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Volume 440 Issue 7084, 30 March 2006

Editorial

  • A more cohesive biomedical research agency and simpler arrangements for measuring university performance feature in Britain's 2006 budget.

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Research Highlights

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News

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News in Brief

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Correction

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News Feature

  • The two Roger Pielkes can be obstructionist pains in the neck, say their colleagues. So why is this likeable father–son pair such a welcome addition to the debate on global climate change? Kendall Powell clears the air.

    • Kendall Powell
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  • Many of the genes affecting mitochondria — tiny energy suppliers of cells — reside in the cell nucleus. Nick Lane joins the hunt for these sequences that may underpin diseases such as diabetes.

    • Nick Lane
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Business

  • Merger fever has finally reached Germany's drug firms. But can it cure the industry's woes? Alison Abbott reports.

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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

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Essay

  • Does the enormous computing power of neurons mean consciousness can be explained within a purely neurobiological framework, or is there scope for quantum computation in the brain?

    • Christof Koch
    • Klaus Hepp
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News & Views

  • In the 1980s, a large lake — Lago Guri — was created as part of a hydroelectric project in Venezuela. Islands in the lake have enabled ecologists to test a fundamental hypothesis in their discipline.

    • Peter D. Moore
    News & Views
  • Propeller-shaped structures seem to reveal the presence of moonlets, about 100 metres in diameter, embedded in Saturn's rings. This discovery adds to our picture of how the rings formed and are evolving.

    • Frank Spahn
    • Jürgen Schmidt
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  • How does the brain store sequences of experience? Clues come from brain recordings of rats running along a track. The animals' memories seem to be consolidated in an unexpected way as they rest between runs.

    • Laura L. Colgin
    • Edvard I. Moser
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  • From probing living cells under a microscope to scanning the heavens for gravity waves, the limitations of precision measurements constrain our capacity to discover more about the world. But what exactly are those limits?

    • Samuel L. Braunstein
    News & Views
  • Aperiodic materials do not surrender details of their structure as readily as do their crystalline counterparts. The latest computational solution to this problem brings aspects of ‘the beautiful game’ into play.

    • John J. Rehr
    News & Views
  • If intelligence is partly determined by our genes, how does brain development relate to IQ? An attempt to answer this question measures the size of the outer layer of the brain, the cortex, with surprising results.

    • Richard Passingham
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Brief Communication

  • The torsional properties of spider silk add to its list of remarkable physical credentials.

    • Olivier Emile
    • Albert Le Floch
    • Fritz Vollrath
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Review Article

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Article

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Letter

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Retraction

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Corrigendum

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Prospects

  • Double-checking tax status could mean a refund for some US postdocs.

    • Paul Smaglik
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Careers and Recruitment

  • Research into angiogenesis has survived the 1990s hype about an imminent cure for cancer, and shows promising results in many areas — but don't tell the newspapers, says Ricki Lewis.

    • Ricki Lewis
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Movers

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Mentors and Protégés

  • Matching mentors with protégés can jump-start careers

    • Lyn Holness
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Graduate Journal

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Futures

  • A transfer of allegiance.

    • Barrington J. Bayley
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Authors

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