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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedCharles Darwin proposed that competition would lower the success of species invasions if an ecosystem contained closely related species. But he may have been wrong, at least where amphibians are concerned. Members of...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedThe intensifying hunt for land for agriculture and biofuels threatens the rights and livelihoods of millions of people who live in tropical forests, according to a report launched in London on 8 February. The Rights and...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedThymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) is a member of the uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) superfamily of DNA repair enzymes. Owing to its ability to excise thymine when mispaired with guanine, it was proposed to act against the...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedControlling the electromagnetic properties of materials, going beyond the limit that is attainable with naturally existing substances, has become a reality with the advent of metamaterials (1-3). The range of various...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedDelusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference/The Real Science Behind Sex Differences CORDELIA FINE W. W. Norton/Icon Books: 2010. 338 pp./368 pp. $25.95/14.99 [pounds sterling]...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedAn analysis of thousand-year-old trees has linked megadroughts to upheavals in ancient Mexican civilizations. David Stahle at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and his colleagues measured tree rings from 30...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedGevo, a company that genetically modifies microbes to produce chemicals from plant sugars, raised US$107 million at $15 a share in an initial public offering on 9 February. The company, headquartered in Englewood,...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedThe effects of ageing are myriad and insidious, leading to progressive multi-organ deterioration. Prominent theories regarding the 'wear and tear' aspects of ageing implicate events in two cellular organelles--the...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedQuirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality Hannah Holmes RANDOM HOUSE 288 pp. $26 (2011) Why are people so different? Science writer Hannah Holmes explains the brain science and human psychology...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedClimate change may be hitting home. Rises in global average temperature are remote from most peoples experience, but two studies in this week's Nature (1,2) conclude that climate warming is already causing extreme...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedYale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is to establish a museum and joint research centre with the University of Cusco in Peru, to house a collection of tools, ceramics and bones from the Inca site Machu Picchu. The...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedAs analysis of huge data sets with computers becomes an integral tool of research, how should researchers document and report their use of software? This question was brought to the fore when the release of e-mails...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedMouse skin cells have been directly reprogrammed to become beating heart cells. The method used could be safer and more efficient than previously developed techniques, which can take weeks, yield low numbers of cells...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedThe super-massive black holes of [10.sup.6] [M.sub.[dot encircle]] to [10.sup.9] [M.sub.[dot encircle]] that reside in the nuclei of active galaxies (1) (AGN) are surrounded by a region emitting broad lines, probably...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedScientists to the fore in the Arab awakening go.nature.com/ox5oag...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedYou've probably noticed that, if you look at it from the side, a straw in a glass of water seems to bend. This is because light bends and slows down when it travels from air into water or other substances. How much the...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedLate last month, the Chinese government announced that it will invest four trillion renminbi (US$600 billion) over the next ten years to protect and improve access to water. The policy was spelt out in this year's No 1...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedLivestock plagues are on the rise globally, owing to increasingly intensive farming practices and the world's growing taste for meat and other animal products. The warning came from scientists at the International...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedThe colour that gives the blue penguin its name is produced by a protein nanostructure in the bird's feathers. Matthew Shawkey at the University of Akron in Ohio, Vinodkumar Saranathan at Yale University in New...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 470, Issue 7334) Peer-ReviewedExtremes of weather and climate can have devastating effects on human society and the environment (1,2). Understanding past changes in the characteristics of such events, including recent increases in the intensity of...