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[Perspective] Applied Physics: Graphene Nanophotonics
[Report] The C9orf72 GGGGCC Repeat Is Translated into Aggregating Dipeptide-Repeat Proteins in FTLD/ALS
[Report] Neural Decoding of Visual Imagery During Sleep
[Report] TERT Promoter Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Melanoma
[Perspective] Applied Physics: Robotic Walking in the Real World
[Special Issue Review] Exoplanet Habitability
[Editorial] Is Any Science Safe?
[Policy Forum] Science and Regulation: End the Deadlock on Governance of Geoengineering Research
[News of the Week] Newsmakers
[Technical Comment] Comment on “Bateman in Nature: Predation on Offspring Reduces the Potential for Sexual Selection”
[Correction] Corrections and Clarifications
[News & Analysis] Dual Use Research: Australian Researchers Rattled by Export Control Law
[Report] Increases in Adult Life Expectancy in Rural South Africa: Valuing the Scale-Up of HIV Treatment
[Report] Amplifying Genetic Logic Gates
[Letter] AAAS Position on GM Foods Could Backfire
[Special Issue Review] Cancer Genome Landscapes
[Report] Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary
[Podcast] Science Podcast: 10 May Show
[News Focus] Food Science: Following the Flavor
[News of the Week] Random Sample
[Letter] Readers' Poll Results: Funding Environment
[Report] A Tissue-Like Printed Material
[Letter] NextGenVOICES
[News of the Week] Around the World
[Correction] Corrections and Clarifications
[Special Issue Review] Quantum Spintronics: Engineering and Manipulating Atom-Like Spins in Semiconductors
[Book Review] Notes on Three Image-Rich Books
[News & Analysis] Neuroscience: NFL Kicks Off Brain Injury Research Effort
[Review] The Continuing Challenge of Understanding, Preventing, and Treating Neural Tube Defects
[Special Issue Perspective] A Business View on U.S. Education
[Report] Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot
[News & Analysis] Zoology: International Arbiter of Animal Names Faces Financial Woes
[Perspective] Neuroscience: Heterochronic Genes Turn Back the Clock in Old Neurons
[News Focus] Lunar and Planetary Science Conference: More Support for An Ocean in Enceladus
[Report] The Helicase-Like Domains of Type III Restriction Enzymes Trigger Long-Range Diffusion Along DNA
[News & Analysis] Clinical Trials: Europe Debates Ethics Reviews, Data Release
[News of the Week] Around the World
[News & Analysis] Aids Research: More Woes for Struggling HIV Vaccine Field
[Perspective] Cell Biology: Insulin Finds Its Niche
[News of the Week] Random Samples
[Research Article] Dual Molecular Signals Mediate the Bacterial Response to Outer-Membrane Stress
[Report] Delineating Antibody Recognition in Polyclonal Sera from Patterns of HIV-1 Isolate Neutralization
[Report] Complex N-Heterocycle Synthesis via Iron-Catalyzed, Direct C–H Bond Amination
[Perspective] Virology: Our Viral Inheritance
[Letter] Eco-Compensation for Giant Panda Habitat
[Letter] China's Food Security Soiled by Contamination
[News & Analysis] Physics: Congress Tries Again to Head Off Looming Helium Crisis
[Report] Mechanism-Based Covalent Neuraminidase Inhibitors with Broad-Spectrum Influenza Antiviral Activity
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[Review] Planar Photonics with Metasurfaces
[Report] Killing by Bactericidal Antibiotics Does Not Depend on Reactive Oxygen Species
[Report] Photonic Boson Sampling in a Tunable Circuit
[Report] A Histone Mutant Reproduces the Phenotype Caused by Loss of Histone-Modifying Factor Polycomb
[Correction] Corrections and Clarifications
[Letter] Drawbacks to Natural Gas
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[Letter] Japan's Lagging Gender Equality
[Special Issue Report] Dental Morphology and the Phylogenetic “Place” of Australopithecus sediba
[Report] Circadian Control of Chloroplast Transcription by a Nuclear-Encoded Timing Signal
[Perspective] Evolution: Great Apes and Zoonoses
[Special Issue Review] Physical and Virtual Laboratories in Science and Engineering Education
[Perspective] Cancer: Silencing a Metabolic Oncogene
[Perspective] Molecular Biology: Shielding Broken DNA for a Quick Fix
[Report] A Histone Acetylation Switch Regulates H2A.Z Deposition by the SWR-C Remodeling Enzyme
[Technical Response] Response to Comments on "Large Volcanic Aerosol Load in the Stratosphere Linked to Asian Monsoon Transport"
[Perspective] Atmosphere: Irreversible Does Not Mean Unavoidable
[Book Review] Film: Environment: On Rivers, Flowers, Fruits, and More
[News & Analysis] U.S. Immigration Reform: More High-Tech Visas, More STEM Education Funds
[Policy Forum] Environment and Development: Measuring China's Circular Economy
[Research Article] Pervasive Externalities at the Population, Consumption, and Environment Nexus
[News & Analysis] Dual Use Research: New U.S. Rules Increase Oversight of H5N1 Studies, Other Risky Science
[Books et al.] Books Received
[Policy Forum] Research Priorities: The NIH BRAIN Initiative
[Report] Melting of Iron at Earth’s Inner Core Boundary Based on Fast X-ray Diffraction
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[Policy Forum] Infectious Disease: The Stability of Malaria Elimination
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[Perspective] Neuroscience: Why Adults Need New Brain Cells
[Review] How Cells Know Where They Are
[Report] High Coverage of ART Associated with Decline in Risk of HIV Acquisition in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
[Report] (R)-2-Hydroxyglutarate Is Sufficient to Promote Leukemogenesis and Its Effects Are Reversible
[Perspective] Biochemistry: How HIF-1α Handles Stress
[News & Analysis] Nuclear Weapons: North Korea's Blast Poses Riddles and Challenges
[Special Issue Research Article] The Upper Limb of Australopithecus sediba
[Research Article] Variable Clonal Repopulation Dynamics Influence Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Cancer
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[Report] RNA-Guided Human Genome Engineering via Cas9
[Report] Probing Allostery Through DNA
[Book Review] Social Science: To Improve Public Policy
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[News & Analysis] Science Community: Austrian Academy of Sciences Faces Its Nazi History
[Policy Forum] Arms Control: Beyond Arms-Control Monitoring
[Editorial] The GMO Stalemate in Europe
[Review] Carbon Nanotubes: Present and Future Commercial Applications
[Perspective] Planetary Science: Probing an Extrasolar Planet
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[Report] Nuclear Actin Network Assembly by Formins Regulates the SRF Coactivator MAL
[News Focus] Ardi's a Hominin—But How Did She Move?
[Report] DNA Gridiron Nanostructures Based on Four-Arm Junctions
[Correction] Corrections and Clarifications
[Report] Deciphering the Glycosylome of Dystroglycanopathies Using Haploid Screens for Lassa Virus Entry
[Perspective] Biochemistry: Red Wine, Toast of the Town (Again)
[Special Feature] 2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Posters & Graphics
[Perspective] Molecular Biology: New Tool for Genome Surgery
[Report] Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest
[Report] Interferon-ε Protects the Female Reproductive Tract from Viral and Bacterial Infection
[Technical Response] Response to Comment on "Bilaterian Burrows and Grazing Behavior at >585 Million Years Ago"
[Editorial] Investing in Distant Rewards
[Report] Structural Basis for Molecular Recognition at Serotonin Receptors
[Perspective] Ecology: Not All About Consumption
[Special Feature] 2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Video
[News & Analysis] Neuroscience: Brain Project Draws Presidential Interest, but Mixed Reactions
[Perspective] Neuroscience: 3D Mapping in the Brain
[Perspective] Cell Biology: Dynamin Flexibility Drives Fission
[Essay] IBI* Series Winner: Mars Student Imaging Project: Real Research by Secondary Students
[Essay] IBI* Series Winner: Root Cause Analysis for Young Engineers
[Report] Uncovering the Protein Translocon at the Chloroplast Inner Envelope Membrane
[Report] Regulation of Flowering by Trehalose-6-Phosphate Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana
[Technical Comment] Comment on "Large Volcanic Aerosol Load in the Stratosphere Linked to Asian Monsoon Transport"
[Letter] Old Trees: Cultural Value
[Report] Direct Evidence of a Dinuclear Copper Intermediate in Cu(I)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloadditions
[News Focus] Pesticides Under Fire For Risks to Pollinators
[Report] Highly Recurrent TERT Promoter Mutations in Human Melanoma
[Letter] Libraries' Social Role in the Information Age
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Atmospheric confinement of jet streams on Uranus and Neptune
A pathogenic picornavirus acquires an envelope by hijacking cellular membranes
The structure of the asteroid 4 Vesta as revealed by models of planet-scale collisions
Studying arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia with patient-specific iPSCs
Non-redundant coding of aversive odours in the main olfactory pathway
Is the ocean food provision index biased?
Naturally occurring allele diversity allows potato cultivation in northern latitudes
Cancer: A metabolic metamorphosis
Specialized filopodia direct long-range transport of SHH during vertebrate tissue patterning
Globally networked risks and how to respond
Natural RNA circles function as efficient microRNA sponges
Modulation of TET2 expression and 5-methylcytosine oxidation by the CXXC domain protein IDAX
Virology: Phages hijack a host's defence
Thymus-derived regulatory T cells contribute to tolerance to commensal microbiota
Evidence for sympathetic vibrational cooling of translationally cold molecules
Succinate is an inflammatory signal that induces IL-1β through HIF-1α
Palaeontology: Tubular worms from the Burgess Shale
A key role for mitochondrial gatekeeper pyruvate dehydrogenase in oncogene-induced senescence
Cloning of Dirac fermions in graphene superlattices
Materials science: Porosity in a single crystal
Experimental realization of non-Abelian non-adiabatic geometric gates
Deep instability of deforested tropical peatlands revealed by fluvial organic carbon fluxes
Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence
Evolutionary genomics: Detecting selection
FOXO3A directs a protective autophagy program in haematopoietic stem cells
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The domination of Saturn’s low-latitude ionosphere by ring ‘rain’
Cancer: Stress mixes chromosomes
Changes in global nitrogen cycling during the Holocene epoch
Femtosecond switching of magnetism via strongly correlated spin–charge quantum excitations
Specialized appendages in fuxianhuiids and the head organization of early euarthropods
Central role of E3 ubiquitin ligase MG53 in insulin resistance and metabolic disorders
Anomalous sulphur isotopes in plume lavas reveal deep mantle storage of Archaean crust
SIRT6 regulates TNF-α secretion through hydrolysis of long-chain fatty acyl lysine
Nutrition: When guests turn hostile
Low-temperature aqueous-phase methanol dehydrogenation to hydrogen and carbon dioxide
Mesoporous TiO2 single crystals delivering enhanced mobility and optoelectronic device performance
The TLR4 antagonist Eritoran protects mice from lethal influenza infection
Optical devices: Photonic insulators with a twist
Crystal structure of a nitrate/nitrite exchanger
Materials science: The same, but better
Structural biology: Active arrestin proteins crystallized
Autophagosomes form at ER–mitochondria contact sites
An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent
An outburst from a massive star 40 days before a supernova explosion
Draft genome of the wheat A-genome progenitor Triticum urartu
Weakened stratospheric quasibiennial oscillation driven by increased tropical mean upwelling
Evolutionary rescue from extinction is contingent on a lower rate of environmental change
The global distribution and burden of dengue
Finding the sources of missing heritability in a yeast cross
Does consumption rate scale superlinearly?
Digital cameras with designs inspired by the arthropod eye
Global health: Persuasive evidence on HIV policy
Crystal structure of a folate energy-coupling factor transporter from Lactobacillus brevis
Asymmetric synthesis: Relay catalysis at a boron centre
Stabilization of cooperative virulence by the expression of an avirulent phenotype
Hierarchy of orofacial rhythms revealed through whisking and breathing
Earth science: Core composition revealed
Optical magnetic imaging of living cells
Mechanistic studies of an unprecedented enzyme-catalysed 1,2-phosphono-migration reaction
Archaeology: A potted history of Japan
MicroRNA-34a regulates cardiac ageing and function
Dynamics extracted from fixed cells reveal feedback linking cell growth to cell cycle
Structural basis of histone H2A–H2B recognition by the essential chaperone FACT
Single-cell transcriptomics reveals bimodality in expression and splicing in immune cells
Glucose–TOR signalling reprograms the transcriptome and activates meristems
Patterns of population epigenomic diversity
PRC1 coordinates timing of sexual differentiation of female primordial germ cells
Corticostriatal neurons in auditory cortex drive decisions during auditory discrimination
Dynamic regulatory network controlling TH17 cell differentiation
Random convergence of olfactory inputs in the Drosophila mushroom body
Non-invasive analysis of acquired resistance to cancer therapy by sequencing of plasma DNA
Dipeptidyl peptidase 4 is a functional receptor for the emerging human coronavirus-EMC
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[Report] Probing Allostery Through DNA
[News & Analysis] Physics: Two-Billion-Dollar Cosmic Ray Detector Sees Signs of Something
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[Report] Genomic Diversity and Evolution of the Head Crest in the Rock Pigeon
Nature.com: Research
Solar physics: The planetary hypothesis revived
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