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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedSilicon reacts extremely slowly with water to produce hydrogen gas, but 10-nanometre-wide silicon particles react 1,000 times faster. Mark Swihart, Paras Prasad and their colleagues at the State University of New...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedThe head of a survey to measure the health effects of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan is stepping down. Shunichi Yamashita, a radiation health physicist from Nagasaki University, will leave his position as...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedMany readers of Nature will take it for granted that they have a birth certificate, and that when they die, their death, and its cause, will be officially recorded, as will their health problems in the intervening...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedAfter more than a decade of spectacular growth fuelled by coal, China finds itself sitting on a bonanza of shale gas. Its reserves are the worlds largest, beating even those of the United States. But developing this...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedArising from R. Garrouste et al. Nature 488, 82-85 (2012) The origin of winged insects (Pterygota), one of the planet's most diverse lineages of organisms, is assumed to lie in the Devonian, but as an extremely...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedKnowing how an organism's tissues handle stress throughout life is key to understanding ageing and disease. Stems cells of the blood system seem to tackle metabolic stress by means of a process called autophagy. See...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedWithin the framework of quantum mechanics, a unique particle wave packet exists (1) in the form of the Airy function (2,3). Its counterintuitive properties are revealed as it propagates in time or space: the quantum...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedReporting in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Pugach and colleagues (1) provide genetic evidence of a possible mid-Holocene (4,230 years ago) link between human populations in India and Australia. Their...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedMale sexual dysfunction is never pretty, even in nematodes. In normal roundworm courtship, a slender male will sidle up to a plump hermaphrodite, make contact, and then initiate a set of steps leading up to...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedThe Hongyanhe nuclear reactor in the northeastern Liaoning province of China fired up on 17 February--the first new reactor to start up in the country since it imposed a ban on new nuclear facilities after the 2011...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedSaving bees is a fashionable cause. Bees are under pressure from disease and habitat loss, but another insidious threat has come to the fore recently. Concern in conservation and scientific circles over a group of...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedNature 489, 282-285 (2012); doi:10.1038/nature11390 A. M. Makarieva, V. G. Gorshkov, D. Sheil, A. D. Nobre and P. Bunyard pointed out that the units in our Fig. 3b were confusing. To clarify, the legend should read:...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedThe non-canonical NF-[kappa]B pathway forms a major arm of NF-[kappa]B signalling that mediates important biological functions, including lymphoid organogenesis, B-lymphocyte function, and cell growth and survival...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedBreaking its 150-year-old tradition as a prominent scientific advisory group for the US government, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is quietly preparing to launch a major research-grant programme. The programme...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedA bill that requires free public access to academic articles resulting from federally funded research was introduced into the US Congress on 14 February. If passed, the bill would order research agencies to give free...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedOn 15 February, the town of Chelyabinsk in the Russian Ural Mountains had an unexpected visitor. A meteor streaked high above the city, briefly blinded commuters and then shattered thousands of windows with a series of...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedREPLYING TO T. Hornschemeyer et al. Nature 494, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11887 (2013) Since the nineteenth century, Devonian insects have repeatedly proven to be something else (1-5), the sole exception being...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedThe masses of the supermassive black holes found in galaxy bulges are correlated with a multitude of galaxy properties (1,2), leading to suggestions that galaxies and black holes may evolve together (3). The number of...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedI suspect that many aspects of the ritual behaviour being investigated by anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse and his colleagues (Nature 493, 470-472; 2013) could well apply to academia, and to the scientific community in...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 494, Issue 7437) Peer-ReviewedThe world's first clinical study that puts induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into humans was given a conditional go-ahead on 13 February. A review board at the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation in Osaka,...