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Correspondence |
Women: diversity among leaders is there if you look
- Nancy C. Andrews
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From the blogosphere
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Opportunities: The National Institutes of Health
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Career Brief |
Plug-and-play DNA
Bioengineering lab is hiring 29 scientists and engineers to develop synthetic biology 'parts'.
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Stand and deliver
Science has done well in the proposed US budget. Researchers need to justify the funding boost.
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Careers and Recruitment |
A foot in the door
A postdoctoral application should present a person's best scientific self on paper. Kendall Powell demystifies why some applicants shine and others miss the mark.
- Kendall Powell
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Careers Q&A |
Eric Barron
The former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, Eric Barron is the new president of Florida State University in Tallahassee.
- Karen Kaplan
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Books & Arts |
In Retrospect: Funes the Memorious
When Rodrigo Quian Quiroga visited Jorge Luis Borges's private library, he found annotated books that bear witness to the writer's fascination for memory and neuroscience.
- Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
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Books & Arts |
Q&A: Peter Atkins on writing textbooks
The success of Peter Atkins's classic textbook Physical Chemistry led him to trade research for full-time writing and teaching in the 1980s. In the first of a series of five interviews with authors who each write science books for a different audience, Atkins explains how the rewards for textbooks can be great, but the effort needed can affect your research.
- Nicola Jones
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Biodiversity law could stymie research
Tighter rules on accessing and developing genetic resources may be counterproductive for conservation.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Better all the time
Innovation policies are more likely to be successful if they leverage existing capabilities, argues Daniel Sarewitz.
- Daniel Sarewitz
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America pushes to overhaul chemical safety law
Congress to consider stronger regulation.
- Brendan Borrell
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Top astronomer suspended after leak allegation
Row may impact on South Africa's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array telescope.
- Michael Cherry
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Spotlight on Postdoctoral Positions
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Obama budget backs basic science
Climate and clean energy receive a boost but NASA's Moon mission bites the dust.
- Janet Fang
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IPCC flooded by criticism
Climate body slammed for errors and potential conflicts of interest.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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India offers foreign grant
Bangalore institute uses fellowship to entice young international researchers.
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Correspondence |
Safeguarding the integrity of protein archive
- Helen M. Berman
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Career Brief |
From lab to laundry
University benefits should include housework help, study suggests.
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Editorial |
Learning to share
By opening up its database of potential malaria drugs, GlaxoSmithKline has blazed a path that other pharmaceutical companies should follow.
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False alarms
British scientists must adopt a positive tone if they hope to protect their gains in funding.
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Correspondence |
Mind the gap: future depends on sciences and humanities
- Adrian D. Manning
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Responsible work plans
Booklet offers tips to help animal researchers avoid action by activists.
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Self-doubt plagues female astronomers
Study seeks insight into astronomers' career paths.
- Karen Kaplan
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China's research rise
Number of domestic researchers draws level with Europe and the United States.
- Gene Russo
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Books & Arts |
On the shoulders of giants
A volume of essays celebrating 350 years of Britain's Royal Society highlights the continuing gulf between science and the public, says John Gribbin.
- John Gribbin
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Careers Q&A |
Richard Zare
Chemist Richard Zare is winner of the 2010 Priestley Medal and the 2009 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
- Virginia Gewin
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Books & Arts |
Tricks of the stage
A restored imperial theatre in China reveals how Western techniques of visual perspective brought by the Jesuits were adopted by an eighteenth-century Chinese emperor, explains Martin Kemp.
- Martin Kemp
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Literature mining: Speed reading
Scientists are struggling to make sense of the expanding scientific literature. Corie Lok asks whether computational tools can do the hard work for them.
- Corie Lok
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Debt crisis threatens UK science
As Britain's researchers face fierce budget cuts, Nature finds out how labs are preparing for hard times.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Stem-cell line given the nod
NIH moves to approve cells in limbo after rule change.
- Brendan Borrell
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Plans for alien contact found wanting
Governments lack frameworks to respond to discoveries.
- Lucas Laursen
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Europe cannot keep its promises on fish stocks
Even with total cessation of fishing, UN target would still be missed.
- Daniel Cressey
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Career Brief |
Small rise for US postdocs
NIH stipend increase not enough, says US National Postdoctoral Association.
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Climate of suspicion
With climate-change sceptics waiting to pounce on any scientific uncertainties, researchers need a sophisticated strategy for communication.
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From the blogosphere
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Research Highlights |
Geophysics: Synthetic sky light
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Self-inflicted damage
The autocratic actions of an institute's founder could destroy a centre of excellence for brain research.
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'Big science' spurs collaborative trend
Complicated projects mean that science is becoming more globalized.
- Eric Hand
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A route to more tractable expert advice
There are mathematically advanced ways to weigh and pool scientific advice. They should be used more to quantify uncertainty and improve decision-making, says Willy Aspinall.
- Willy Aspinall
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Careers Q&A |
Jon Gluyas
Jon Gluyas of Durham University, UK, is the country's first professor of carbon capture and storage and geoenergy.
- Virginia Gewin
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Spotlight on Biotech / Pharma
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Careers and Recruitment |
Tricky terrains
The drug and biotech industries are not always easy to break into. Developing a diverse skill set could be the key to success, Karen Kaplan reports.
- Karen Kaplan