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Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
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Making the paper: Dan Barouch
Changing vaccine carrier renews promise of anti-HIV therapy.
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Abstractions
First authorStars form in dense clouds of cold, turbulent molecular gas, but astronomers have had difficulty dissecting these clouds' complex structures to determine the mechanisms that drive star formation. On page 63, Alyssa Goodman, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and
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From the Blogosphere
Nature Chemical Biology associate editor Catherine Goodman treats readers of the Sceptical Chymist blog to a blow-by-blow account of a typical workday (http://tinyurl.com/5kuver). Here are some highlights:8:53 I'm putting together an agenda for a meeting tomorrow, so that probably takes
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Starry messages
The first scientific observations with telescopes displaced Earth from the centre of the Universe. Modern technology continues to humble us but should not distance us from the cosmos itself.
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Experts still needed
There are good reasons to be suspicious of metric-based research assessment.
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