The microscopic ecosystems in health-care centres mirror those of their patients.
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Chemicals in primate teeth reveal transition to solid food.
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Congressman Lamar Smith hopes to ‘improve’ peer review by adding a layer of accountability, but his bill aims at imaginary ideals, argues Daniel Sarewitz.
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As government funding ebbs, scientists launch commercial company to continue analysis efforts.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13041
The week in science: Chile pushes for a national science ministry, Indonesia protects its forests, and Nobel laureate Heinrich Rohrer dies.
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Honeycomb lattices in different materials enable experiments impossible in the real thing.
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More and more studies show that being overweight does not always shorten life — but some public-health researchers would rather not talk about them.
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Self-assembling nanoparticles could make updating seasonal vaccines easier.
Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2013.13042
Ed Stone has spent 36 years guiding the twin Voyager spacecraft through the Solar System. Next stop, interstellar space.
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Space telescope’s mission to find planets outside the Solar System is probably over.
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Sequestration threatens records of snow and stream levels in western United States.
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