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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedAn erroneous Figure 1 appeared in the News & Views article "Materials science: Graphene moire mystery solved?" by Allan H. MacDonald & Rafi Bistritzer (Nature 474, 453-454; 2011), in that the lattices depicted were not...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedThe World's Largest Dinosaurs American Museum of Natural History, New York. Until 2 January 2012. Dinosaur halls are the petrified trophy rooms of natural-history museums. But The Worlds Largest Dinosaurs--an...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedA hallmark of RNA silencing is a class of approximately 22-nucleotide RNAs that are processed from double-stranded RNA precursors by Dicer. Accurate processing by Dicer is crucial for the functionality of microRNAs...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedThe contentious issue of drug-industry influence over medical-research writing erupted on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia this week. A professor of psychiatry has alleged that several...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedRepublicans in the US Congress are threatening to cancel the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. On 7 July, a House subcommittee voted to cut NASA's funding by US$1.6 billion...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedThe fog that envelops so many people as they age, severing them from their memories and thus from their identity, used to be considered a normal part of growing old--along with sore joints, needing reading glasses and...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-Reviewed16 JULY NASA's Dawn spacecraft should reach Vesta, one of the largest bodies of the asteroid belt (see page 147). go.nature.com/qga1b2 17-20 JULY The International AIDS Society holds its biennial conference on...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedIncreasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2])can affect biotic and abiotic conditions in soil, such as microbial activity and water content (12). In turn, these changes might be expected to alter...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedAnyone who has tried to stop smoking knows that quitting is frequently followed by a rapid weight gain (1) of some 4 or 5 kilograms, and as much as 13 kilograms. It isn't surprising, therefore, that despite a general...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedSupernova 1987A is the remnant of an exploded star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (pictured), a dwarf galaxy some 49 kiloparsecs from Earth. New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory indicate that the...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedWe published recently (June 29) a short article on the progress of radiography in medical diagnosis, and alluded in particular to the work of the staff at Guy's Hospital in their investigation of pathological conditions...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedThis commentary starts from my frustration that no new drugs to combat Alzheimer's disease have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2003. The few medications currently available address the...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedFinding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer David Roberts Broadway Books 416 pp. $24.99 (2011) American wilderness artist and writer Everett Ruess, a contemporary...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedLitmus: Short Stories from Modern Science Edited by Ra Page Comma Press 298 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling] (2011) From Jeremiah Horrocks's observation of the transit of Venus in 1639 to Alan Turing's revelations about...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedEurope's sweeping chemicals law, sometimes described as its most complex piece of legislation, was meant to regulate thousands of common substances to protect people and the environment from harm. But four years after...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedElectricity can kill, but it can also revive individuals experiencing life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias when it is applied through external or implanted cardiac defibrillator devices. Sudden cardiac death is the...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedWhether the new arrival is a boy or a girl, most parents do not notice their baby's blood being sampled because it happens so quickly. Within a few days of birth, a healthcare worker deftly pricks the heel of the...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedAs a physician, medical educator and former animal researcher, I agree that the US national discussion of chimpanzee experimentation should go beyond simple husbandry issues (Nature 474, 252; 2011). For ethical and...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-Reviewed"Atlantis is flexing its muscles one final time," said NASA's television commentator as the space shuttle climbed away from Earth on 8 July. It is the 135th and last flight of NASA's shuttle programme. Atlantis is...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 475, Issue 7355) Peer-ReviewedJupiter and Saturn formed in a few million years (ref. 1) from a gas-dominated protoplanetary disk, and were susceptible to gas-driven migration of their orbits on timescales of only ~100,000 years (ref. 2)....