NATURE NEWS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: 10 August 2010
the best in science journalism
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=25&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------
TOP STORY:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
CITIZEN SCIENCE: PEOPLE POWER
04 August 2010
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=19&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
---------------------------------------------------------------------
LATEST NEWS
---------------------------------------------------------------------
BIRDS ONLINE
Supercomputer time will help ornithologists make ecological sense of
millions of records of bird sightings.
10 August 2010
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=24&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
AFRICAN DUST KEEPS AMAZON BLOOMING
Plumes of dust that cross the Atlantic are richer in nutrients than
previously thought.
09 August 2010
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=27&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
MOUNTAIN MINING DAMAGES STREAMS
Study shows that stripping mountains for coal has a much greater
impact than urban growth.
09 August 2010
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=50&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
---------------------------------------------------------------------
SPOTLIGHT
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Special : CAN SCIENCE FEED THE WORLD?
Forty years from now there will be 2 billion more of us to feed.
Today, a billion go hungry. In the hunt for sustainable solutions,
science plays a central role. This week's Nature News special explores
how agricultural research is rising to the challenge of balancing
productivity with shrinking resources.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=38&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
How to feed a hungry world looks at ways of boosting yields while
keeping land use in check, while The global farm investigates Brazil
as walking the line between biodiversity hotspot and agricultural giant.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=33&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=56&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
In Monitoring the world's agriculture, Jeffrey Sachs and 24
food-system experts call for the collection of data on the impacts of
farming worldwide.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=26&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
In the free Nature Podcast we showcase the role of GM - and there's
much more on the future of food.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=42&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=38&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
=========================== ADVERTISEMENT ===========================
Register for a free print copy of Lab Offers and you could win
a Dell Netbook
Lab Offers provides researchers like you with exclusive discounts
from the top suppliers of antibodies, reagents, cell/tissue cultures,
imaging equipment, DNA sequencing, RNA isolation & purification,
gene expression analysis, chromatography, lab consumables and so much
more!
Register at http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=31&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0 before September 30 to
receive a FREE print copy.
One lucky registrant will win a Dell Netbook!
======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------
MORE STORIES
---------------------------------------------------------------------
ROCKY HINT OF A WATERLESS MOON
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=51&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
GM CROP ESCAPES INTO THE AMERICAN WILD
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=48&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
SKIN CELLS CONVERTED TO HEART MUSCLE CELLS
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=49&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
MUSCLING IN ON LIMB REGENERATION
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=45&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
PHYSICISTS GET POLITICAL OVER HIGGS
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=46&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
TOOTH TO TAIL ODDITIES IN ANCIENT CROC
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=43&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
SPONGE GENOME GOES DEEP
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=44&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
CITIZEN SCIENCE: PEOPLE POWER
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=41&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
WORLD VIEW: NOT BY EXPERTS ALONE
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=69&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
NEWS BRIEFING: 30 JULY-5 AUGUST 2010
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=70&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
SALAMANDER'S EGG SURPRISE
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=67&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
DEEPWATER HORIZON: A SCIENTIST AT THE CENTRE OF THE SPILL
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=68&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
DEMAND FOR MALARIA DRUG SOARS
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=65&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
DRUG SAFETY CRACKDOWN REVS UP
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=66&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
US REPORT PINS DOWN FUTURE BIOSECURITY
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=59&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
UK EMBRYO AGENCY FACES THE AXE
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=57&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE RELEASED
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=61&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
'TOUGH' CHIEF TO DEFEND MRC
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=60&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
SEWER STUDIES BASED ON LEAKY SCIENCE
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=52&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
FEELING THE SHAPES OF MOLECULES
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=53&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
CELLULAR SUICIDE SPURS CANCER
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=54&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
---------------------------------------------------------------------
NEWS BLOG
Check The Great Beyond for an up-to-the-minute digest of what is
being reported elsewhere.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Greenland ice sheet yields biggest glacier in decades
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=29&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
American Geophysical Union: Meeting of the Americas
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=40&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
SpaceX shows some NERVA
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=15&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Retraction requested for enzyme-chip paper
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=14&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
US carbon storage flagship revived, but revamped
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=13&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Obama nominates NOAA chief scientist
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=10&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Why is society not acting on climate change? John Holdren asks ESA
meeting.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=8&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Bisphenol A and sperm damage
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=4&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Report charts sea lion decline in western Aleutians
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=2&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Genome to unravel oyster mysteries
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=1&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
New Nature Video - Foldit: Biology for gamers
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=16&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Republican senators target "wasteful" science spending in stimulus package
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=9&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Institute of Medicine spells out PEPFAR evaluation plans
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=12&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Deepwater Horizon: static kill seems to have worked
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=3&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
After punting on climate, Senate punts on energy and oil spills
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=6&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
---------------------------------------------------------------------
WE RECOMMEND
---------------------------------------------------------------------
PODCAST
This week, how climate change is making marmots fatter, imagining a
world without mosquitoes, and more.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=72&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
CHINA'S DRUG PUSH
Research collaborations on the rise between Chinese academic
institutions and multinational pharmaceutical companies.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=18&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
PARSE THE SALT, PLEASE
How food manufacturers are finding ways to keep that salty savour in
products while curbing actual sodium intake.
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=11&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
=========================== ADVERTISEMENT ===========================
Free to view: digital edition of Nature Photonics Technology Focus
Newly available as a digital edition, see for yourself if the Nature
Photonics Technology Focus is right for you. The current issue is
free to view here
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=30&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
Like what you see. Register here today for your FREE subscription!
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=73&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
======================================================================
You have been sent this Table of Contents Alert because you have opted
in to receive it. You can change or discontinue your e-mail alerts at
any time, by modifying your preferences on your nature.com account at:
http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=62&m=35680810&r=MTc2NzE1NzUzNAS2&b=2&j=NzkzODA5MTMS1&mt=1&rt=0
(You will need to log in to be recognised as a nature.com registrant).
For further technical assistance, please contact our registration department:
registration@nature.com
For print subscription enquiries, please contact our subscription department:
subscriptions@nature.com
For other enquiries, please contact customer feedback department:
feedback@nature.com
Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick Street, 9th floor | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA
Nature Publishing Group's worldwide offices:
London - Paris - Munich - New Delhi - Tokyo - Melbourne -
San Diego - San Francisco - Washington - New York - Boston
Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England and
Wales under company number 785998 and whose registered office is
located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.
(c) Copyright 2010 Nature Publishing Group, a division of
Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.
======================================================================
No comments:
Post a Comment