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  • Career Brief |

    Initiative to boost student interest in science may explain increase.

  • Careers and Recruitment |

    According to some metrics, Indiana's life-sciences sector is among the nation's top performers. But there are financial and other challenges. Karen Kaplan maps out the possibilities.

    • Karen Kaplan

  • Opinion |

    Emotions such as empathy and disgust might be at the root of morality, but psychologists should also study the roles of deliberation and debate in how our opinions shift over time, argues Paul Bloom.

    • Paul Bloom

  • News |

    Facing a flood of applications from researchers, a UK funding agency is taking drastic steps — and partners around the world are watching how it plays out. Richard Van Noorden and Geoff Brumfiel report.

    • Richard Van Noorden
    •  & Geoff Brumfiel

  • Editorial |

    Europe's chief science adviser must be given authority and support to deliver across the board.

  • Editorial |

    Britain's Department of Health must respond to concerns about electronic medical records.

  • Career Brief |

    Universities and governments need better policies to help European students work and study abroad.

  • Career Brief |

    Recession has meant significant pay cuts for US faculty members and researchers.

  • Opinion |

    The US Congress should create an office to study, standardize and certify those who apply science to crime as well as the techniques they use, urge Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck.

    • Peter Neufeld
    •  & Barry Scheck

  • News Feature |

    It may be the gold standard of forensic science, but questions are now being raised about DNA identification from ever-smaller human traces. Natasha Gilbert asks how low can you go?

    • Natasha Gilbert

  • News Feature |

    A single incriminating fingerprint can land someone in jail. But, Laura Spinney finds, there is little empirical basis for such decisions.

    • Laura Spinney

  • News Feature |

    Last year, functional magnetic resonance imaging made its debut in court. Virginia Hughes asks whether the technique is ready to weigh in on the fate of murderers.

    • Virginia Hughes

  • Editorial |

    The region's member states must follow through on their political and scientific commitments.

  • Career Brief |

    The UK Wellcome Trust launches new PhD studentships in several fields.

  • Career Brief |

    US universities are expected to restrict hiring this year.

  • Editorial |

    The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight.

  • Books & Arts |

    In Country Driving, the final book in his China trilogy, Peter Hessler recounts his 11,000-kilometre drive across China to see at first hand the effects of rapid industrialization. The New Yorker journalist explains how mass migration to cities brings out people's resourcefulness, but also how the speed of social and environmental change leads them to seek meaning in their lives.

    • Jane Qiu

  • Prospects |

    Peter Fiske argues that too many young scientists adopt a passive voice, to the detriment of their careers.

    • Peter Fiske

  • News in Brief |

    Royal Society sets out case for investment in research.

    • Richard Van Noorden

  • Opinion |

    The US Congress should discourage efforts to advance the technology to make fuel for nuclear reactors, say Francis Slakey and Linda R. Cohen — the risks outweigh the benefits.

    • Francis Slakey
    •  & Linda R. Cohen

  • Futures |

    Different business models for difficult times.

    • Dan Erlanson

  • News Feature |

    Georgia's borders are guarded by some of the best radiation detectors available — so why are nuclear smugglers still slipping through? Sharon Weinberger reports.

    • Sharon Weinberger

  • Careers and Recruitment |

    Concerns about food shortages, land use, climate change and biodiversity have created a huge need for interdisciplinary researchers focused on agriculture. Virginia Gewin investigates the opportunities.

    • Virginia Gewin

  • Letter |

    Social science hypotheses suggest that humans prefer more equality in outcome distributions because the knowledge of inequality reduces the reward experience. Here, functional MRI was used to test directly for inequality-averse social preferences in the brain during monetary transfers between pairs of participants and an experimenter. The results indicate that the brain's reward circuitry is sensitive to distribution inequality and is actively modulated relative to context.

    • Elizabeth Tricomi
    • , Antonio Rangel
    •  & John P. O’Doherty

  • Editorial |

    Turkey's government is about to pass legislation that could cripple the country's biological research.

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