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Two researchers survived the worst of Hurricane Katrina, caring for sick patients in a flooded hospital. Erika Check hears of their harrowing experience.
Earth's climate depends strongly on clouds. But what really goes on within these layered structures? Heike Langenberg reports on two satellites that aim to find out.
This month, as most researchers gear up to teach, two scientists are heading into the classroom to learn. Geoff Brumfiel asks why a physicist would want to enrol in biology lessons.
George Sugihara has gone from an academic career in biological oceanography to the world of high finance, and back again. Now he is applying the lessons he learned in business to the conservation of fish stocks. Rex Dalton reports.
Big pharmaceutical companies are moving swiftly to acquire biotechnology companies — especially if they can snap them up on the cheap. Meredith Wadman reports.
Andrew Polaszek and colleagues propose an open-access web-register for animal names, which they believe is vital to move taxonomy into the twenty-first century.
In the summer of 2003, Europe experienced an exceptionally hot and dry spell. That ‘natural experiment’ prompted a continental-scale analysis of how terrestrial ecosystems respond to such climatic extremes.
The idea that complex biological systems can evolve through a series of simple, random events is not universally accepted. The structure of a vital immune protein shows how such evolution can occur at a molecular level.
Previous measurements of uranium-series isotopes have implied uncomfortably fast speeds of melt movement through the mantle. Yet the latest results suggest such velocities were serious underestimates.
How much and what kind of information is required to fold a chain of amino acids into a functioning protein? It seems the problem may not be as daunting as once thought — the solution is in the coevolution data.
The selective production of a particular mirror-image form of a molecule is immensely important to organic synthesis. But techniques to find the right catalysts have traditionally been protracted and fiddly. Help is at hand.
Magnetic resonance imaging is often limited by the need to encode information and acquire the resonance signals in less-than-ideal locations. Performing these two steps at different places provides a solution.
To realize the potential of the genome for identifying candidate drugs we must move beyond individual genes and proteins. The signalling pathways in cells provide the right level for such analyses.
A collaboration can produce powerful results when everyone pulls together, but if you go about it the wrong way, or with the wrong people, it may all fall down around you. Kendall Powell finds out how to choose the right partners.
