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Volume 436 Issue 7053, 18 August 2005

Editorial

  • A spiritual leader with an interest in research has encountered opposition to his plans to speak at a scientific meeting. But he is perfectly entitled to do so.

    Editorial

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  • Researchers have two rare opportunities to influence the ways in which they may be assessed in future.

    Editorial
  • The painstaking US approach to the assessment of climate-change science yields some useful results.

    Editorial
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Research Highlights

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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • Preparing astronauts for a journey to the red planet has become NASA's research priority for the International Space Station. But such experiments will need more than the skeleton crew now running the station. Tony Reichhardt reports.

    • Tony Reichhardt
    News Feature
  • Can the behaviour of complex systems from cells to planetary climates be explained by the idea that they're driven to produce the maximum amount of disorder? John Whitfield investigates.

    • John Whitfield
    News Feature
  • Cindy Lee Van Dover likes nothing better than to be on the ocean floor. Emma Marris meets the unconventional biologist who has devoted her life to studying the exotic ecosystems of the deep.

    • Emma Marris
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Business

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Correspondence

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Commentary

  • A plan to restore animals that disappeared 13,000 years ago from Pleistocene North America offers an alternative conservation strategy for the twenty-first century, argue Josh Donlan and colleagues.

    • Josh Donlan
    Commentary
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Books & Arts

  • Science can boost your chance of reaching a healthy old age — but don't hold your breath for immortality.

    • Tom Kirkwood
    Books & Arts
    • Olivia P. Judson
    Books & Arts
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News & Views

  • Different measures are used to define concentrations of biodiversity — so-called ‘hotspots’. More rigorous, global-scale analyses of how they compare will be essential for efficient resource allocation to conservation.

    • Hugh P. Possingham
    • Kerrie A. Wilson
    News & Views
  • The lack of a coherent quantum description of gravity has impeded our understanding of the physics that determined how the Universe began. A synthesis of recent ideas may take us a step farther back in time.

    • Martin Bojowald
    News & Views
  • Cosmic rays produce carbon-14, which enters Earth's carbon cycle after being oxidized. It is of great service to atmospheric chemists in providing a way of tracking the degree to which the atmosphere keeps itself clean.

    • Patrick Jöckel
    • Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer
    News & Views
  • First impressions can be misleading. The enzyme telomerase has been well studied because of its initial association with cell ageing processes and cancer — but it now seems that this is not all it can do.

    • Elizabeth H. Blackburn
    News & Views
  • The agile, choreographed response of the Swift satellite to γ-ray bursts tests models to an unprecedented degree. Results from two recent long bursts suggest that the models are good, but require some tweaking.

    • Dieter H. Hartmann
    News & Views
  • In Duchenne muscular dystrophy, muscle cells die as a result of suffering many tiny membrane ruptures. A compound that increases membrane resealing can protect heart muscle cells from these effects.

    • Richard A. Steinhardt
    News & Views
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Brief Communication

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Introduction

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Review Article

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Article

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Letter

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Prospects

  • More geophysicist PhDs are becoming postdocs

    • Paul Smaglik
    Prospects
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Postdocs and Students

  • Scientific conferences give new faculty members a chance to meet the leaders in their field and to give themselves some much-needed exposure. Kendall Powell works the room.

    • Kendall Powell
    Postdocs and Students
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Correction

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Movers

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Scientists and Societies

  • Graduate students band together to foster communication

    • Benno Quade
    • Ajaybabu Pobbati
    Scientists and Societies
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Graduate Journal

  • Another stage, another choice

    • Tobias Langenhan
    Graduate Journal
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Futures

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Insight

  • More than 170 million people are infected with the hepatitis C virus. Most infections are chronic, incurable, and hundreds of thousands of people die each year of cirrhosis, liver failure and cancer. But progress has been made in the 15 years since the virus was discovered. In this Insight, Naturebrings together leading experts to review advances in the field of hepatitis C research.

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