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• Letter | 01 April 2010

  A molecular molybdenum-oxo catalyst for generating hydrogen from water

  A major pursuit in the chemical community involves the search for efficient and inexpensive catalysts that can produce large quantities of hydrogen gas from water. Here, a molybdenum-oxo complex has been identified that can catalytically generate hydrogen gas either from pure water at neutral pH, or from sea water. The work has implications for the design of 'green' chemistry cycles.

  • Hemamala I. Karunadasa
  • , Christopher J. Chang
  •  & Jeffrey R. Long

• News | 25 March 2010

  Cheaper catalyst cleans diesel-car fumes

  Platinum-free material means fuel-efficient engines at lower cost.

  • Richard Van Noorden

• News | 22 March 2010

  Worries over electronic waste from the developing world

  Millions of computers heading for unregulated recyclers could poison water and soil.

  • Richard A. Lovett

• News | 21 March 2010

  Purifying the sea one drop at a time

  Microfluidic channels offer promise of cheap, portable desalination.

  • Katharine Sanderson

• Correspondence | 10 March 2010

  Barriers to carbon capture and storage may not be obvious

  • Frances Bowen

• News & Views | 10 March 2010

  50 & 100 years ago

• News & Views | 10 March 2010

  Wider role for airborne chlorine

  Unexpected chlorine chemistry in the lowest part of the atmosphere can affect the cycling of nitrogen oxides and the production of ozone, and reduce the lifetime of the greenhouse gas methane.

  • Roland von Glasow

• Research Highlights | 24 February 2010

  Energy: Carbon from the mountains

• News & Views | 24 February 2010

  Sediment reactions defy dogma

  Redox reactions in widely spatially separated layers of marine sediments are coupled to each other. This suggests that bacteria mediate the flow of electrons between the layers — an idea that would previously have been dismissed.

  • Kenneth H. Nealson

• News | 24 February 2010

  Bacteria buzzing in the seabed

  Nanowires growing from bacteria might link up distant chemical reactions in sediments.

  • Katharine Sanderson

• News Feature | 17 February 2010

  Carbon sequestration: Buried trouble

  Protesters saying "no to CO²" are just one roadblock facing carbon sequestration — a strategy that could help prevent dangerous climate change. Richard Van Noorden investigates.

  • Richard Van Noorden

• News | 11 February 2010

  Acid soil threatens Chinese farms

  Overuse of fertilizers is imperilling food supply.

  • Natasha Gilbert

• Research Highlights | 13 January 2010

  Biogeochemistry: DDT in the ocean

• Books & Arts | 13 January 2010

  No crystal ball for natural disasters

  Floods and fires aside, the tricky science of prediction is explained in a book that treads a careful line between analysis and anecdotes of awful events, says Andrew Robinson.

  • Andrew Robinson

• News | 11 January 2010

  Driveways could spread toxins into the home

  Carcinogens in coal tar–sealed pavements cause worry.

  • Nicola Jones

• Opinion | 06 January 2010

  2020 visions

  For the first issue of the new decade, Nature asked a selection of leading researchers and policy-makers where their fields will be ten years from now. We invited them to identify the key questions their disciplines face, the major roadblocks and the pressing next steps.