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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedYou've heard of the black market. Now here's the The Red Market, a book describing the global trade in body parts and people that props up the health, fertility and adoption industries. In his expose of the crimes and...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedHot on the heels of last year's breakthrough, in which physicists briefly captured antihydrogen atoms, comes a 5,800-fold increase in the length of time that atoms of the elusive substance can be trapped. Researchers...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedFungi are the principal degraders of biomass in terrestrial ecosystems and establish important interactions with plants and animals (1-3). However, our current understanding of fungal evolutionary diversity is...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedBrazil's environment agency, IBAMA, has granted a building licence for the controversial Belo Monte Dam, a massive 11.2-gigawatt hydroelectric plant on the Xingu River--a tributary of the Amazon in the state of Para....
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedHepatitis C virus (HCV) remains a major medical problem. Antiviral treatment is only partially effective and a vaccine does not exist. Development of more effective therapies has been hampered by the lack of a suitable...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedAs the world warms, wetlands in the Northern Hemisphere may shrink because of thawing permafrost. This finding complicates predictions that wetlands, which harbour methane-producing bacteria, will release more...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedThe source of the outbreak of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli sweeping across northern Europe had still not been clearly identified when Nature went to press. By 7 June, 23 people had died and more than 2,400 had...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedThe wavefunction is a central mathematical entity in quantum physics. It is used to completely describe the state of a system. A means of probing it directly is now on hand. Quantum mechanics is the framework for...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedDavid Sloan Wilson is holding a white ceramic dog dish and making the rounds at the Lost Dog Cafe in Binghamton, New York. "Just like in church!" the biologist jokes, as he collects crumpled dollar bills on this snowy...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedCompassion, by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare F. Bailey Norwood and Jayson L. Lusk OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 416 pp. $45 (2011) Economic assessments have been largely missing from debates on the...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) will create a global framework to give developing countries access to data on local weather and climate, and to help them to prepare for the expected impacts of climate...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedThe three 2011 Shaw prizes, worth US$1 million apiece, were announced on 7 June. Astronomy prizewinners are Enrico Costa of Rome's Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics, and Gerald Fishman at NASA's...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedNext June, world leaders will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for Earth Summit 2012, to discuss (again) how to steer the planet towards a more sustainable future. The gathering marks the 20th anniversary of the 1992...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedThe causes and timing of tropical glacier fluctuations during the Holocene epoch (10,000 years ago to present) are poorly understood. Yet constraining their sensitivity to changes in climate (1) is important, as these...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedThe hepatitis C virus (HCV) dodges the immune system with devilish resourcefulness. Its vaunted genetic variability is an obvious advantage in escaping recognition by antibodies and T cells. But the virus also takes the...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedThe first national assessment of the value of Britain's ecosystems, commissioned by the government, was released on 1 June. Building on efforts by the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity international...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedAmerica's public universities risk compromising their autonomy and better judgement when, faced with major budget deficits from declining taxpayer revenue, they grasp at opportunities to land external funding from...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedProtein translocation across the bacterial membrane, mediated by the secretory translocon SecYEG and the SecA ATPase (1-4),is enhanced by proton motive force5,6 and membrane-integrated SecDF7-9, which associates with...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedStem cells reside in a specialized regulatory microenvironment or niche (1,2), where they receive appropriate support for maintaining self-renewal and multi-lineage differentiation capacity (1-3). The niche may also...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 474, Issue 7350) Peer-ReviewedInspired by Nature's Mentoring Awards (Nature 471, 547; 2011), the Society of Young Researchers of Slovenia is recognizing the country's research mentors with its own award (see go.nature.com/hiddyb). The society...