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Volume 454 Issue 7203, 24 July 2008

Editorial

  • By almost every measure, China's growth is extraordinary. But behind the astonishing statistics is a more complex reality.

    Editorial

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  • The incoming US administration can and should reverse the neglect of Earth observations.

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Research Highlights

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News

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News in Brief

  • Chinese scientist takes turn with Olympic torch.

    • David Cyranoski
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News

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News Feature

  • Can the Chinese government meet its ambitious targets on space, the environment, research, energy and health? David Cyranoski takes a look at China today and what it hopes to be tomorrow.

    • David Cyranoski
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  • China burns more coal than any other country; how it does so in the future will determine our planet's climate. Jeff Tollefson reports from Beijing.

    • Jeff Tollefson
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  • Climate change is coming fast and furious to the Tibetan plateau. Jane Qiu reports on the changes atop the roof of the world.

    • Jane Qiu
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Correspondence

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Commentary

  • Researchers and businesspeople in China, expatriates and 'returnees' give their views of what it will take to make China a research and innovation powerhouse.

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Books & Arts

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Essay

  • An English biochemist single-handedly changed the West's perception of China, revealing its past scientific glories and predicting more to come. Simon Winchester investigates the ongoing legacy of Joseph Needham.

    • Simon Winchester
    Essay
  • Could the end of US world dominance over research mark the passing of national science giants, ask J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Karl H. Müller and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth.

    • J. Rogers Hollingsworth
    • Karl H. Müller
    • Ellen Jane Hollingsworth
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News & Views

  • South Asia's well-water is widely polluted with arsenic, but no one has located the source. A study on the Mekong River finds that contamination begins in pond sediments, and is spread by groundwater flow to wells.

    • Charles F. Harvey
    News & Views
  • Nitric oxide generated from the nitrite ion limits the tissue damage caused by restricted blood flow. Gene knockout experiments in mice now reveal that myoglobin is the mediator of this effect.

    • Andrew Cossins
    • Michael Berenbrink
    News & Views
  • Silicon chips have thousands of electronic logic gates etched on them. But there are other ways to decorate monolithic surfaces with logic gates, as a system using metal complexes secured to glass slides shows.

    • A. Prasanna de Silva
    News & Views
  • An agent that clears disease-associated amyloid aggregates from the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease does not alleviate disease progression. Yet this disappointing news should not rule out such potential therapies.

    • David M. Holtzman
    News & Views
  • What do you get when you cross a crystal with a quasicrystal? The answer is a structure that links the ancient tiles of Archimedes, the iconic Fibonacci sequence of numbers and a book from the seventeenth century.

    • Sharon C. Glotzer
    • Aaron S. Keys
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  • Meiotic recombination shuffles the genome, so each generation inherits a new combination of parental traits. Combining traditional and modern approaches, new work pinpoints where recombination occurs genome-wide.

    • Michael Lichten
    News & Views
  • During the growing season, with photosynthesis at its peak, leaf temperatures remain constant over a wide latitudinal range. This is a finding that overturns a common assumption and has various ramifications.

    • F. I. Woodward
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Horizons

  • Focusing on information flow will help us to understand better how cells and organisms work.

    • Paul Nurse
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Editorial

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Review Article

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Hypothesis Article

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Review Article

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Article

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Letter

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Prospects

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Movers

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Networks and Support

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Career View

  • It's not the workload that worries me, it's the reverse culture shock.

    • Aliza le Roux
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Futures

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Authors

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Insight

  • Inflammation forms the basis of many physiological and pathological processes. Much is known about how inflammation is initiated, develops and resolves over the short term. But less is known about the causes and consequences of chronic inflammation, which underlies many human diseases. Recent studies have extended our understanding of chronic inflammation and the cross-talk that occurs between inflammatory responses and other physiological and pathological responses.

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