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Volume 432 Issue 7015, 18 November 2004

Volume 432 Issue 7015

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Brief Communications Arising

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Editorial

  • Big conferences are good for science. But because many researchers fly in, these events are also bad for the environment. What can be done to redress the balance?

    Editorial

  • With the right safeguards, a national institute could give a much-needed boost to agricultural research in the United States.

    Editorial
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News

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News in Brief

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Correction

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News Feature

  • Benoit Mandelbrot is one of the twentieth century's best known mathematicians. So why, in the twilight of an extraordinary academic career, is he still angry with many of his colleagues? Jim Giles investigates.

    • Jim Giles
    News Feature

  • Companies are already swapping money for the right to emit more pollution, and cashing in on projects designed to suck up greenhouse gases. As this market booms, will it actually help to cut down on emissions? Michael Hopkin reports.

    • Michael Hopkin
    News Feature
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Correspondence

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Commentary

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Books & Arts

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Essay

  • Ion transport: the division between active transporters and passive channels is beginning to blur

    • Louis J. DeFelice
    Essay
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News & Views

  • A small subpopulation of cells, ‘brain-cancer stem cells’, has been identified in humans. They have the exclusive ability to drive tumour formation, and could prove an effective target for therapies.

    • Michael F. Clarke
    News & Views

  • The ability to predict and modify the rate-determining steps in chemical reactions would be a boon in designing better catalysts. Technical innovations in computer simulations bring that goal closer.

    • Charles T. Campbell
    News & Views

  • Large blue butterflies are notable for their rarity and ability to dupe ants, and they are endangered. A genetic reconstruction of how social parasitism evolved among them will overturn conservation priorities.

    • Jeremy A. Thomas
    • Josef Settele
    News & Views

  • Pure, perfectly regular crystals were believed to be essential for the efficient operation of nonlinear optical devices. Surprisingly, it now seems that disordered materials might actually perform better.

    • Sergey E. Skipetrov
    News & Views

  • Insight into how membrane ion pumps work requires structural snapshots of various stages of their catalytic cycle. Now a fifth freeze-frame image of a calcium pump in action adds to a striking body of work on this protein.

    • C. Roy D. Lancaster
    News & Views
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Research Highlights

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Brief Communication

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Corrigendum

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Introduction

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Review Article

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Progress

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Review Article

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Article

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Letter

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Corrigendum

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Prospects

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Special Report

  • Careers in journalism can be rewarding for scientists who have a way with words. Virginia Gewin reveals what it takes to be a scribe.

    • Virginia Gewin
    Special Report
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Insight

  • The development of cancer can be viewed as an evolutionary process. Cells are constantly subject to mutations in their DNA which are usually detrimental to the cell. But occasionally these changes produce cells that can escape the normal constraints and flourish as pathological tumours.

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