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- Prairie chickens moaning at dawn
- Preparing to meet the prairie chicken
- Social networking site aims to help fight malaria
- AACR: Kiss, Kiss
- AACR: Seeds, soils, and rapid autopsies
- EGU: A clash of cultures?
- APS April 2008: Fermilab could rule out one type of Higgs
- APS April 2008: Textbooks getting worse
- AACR: Funding realities at the US National Cancer Institute
- Sea level rise: Linear or not?
- AACR: The return of cox-2 inhibitors
- Brave mountaineers
- AACR: A few cancer meeting statistics
- AACR: A few cancer statistics
- AACR: Would you approve aspirin?
- AACR: Play that funky music
- APS April 2008: The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
- APS April 2008: Lobbying on the go
- AACR: (Too) sunny San Diego
- APS April 2008: Back in St. Louis
- ACS Spring 2008: Until next year
- ACS Spring 2008: Vapor fix to microscopic lubrication problem
- ACS Spring 2008: Laboratory shrines
- ACS Spring 2008: Magical gator serum
- ACS Spring 2008: Sunday start
- SAA: The archaeology of intoxication
- SAA: Life and death at Stonehenge
- SAA: Stacking the deck to save world heritage
- SAA: The CSI backlash
- SAA: How to title your paper
- ACS New Orleans 2008 - see you there!
- APS 2008: Thanks for all the crawfish
- LPSC: Bye bye Texas
- APS 2008: Everything is connected
- LPSC: The 1st rock from the 2nd rock from the Sun?
- LPSC: The persistence of Swiss cheese
- APS 2008: A high-pressure pitch
- LPSC: Shot five times, Enceladus still a priority
- APS 2008: Eating dolphin
- LPSC: Worth its weight in gold
- APS 2008: A viral pace
- LPSC: Mad or NASA?
- LPSC: Loco for la Luna
- APS 2008: Crumpled balls
- LPSC: She seeks the grail
- LPSC: Be like Mike
- LPSC: After the storm
- APS 2008: To Congress, with love
- APS 2008: Mississippi dynamics
- LPSC: Here there be spiders
- LPSC: Forecast balmy, planetary
- Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference 2008
- Global seed vault: the podcast
- The world's insurance policy
- Did someone order mung beans?
- Built to last (until doomsday)
- Way up North
- AAAS: You are what you breathe
- AAAS: Whom can you trust?
- AAAS: Viral chatter
- AAAS: Caution! Reporters in the room.
- AAAS: And for more blogging...
- AAAS: Star Trek Fans Rejoice!
- AAAS: Thinking about thinking and yakking about language
- AAAS: The ballerina in the exhibit hall
- AAAS: Clinton and Obama, but no McCain
- AAAS: Art, connoisseurship, science...and a cat among the Pollocks
- AAAS: Why the Road not Taken Might Not Matter
- AAAS: Talking about talking about climate
- AAAS: Wires and batteries made of viruses
- AAAS: A beautiful day in the neighborhood
- AAAS: So you want to start your own lab
- AAAS: The view from the top
- AAAS 2008: Approximately human
- AAAS 2008: Dolly for dinner?
- AAAS 2008: Boston can be lovely in February, really it can.
- AAAS 2008
- Bug report: fixes
- Bug report: P symbols
- Bug report: links
- AAS: Big gas cloud headed our way
- AAS: The practice of astronomy
- AAS: The invisible made visible
- AAS: Rock'n'Roll'n'ApJ
- AAS: How astronomers die
- AAS: Seeing double
- AAS: Planets, planets everywhere
- AAS: Rogue black holes
- AAS: Astronomy and popular culture
- AAS: Stars up to no good
- AAS: Return to Hubble
- AAS 2008
- AGU: Footquakes
- AGU: Jim Hansen bites back
- AGU: The importance of copy editors
- AGU: The outlook for the Arctic
- AGU: The future of science at NASA
- AGU: What the president's science advisor says about climate change
- AGU: The latest from Mars
- AGU: You know when the meeting has begun when
- American Geophysical Union, Dec 2007
- Behind the Scenes at this year’s Cell Slam
- Soup, meet sandwich.
- What to expect from the new NIH peer review
- Germ cell epigenetics (and why I’m glad I’m not colour blind)
- ELSO gets absorbed
- Raising the curtain on cell slam
- UN climate conference
- Is Alzhiemer’s research suffering a lamp post effect?
- A worm with two heads at ASCB 2007
- American Society for Cell Biology 2007
- About this site: bug report
- SfN: Drug calms violent rats
- Sfn: hope in stroke
- SfN: Social butterfly
- SfN: clocking in
- SfN: Get yourself connected
- sfn: sophistication in the brain stem
- SfN: The traumas of transit - and it's not just the jetlag
- Society for Neuroscience, 2007
- At the ceremony in Spain
- Nature wins major award in Spain
- ASRM roundup (and a plea for pronunciation assistance)
- Epigenetics and ART (ready to blow?)
- Contraceptive craziness (warning you will enjoy politics or else)
- Advancing embryonic stem cells
- Sprucing up the Masturbatorium
- The aging egg
- Redesign glitches
- Redesign
- Blog redesign
- Japan gets nationwide warning of earthquakes
- Sabre-toothed cats were weak in the jaw
- Anyone want this old mushroom?
- Dogs help sniff out genes
- Minimum telomere length defined for healthy cells
- Emerging tech: Location, location, location
- Space experiments should be done on the cheap
- Alien birds may be last hope for Hawaiian plants
- This quantum stuff just doesn't add up
- Stone tool reveals lengthy Polynesian voyage
- Mammoth hair offers new style of research
- Emerging tech: not yet diggin it?
- Emerging tech: local networking
- Mixing the oceans proposed to reduce global warming
- Tiny RNAs, big problems
- Europe plots course for funding navigation system
- Emerging tech: amazing grace
- Emerging Tech: it sure aint TiVo
- Birds may 'see' magnetic north
- Dropping a line from space
- UN climate talks
- Emerging Tech: Geeks and gendertyping
- Do flu vaccines work for the elderly?
- Spaceflight boosts bacterial deadliness
- Kelp forests widespread in tropical waters
- Why a person doesn't evolve in one lifetime
- Stay in if you're having a bad air day
- Earth's mantle in a spin
- Wrist bones bolster hobbit status
- Bug sexual warfare drives gender bender
- Treasure trove of Homo erectus found
- Africa aims to halt brain drain of crop experts
- Integrity: the dark-side of mentoring
- Integrity: conference bingo
- Integrity: What did we learn from Hwang?
- Arctic sea ice at record low
- Gene therapy might not have caused patient's death
- Integrity: codes, clubs and copying
- Integrity: Zero tolerance in Portugal
- Cooler weather favours Chinese locusts
- Fish in space help studies of balance disorders
- Beauty is in the nose of the beholder
- Japanese Moon satellite launched
- Salmon parents give birth to trout
- Universities and the money fix
- Fish for sale
- Gene knockout extends life of mice with ALS
- Planet survives stellar explosion
- Matter-antimatter molecules made
- Neanderthals 'not killed by climate change'
- Bubble-fusion allegations merit more investigation
- Farewell to a famous parrot
- Foetal testosterone linked to autistic traits
- DNA analysis reveals size of past whale populations
- Improved polymer shuttles genes into cells
- Why did the monkey pee on his feet?
- The gene that makes your mouth water
- Arthur Eddington was innocent!
- Is this the clearest picture of space ever taken?
- Mini-muscles go for a swim
- Virus could be cause of disappearing bees
- Radicals unite antibiotics
- Tiger mosquitoes bring tropical disease to Europe
- Speedy drugs for depression
- Dark energy probe gets high praise
- Nature Podcast 06 Sep 2007
- Eels imitate Alien
- Britain gets hybrid embryo go-ahead
- Killer asteroid fingered
- New tsunami warning
- Saint's robes carbon dated
- Schizophrenia genes 'favoured by evolution'
- NASA clean rooms breed hardy bacteria
- Futile protein cycle keeps mice thin
- All about Craig: the first 'full' genome sequence
- Acid rain may hit coastal waters hard
- Local livestock breeds at risk
- Magnets harnessed to clean artwork
- Local livestock breeds at risk
- High hopes for new schizophrenia drugs
- First ‘tall gene’ found
- HIV drug tackles cancer cells
- Bacterial genome found within a fly's
- Smoking stays in your genes after you quit
- Amber preserves rare orchid pollen
- Nature Podcast 30 Aug 2007
- Mighty mice could yield human treatments
- Worm chewing changes soil chemistry
- Selfish cells take over testes
- Air force had early warning of pulsars
- Grape genome unpicked
- Jupiter's protective pull questioned
- The tangled web of super-heroes
- ACS Boston August 2007: homecoming
- 'Seeing' through the chin
- Illusion mimics out-of-body experiences
- ACS Boston August 2007: worms
- Google Sky puts on a great show
- ACS Boston August 2007: hot secrets
- ACS Boston August 2007: Marbles - I've lost mine
- These mice are made for grooming
- Diamonds found in Earth's oldest cystals
- Nature Podcast 23 Aug 2007
- ACS Boston August 2007: factoids
- ACS Boston August 2007: Avogadro's out
- Chimps practise self control
- Risky business
- ACS Boston August 2007: Katharine the gourmand
- ACS Boston August 2007: When will I learn
- Early dementia causes weight loss
- Body clock might stop during hibernation
- ACS Boston August 2007: hydrogen hiccups
- ACS Boston August 2007: poets corner
- Asthma sufferers who blamed car fumes receive payment
- ACS Boston August 2007 - here at last!
- Mice can smell greenhouse gas
- Long-term memory gets wiped
- Snakes strike back at starvation
- Nature Podcast 16 Aug 2007
- A star with a tail
- Talc softens earthquake chafing
- HIV triggers the 'opposite of cancer' in the brain
- Autistic kids don't catch yawns
- Paper holds the power
- Radar reveals ancient Cambodian metropolis
- Cooking up a smoky solution
- ESA: In praise of pragmatism
- The best is the enemy of the good
- Rising temperatures "will stunt rainforest growth"
- ESA: What's wrong with plastic trees?
- Model approach to climate prediction
- Blocked up passageways
- US panel has 'some concern' about effects of bisphenol A
- Bugs don't bug flies
- Not just a bunch of bones
- ESA: Scientists are from Mars, journalists are from Venus
- Nature Podcast 09 Aug 2007
- "Here lies one whose name was writ in water..."
- Twin fossil find adds twist to human evolution
- ESA: Are forests and biofuels bad for the environment?
- Genetic popsicle
- Puppet parents raise troubled condors
- Container ship rams research vessel
- Foot and mouth disease returns to the UK
- Nose goes, gender bends
- Phoenix mission on the launch pad
- Should meat-eaters guide conservation?
- The mystery of the wandering winkle
- INQUA: But did they have a sense of fashion?
- Korean stem cells unmasked
- Pay your money, take your chance
- INQUA: How to get ancient DNA
- Orang-utans are cunning communicators
- INQUA: How fossils can help conservationists
- INQUA: Footprints from the past
- INQUA: A call to arms
- Nature Podcast 2 Aug 2007
- Implant boosts activity in injured brain
- Brown clouds boost global warming
- Unfit viruses cause worse disease
- Owls' ears map the world
- Buzzed, fit and cancer-free
- Are big beasts' cancers self-defeating?
- Genes influence emotional memory
- INQUA: Field trips
- INQUA: Beowulf and the beast
- INQUA: Welcome to Cairns
- INQUA: Welcome to the Quaternary
- Dark days for NASA
- Medical opinion comes full circle on cannabis dangers
- Single gene deletion boosts lifespan
- Sex change wipes out invasive species
- Carbon makes super-tough paper
- Mobile telephone masts 'do not cause illness'
- Religious concepts promote cooperation
- Nature Podcast 26 Jul 2007
- Libyan ordeal ends: medics freed
- Organic compound found in the stars
- New mutations implicated in half of autism cases
- Mastodon DNA sequenced
- Jumbo squid invades California
- Rainfall changes linked to human activity
- Liquids bounce again
- The man with a hole in his brain
- Manic mood swings can destroy grey matter
- Checkmate for checkers
- Queen bees avert the sting in the tail
- Crabs use their shells for garbage disposal
- GM potatoes expelled from Andes
- Nature Podcast 19 July 2007
- Getting conservation into the mainstream
- Ice volcanoes in outer space?
- Cancer-proof mice live longer
- Revealed: how the mind processes placebo effect
- The megaflood that made Britain an island
- Misconduct hearing starts in Britain
- A switch in handedness changes the brain
- Japanese nuclear reactor under-designed for earthquake?
- This chimp is made for walking
- How sickness makes us sleep
- Möbius strip unravelled
- It could only happen in the movies
- Student Grand Prix showcases green engines
- China had more wars in cold weather
- Beep Beep! from the Cretaceous
- Bad memories can be supressed
- Bears build up what fish flush out
- Allergic reactions more common in north
- Nature Podcast 12 Jul 2007
- See new galaxies — without leaving your chair
- HIV trial doomed by design, say critics
- A healthy world needs lots of species
- Libyan court upholds death sentences
- Underground lab set for South Dakota
- Chernobyl birds are better off drab and lazy
- Divers dismantle artificial reef
- Metabolic switch delivers healthy fat
- Whaling made penguins switch to krill
- RoboCup 2007
- Concerts aim to save the Earth
- New candidate drug for bipolar disorder
- TB diagnosis change causes confusion
- Goodbye PE!
- Buckyballs could help fight allergies
- Super-eruption: no problem?
- DNA reveals a green Greenland
- The tusk detective
- Second space 'hotel' model launched
- More walking the walk
- Man vs. manatee
- Poster parade
- Tales from the transect
- Nature Podcast 05 Jul 2007
- AIDS harms the environment
- Saturn's moon: a dirty sponge
- ESHRE: Not very complementary
- What is a zoo?
- Doubt cast on fertility technique
- Smart apes spit
- Walking the talk
- Mice born from cloned sperm
- ESHRE: How old is too old for IVF?
- Biodefence work halted at US university
- Mother donates frozen eggs to daughter
- ESHRE: Saving fertility
- Does conserving Africa help Africans?
- The impoverishment of isolated trees
- Generosity among rats
- Giant bird was a glider
- Doctors announce new fertility feat
- ESHRE: Sweet deal
- ESHRE: How to stop twins in their tracks
- World Heritage List gets bigger
- ESHRE: Frozen at five
- Off the beaten path
- Eggs, embryos… and of course sex.
- Opening dance
- Starting with a bang
- Powerful urine is mind-altering
- Lubricant reduces virus risk
- Urine grows better fish food
- Europe burns its wine lake
- Genome transplant makes species switch
- Ancient seeds reveal Andean crops
- Out of the desert, on to the sofa
- Nature Podcast 28 Jun 2007
- Crater candidate spotted in Tunguska
- Asteroid mission gears up for launch
- Leaving Zürich and Planning for Next Year
- Elephants run in slow motion
- Treaty caution on plankton plans
- Carbo loading
- Winding down in Zürich
- That’s a Lot of RNA
- Is it a chimp-help-chimp world?
- Suddenly Synthetic (was Standing Beside Other Posters)
- Power, Secrets, and Synthetic Biology
- Parasites suck toxins from sharks
- Giant penguins lived in Peru
- Push to legalize Afghanistan's opium trade
- Rabble Rousing 3.0 (Surprise, Berkeley is the Source of the Upheaval)
- Transplant is Neat, But for Assembly, Nature Still Has Us Beat
- Synthetic Biology … What is That Again?
- High notes really are high
- Synthetic Bio 3.0 (Hackers Welcome)
- The patent threat to designer biology
- Disappearing lake confuses geologists
- Ancient disease resistance made us vulnerable to HIV
- Older siblings are smarter
- Scientists decry President Bush's veto of stem-cell bill
- Embryonic stem cells made without destroying embryos
- Nature Podcast 21 Jun 2007
- Plans mount for a liquid telescope on the Moon
- Biofuel repertoire expanded
- Supreme Court hearing starts for medics facing death penalty
- China tops CO2 emissions
- Early gunshot victim uncovered
- Patented harpoon pins down whale age
- The tell-tale grasshopper
- Space station computer crash a mystery
- NATO calls for 'urgent work' against cyberwarfare
- Disgust
- Arctic spring comes two weeks early
- Twin brothers make women less fertile
- Drug resistance doesn't always come from drugs
- ISSCR - Hwang really did have a 'first'
- International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
- Ouch, I saw that
- Unreasonable doubt
- Will China's captive-bred pandas survive?
- Convention protects corals; not dogfish
- Dwarf planet found to be heftier than Pluto
- Nature Podcast 14 Jun 2007
- Nature Podcast 14 Jun 2007
- High-energy detectors might find 'unparticles'
- How a chill pains us
- Giant bird-like dinosaur found
- Plants can tell who's who
- Transit of Earth-like planet eludes astronomers
- Throw away your PC
- Why some animals are shy of habitat corridors
- Stem cells help primates with Parkinson’s
- Amber collectors hit on oldest mushroom find
- Scientists mourn devastation of Valley of Geysers
- Is this Chaucer's astrolabe?
- Meeting for a party
- Tropical flu spreads the 'wrong way'
- Transgenic crops relatively kind to insects
- Marijuana skin cream could help allergies
- Storm seasons back to normal?
- Mice cloned using fertilized eggs
- Two new planets lack heavy foundations
- Large Hadron Collider delayed
- Bye-bye, birdie
- DNA reveals how the chicken crossed the sea
- Birds with rhythm sing scary harmonies
- The zero effect
- Fathers of the zodiac tracked down
- Babies respond to mum's flu jab
- James Watson's genome sequenced
- Warmer world gets wetter
- Upright orangutans point way to walking
- Space telescope spies dark matter
- Protein senses cold
- United Nations' AIDS programme under fire
- Nature Podcast 31 May 2007
- Everest: The South Col and beyond
- Deadly TB strain flies around the world
- Static holes defy theory
- Silicon crystal cooked to perfection
- Red dwarfs could harbour life
- Geneticists identify four new breast-cancer genes
- GPS could offer better fault line mapping
- Plastics for posterity
- Babies spot languages just by watching
- Geneticists create 'next generation' of GM crops
- At the summit!
- Nature Podcast 24 May 2007
- American Geophysical Union
- Scientific activism: Signing on
- Torrid hurricane season in store
- muse@nature.com: Does this mean war?
- Bald dino casts doubt on feather theory
- Hungry fungi chomp on radiation
- One-sixth of Europe’s mammals face extinction
- Viagra cures hamster jetlag
- American Geophysical Union May 2007
- How to survive in a black hole
- Rice with human proteins to take root in Kansas
- Drifters could explain sweet-potato travel
- California stem-cell programme clears legal hurdle
- Polar ocean is sucking up less carbon dioxide
- Mosquito genome leaves researchers itching for more
- Don't rush your vaccines
- Nature Podcast 17 May 2007
- Skin’s own cells could beat baldness
- Philanthropy
- Herpesviruses might have benefits
- Possible target found for boosting microRNA action
- Black-market boom for ivory
- 'Guardian gene' may hinder some cancer treatments
- Do flies have free will?
- Dark matter has a ring of truth
- Will the Sun be stolen by another galaxy?
- Purdue dogged by misconduct claims
- Does milk ruin tea?
- How geology came to help Alexander the Great
- Burning wood to power fridges
- Everest: The rest before the final push.
- Lightning spurs hurricanes
- Spying on the oldest stars in the Universe
- Inhaling cannabis without the smoke
- Bats fly like a bee
- Anti-shredder aims to stick spy files back together
- Encyclopedia of Life launched
- The awesome opossum gets sequenced
- Coming soon... more movies set to tackle science
- Nature Podcast 10 May 2007
- Planet gallery
- Animal-rights activists lose one, win one
- Particle physicists hunt for the unexpected
- Have you seen any nuclear material?
- The biggest bang of them all
- GM patent rejected after 13 years
- Six degrees of pharmacology
- Maggots eat up resistant bacteria
- Tackling greenhouse gases looks to be affordable
- Climate talks seek to rein in greenhouse gases
- Map charts where roads don't go
- Probiotics could save frogs
- Climate talks seek to rein in greenhouse gases
- Everest: Science from the Western Cwm
- Genes come alive with the sound of music
- Nature Podcast 3 May 2007
- Infections may trigger metal allergies
- Everest: Logistics in a harsh environment.
- Human ancestors went underground for dinner
- Wolf clones confirmed
- Some Gulf War veterans have different brains
- Language may change your colour vision
- Relative found for Lonesome George
- Plastic sheet delivers wireless power
- Robot built to spy on whales
- Quantum cryptography is hacked
- US higher education
- Chimp denied a legal guardian
- Nature Podcast 26 Apr 2007
- Only mother nature knows how to fertilize the ocean
- Wings in a wind tunnel show secrets of flight
- The most Earth-like planet yet
- Every cloud has an invisible halo
- NASA reviewing security procedures after shooting
- Fruit proves better than vitamin C alone
- Migraines may slow memory loss
- Satellite to probe mysterious glowing clouds
- Ancient fossil forest found by accident
- Could America lead the world on global warming?
- Money given to save genetics of food
- Journalism: G'day mate
- Journalism: Farewell
- Scratching diamond just got easier
- Natural peptide protects against HIV
- EGU: Farewell
- Journalism: Feminising your message
- Journalism: Extremophiles