Nature News
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Climate scientists join search for alien Earths
The hunt for life beyond the Solar System is gaining new partners: NASA climatologists. After more than 30 years of studying Earth, a team at the NASA Goddard Institute for […]
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Tails tell the tale of dinosaur sex
Researchers think they have come up with a way to tell fossils of male dinosaurs from those of females — at least for some small feathered species. The key differences […]
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Materials science: The hole story
The crystals are metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), molecular scaffolds made up of metal-containing nodes linked by carbon-based struts . The resulting pores are ideal for trapping guest molecules and, in some […]
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Tumour mutations harnessed to build cancer vaccine
Vaccines made from mutated proteins found in tumours have bolstered immune responses to cancer in a small clinical trial.
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Extreme cryptography paves way to personalized medicine
The dream for tomorrow’s medicine is to understand the links between DNA and disease — and to tailor therapies accordingly. But scientists working to realize such ‘personalized’ or ‘precision’ medicine […]
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UK mapped out by genetic ancestry
Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale map of genetic variation yet created. The […]
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Mercury seen as never before
In its final weeks, the MESSENGER mission reveals fresh details about the planet’s scorched surface.
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Conflict resolution: Wars without end
The world is full of bloody conflicts that can drag on for decades. Some researchers are trying to find resolutions through complexity science.
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El Niño arrives later and weaker than expected
Long-awaited shift in tropical Pacific will have little effect on weather patterns.