized fog. Enveloped in haze, the camera...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedThe Mind's Eye OLIVER SACKS Alfred A. Knopt/Picador: 2010. 288 pp/272 pp. $25.95/17.99 [pounds sterling] Eight days before Christmas Day 2005, neurologist Oliver Sacks--author of Awakenings (1973), The Man Who...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedWhy Does E=m[c.sup.2]? (And Why Should We Care?) Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Da Capo, 2010; 8.99 [pounds sterling]) Physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw provide an accessible explanation of Einstein's iconic...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedLong RNA molecules that do not code for proteins boost the expression of certain human genes, including those linked to development. Typically, regulatory RNAs, such as microRNAs, quiet gene expression. Ramin...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedA week is a long time in politics, as one-time British prime minister Harold Wilson famously said. But in European Union (EU) politics, a decade can seem very short indeed. Just look at the ten-year strategic plan for...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedSemaphorins and their receptor plexins constitute a pleiotropic cell-signalling system that is used in a wide variety of biological processes, and both protein families have been implicated in numerous human diseases...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedYou might think that bacteria have little to teach us about plants. But as Chen et al. reveal on page 1074 of this issue (1), you would be wrong. They report the three-dimensional structure of a protein from the...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedImperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science Jim Endersby (Univ. Chicago Press, 2010; $25) Botanist Joseph Hooker became one of the first professional scientists when research began to be...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedSix-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War Jeffrey A Lockwood (Oxford Univ. Press, 2010; 9.99 [pounds sterling]) From scorpions used by Roman armies to beetle infestations spread in the cold war,...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedOne idea for biosensors and bioenergy is to combine living cells with inorganic materials. Researchers have taken a step towards this goal by engineering the bacterium Escherichia coli to transmit electrons to inorganic...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedConservation doesn't always alleviate poverty, and commercial ecotourism doesn't always protect biodiversity (Nature 467, 264-265; 2010)--but both succeed often enough to be worth doing. A few tourism enterprises...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedFive British activists who tried to close down animal-testing firm Huntingdon Life Sciences near Cambridge, UK, by harassing and threatening anyone who did business with the company, were sentenced to between 15 months...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedPink Brain, Blue Brain Lise Eliot (OneWorld, 2010; 12.99 [pounds sterling]) Neuroscientist Lise Eliot marshals the latest evidence to show that social pressures are the main cause of behaviour differences between...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedIt has to work--for astronomers, there is no plan B. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled to launch in 2014, is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and the key to almost every big question that...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-Reviewed31 OCT-3 NOV Expect more updates on the fate of leaked oil in the Gulf of Mexico, as the Geological Society of America meets in Denver, Colorado. go.nature.com/decw8q 2 NOVEMBER America's midterm elections: a...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedCycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe ROGER PENROSE Bodley Head: 2010. 320 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] No living physicist has yet made a discovery as great as those of Isaac Newton or Albert...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedSand: A Journey through Science and the Imagination Michael Welland (Oxford Univ. Press, 2010; 9.99 [pounds sterling]) The world is visible in a grain of sand in geologist Michael Welland's acclaimed book. From...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7319) Peer-ReviewedYour News story on the return of a colony of elderly research chimpanzees to the lab (Nature 467, 507-508; 2010) inadvertently misrepresents my position on an important and sensitive issue. Like many others on the...