showing the country s intention to thwart a worrying rise in elephant poaching (see Nature 503,452;
See go. nature. com/ib2fpa for more. Seeds of change The US Department of agriculture (USDA) on 3 Â January proposed removing restrictions on the use of maize (corn)
and go. nature. com/9lgbd6 for more. Gun controls The US Department of health and human services proposed on 3 Â January that patient-privacy exemptions should be created
But some researchers who study firearms violence have called for better safeguards against gun ownership by those who are mentally ill (see Nature 496,412-415;
Colorado is one of only two US states to have approved nonmedicinal use of marijuana by adults (see go. nature. com/rtr3ou.
and his concept of a universal Turing machine, a programmable system that stores and processes information, is considered a cornerstone of computer science (see Nature 482,441;
and cancer progression. go. nature. com/rs9oyb15-17 january The 8th Human Amyloid Imaging meeting in Miami,
as well as other biomarkers linked to Alzheimer s disease. go. nature. com/oi5wkp
Many eyes on Earthimagine using Google earth or other online mapping tools to zoom in on high-resolution satellite images of the planet taken just hours or days ago.
4-ethyloctanal, a chemical not previously found in nature and that has an orangy, floral odour.
See go. nature. com/pmauru for more. Synchrotron to shut A light source at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will close on 7 Â March
The NSF cut support in 2011 because of budget constraints (see Nature 471,278; 2011). ) The centre was unable to raise alternative funding to save itself from closure;
he campaigned for better use of science in policy-making (see Nature 489,493-494; 2012). ) Holt did not give a reason for his decision,
See go. nature. com/ufeafl for more. Military psychology Many mental-health programmes designed for the military
See go. nature. com/qcetra for more. Tracking forests A tool enabling the public to track deforestation around the globe was launched on 19 Â February by the World Resources Institute (WRI),
and patient care. go. nature. com/dqzhpa
Vietnam on high alert over flu riskthe H7n9 avian-influenza virus that has killed more than 100 people in China in the past year has for the first time been detected in a province bordering Vietnam,
See go. nature. com/qjupqc for more. GM maize Europe may allow farmers to grow a genetically modified (GM) variety of maize (corn) after a proposal to approve the crop did not receive enough opposition to be quashed at a meeting of European union member states on 11 february.
See go. nature. com/hez8v5 for more. Open access The publisher of Science is to launch its first open-access journal in early 2015.
See go. nature. com/mtlcdd for more. EU-Swiss row European union-Swiss research is under strain after a Swiss vote in favour of immigration quotas led the European commission to suspend talks on the nation s participation in Europe s  80-billion (US$110-billion
The report, published on 12 february (see go. nature. com/annqmt), assessed technologies that could most benefit food production in the global south.
and bioethics violations in 2009 (see Nature 505,468-471; 2014). ) The USPTO told Nature that it was aware of Hwang s fraudulent past
and that the terms of the patent state that his stem-cell lines must be made available on request.
See go. nature. com/hwcnwu for more. 19 february NASA announces findings from its high-energy X-ray mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (Nustar.
The observations will reveal information about supernovae. go. nature. com/ocxk3r22 February A spacecraft weighing just 3 Â kilograms will hitch a ride to the International Space station.
The Kicksat mission was funded by the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter. go. nature. com/gzd6ni
Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemicthe virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic probably sprang from North american domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.
See go. nature. com/rn12cl for more. Frederic Stevens/Gettyillegal ivory crushed  France destroyed 3 tonnes of poached ivory on 6  February.
See go. nature. com/zvmeru for more. Suicide prevention A national research agenda for suicide prevention in the United states was published on 5 february.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) says that wolves in the lower 48 Â states no longer face extinction (see Nature 501,143-144;
See go. nature. com/lyb21y for more. Contrasto/eyevineitalian space head  The president of the Italian Space agency resigned on 7  February following allegations of bribery and corruption.
See go. nature. com/b8t9qx for more. Array revival The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration (NOAA) has decided to restore an ailing Pacific ocean monitoring network used to observe
NOAA told Nature on 4 Â February. See go. nature. com/nrhbvo for more. Stem-cell ruling Certain types of stem-cell treatment should be regulated as drugs,
a US appeals court decided on 4 Â February. The ruling rejects claims by Regenerative Sciences of Broomfield, Colorado, that its stem-cell therapy, used in orthopaedic applications,
The company has completed not clinical trials on the treatment so cannot market the product in the United states. It does sell it in the Cayman islands (see Nature 488
See go. nature. com/wfptv8 for more. The International Development Research Centre in Ottawa is offering a science-journalism grant worth up to Can$60, 000 (US$54, 000.
The winner will spend six months working in Nature s London newsroom and reporting science stories from developing countries.
For more information, see go. nature. com/len5fl. 11 february European member states will vote on
which carries a minimum prison sentence of four years. go. nature. com/htpd2l
Iconic island study on its last legssince 1958, ecologists have watched wolf and moose populations on Isle Royale in Lake superior wax
Now, nature is intervening and could either save the landmark project without the need for tranquillizer darts and wolf crates,
the argument that leaving the wolves alone would be allowing nature to take its course does not sway most ecologists.
Switzerland lost its status as an associate partner in the European union s  80-billion (US$110-billion) Horizon 2020 funding programme after it imposed curbs on immigration (see Nature 506,277;
See go. nature. com/bfldcw for more. Climate consensus The American Association for the Advancement of Science issued a report on 18 Â March called
summarizing the science behind climate change (see go. nature. com/ewy8cd). It follows an overview of climate science by the UK Royal Society
and the US National Academy of Sciences that was launched on 27 Â February (see go. nature. com/puvn4v).
and go. nature. com/lruz8e for more. Research apology The Japanese research institute that is home to several authors of two controversial stem-cell papers has apologized for errors in the research.
The papers, published in Nature, were criticized for using several duplicated images and because their results have not been reproduced.
the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico is holding a conference to discuss the state of research on wheat. go. nature. com/hrne9g26-28 march Physicists debate a suitable landing site for the Exomars rover at a meeting
The mission plans to land a rover on the red planet in 2018. go. nature. com/i5n5r2
because the newborn beaches quickly eroded (see Nature 420,356-358; 2002).")" We don t really know what s going to happen,
It offers only modest savings in greenhouse-gas emissions compared to petrol (see Nature 499,13-14;
See go. nature. com/rf9k5s for more. Research relegation Switzerland-based scientists and companies will have restricted access to European research funds in 2014.
after it imposed curbs on immigration last month (see Nature 506,277; 2014). ) The relegation means that research institutes
See go. nature. com/fv9skt for more. DNA swap The United kingdom could become the first country to legalize mitochondrial replacement a reproductive technology that produces offspring with three genetic parents.
See go. nature. com/ho8haz for more. ITER critique The governing council of ITER, a multibillion-euro international nuclear-fusion experiment, has approved 11 urgent reforms to the project s management.
The executive summary of a critical assessment report considered at the council s 13 Â February meeting was leaked online last week by The New yorker magazine (see go. nature. com/7ayyqe.
It details longstanding problems with ITER s complex international management (see Nature http://doi. org/nwq;
See go. nature. com/tp7tq9 for more. Gibberish papers The publisher Springer will remove 16 computer-generated nonsense papers that it had published in its subscription database,
Last week, Nature revealed that Labbã had informed privately Springer of the problem. He had contacted also the US Â Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
See go. nature. com/d7h4sr for more. Data sharing The Public library of Science (PLOS an open-access publisher based in San francisco,
See go. nature. com/2fwpsq for more. 10-11 march The Royal Society in London hosts a meeting on phylogeny,
extinction risks and conservation to discuss how information on evolutionary relationships can be combined with metrics such as lists of endangered species to assess conservation needs. go. nature. com/pwwz8i11 March The US Department of agriculture ends
My point is that nature is dirty and raw and complicated it cannot be split into good or bad;
-but if in essence that nature stops here and we decide we are a unnatural being
and we now need to manage nature for the rest of the world. With our current track record I doubt that would be a good idea.
and nature then they immediately contradict themselves by putting animals in captivity and controlling their breeding in hopes of keeping them alive and/or returning them to sustainable numbers.
Conservation goes against nature. Preservation is cool but conservation is not all it's making itself out as.
Studying animal sex is evidenced hard--as by Birkhead's account to Nature of what it was like to chase around mating birds:
âÂ# Previous work has suggested that people feel more connected to nature when it's anthropomorphized
This pool trapped water being also in the depths of the moon is fluid in nature
An Onion Enzyme that Makes the Eyes Water S. Imai N. Tsuge M. Tomotake Y. Nagatome H. Sawada T. Nagata and H. Kumagai Nature vol
Obviously no one really knows exactly what'nature's thinking'is when it comes to things like this
the interplay of man and nature moderated by technology over the centuries. Starz Your thought policing is repulsive whatever it was posted that Imatardbot2
Nature is self-balancing. When the Earth is no longer capable of supporting us our population will decline.
but theory suggests (at least considering just the resistive nature of the fluid) that the magnetic energy of the core can only change very slowly.
In nature animals which use the field could be confused mightily-birds bees and some fish all use the field for navigation.
The paper detailing the discovery can be found in Nature. UCHICAGO News...The aquatic-ape hypothesis suggests that six million to eight million years ago apelike ancestors of modern humans had a semiaquatic lifestyle based on foraging for food
and Liberty Link corn. www2. ca. uky. edu/entomology/entfacts/ef130. aspsincerely-Joe www. joesid. comunfortunately nature is winning.
If asked they will say that they did not have the kind of understanding of the nature of the cell that would indicate that radiation could harm them.
ÃÚ à The glyphosate-resistance of GMO corn has encouraged such an over-abundance of glyphosate-based herbicides to be dumped into the environment worldwide that nature has started to respond in kind with the evolution of âÂ#Âoesuperweeds.
As nature starts to catch up to our laboratory antics the agricultural and economic advantages of GMO corn are starting to become obsolete
and are forcing farmers to dump even more varieties of toxic chemical herbicides and pesticides on our foods in order to stay ahead of nature s race.
The offspring of genetic engineering would never be found in nature. For example fish genes have been placed in tomatoes human genes in tobacco bacteria in corn and viruses in squash and fruit.
Back at Organovo inside an otherwise unremarkable neon-lit clean room Dallas arranges human cells into intricate patterns that mirror those of nature.
Lactase persistence--the gene that allows about a third of adults to drink milk without major digestive pains--tends to break down geographically as you can see in this infographic from Nature's history of milk tolerance.
As Nature explains: Researchers estimate that the allele for lactase persistence might have popped up as recently as 7500 years ago starting in Hungary.
nature does everything in Curves.@@industrial. skyoh god lol. Old tech will always be far superior.
An ecological disaster usually follows man's attempt to fix nature. Dr. Liet Kyens would be very proud of this research...
Nature is just going to have to remember who's is who's. Such sentiment certainly doesn't speak for everyone who kills a wolf and
The most important one being that humans are very poor at managing nature. With Friends like these wildlife doesn't need any enemies!@
Nature rewards us for sniffing out inconsistencies in our worldview they argue. That would explain why it's not funny
Heidiit would probably take a return to nature. A society that lived in the 17 or 1800's or earlier.
It is nice to believe that we can just let nature take care of us if only we could denounce our evil ways.
because I love nature but our future is in the hands of technology if we are to continue to grow
I think most of the readers here realize that this is a poorly written article that is biased in nature
While nature wont survive-humans will at least a portion of us. We are evolved enough to survive in freezing climate.
One commenter Lifestream said âÂ#Âoewhile nature wonã¢Â#Â#t survive-humans will at least a portion of us.
First</b>humans are part of nature not separate from it so if nature wonã¢Â#Â#t survive neither of course will we.
We are part of the food chain not separate from it. The top of the food chain is actually the most vulnerable
About 423000 African elephants live in the wild today according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's estimates.
what we assume is a dreary home in the Birmingham Nature Center. Babu had made allegedly several escape attempts before finally slipping out of his pen.
It's merely another aspect of nature. dsdoan You point is taken well in the same way of their exist a ying
and taste completly different--somethings in nature NEED human intervention to survive...i'm fine with test tube meat...
In a study to be released in the journal Nature this week an international team of researchers describe their discovery of the Archicebus achilles
1) Ridicule 2)' You don't understand evolution'arguments 3) Exasperated irritable referrals to other people 4) Wildly inaccurate statements about the nature of species and the so-called evidences 5) Eventual
Science is the study of nature so of course any scientific explanation of how things started can only appeal to natural processes.
Yes they say it shows the self-correcting nature of science but they don't seem to be making any real progress
Study Sayswarming weather could make summer in the city deadly in the next few decades according to a study published this week in Nature Climate Change.
It's a perfect example of the Nature trick that Michael Mann employed on his famous hockey stick graph:
or rather he padded the data from the thermometer record (Mike's Nature trick...to...
http://wattsupwiththat. com/2009/11/20/mikes-nature-trick/But Mann's own trickery is beside the point.
So the question is was the early spring a problem for nature or for people?
@ppardee An earlier spring can be a significant problem for both humans and nature. Many complimentary relationships in ecology have different cues to start.
The team plans to publish a paper in the future detailing why not Nature reported. Previously the team conducted this entire process including a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer in monkeys.
Nature has great reporting on the breakthrough with a little more scientific nitty-gritty. This is utterly horrifying. For them to do this like Dolly they had to start with a fertilized egg remove the undeveloped baby (killing it) then put in the DNA from the skin cell of another person.
but Mother Nature is hardly of the timid type..the past has shown She can be downright abrupt vicious and catastrophic.
Several sixteenth-and seventeenth-century writers and philosophers famously idealized the Noble Savage a being lived who in harmony with nature
Then the thinking goes the animals were subject to the forces of nature. Those in the desert got better at resisting the sun
For the human species to continue we need to master our environment and deal with our toxic nature.
or strength of membership was germane to the peoples that lived some real code of coexistence and balance with nature.
and move to the next overburdening nature as they went. I've known a lot of Native americans that are concerned supposedly with the environment.
That nature might not be able to adapt to these crops in time for evolution to allow bees to process the crud they are being forced to collect all day into honey.
Their paper is published this week in Nature Geoscience. via Sciencedaily The majority of the data points are from 2008 and prior.
#How Stopping Deforestation Would Make Us Richer Infographic Deforestation definitely isn't doing nature any favors
Until we can take the periodic table and build any of nature's simple components I dismiss any scientific reasoning of evolution.
There is not enought randomness in nature to support Darwins claims. For every species that is camouflage there are a hundred in brilliant colors saying I am here eat me.
because nature shows that it can handle the randomness without extinction according scientist publications. How many chances does a new bird get to build a nest in a tree starting with big twigs to wooving in smaller branches to light soft downy material.
Yes even if Darwin never existed it is human nature to fabricate a story and sell it as truth when we don't have the answer to something just like the creationist
However even if we had the technology to deliver us those facts the chances are our human nature will not accept it
Darwin made observations in nature and published it as a theory. had done he not so somebody else would have.
These type of jobs are technical in nature and pay better thereby giving more people a higher level of money and yes medical benefits.
Despite the cryptic name and anonymous office-park architecture the nature of the enterprise located at AFB International is clear the moment you sit down for a meeting.
Then look up the provisional nature of science h
#Your Complete Guide To Chocolate Flavors Infographic Sean Seidell graphic designer and flavor-visualizer has made an infographic about just about all of the world's most wonderful things--cheese whiskey coffee beer.
I'd also like to point out that many of the studies above were epidemiological in nature.
And of course in nature that power would best be used for hunting...not composing sonnets. The problem is validation.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature researchers don't know enough about 15 percent of mammals to even determine
For these thinkers nothing was instinct or the result of nature. The idea found its most famous expression in psychology in the ideas of Sigmund Freud whose theories of the unconscious stressed that the elemental aspects of an individualã¢Â#Â#s personality were constructed by their earliest childhood experiences.
and as the investment strategist Jeremy Grantham reported last fall in the journal Nature farmers are struggling to keep up.
The very nature of this is been repeated in humans and yet current modern human culture is in denial about the document written history given to them from the (beings that come down from above) who created humans to serve the GODS via the Sumerian tablet history.
There is simply no need as change is the nature of the Universe. Actually trying to keep things the same is UNNATURAL and dumb.
Do you not understand the nature of CO2 as a greenhouse gas? How about the acidification of the oceans because of the absorption of CO2?
because is because of politics and the nature of propaganda. Why is there any surprise this issue is almost identical to that of the Theory of evolution?
because is because of politics and the nature of propaganda. See frosty THAT IS a false dichotomy.
Considering money is a human construct literally made up out of thin air as a means of controlling true assets with illusionary ones (for man does not create something of physical value from nothingness nature/god whatever you wish to call it is the only thing that can create something
If the NIH decides to change that rule Santa cruz Biotechnology may soon long for the simple days of USDA oversight. via Nature Liars should not prosper especially by breaking the law and
or chimpanzee than the latter are to each other. from a nature article on the gorilla genome...
Marton-Lefevre is the executive director of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
It is the greatest assault ever made upon nature; but the white man brushing aside all obstacles
It was bad enough in the wilds of nature but worse in the habitation of man.
since nature made them poured out their accumulated filth to the sea; those that could not be drained were oiled;
The Colorado river is grossly overallocated says Peter Gleick a water expert with the Pacific Institute in Oakland California. ve given away more water than nature provides.
Nature got us to 100 calories not scientists.##howmatters. This is an incredible work of PR perhaps bested only by a cup of yogurt won t change the world
Nature got us to 100 calories not scientists-chobani grrrrr pic. twitter. com/Rajqeiv4pzthese are the ingredients in a cup of CHOBANI SIMPLY 100ã¢Â BLACK CHERRY.
And since those algorithms mimic nature modeling the effects of mutation selection and other biological processes the designs they produce are often surprising.
close to nature and of a nature dear and kindly toward man. The dream is inevitable.
or snow with no hot-dog stand in sight nor any of the other modern conveniences we take for granted will revive that old and terrible memory in any novice nature lover.
And so we try vainly for the best of both worlds he so-called simplicity of nature plus the comfort of a modern apartment hence the great and increasing interest in the caravan the mobile home the camper top and the wheelborne penthouse.
and triumph over the forces of nature is curiosity. But while the lifeless rubbled surface of the inconstant moon becomes increasingly littered with the burnt-out bones of vehicles the bathyscaphe has visited the deep and unknown places of the earth only a few times.
The research also sets evolutionary distinctness against the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List ranking the 575 bird species considered threatened
because a reservoir was too full Nature News reports. Normally the delta is mostly dry. Since the 1930s successive dam projects have held back the river
The goal is to dampen broad swathes of the arid Colorado river delta Nature News'Alexandra Witze writes allowing new cottonwood
Scienceinsider Nature News
#Has The Reintroduction Of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone? The story goes something like this: Once upon a time we exterminated the wolves from the Rocky mountain West including the part that would become Yellowstone national park.
Journalist Emma Marris who recently wrote about wolf/ecosystem science for the journal Nature finds that Middleton's stance aligns with a growing body of evidence.
Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. There's legitimate scientific disagreement here. But I think it can't be denied that the beauty of that story plays a role in how much attention it gets.
Publlished this week in the journal Nature the strategies favor diverse approaches tailored to local conditions rather than a universal approach that ignores local cultures geographies economies and environmental realities.
nature. Now as we gaze at the heap of shredder residue he says Most people would look at this pile
Some suggest letting nature take its course. However it's not like wolves haven't been impacted by humans even on the island.
and the details of the iconic study read the story at Nature. And for a firsthand story of one scientist's work on the island check out this long feature at the Lansing State Journal. u
The idea of borrowing designs from nature is far from new particularly when it comes to flight.
As technology has advanced scientists have decoded many of nature s secrets. And engineers have developed the first flying insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:
Nature has a several-hundred-million-year lead time on us when it comes to great design says Peter Singer a fellow at the Washington D c. ased Brookings Institution.
Learning how nature creates superior sensors could lead to lighter smarter drones. And as that happens their range of applications will grow.
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