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• The once-quiet scientist - Premium content

  A former animal researcher decides to speak out.

  21 September 2009

• Shooting for the Moon - Premium content

  The Apollo programme inspired thousands of people to pursue careers in science. Today, they still support human spacefaring — but baulk at the price. Richard Monastersky reports on the results of a Nature poll.

  15 July 2009

• Geologists suffer observatory glitches - Premium content

  Flagship experiment on the San Andreas fault has been troubled since last autumn.

  05 May 2009

• The lure of the lab - Premium content

  Recession boosts applications to US graduate programmes.

  04 February 2009

• Climate crunch: A burden beyond bearing

  The climate situation may be even worse than you think. In the first of three features, Richard Monastersky looks at evidence that keeping carbon dioxide beneath dangerous levels is tougher than previously thought.

  29 April 2009

• International Polar Year: The social pole? - Premium content

  As change in the Arctic accelerates, scientists and indigenous peoples have pressing reasons to work together, reports Richard Monastersky.

  25 February 2009