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Correspondence |
Mind the gap: future depends on sciences and humanities
- Adrian D. Manning
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Authors |
From the blogosphere
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Career Brief |
Responsible work plans
Booklet offers tips to help animal researchers avoid action by activists.
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News & Views |
50 & 100 years ago
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Books & Arts |
Tricks of the stage
A restored imperial theatre in China reveals how Western techniques of visual perspective brought by the Jesuits were adopted by an eighteenth-century Chinese emperor, explains Martin Kemp.
- Martin Kemp
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News |
Debt crisis threatens UK science
As Britain's researchers face fierce budget cuts, Nature finds out how labs are preparing for hard times.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Careers Q&A |
Richard Zare
Chemist Richard Zare is winner of the 2010 Priestley Medal and the 2009 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
- Virginia Gewin
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News Feature |
Literature mining: Speed reading
Scientists are struggling to make sense of the expanding scientific literature. Corie Lok asks whether computational tools can do the hard work for them.
- Corie Lok
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News |
Head of German drug agency to leave post
Board calls time on embattled director of pharmaceutical evaluation institute.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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News |
Lawsuit rekindles gene-patent debate
Criticism of exclusive licences puts university policies in the spotlight.
- Brendan Borrell
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News |
Plans for alien contact found wanting
Governments lack frameworks to respond to discoveries.
- Lucas Laursen
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Stem-cell line given the nod
NIH moves to approve cells in limbo after rule change.
- Brendan Borrell
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News |
Europe cannot keep its promises on fish stocks
Even with total cessation of fishing, UN target would still be missed.
- Daniel Cressey
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Career Brief |
Small rise for US postdocs
NIH stipend increase not enough, says US National Postdoctoral Association.
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Career Brief |
Biotech ends on a high
Biotech firms raise much more money in 2009, buoyed by big pharma partnerships
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Editorial |
Climate of suspicion
With climate-change sceptics waiting to pounce on any scientific uncertainties, researchers need a sophisticated strategy for communication.
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'Big science' spurs collaborative trend
Complicated projects mean that science is becoming more globalized.
- Eric Hand
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Authors |
From the blogosphere
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Opinion |
Fixing the communications failure
People's grasp of scientific debates can improve if communicators build on the fact that cultural values influence what and whom we believe, says Dan Kahan.
- Dan Kahan
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Careers and Recruitment |
Tricky terrains
The drug and biotech industries are not always easy to break into. Developing a diverse skill set could be the key to success, Karen Kaplan reports.
- Karen Kaplan
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Research Highlights |
Geophysics: Synthetic sky light
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Editorial |
Self-inflicted damage
The autocratic actions of an institute's founder could destroy a centre of excellence for brain research.
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NIH scrutinizes drug-company payments at Baylor
Funding agency raises 'serious concerns' about conflicts of interest.
- Brendan Borrell
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Books & Arts |
Vision of a personal genomics future
The director of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, calls for a revolution in personalized medicine. Such advances should be shared beyond the developed world, says Abdallah S. Daar.
- Abdallah S. Daar
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Opinion |
A route to more tractable expert advice
There are mathematically advanced ways to weigh and pool scientific advice. They should be used more to quantify uncertainty and improve decision-making, says Willy Aspinall.
- Willy Aspinall
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Careers Q&A |
Jon Gluyas
Jon Gluyas of Durham University, UK, is the country's first professor of carbon capture and storage and geoenergy.
- Virginia Gewin
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Spotlight |
Spotlight on Biotech / Pharma
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Column |
World view: Wild goose chase
Quantitative research assessment is a bad idea whose time has come, argues Colin Macilwain.
- Colin Macilwain
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The scientific diplomat
AAAS president Peter Agre talks to Nature about his recent visits to Cuba and North Korea.
- David Cyranoski
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Iranian academics fear more killings
Concern grows in the wake of particle physicist's death.
- Declan Butler
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Bulgarian science reform attacked
Researchers say law wouldn't fix nation's higher-education system.
- Alison Abbott
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Israel hails first steps towards funding agency
Weightier grants will provide security for biomedical researchers.
- Haim Watzman
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Correspondence |
To make progress we must remember and learn from the past
- Bart Penders
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Editorial |
Call for a bigger vision
Science in Canada cannot realize its full potential without clear direction from government.
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Editorial |
Security ethics
Manufacturers of computer systems should welcome researchers' efforts to find flaws.
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Editorial |
Lessons from a pandemic
It is time to assess what worked, and what didn't, in the global efforts to cope with swine flu.
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