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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedTwinkle, twinkle, little spot: are you a real world or not? Pinning down the elusive nature of Fomalhaut b, a faint speck of light discerned within the glare of a nearby star, has proved to be far from child's play. At...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedRereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline David Sepkoski UNIV. CHICAGO PRESS 440 pp. $55 (2012) In the 1970s, a new kid on the block was shaking up palaeontology,...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedGenevieve Fioraso (pictured) has been appointed minister of higher education and research in France's new government. Fioraso, a socialist parliamentarian and the deputy mayor of Grenoble, has experience in research and...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedA US government advisory task force has recommended against the routine use of a controversial test for prostate cancer to screen healthy men, because its harms outweigh its benefits. The final recommendation from the...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedFreshwater fish should be added to the list of species that are threatened by emerging fungal diseases (M. C. Fisher et al. Nature 484, 186-194; 2012). Government agencies need to adapt their fish-monitoring programmes...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedThe Earth has cooled over the past 4.5 billion years (Gyr) as a result of surface heat loss and declining radiogenic heat production. Igneous geochemistry has been used to understand how changing heat flux influenced...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedThe more we know about antibiotics, the fewer we can discover. This is essentially why the field is in trouble--only one antibiotic belonging to a new class, the narrow-spectrum daptomycin, was discovered and made it...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedGroundwater depletion and other human-induced changes in terrestrial water storage were responsible for almost half of the increase in global sea level observed between 1961 and 2003. Thermal expansion of the oceans,...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedCellular life emerged ~3.7billion years ago. With scant exception, terrestrial organisms have evolved under predictable daily cycles owing to the Earth's rotation. The advantage conferred on organisms that anticipate...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedThe loss of function and death of neurons that occur in patients with Alzheimer's disease are traditionally considered (1,2) to result from the accumulation in the brain of a peptide known as amyloid-[beta]. Little...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedBiocontainment labs across the Asia-Pacific region all too often fail to live up to the term. An inspection of dozens of labs has found that nearly one-third of the biosafety hoods intended to protect workers from...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedARISING FROM C. Eisenegger, M. Naef, R. Snozzi, M. Heinrichs & E. Fehr Nature 463, 356-359 (2010) In February 2010, Eisenegger et al. reported increased fair bargaining behaviour after administration of testosterone...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedThe Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body Frances Ashcroft ALLEN LANE 352 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] (2012) Physiologist Frances Ashcroft celebrates the "body electric"--animal electricity--in this...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedThe embattled chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory Jaczko, announced his resignation on 21 May, potentially signalling an end to three years of controversy, acrimony and stalemate over US...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedInternational research collaborations are multiplying fast, with one-quarter of the world's science and engineering publications now featuring authors from more than one country. But not all national funding agencies...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedPrivate Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power Steve Coll PENGUIN 704 pp. $36(2012) Oil giants don't come much bigger than ExxonMobil or, claims Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist Steve Coll, more secrecy-shrouded....
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedNature 484, 228-232 (2012) The accepted date should read 08 February 2012, rather than 2011. This error has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions online. doi:10.1038/nature11138...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedA trial crop of genetically modified (GM) wheat at Britain's leading agricultural research centre, Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, was attacked on 20 May. The institute said that a lone protester broke in and damaged...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedMammals could find it more difficult to adjust their geographical ranges as the climate warms than previously thought. Carrie Schloss and her colleagues at the University of Washington, Seattle, studied the ability...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 485, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedWith its jumble of leaves and pointy, green, flower spikes, the plant known as pigweed or palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) isn't much to look at. But to farmers in the southeastern United States, it is a formidable...