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  • Books & Arts |

    Leadership, Michael Bond learns from two new books, is not about getting people to do things, it is about getting them to want to do things — and it emerged on the African plains.

    • Michael Bond

  • Futures |

    An unexpected stay.

    • John Gilbey

  • News Feature |

    Having taken on the biggest job in biomedicine — leading the US National Institutes of Health — Francis Collins must now help his agency over a funding cliff. Meredith Wadman looks at his record so far, and his plans to cushion the fall.

    • Meredith Wadman

  • Editorial |

    US cap-and-trade legislation has fallen victim to politics. But all is not lost.

  • Books & Arts |

    A broad account of the science of pain offers hope to patients but highlights how the culture of medicine needs to change, explains Lucy Odling-Smee.

    • Lucy Odling-Smee

  • Books & Arts |

    X-ray scans reveal Leonardo's remarkable control of glaze thickness, explains Philip Ball.

    • Philip Ball

  • Books & Arts |

    Sophisticated multimedia experiments offer platforms for learning about science through play, Aleks Krotoski finds.

    • Aleks Krotoski

  • News |

    Farmers and scientists struggle to keep up with needs of ambitious medicine-subsidy programme.

    • Richard Van Noorden

  • News |

    Coalition government promises to abolish respected regulator in effort to cut back on quangos.

    • Daniel Cressey

  • Career Brief |

    NIH programme aims to help junior researchers gain independence.

  • Editorial |

    Producing enough food for the world's population in 2050 will be easy. But doing it at an acceptable cost to the planet will depend on research into everything from high-tech seeds to low-tech farming practices.

  • Editorial |

    The Canadian government should rethink its decision to change the way census data are collected.

  • Futures |

    The course of true love.

    • Deborah Walker

  • Careers and Recruitment |

    Few scientists realize that the enormous budget of the US Department of Defense includes sizeable funds for basic research. Eric Hand provides a guide for the uninitiated.

    • Eric Hand

  • News |

    A proposal to let nations opt out of growing European-approved GM varieties is under fire from all sides.

    • Andrea Chipman

  • Opinion |

    To feed the world without further damaging the planet, Jeffrey Sachs and 24 food-system experts call for a global data collection and dissemination network to track the myriad impacts of different farming practices.

    • Jeffrey Sachs
    • , Roseline Remans
    •  & Pedro A. Sanchez

  • Editorial |

    Researchers and activists alike benefit from dialogue — and a clear line between legal and illegal acts.

  • Editorial |

    The decade-late, over-budget arrival of SOFIA shows that NASA's practices need to change.

  • Opinion |

    A new survey shows that informal intervention can often avert much irresponsible scientific behaviour, and is not as risky as people might fear, say Gerald Koocher and Patricia Keith-Spiegel.

    • Gerald P. Koocher
    •  & Patricia Keith-Spiegel

  • Editorial |

    In today's tough climate, UK science must produce evidence to affirm its worth to the nation.

  • Career Brief |

    Economic woes force withdrawal of postdoc and PhD places.

  • Column |

    The punishment of antisocial behaviour seems necessary for a stable society. But how should it be policed, and how severe should it be? Game theory offers some answers, Philip Ball finds.

    • Philip Ball

  • Editorial |

    Ten years ago, Brazilian bioscience was transformed by a bold initiative. Scientists and the government must develop and extend the progress that has resulted.

  • Letter |

    Cooperation in evolutionary games can be stabilized through punishment of non-cooperators, at a cost to those who do the punishing. Punishment can take different forms, in particular peer-punishment, in which individuals punish free-riders after the event, and pool-punishment, in which a fund for sanctioning is set up beforehand. These authors show that pool-punishment is superior to peer-punishment in dealing with second-order free-riders, who cooperate in the main game but refuse to contribute to punishment.

    • Karl Sigmund
    • , Hannelore De Silva
    •  & Christoph Hauert

  • Career Brief |

    Female scientists worry about balancing work with motherhood, study finds.

  • News & Views |

    A site in Norfolk, UK, provides the earliest and northernmost evidence of human expansion into Eurasia. Environmental indicators suggest that these early Britons could adapt to a range of climatic conditions.

    • Andrew P. Roberts
    •  & Rainer Grün

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