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Volume 445 Issue 7129, 15 February 2007

Editorial

  • Good policy decisions on science and the environment require sound contributions from official bodies, pressure groups, the media — and scientists themselves.

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  • Science needs to be better applied to the US food-safety system.

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  • From now on, Nature authors will be able to include more experimental details in their papers.

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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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Column

  • Lobbyists give an impetus to causes that can offer a significant advantage on Capitol Hill. But how do they go about getting their way? David Goldston examines their role in securing science funding.

    • David Goldston
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Business

  • As US biotechnology companies seek to expand or relocate their operations abroad, Paris is pitching itself as a scientifically strategic location. Rex Dalton reports.

    Business
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News Feature

  • One half of a physics couple that met online, Jennifer Ouellette seeks some advice from married scientists on how to handle both long-distance and up-close relationships, while juggling career and family. Can love survive?

    • Jennifer Ouellette
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  • Could a change in the dining habits of orcas crash an ecosystem? Mark Schrope reports on a mystery that reveals how little we know of the oceans.

    • Mark Schrope
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  • How often does independent research change laws as well as minds? A lobby group in Delhi is forcing the Indian government into new regulations. Apoorva Mandavilli meets its leader.

    • Apoorva Mandavilli
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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

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Connections

  • By tapping into social cues, individuals in a group may gain access to higher-order computational capacities that mirror the group's responses to its environment.

    • Iain Couzin
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News & Views

  • Species richness is not the same as evolutionary richness. So which is the better measure for setting conservation priorities? The flora of the Cape of South Africa provides a test for that pressing question.

    • Arne Ø. Mooers
    News & Views
  • Molecules that detect chemicals are the workhorses of analytical devices, but most recognize only one kind of target. A molecular sensor has now been devised that measures the concentrations of several metal ions.

    • A. Prasanna de Silva
    News & Views
  • What a conventional particle accelerator needs kilometres to achieve, a compact 'plasma wakefield' accelerator has just mastered in less than a metre. So is it adieu to the era of the gargantuan mega-accelerator?

    • Robert Bingham
    News & Views
  • Embryos and tumours use the same signalling pathways to direct the formation of blood vessels. Discovery of a new role for the Notch pathway in that process presents a fresh option for cancer treatment.

    • Thomas Gridley
    News & Views
  • Hopes of keeping quantum mechanics 'real' have been dashed by new measurements of neutrons' quantum behaviour. Despite what our classical sensibilities require, the world is indeed fundamentally random.

    • Gregor Weihs
    News & Views
  • Most breast cancers have their origin in the luminal epithelial cells of the mammary gland. Defining how a master regulator controls the development of this cell lineage could provide important hints about why this should be.

    • Qiang Tong
    • Gökhan S. Hotamisligil
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  • Newly developed ultrathin silicon membranes can filter and separate molecules much more effectively than conventional polymer membranes. Many applications, of economic and medical significance, stand to benefit.

    • Albert van den Berg
    • Matthias Wessling
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Article

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Letter

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Prospects

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Regions

  • Increasing investment in people is raising the Atlanta region's profile — and attracting a stream of internationally acclaimed researchers. Paul Smaglik reports.

    • Paul Smaglik
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Movers

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Networks and Support

  • Poland must do a better job at retaining talent and nurturing science.

    • Arkadiusz Szklarczyk
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Career View

  • The challenge of changing research areas and continents.

    • Chris Rowan
    Career View
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Recruitment

  • Forensic science is swamped with applicants, but a pure science degree will put you ahead of the crowd.

    • Richard Smith
    Recruitment
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Authors

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Brief Communications Arising

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