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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedAerosols such as black carbon and dust particles seem to have a greater effect on the Tibetan Plateau's snow than does anthropogenic climate change. Yun Qian of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland,...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedThe ongoing Japanese nuclear crisis underscores yet again the risks inherent in this essential energy source. But it should not divert nations from using or pursuing nuclear power to generate electricity, given the...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedHad I been a participant in your survey on animal-rights activism (Nature 470, 452-453; 2011), I would have replied that animal extremism once had a negative effect on me--but in an unexpected way. I worked for many...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedThe European Space Agency (ESA) is pushing ahead without NASA support for its next big science mission, as the ongoing US budget crunch and competing priorities impose serious constraints on the US space agency (see...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-Reviewed"We're on the verge of an Arctic ozone hole." Markus Rex of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, Germany. See go.nature.com/pkzgsl for more on the Arctic's unprecedented ozone...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedDrosophila melanogaster is one of the most well studied genetic model organisms; nonetheless, its genome still contains unannotated coding and non-coding genes, transcripts, exons and RNA editing sites. Full discovery...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedSpermatogenesis is one of the most complex and longest processes of sequential cell proliferation and differentiation in the body, taking more than a month from spermatogonial stem cells, through meiosis, to sperm...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedSchizophrenia affects between 3 and 7 in every 1,000 individuals (1). Yet, as for most mental disorders, the origins and mechanisms of this multi-symptom psychiatric illness remain elusive. In this respect, Vacic and...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedThe United Kingdom has signalled its intent to join Spain, Germany, France and Italy in reducing state incentives for solar-power production. In a consultation document published on 18 March, the UK Department of Energy...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedSequencing DNA on an industrial scale is no longer difficult: the challenge is in assembling a full genome from the multitude of short, overlapping snippets that second-generation sequencing machines churn out....
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedFrankenstein ADAPTED BY NICK DEAR. DIRECTED BY DANNY BOYLE National Theatre, London. Until 2 May 2011. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been adapted and reinterpreted innumerable times since it was first...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedNeutral atoms can be made to behave like charged particles by 'synthetic' electric and magnetic fields. These are created through the production of a synthetic gauge field in a state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedThe alkene metathesis reaction, in which carbon-carbon double bonds (C=C bonds) are redistributed between alkene molecules, has had an enormous impact on chemical research and industry, as was recognized in 2005 with a...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedPox: An American History (Penguin History of American Life) Michael Willrich PENGUIN PRESS 400 pp. $27.95 (2011) Attitudes to public-health interventions have not changed much in the past 100 years, explains...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedQuantum metrology aims to use entanglement and other quantum resources to improve precision measurement (1). An interferometer using N independent particles to measure a parameter X can achieve at best the standard...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedMelanoma is a tumour of transformed melanocytes, which are originally derived from the embryonic neural crest. It is unknown to what extent the programs that regulate neural crest development interact with mutations in...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedResearch-intensive universities in England will be cushioned from cash cuts to the nation's higher-education grants. Compared with 2010-11, institutions next year will lose on average 3.7% of their research and teaching...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedIn your articles on animal activism (www.nature.com/animalresearch), there was no mention of the many individuals and organizations who work peacefully and legally to educate the public and policy-makers about the...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedA survey of liver tumours has highlighted a gene that many such tumours depend on for survival. Scott Lowe and Scott Powers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and their colleagues searched the genomes of 89...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 471, Issue 7339) Peer-ReviewedMany stem, progenitor and cancer cells undergo periods of mitotic quiescence from which they can be reactivated (1-5). The signals triggering entry into and exit from this reversible dormant state are not well...