January 2007

• A demon of a device - Premium content

  Light makes molecular machines perform trick.

  31 January 2007

• Stonehenge just one of a pair - Premium content

  Excavation shows strong connection with a nearby wooden circle.

  31 January 2007

• Prion disease reversed in mice - Premium content

  Early signs of CJD spotted and stopped in their tracks.

  31 January 2007

• US military tracks Chinese satellite debris - Premium content

  Wreckage reveals clues to mysterious weapon.

  31 January 2007

• Hubble's main camera out of service - Premium content

  Electrical short knocks out key scientific instrument.

  30 January 2007

• BRIEFING: Spaceports spring up all over - Premium content

  Last week, Virgin Galactic announced plans to fly spaceships from Arctic Sweden. News@nature.com looks at where else you can reach for the stars.

  30 January 2007

• Undersea vent blows blue - Premium content

  Coloured hotspot could reveal odd chemistry.

  29 January 2007

• Indonesia to tackle tuberculosis and dengue - Premium content

  Collaborative effort puts country on the clinical research map.

  29 January 2007

• Snakes that snack on poison - Premium content

  Predators take venom from prey and use it themselves.

  29 January 2007

• Jetsetters are key clues to epidemics - Premium content

  Travellers who bring illness home act as sentinels of disease.

  29 January 2007

• One sleep disorder throws light on another - Premium content

  Treatment based on narcolepsy could promote sleep in insomniacs.

  28 January 2007

• No time for British clock changes - Premium content

  Daylight-saving measure fails to gain enough support.

  26 January 2007

• Targeting fake drugs - Premium content

  Chemists develop method for spotting counterfeit pharmaceuticals.

  26 January 2007

• Fresh light thrown on tragic drug trial - Premium content

  Animal tests may have missed danger because monkeys 'too clean'.

  25 January 2007

• Ancient Turkish site set to be flooded - Premium content

  Archaeologists protest impending destruction of spa.

  25 January 2007

• Bush calls for cuts in petrol use - Premium content

  Climate advocates 'underwhelmed' by president's vision.

  24 January 2007

• Treasure trove of fossils found Down Under - Premium content

  Australian bones could shed light on prehistoric extinction mystery.

  24 January 2007

• muse@nature.com: A dangerous game in space - Premium content

  Is China's satellite zapping simply old-fashioned sabre-rattling? Or is it a rational step to restrict the use of space weapons?

  24 January 2007

• Wheat fungus spreads out of Africa - Premium content

  Stem rust threatens key crops in Asia.

  23 January 2007

• Hot rocks could help meet US energy needs - Premium content

  Get more out of geothermal, experts advise.

  23 January 2007

• Lebanon coast escapes oil spill damage - Premium content

  But war may have caused other long-lasting environmental problems.

  23 January 2007

• Acupuncture may show effect in treating Parkinson's - Premium content

  Mice, at least, could benefit from therapeutic use of needles.

  22 January 2007

• Science blogger Bora Zivkovic - Premium content

  The editor of a new book, an anthology of science blogs, talks about how his blog saved his career in science.

  22 January 2007

• Penalty kicks are all in the mind - Premium content

  Soccer shootouts are won and lost on psychological responses to pressure.

  19 January 2007

• Crowd researchers make pilgrimage safer - Premium content

  The science of pedestrian motion meets the annual Hajj in Mecca.

  19 January 2007

• BRIEFING: Satellite kill creates space hazard - Premium content

  News@nature.com finds out how China's destruction of its own satellite could cause future damage.

  19 January 2007

• These legs were made for walking - Premium content

  Model opens up research into efficiency of motion.

  19 January 2007

• Research highlights nastier form of MRSA - Premium content

  Toxin-laden bacterium makes for a killer in the community.

  18 January 2007

• Airlines set to net billions under greenhouse gas plan - Premium content

  Costs are likely to be passed on to consumers, without a drop in emissions.

  18 January 2007

• Worms may keep multiple sclerosis at bay - Premium content

  Parasitic infections could stop the immune system from self-attack.

  17 January 2007

• Doomsday draws two minutes closer - Premium content

  Atomic scientists add climate change to the threats to humanity.

  17 January 2007

• Researchers lay out wish list for Earth-observing satellites - Premium content

  Approval of new projects would avoid 'fatal' gaps in measurement.

  16 January 2007

• Japan recommends one Moon mission be scrapped - Premium content

  Lunar-A looks unlikely to go ahead, but bigger and better missions set to follow.

  16 January 2007

• Petition aims to maintain cheap drugs - Premium content

  Court case in India threatens to derail generic medicines.

  15 January 2007

• I can't imagine... - Premium content

  Brain damage that wipes out the past also takes out the future.

  15 January 2007

• 'Ghost' statisticians exert unseen influence - Premium content

  Pharmaceutical employees are going uncredited on medical papers.

  15 January 2007

• How big can a meat-eater get? - Premium content

  Metabolic costs of living stop carnivores from growing too huge.

  15 January 2007

• Bright comet provides rare view - Premium content

  Close pass should reveal elementary secrets.

  12 January 2007

• Giant stinker finds place in plant family tree - Premium content

  Pinning down the rotting-flesh plant could reveal the roots of gigantism.

  11 January 2007

• Proposals for cow-human embryos put on hold - Premium content

  Chimaera experiments still on the table after authority avoids outright ban.

  11 January 2007

• Too early to bed, too early to rise - Premium content

  Geneticists track the cause behind early rising.

  11 January 2007

• Canned nuclear waste cooks its container - Premium content

  Estimates of radiation damage to materials have been too low.

  10 January 2007

• Getting to know the galactic neighbours - Premium content

  Astronomers make startling discoveries in our own back yard.

  10 January 2007

• Japan's royal tombs opened for inspection - Premium content

  Researchers to get a bit closer to Japanese history.

  10 January 2007

• Triple quasar hints at violent past - Premium content

  Colliding galaxies in the early Universe produced dance of superbright objects.

  9 January 2007

• Shrinking Higgs brings optimism to US lab - Premium content

  Tevatron gains renewed hope of bagging the particle that endows mass.

  9 January 2007

• Slim waists may top the list - Premium content

  An hourglass waistline has impressed men for centuries.

  9 January 2007

• muse@nature.com: Big issues from a small child - Premium content

  How far can a parent go in managing the life of their disabled child? Perhaps too far.

  8 January 2007

• Don't wash those fossils! - Premium content

  Standard museum practice can wash away DNA.

  8 January 2007

• Dark matter mapped - Premium content

  First three-dimensional picture of elusive matter throws up mystery.

  7 January 2007

• Genetic expression speaks as loudly as gene type - Premium content

  Some ethnic differences could be down to the same genes behaving differently.

  7 January 2007

• Folate levels dropping - Premium content

  Fashion for non-processed foods could cut vitamins and boost birth defects.

  5 January 2007

• BRIEFING: Is this the future of space tourism? - Premium content

  news@nature.com asks how the Blue Origin project plans to get off the ground.

  4 January 2007

• Patagonian anchovy fishery could threaten penguins - Premium content

  Magellanic penguins face harm from overfishing.

  4 January 2007

• Hot waters make it hard for fish to breathe - Premium content

  Climate change causes eelpout population to crash from suffocation.

  4 January 2007

• Did worldwide drought wipe out ancient cultures? - Premium content

  Monsoon records link demise of the Tang in China and Maya in Mexico.

  3 January 2007

• Boost in mystery muscle creates endurance mice - Premium content

  Rare muscle fibres could improve sporting prowess.

  2 January 2007