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Volume 431 Issue 7004, 2 September 2004

Editorial

  • The Russian Academy of Sciences is failing to provide either the quality of research or the scientific advice that reformers had been hoping for.

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Brief Communications Arising

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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • Only Russia can rescue the global agreement on climate change. So why aren't Russian climate scientists speaking up? Quirin Schiermeier and Bryon MacWilliams report from Moscow.

    • Quirin Schiermeier
    • Bryon MacWilliams
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  • Piers Coleman is a theoretical physicist, his brother Jaz a musician with an unusual pedigree. Together, they want to break down boundaries between science and the arts. Sarah Tomlin attends their latest concert.

    • Sarah Tomlin
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Correspondence

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Commentary

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Books & Arts

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Turning Points

  • How an unexpected allegory led to the birth of a new subject.

    • Gautam R. Desiraju
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News & Views

  • Extraterrestrial civilizations may find it more efficient to communicate by sending material objects across interstellar distances rather than beams of electromagnetic radiation.

    • Woodruff T. Sullivan III
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  • In most animals, the Hox genes — which control development — are clustered together. But why? New evidence supports the idea that the requirement for a temporal order of expression keeps the cluster intact.

    • Nipam H. Patel
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  • At the nanoscale, thermal fluctuations and noise dominate. But instead of being a hindrance, the details of the noise itself can reveal the physical properties of the system.

    • Simon Kos
    • Peter Littlewood
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  • Cells consume parts of themselves to survive starvation and during development. But how do they control this process of self-eating so that it begins at the right time and does not end up killing the cell?

    • Daniel J. Klionsky
    News & Views
  • Controversy over shock-wave experiments on the compression of hydrogen has broad implications — for understanding the cores of Jupiter and Saturn, and even the formation of extrasolar planets.

    • William B. Hubbard
    News & Views
  • A jaded observer might consider the cancer research field near maturity and surprising new results improbable. But work on the protein netrin-1 shows that unforeseen insights into cancer can still occur.

    • Eric R. Fearon
    • Kathleen R. Cho
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Research Highlights

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Brief Communication

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Letter

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