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Volume 432 Issue 7020, 23 December 2004

Volume 432 Issue 7020

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Editorial

  • A group of just nine climate scientists is trying to change the media coverage of their discipline. Thanks to an ongoing revolution in electronic news, they might just succeed.

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  • Nature hereby offers its readers some New Year's resolutions.

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Turning Points

  • How a terrifying interview led to fun doing physics.

    • Gregory Benford
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News & Views

  • The most vexing question in meteoritics is on the verge of being answered — what process led to the small droplets of primordial dust that are found throughout the most primitive meteorites?

    • Alan P. Boss
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  • Resistance to insulin predisposes people to diabetes; it is characterized by increased storage of fats and a failure to stop glucose synthesis. The molecular underpinnings of these effects have been uncovered.

    • Marc Montminy
    • Seung-Hoi Koo
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  • An antenna array that is metres high and wide can detect and transmit radio waves. This effect has now been demonstrated at much smaller electromagnetic wavelengths in a nanoscale array of carbon nanotubes.

    • M. S. Dresselhaus
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  • What do changing colours in corn kernels, mutations in houseflies and the variability of antibodies and of a T cell's antigen receptors in the vertebrate immune system have in common? A great deal, it turns out.

    • Marjorie A. Oettinger
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  • One of the great uncertainties in projecting global warming is accounting for the effects of small particles in Earth's atmosphere. Progress is nonetheless being made with this fiendishly complex problem.

    • Joyce E. Penner
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  • Mammals face a problem just after birth: they are no longer nourished through the placenta, but suckling has not yet begun. How do they survive? Digestion of the animal's own cells could be the answer.

    • Nathaniel Heintz
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  • Red blood cells develop in the bone marrow in ‘islands’ nurtured by a central white blood cell. Work in mice shows that the retinoblastoma protein is crucial for these white cells to mature and form islands.

    • James Palis
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  • New work shows how light might be used to cool a micrometre-size cantilevered mirror to the low temperatures required in physics experiments and applications.

    • Peter W. Milonni
    • Boris M. Chernobrod
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