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  • Not all the correspondence to a top science journal contains top science. Some of it is very odd indeed.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature

  • Leaders from three steadfastly right-wing arenas - church, military and industry - are now calling for limits on US emissions. Jim Giles surveys America's green stampede.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature

  • Thousands of neuroscientists are converging on San Diego this week to trade insights on what makes the brain tick, how to find out, and how to make it better. Jim Giles reports back from the Society for Neuroscience's 34th annual meeting, where organizers are expecting some 36,000 attendees.

    • Jim Giles
    Blogs
    Nature

  • The University of Oxford is failing to give official support to academics speaking out in favour of animal research, says Jim Giles.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature

  • Cuba's socialist science policies are producing top-notch research from scant economic resources. But, as Jim Giles reports, they have harsh consequences for scientists who do not fit in with government priorities.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 436, P: 322-324

  • Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.  UPDATE: see details of how the data were collected for this article in the supplementary information. UPDATE 2 (28 March 2006). The results reported in this news story and their interpretation have been disputed by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Nature responded to these objections .

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 438, P: 900-901

  • Scientific wagers have a long and colourful history. Are they just harmless fun, or can they help to frame and clarify important issues? Jim Giles surveys the odds.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 420, P: 354-355

  • The wealthy Arab states offer scant support for science and technology. Jim Giles finds out whether this indifference to research is likely to change.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 444, P: 28

  • Computer and telecoms firms are losing money and laying off staff — yet say that R&D remains a priority. Can their scientists really remain immune to the economic downturn? Declan Butler and Jim Giles investigate.

    • Declan Butler
    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 413, P: 448-449

  • Forensic science is already a mainstay of modern police work. But are criminologists missing a trick by failing to apply the latest scientific findings to crime prevention? Jim Giles investigates.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 422, P: 13-14

  • Dust clouds can cool the Earth and halt hurricanes. But the world's biggest dust source was until recently a war zone. Jim Giles joins one of the few research teams to make the trip.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 434, P: 816-819

    • Jim Giles
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 420, P: 737

  • The idea that readers should be able to replicate published scientific results is seen as the bedrock of modern science. But what if replication proves difficult or impossible? Jim Giles tracks the fate of one group of papers.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 442, P: 344-347

  • Bjørn Lomborg is reviled by green activists and has come under ferocious attack from many environmental scientists. Just why does he provoke such strong reactions, and how influential might his opinions become? Jim Giles investigates.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 423, P: 216-218

  • Nature catches up with some past fraud investigations — and finds that, whether researchers are found to be guilty or innocent, the wounds are slow to heal.

    • Lucy Odling-Smee
    • Jim Giles
    • Emma Marris
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 445, P: 244-245

  • Even munitions that are never used in anger can have a long-term impact on the environment, and the military is anxious to minimize the risks. Jim Giles talks to the chemists who are developing ‘green’ explosives.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 427, P: 580-581

  • It's crunch time for agribiotech in Britain, as politicians rule on the planting of commercial transgenic crops. The world is watching, says Jim Giles.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 425, P: 656-657

  • The price of petrol is going up and new oil discoveries are declining. Can underground fires and hydrocarbon-hungry bacteria keep the oil flowing? Jim Giles finds out.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 429, P: 694-695

  • A brain haemorrhage turned an ex-convict into an obsessive artist. Jim Giles meets him and the scientists studying his case.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 430, P: 14

  • Mathematical prodigy Stephen Wolfram has laboured for a decade on what he claims is a revolutionary book. Jim Giles meets a supremely confident scientific loner, but finds expert opinion on the work's merits divided.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 417, P: 216-218

  • Scientists like to think that research collaboration can overcome political barriers. But for those on opposite sides of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, how realistic is this ideal? Jim Giles visited the region to find out.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature
    Volume: 425, P: 444-449

  • Disease spread leads Britain to pull plug on trial badger cull.

    • Jim Giles
    News
    Nature