Showing Results for
- Academic Journals (70)
Search Results
- 70
Academic Journals
- 70
- Search Terms:
- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedIn March, NASA's Messenger mission is due to become the first craft ever to orbit Mercury, and the agency's Dawn probe will orbit one of the biggest members of the asteroid belt, Vesta, in August. Other planned space...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedBy 520 million years ago, the oceans of the world were teeming with diverse forms of animal life addicted to the newly abundant, life-giving oxygen in the surface environment. Arthropods, many--like the trilobites--now...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedThe Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom Evgeny Morozov PUBLICAFFAIRS 432 pp. $27.95 (2011) The Internet is often said to be synonymous with democracy and freedom. But there is a dark side, cautions...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedPlanet-hunters anticipate that NASA's Kepler telescope will reveal an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star. It has already spotted hundreds of planets outside the Solar System, although full data have not yet been...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedUniversity rankings would be more informative if they took into account graduates' contributions to a country's international economic competitiveness. Although institutes in the United States and the United Kingdom...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedThe US Senate on 22 December ratified a deal with Russia to reduce nuclear arms, paving the way for new bilateral inspections. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) was signed by the US and Russian...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) has become a cornerstone of community and ecosystem ecology (1-3) and an essential criterion for making decisions in conservation biology and policy...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedThe anomeric effect is a chemical phenomenon (1-9) that refers to an observed stabilization (10) of six-membered carbohydrate rings when they contain an electronegative substituent at the C1 position of the ring. This...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedThe Sceptical Chymist ROBERT BOYLE First published 1661. It can be said of books, as Shakespeare said of people, that "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"....
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedIn modelling, simplicity isn't simple Before computing became widespread, quantitative modelling usually required simplification--spherical cows (1), if you like-- to render complex problems tractable. Fields such as...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedCentromere-binding protein B (CENP-B) is a widely conserved DNA binding factor associated with heterochromatin and centromeric satellite repeats (1). In fission yeast, CENP-B homologues have been shown to silence long...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedThe final flight of NASA's space-shuttle fleet is scheduled for April, when it will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International Space Station to search for antimatter and dark matter. However, the...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedMullerian mimicry in the warning colours of unpalatable butterflies has been well known since its discovery in the nineteenth century (1,2). It is beneficial because noxious prey that share warning colours also share...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedLoving and Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 428 pp. $29.95 (2011) Mathematics gets a bad press. Its practitioners are...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedVenezuela's beleaguered scientists are facing renewed pressure from their government, which this week assumes control of levies from private companies that represent one of the main sources of research funding in the...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedThe European Space Agency's satellite GOCE, which is designed to measure Earth's gravity field in unprecedented detail, will publish results next year that will be used to help monitor sea level rise. Meanwhile, NASA's...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedStolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery Jennie Erin Smith CROWN 336 pp. $25 (2011) The alien appeal of alligators, snakes and lizards leads enthusiasts to scour the world for rare reptile...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedSpain's government is slashing subsidies to its photovoltaics industry by around 30%, or 740 million [euro] (US$970 million) per year, as part of plans to save more than 4.6 billion [euro] in electricity costs over the...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedResearchers have learned how to reprogram peoples cells into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, and on from that into other cell types: skin cells can be turned into nerve cells, for example. Patient-derived iPS...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 469, Issue 7328) Peer-ReviewedBy the latter half of the 1980s, the worldwide chemical industry knew that it had to clean up its act: its environmental reputation was dismal. Still fresh in the public mind was the 1984 disaster at Bhopal, India,...