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  • Editorial |

    US astronomers' latest list of priorities holds valuable lessons for other scientific disciplines.

  • News |

    Dark energy rises to the top in decadal report ranking future astronomy and astrophysics projects.

    • Adam Mann

  • News |

    Supercomputer time will help ornithologists make ecological sense of millions of records of bird sightings.

    • Emma Marris

  • Editorial |

    Although China is a world leader in renewable-energy technology, it is missing the chance to deploy this equipment on a suitably grand scale at home.

  • 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

  • Column |

    More and earlier public involvement is required to steer powerful new technologies wisely, says Daniel Sarewitz.

    • Daniel Sarewitz

  • Editorial |

    The parlous state of the US icebreaker fleet could soon put a freeze on the country's polar research.

  • News Feature |

    A new class of materials is poised to take condensed-matter physics by storm. Geoff Brumfiel looks at what is making topological insulators all the rage.

    • Geoff Brumfiel

  • Letter |

    Emissions of African dust increased sharply in the early 1970s, but the human contribution to land degradation and dust mobilization remains poorly understood. Now, a 3,200-year record of dust deposition off northwest Africa has been constructed. On the basis of this dust record and a proxy record for West African precipitation, it is suggested that human-induced dust emissions from the Sahel region have contributed to the atmospheric dust load for more than 200 years.

    • Stefan Mulitza
    • , David Heslop
    •  & Michael Schulz

  • Column |

    Efforts by the US National Academy of Sciences to popularize science through movies will sanitize it as well, says Daniel Sarewitz.

    • Daniel Sarewitz

  • Books & Arts |

    A growing underground art movement combines mathematics, technology, stalks and whimsy. Richard Taylor looks forward to a bumper batch of intricate crop patterns this summer.

    • Richard Taylor

  • Column |

    Government surveillance technology programmes must aim to protect privacy and civil rights from the start, says Daniel Sarewitz.

    • Daniel Sarewitz

  • Opinion |

    An advisory group and a network of international labs is needed to lay the groundwork for multilateral disarmament and forge links between nations, say Martin Rees, Ben Koppelman and Neil Davison.

    • Martin Rees
    • , Ben Koppelman
    •  & Neil Davison

  • Editorial |

    Europe's Joint Research Centre needs to find its place alongside the new chief scientific adviser.

  • Editorial |

    The US weapons labs need to develop a twenty-first-century vision of deterrence — one that does not include making new bombs.

  • News |

    Quantifying just how unpredictable random numbers really are could aid quantum cryptography.

    • Zeeya Merali

  • Careers and Recruitment |

    Bangalore and the south may be India's main information-technology centre, but the country's science hub arguably lies within the state of Maharashtra, home to the cities of Mumbai and Pune.

    • K. S. Jayaraman

  • Column |

    The US defence department should be at the centre of the nation's energy policy, says Daniel Sarewitz.

    • Daniel Sarewitz

  • News Feature |

    A single incriminating fingerprint can land someone in jail. But, Laura Spinney finds, there is little empirical basis for such decisions.

    • Laura Spinney

  • Review Article |

    • T. D. Ladd
    • , F. Jelezko
    •  & J. L. O’Brien

  • Opinion |

    The US Congress should discourage efforts to advance the technology to make fuel for nuclear reactors, say Francis Slakey and Linda R. Cohen — the risks outweigh the benefits.

    • Francis Slakey
    •  & Linda R. Cohen

  • News Feature |

    Georgia's borders are guarded by some of the best radiation detectors available — so why are nuclear smugglers still slipping through? Sharon Weinberger reports.

    • Sharon Weinberger

  • News |

    A survey reveals how Chinese scientists could be affected by the stand-off between their government and the search-engine giant.

    • Jane Qiu

  • News |

    Catastrophic failure that caused accelerator shutdown was not a freak accident, says project physicist.

    • Geoff Brumfiel

  • News |

    Srikumar Banerjee, head of India's Atomic Energy Commission, outlines plans for the country's energy supply.

    • K. S. Jayaraman

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