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Volume 436 Issue 7054, 25 August 2005

Editorial

  • Next month's general election in Germany may see the end of the Green Party's spell in government. The party has fared well, as has science with it, except where ideology won out over good sense.

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  • Your bookmarks make your web life manageable. But we can all benefit by sharing them.

    Editorial
  • A case in the Kansas Supreme Court reflects a lack of clarity in US copyright law.

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Research Highlights

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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • Wound an embryo and it heals perfectly, with no scars. Can we teach adult wounds the same trick, asks Meredith Wadman.

    • Meredith Wadman
    News Feature
  • At first it was just an unusual, geeky hobby. But by combining their twin passions of chemistry and history, Jim and Jenny Marshall are now running an acclaimed project in science education. Alexandra Witze reports.

    • Alexandra Witze
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  • Is there any fundamental reason to be fixated on water as the universal elixir of life? Philip Ball investigates.

    • Philip Ball
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Business

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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

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News & Views

  • The whole orchestra tunes up to an A note from the oboe — but how do our brains tell that all the different sounds are the same pitch? The discovery of pitch-sensitive neurons provides some clues.

    • Robert J. Zatorre
    News & Views
  • Nature provides lessons about developing ‘green chemistry’ in seemingly out-of-the-way places. One such lesson comes from an enzymatic step in the production of a leaf toxin by a bacterium.

    • Nathan A. Schnarr
    • Chaitan Khosla
    News & Views
  • The ratio of helium isotopes in some oceanic volcanoes seemed to demand a reservoir of virgin primordial gas in the Earth's mantle. In fact, that might not be necessary — a relief for other geophysical models.

    • William M. White
    News & Views
  • The technique of directed evolution creates thousands of mutant enzymes from a single original. A new approach helps to search for variants that have an increased range of substrates — and can thus be used for organic synthesis.

    • Romas Kazlauskas
    News & Views
  • The myosins are a superfamily of protein motors. Analysis of their sequences in a wide range of organisms reveals an unexpected variety of domains, and provides insights into the nature of the earliest eukaryotes.

    • Margaret A. Titus
    News & Views
  • Reactions that produce only one of two mirror-image forms of a molecule are a hot topic in organic synthesis. A light-driven catalyst provides good results, and the technique could be generally applicable.

    • Yoshihisa Inoue
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Brief Communication

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Corrigendum

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Progress

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Article

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Letter

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Prospects

  • Pay for academic life scientists is disproportionately low compared with other non-scientific professions with similar levels of education and training

    • Paul Smaglik
    Prospects
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Careers and Recruitment

  • Recruitment of chemists in traditional bulk commodities and manufacturing may be slumping, but fresh opportunities are opening up for those whose skill sets are amenable to biotechnology applications, say Claudia Caruana and Paul Smaglik.

    • Claudia Caruana
    • Paul Smaglik
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Movers

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Scientists and Societies

  • Graduate students band together to foster communication

    • Manuel Corpas
    Scientists and Societies
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Graduate Journal

  • Light at the end tunnel?

    • Anne Margaret Lee
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Futures

  • A new and unfortunate solution to the Fermi paradox.

    • Charles Stross
    • Caroline Haafkens
    • Wasiu Mohammed
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