Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Books and Arts
Nature 451, 1057 (28 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/4511057a; Published online 27 February 2008
Open Innovation Challenges
-
Optimizing Sub-cellular Localization Tags
The Seeker is looking for methods to optimize sub-cellular localization tags for protein expression....
-
Direct Molecular Detection of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to protein and nucleic acid detection. This is an Id...
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Postdoctoral Position
- Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) of Immunobiology
- Freiburg Germany
Copy Editor
- Indegene Lifesystems Pvt. Ltd
- Bengaluru 560 071 India
Hidden treasures: Eise Eisinga Planetarium
Alison Abbot1
Abstract
The world's oldest functioning planetarium was built by an eighteenth-century wool-comber in the Netherlands. Alison Abbot reports, in the second of her monthly series on small museums
Early in 1774, a Dutch preacher and amateur astronomer, Eelco Alta, scared his compatriots out of their wits by predicting that the world would end on 8 May. His scientific arguments seemed plausible and terrifying.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
