21 August: Self-sacrificing salmonella, 'magic' gold clusters, how brown fat cells could be a cure for obesity and the 'Woodstock' of science conferences.
Nature: 14 August 2008
13 Aug 2008 @ 02:00 am
14 August: Electricity without carbon, 'hidden' cholera infections, how scientists measure the most remote part of our planet and the spooky world of quantum entanglement.
Nature: 7 August 08
6 Aug 2008 @ 12:01 pm
The Earth's lopsided inner core, viruses inside viruses, an electronic camera that's built like a human eye, and science on the X Files.
Nature Extra: X Files
6 Aug 2008 @ 01:14 am
With a new movie version of the X Files now in cinemas, we chat to creator and director Chris Carter about science, conspiracy theories and FBI agents Mulder and Scully.
Nature: 31 July 2008
30 Jul 2008 @ 11:51 am
The origins of snake fangs, an ethane lake on Saturn's largest moon, the genetics of schizophrenia and an ancient Greek computer.
Nature Extra: Schizophrenia
30 Jul 2008 @ 11:29 am
For more on what these rare deletions can tell us about the genetics of schizophrenia, listen to Kari Stefansson, CEO and founder of deCODE genetics, on this week's Nature Podcast.
Nature: 24 July 2008
23 Jul 2008 @ 02:00 am
24 July: The rapid rise of China's energy needs and scientific ambitions, how light receptors in fly eyes give them a magnetic sense, dangerously high levels of arsenic in the Mekong delta and the major role of snail-castrating parasites in ecosystems in Baja California.
Nature: 17 July 2008
16 Jul 2008 @ 02:00 am
17 July: NASA's hot air balloon team, life aboard an icebreaker, how scientists have glimpsed the lightest atoms in action, and 30 years on from the first test-tube baby, what's next for IVF?
Nature: 10 July 2008
9 Jul 2008 @ 02:00 am
10 July: The brain's fear switch, how flatfish evolved to be lopsided, aftershock predictions in the Chinese region hit by May's massive earthquake, and how the sly Ebola virus hides under a carbohydrate 'cloak'.
Nature Extra: Science and Music
2 Jul 2008 @ 02:00 am
Science and music: What is it about music that moves us? Why does it seem to be universal in humans? And what can science tell us about the hows and whys of our musical minds? Find out in this extended interview with music psychologist John Sloboda and Nature's Phil Ball.
