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Editorials |
Collective responsibilities
China should stop discouraging scientists from setting up learned societies.
Identity crisis
It is time for all involved to tackle the chronic scandal of cell-line contamination. Funders first.
Overhead hazards
How to keep Earth orbits usable.
Research Highlights |
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Kaputnik chaos could kill Hubble
Worst-ever orbital collision leads to calls for tighter regulation.
Tumours spark stem-cell review
Russian treatment linked to cancerous growths.
Medical research scores big in US stimulus bill
Congress votes to give generous boosts to other agencies too.
John Holdren: adviser on science, fish and wine
Confirmation for Obama's candidate.
Rethinking silk's origins
Did the Indian subcontinent start spinning without Chinese know-how?
European disarray on transgenic crops
Forthcoming decisions set to bring disagreements to a head.
MRI modified for better images
Action-at-a-distance offers more spacious machines.
News Features |
Conservation: The genome of the American West
What does it mean to save a species? For some, preserving the American bison means keeping its genome pure, finds Emma Marris.
Materials science: China's crystal cache
A Chinese laboratory is the only source of a valuable crystal. David Cyranoski investigates why it won't share its supplies.
Correspondence |
Commentaries |
Recession Watch: How to survive the recession
The global economic downturn brings both predicament and promise. How will science fare and what role should scientists play on the long road back to recovery and growth? Ten of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners provide analysis, experience and advice.
Recession Watch: Boost the developing world
Directing finance into sustainable infrastructure in the poorest countries helps the whole world, says Jeffrey Sachs.
Recession Watch: Learn to convince politicians
Scientists must be prepared to explain why research budgets need protecting when times are tough, says Ian Taylor.
Recession Watch: Work for the greater good
During the Great Depression, scientists proved to America why researchers are key to nation-building, says Eric Rauchway.
Recession Watch: No time for nationalism
Basic research saw a boost in Japan's last recession. Better global links will help in the current one, say Atsushi Sunami and Kiyoshi Kurokawa.
Recession Watch: Cut costs and sell what you can
Technology start-ups need to trim their sails in rough economic times, says John Browning.
Recession Watch: Cooperation must rule
Navigating an unpredictable world will need different research disciplines to work together as equals, says Noreena Hertz.
Recession Watch: End the obsession with interest
Regulating leverage, not interest rates, is the answer to a troubled economy, says John Geanakoplos.
Books and Arts |
Recession Watch: Old lessons for a new economics
Nobel prizewinner Paul Krugman's updated analysis of past economic crises teaches us that recovery now will require more than a new set of rules, explains Bill Emmott.
Q&A: Building on paradise
Communicating the ideas of evolution is as much a challenge now as it was 150 years ago. In the wake of his recent BBC television programme, Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough tackles those who challenge evolution head on.
News and Views |
Carbon cycle: Sink in the African jungle
Apparently pristine African tropical forests are increasing in tree biomass, making them net absorbers of carbon dioxide. Is this a sign of atmospheric change, or of recovery from past trauma?
Neuroscience: Good and bad cell death
Neurodegeneration often has disease connotations. However, it is also a developmental process for fine sculpting of the nervous system. One signalling cascade might mediate the process in both circumstances.
Medical imaging: MRI rides the wave
An innovative approach for exciting and detecting signals in magnetic resonance imaging not only improves image quality but also enables radical changes in scanner design by freeing up space around the patient.
Taxonomy: Three into one will go
Striking instances of larval metamorphosis, and of adult sexual dimorphism, are not uncommon in the animal world. But especially dramatic examples of these phenomena have emerged from the deep sea.
Molecular biology: The long and short of RNAs
The known world of RNA is expanding faster than that of any other cellular building block. The latest additions are types of long and short non-coding RNAs formed by bidirectional transcription and unusual processing.
Obituary: Frederic Richards (1925â??2009)
Pioneer in studies of protein structure and function.
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Naturejobs |
Prospects
Life through a lens
Tackling corporate culture with the help of YouTube.
Career View
Walter Rosenthal, scientific director, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Researcher aims to turn basic science into clinical solutions as head of Berlin institute.
New centres plan for healthy ageing
US institutes are recruiting scientists and postdocs for ageing research.
It takes a lab to raise a child
Getting back to work hasn't been too much of a struggle â?? yet.
Futures |
Penance
An act of faith.
