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Pebble-bed nuclear reactor gets pulled
South Africa cuts funding for energy technology project.
- Linda Nordling
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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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Sexual predators flock to energy boom towns
Oil and gas attract more criminals than tourism or agriculture do.
- Richard A. Lovett
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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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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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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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Books & Arts |
Two views of collapse
We need realism, not positivity, to learn lessons from past societal demises, urges Jared Diamond.
- Jared Diamond
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Correspondence |
Transdisciplinary EU science institute needs funds urgently
- Jan W. Vasbinder
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The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
- Richard H. Moss
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Italy's stem-cell challenge gaining momentum
- Elena Cattaneo
- , Elisabetta Cerbai
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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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A framework for success
The time is ripe for Europe's scientists to lobby for community-wide infrastructure funding.
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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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Divide and conquer
NASA is taking a risk on commercial space services. But the pay-offs could be high.
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Science lines up for seat to space
The advent of commercial trips could open up research opportunities.
- Katharine Sanderson
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India's transgenic aubergine in a stew
Environment ministry rejects bid to grow genetically modified crop.
- K. S. Jayaraman
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Changes proposed to key psychiatry manual
Controversial revision alters diagnostic definitions.
- Heidi Ledford
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South African science: black, white and grey
The release of Nelson Mandela sent optimism coursing through South Africa's research community. Twenty years on, Michael Cherry finds that it is still struggling to get on its feet.
- Michael Cherry
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Spain's vision for science
Science minister Cristina Garmendia outlines her plans for research across Europe, and at home.
- Cristina Jiménez
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The future of European research
With a new research commissioner arriving in Brussels, and big policy changes on the cards, Nature explains how scientists could be affected.
- Alison Abbott
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Women: diversity among leaders is there if you look
- Nancy C. Andrews
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Institute gets gift windfall
Philanthropist's gift will yield 300 research and lab-support jobs.
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Boost for brain research
Fellowship aims to boost collaborative research at European academic institutions and industrial labs.
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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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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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Project set to map marks on genome
Consortium sets sights on the differences that make us different.
- Alison Abbott
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IPCC flooded by criticism
Climate body slammed for errors and potential conflicts of interest.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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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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50 & 100 years ago
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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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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