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Jul 5

8From the blogosphere Nature 7Does the past have a future in Berlin? Nature 7Ecology: Drought and the lion Nature 6Materials science: The heart of glass Nature 6Chemical biology: Anti-Alzheimer's agent Nature 6Genetics: The genetics of anarchy Nature 6Nanotechnology: Electron windmills Nature 6Acoustics: Fiddling the numbers Nature 6Reduce confusion by using 'design' more intelligently Nature 6Hidden Treasures: Institute of Physiology collection Nature 6'Gordon Gekko' trading bot profits from mood swings New Scientist 6Quick-thinking ants trim foliage to fit New Scientist 6Springy sediments may amplify tsunamis New Scientist 6Abstractions Nature 6In rude health Nature 6Feasting and fasting Nature 6Natural history: Nasty, brutish and short Nature 650 & 100 Years Ago Nature 6Solar System: A shock for Voyager 2 Nature 6SMAD proteins control DROSHA-mediated microRNA maturation Nature 6Epicardial progenitors contribute to the cardiomyocyte lineage in the developing heart Nature 6Functional asymmetry in Caenorhabditis elegans taste neurons and its computational role in chemotaxis Nature 6Mercury: The incredible shrinking planet New Scientist 6Cleaner fish calms predators with caresses New Scientist 5Origins of life: How leaky were primitive cells? Nature 5Arise 'cliodynamics' Nature 5Science and Music: The ear of the beholder Nature 5Physical chemistry: When molecules don't rebound Nature 5Atmospheric chemistry: Her dark materials Nature 5Ecology: Return of the niche Nature 5Will huge health plan make guinea pigs of UK citizens? New Scientist 5Making the paper: Marina Wolf Nature 5Can the US get Beyond Einstein? New Scientist 5Californian wildfires claim life of rare condor chick New Scientist 5Novel alchemy Nature 5Bonding as key to hominid origins Nature 5Perils of perversity Nature 5Picture not quite worth 1,000 words in this case Nature 5Reality lags behind rhetoric in building interdisciplinary work Nature 5Amateurs as an outreach of HAARP's lunar-echo study Nature 5Journal club Nature 5Genetics: Sex and the cortex Nature 5Neuroscience: Predicting psychosis Nature 5Dissecting direct reprogramming through integrative genomic analysis Nature 5Cool heliosheath plasma and deceleration of the upstream solar wind at the termination shock Nature 5Magnetic fields at the solar wind termination shock Nature 5Intense plasma waves at and near the solar wind termination shock Nature 5Domination of heliosheath pressure by shock-accelerated pickup ions from observations of neutral atoms Nature 5Vibrational excitation through tug-of-war inelastic collisions Nature 5Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity Nature