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Space tourism to accelerate climate change
Scientists predict that soot from commercial space flight will change global temperatures.
- Adam Mann
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Superconductors come of age
A South Korean company has placed by far the biggest commercial order for superconducting wires.
- Joseph Milton
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Safety authority rebuts conflict claim
Greens highlight industry links in bid to discredit European food agency.
- Declan Butler
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Food agency denies conflict-of-interest claim
But accusations of industry ties may taint European body's reputation.
- Declan Butler
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Optics: Through a glass darkly
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Patent fixes for Europe
The continent's patent system is Byzantine, but current proposals for a new EU-wide patent could make matters worse, warns Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie.
- Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
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A US nuclear future?
Building nuclear power plants in the United States could be the best clean alternative to coal in the near future. Or it could be a costly mistake.
- Charles D. Ferguson
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Fuel and waste no bar to US nuclear growth
Report finds that plentiful fuel supplies and temporary storage will buy decades of time to develop a longer-term strategy.
- Jeff Tollefson
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'Opportunity of a lifetime' at Rockefeller
Incoming president Marc Tessier-Lavigne relishes the chance to apply industry experience in academia.
- Ewen Callaway
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Education: Ten weeks to save the world
Singularity University tries to breed world leaders by immersing students in futuristic concepts. Nicola Jones finds it a heady mix of grand claims, brilliant minds and cool gadgets.
- Nicola Jones
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Artificial skins detect the gentlest touch
Super-sensitive materials can detect the weight of a butterfly.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Chronicle of cybernetics pioneers
Rodney Brooks enjoys an account of the freewheeling group of post-war British researchers that sowed the seeds of robotics through a desire to imitate animal brains and behaviour.
- Rodney Brooks
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Questions over ghostwriting in drug industry
Analysis claims papers drafted by medical writers downplayed risks of hormone replacement therapy.
- Ewen Callaway
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Seafood stewardship in crisis
The main consumer-targeted certification scheme for sustainable fisheries is failing to protect the environment and needs radical reform, say Jennifer Jacquet, Daniel Pauly and colleagues.
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Ecologists fear Antarctic krill crisis
Fishing industry threatens to destabilize stocks.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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Clarifying knowledge ownership in Europe's medicines initiative
- Kim De Rijck
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Geoengineering won't curb sea-level rise
Space mirrors and 'volcanic' blasts are not an easy fix for the rise in sea levels.
- Richard Lovett
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Far-sighted vision
US astronomers' latest list of priorities holds valuable lessons for other scientific disciplines.
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US survey sets cosmic priorities
Dark energy rises to the top in decadal report ranking future astronomy and astrophysics projects.
- Adam Mann
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Standard issue
The industry behind direct-to-consumer gene tests needs to establish guidelines for its wares.
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Georgia by the numbers
Georgia looks to capitalize on its public-health and bioscience strengths.
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Birds flock online
Supercomputer time will help ornithologists make ecological sense of millions of records of bird sightings.
- Emma Marris
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Domestic science
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.
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Behind the Mona Lisa's smile
X-ray scans reveal Leonardo's remarkable control of glaze thickness, explains Philip Ball.
- Philip Ball
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Serious fun with computer games
Sophisticated multimedia experiments offer platforms for learning about science through play, Aleks Krotoski finds.
- Aleks Krotoski
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World view: Not by experts alone
More and earlier public involvement is required to steer powerful new technologies wisely, says Daniel Sarewitz.
- Daniel Sarewitz
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Deepwater Horizon: A scientist at the centre of the spill
Vernon Asper was one of the first researchers in the Gulf of Mexico to study the oil gushing out from the BP well. But it has not all been smooth sailing, reports Mark Schrope.
- Mark Schrope
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Consumer gene testing in the hotseat
A week of hearings sows uncertainty for the fledgling consumer genomics industry.
- Alla Katsnelson
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US charges scientist with economic espionage
Could publishing a paper make you a spy?
- Sharon Weinberger
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Food: Inside the hothouses of industry
Feeding the world is going to require the scientific and financial muscle of agricultural biotechnology companies. Natasha Gilbert asks whether they're up to the task.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Food: The global farm
With its plentiful sun, water and land, Brazil is quickly surpassing other countries in food production and exports. But can it continue to make agricultural gains without destroying the Amazon? Jeff Tollefson reports from Brazil.
- Jeff Tollefson
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US seeks solar flair for fuels
Energy department launches initiative to commercialize artificial photosynthesis.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Businesses and biodiversity: they would say that
- Gail Whiteman
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Shanghai by the numbers
Life sciences play a major role in Shanghai’s growing business community.
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Out in the cold
The parlous state of the US icebreaker fleet could soon put a freeze on the country's polar research.
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Topological insulators: Star material
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