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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedAuthor Affiliations: 50 Years Ago In Nature of October 12, 1957 ... we were glad and proud to congratulate the scientists and technologists of the U.S.S.R. on the successful launching of the first artificial Earth...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedAuthor Affiliations: A riderless bicycle can travel for some distance without falling -- an ability generally assumed to be due to the gyroscopic forces of the spinning front wheel keeping it upright. But this is not...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Frederik Trettin 1 , Tobias Bunde 1 Author Affiliations: (1) University of Konstanz, Germany As initiators of the open letter that contributed to the resignation of the German defence minister...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedActivation of microglia and inflammation-mediated neurotoxicity are suggested to play a decisive role in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative disorders. Activated microglia release pro-inflammatory factors that...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedLaurent Stricker says Japan's nuclear disaster should mark a turning point for the industry. Author(s): Declan Butler Author Affiliations: Laurent Stricker WANO Laurent Stricker, chairman of the World...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedNo longer a guaranteed ticket to an academic career, the PhD system needs a serious rethink. Author Affiliations: The world has many problems and it will take a lot of bright, educated people to solve them. So, on...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedA leading explanation for how disease migrates falls short on clinical evidence. Author(s): Heidi Ledford Author Affiliations: It can't be easy to stand in front of hundreds of colleagues and tell them that ten...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedThe placenta does not only act as the essential link between the developing embryo and its mother. Unexpectedly, it is also a source of serotonin -- a neurotransmitter that is crucial for embryonic brain development....
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedHealed by light Smart materials with an in-built ability to repair damage caused by normal wear and tear could prove useful in a wide range of applications. Most healable polymer-based materials so far developed...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedEvidence that a larval brachiopod has ciliary photoreceptors that are directionally selective, and therefore may function as eyes, bears on an enduring puzzle about photoreceptor evolution in animals. Author(s):...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedThere are too many doctoral programmes, producing too many PhDs for the job market. Shut some and change the rest, says Mark C. Taylor. Author(s): Mark Taylor Author Affiliations: The system of PhD education in...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedHot spots for meiotic recombination To initiate the recombination process that guides accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis, programmed double-strand breaks are made at preferred sites known as hot spots....
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedIn the Comment article 'NASA: what now?' (Nature 472, 27-29; 2011), the picture of the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 was wrongly identified as that of Columbia in 2003. Author Affiliations: In the...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedMice out of step on X inactivation X-chromosome inactivation is an essential process in female mammals that compensates for the presence of two X-chromosomes by suppressing gene expression from one of them. A study...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedEarly sources of serotonin Although it is widely assumed that a maternal contribution to fetal serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT) levels during pregnancy is important in neurodevelopment, there is little direct...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedA scholarly history of the WWF highlights the gap between advocacy and action, finds Nancy Lee Nash. Author(s): Nancy Lee Nash 1 2 Author Affiliations: (1) Nancy Lee Nash, WWF consultant 1979-84, wrote the...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedAuthor Affiliations: Can you guess how many marbles are in a jar? Maybe you are a savant or maybe not; either way, odds are that, between them, a group of people will beat your guess. Stefan Krause at the Lübeck...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedThe news story 'China faces up to 'terrible' state of its ecosystems' ( Nature 471, 19; 2011) stated that more than 25% of China's grasslands have been lost in the past decade. The percentage should have been 2.5%. The...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedInnate behaviours are flexible: they change rapidly in response to transient environmental conditions, and are modified slowly by changes in the genome. A classical flexible behaviour is the exploration-exploitation...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 472, Issue 7343) Peer-ReviewedThe week in science. Author Affiliations: Policy|Events|People|Research|Funding|Trend watch|Coming up Policy Wolf delisted The grey wolf will be removed from the US government's endangered species list in...