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Reserves 'win–win' for fish and fishermen
Marine protection areas could offer fisheries a boost.
- Rex Dalton
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NIH may allow stem-cell lines from younger embryos
Lines derived from pre-blastocyst stage embryos could be eligible for agency funding.
- Meredith Wadman
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Wisdom of the fool's choice
Automated recommender systems need to put some jokers in the pack, if we're not going to end up with narrow-minded tastes, says Philip Ball.
- Philip Ball
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Cosmic-ray theory unravels
Astrophysicists ponder whether ultrahigh-energy particles really do come from the centre of galaxies.
- Eric Hand
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A step towards transparency
The lot of women scientists would improve with more openness in policy and practice, argues Jan Bogg.
- Jan Bogg
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Nature's choices
Exploding the myths surrounding how and why we select our research papers.
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UCLA brings together animal-research factions
Dialogue is key to dealing with extremism, say panellists on both sides of debate.
- Amber Dance
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Validation required
Transparency and quality control are essential in the highly uncertain business of assessing the impact of climate change on a regional scale.
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Progressive thinking
It is time to abandon GDP as the overriding measure of social development and economic health.
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Outcry stopped approved pig study of avalanche survival
- Hermann Brugger
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50 & 100 years ago
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Scientists in Ireland face up to pay cuts
Parlous state of economy forces cut backs.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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Back to school
Instructing teenagers about science requires patience and a flair for presentation. Quirin Schiermeier reports on the prospects for scientists-turned-teachers in three countries.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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World view: Calling science to account
Scientists and the media are trapped in a cosy relationship that benefits neither. They should challenge each other more, says Colin Macilwain.
- Colin Macilwain
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Transdisciplinary EU science institute needs funds urgently
- Jan W. Vasbinder
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Highlight:Postgraduate Opportunities
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Q&A: David Brin on writing fiction
After obtaining a PhD in planetary physics, David Brin found that he could make a better living as a science-fiction novelist than a researcher. In the third in our series of five interviews with authors who each write science books for a different audience, Brin reveals that criticism — and a thick skin — are the keys to good creative writing.
- Nicola Jones
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'Climategate' scientist speaks out
Embattled climatologist Phil Jones faces his critics.
- Olive Heffernan
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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
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Setting the climate record straight
A co-chair of the IPCC's beleaguered second working group discusses recent criticisms.
- Jeff Tollefson
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King Tut's death explained?
Experts question claims that malaria and osteonecrosis contributed to Pharaoh's decline.
- Declan Butler
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Three biologists slain on campus
Professor's arrest sends shock waves around the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
- Meredith Wadman
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'Climategate' scientist speaks out
Climatologist Phil Jones answers his critics in an exclusive interview with Nature.
- Olive Heffernan
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China's patents push
Asia defies patent-filing downturn as global economy slips.
- David Cyranoski
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South Africa's opportunity
The nation's science enterprise still carries the scars of apartheid. But with reform — and increased funding — South Africa could become a catalyst for scientific progress throughout Africa.
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Research output falls
Russia is one of only two countries whose science-paper publishing rate has fallen.
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A framework for success
The time is ripe for Europe's scientists to lobby for community-wide infrastructure funding.
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Italy's stem-cell challenge gaining momentum
- Elena Cattaneo
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Spotlight on New York
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India plans science boost
Thousands of PhDs will be needed to fill faculty science posts by 2014.
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Big Apple biotech
More start-ups may be sticking around in New York City, as the city looks to a new science park, prizes and tax breaks to help kick-start a life-sciences cluster. Anne Harding reports.
- Anne Harding
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John Grunsfeld
Former astronaut John Grunsfeld is the latest deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and will oversee the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Virginia Gewin
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Q&A: Carl Zimmer on writing popular-science books
Acclaimed essayist Carl Zimmer has eight popular-science books to his name, on topics from parasites and Escherichia coli to evolution. In the second in a series of five interviews with authors who each write science books for a different audience, Zimmer describes how passion breeds popular success.
- Nicola Jones
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Why we cannot predict earthquakes
Roger Bilham enjoys a history of a potentially useful field in which spectacular failures can win accolades.
- Roger Bilham
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