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A Commentary by Peter Lawrence on page 835 condemns the hogging of credit by “big names”. Reactions and anecdotes from editors and from external advisers in response to this article speak for themselves.
Unknown ecosystems and untapped records of the Earth's past may lie hidden in the lonely waters of Antarctica's Lake Vostok. But the lake's millions of years of isolation may be about to end, as Helen Gavaghan reveals.
Canada has redrawn its landscape for science funding in an attempt to compete with the world's best — and reverse the brain drain to the United States. Josette Chen reports.
Parasites generally depend on their hosts to supply the molecules needed for life. One parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, has retained the ability to make some of the building blocks of DNA, but this could be its downfall.
Materials science has benefited from X-ray imaging at the micrometre scale, but imaging has been restricted to two dimensions. A clever modification takes us into the third dimension.
The sequencing of the fission-yeast genome allows researchers to compare it with that of its cousin, budding yeast, and to identify genes that may distinguish eukaryotes (such as yeast) from prokaryotes (such as bacteria).
In a Stockholm museum, the17th century shipwreck, Vasa, is under attack from sulphuric acid that is forming inside its timbers. The ship's iron bolts are catalysing the acid reaction, but conservationists hope to block the process.
Evolution has produced marvellous variety in the arthropods, and in their various appendages. The evolutionary processes are themselves proving highly diverse.
Little has been published about nuclear warhead science. Here we set out elements of the programme that will underpin future assessments of the safety and performance of Britain's warheads in compliance with treaty obligations.
