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Participants in an international forum last month were appropriately fired up about the opportunities for the poorest countries that are provided by information technologies. The attitudes of governments can make all the difference.
Bad news travels fastest. Or so the scientists fighting disease hope. Since 1994, ProMED-mail has been reporting outbreaks as soon as they happen. Erika Check meets the team behind the 24-hour service.
Resources are shifting from small labs led by one researcher to large teams with expensive equipment. But has the rise of big biology gone too far? Erika Check investigates.
The European heatwave of 2003: was it merely a rare meteorological event or a first glimpse of climate change to come? Probably both, is the answer, and the anthropogenic contribution can be quantified.
The phrase ‘quantum error correction’ might sound like a technical fix to a device that ought to be working better. But it is in fact a fascinating piece of fundamental physics with powerful implications.
Evidence of unexpected complexity in an ancient community in Uruguay is a further blow to the conventional view of prehistoric development in marginal areas of lowland South America.
It's generally been thought that, during cell division, only proteins are necessary to assemble the machine that segregates chromosomes. But a new molecular requirement has been discovered.
To reproduce, cells must copy their genetic material and distribute the replicas into two daughter cells. A self-perpetuating molecular oscillator regulates periodic transitions between these two processes.
Dark energy drives the accelerating expansion of the Universe — but what is dark energy? Its influence on the properties of neutrinos might be detectable, and could reveal something of its mysterious nature.
The protein clathrin forms lattice-like coats on transport vesicles that bud from cell membranes. High-resolution models of the lattice reveal interactions involved in its disassembly once the vesicles have formed.
