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Pollen trapped in lake sediments on the Tibetan Plateau provides an indicator of the past climate. Other highlights from Nature China include Trace fossils: Revealing an ancient gardener, Zinc nanowire: Easy wiring, Visual perception: Left or right, Boron nanotubes: Rolling metals into semiconductors and Quantum computing: Making qudits

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Receptor signalling in pairs, To mend a failing heart, Seven novel loci for plasma lipid levels, Genetics of height and bone disease, Sleep provides a window into memory, Seeing how viruses encounter immune cells and Transmitting HIV through T cell nanotubes

Communicating Disasters was published in December 2007. It is a multi-author book that discusses how information, education and communication can help create disaster resilient communities across the Asia Pacific region. It also takes a critical look at the communication lessons of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004.

Natural chemicals found in green tea may be a safe and easily administered neuroprotective treatment for Parkinson's disease

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Cancer: MicroRNAs that reduce metastasis, Space: Antimatter close to home, Cancer biology: Suppressing a leukaemia suppressor, Immunodeficiency: A shortage of oxygen to beat infection, Nanotechnology: Roughened silicon nanowires take the heat and The genetics of sex

Weekly Report Will Accelerate Industry Innovation and Improve Efficiency of BioPharma Investment Decisions

Many of the historic moments in modern science can now be explored online. The archive of the first eighty years (1869-1949) of the journal Nature, the world's foremost weekly scientific journal, goes live today. Every article published in Nature, back to volume 1, issue 1 will now be available online.

The CIST – Centre for Information Systems Training – was launched in 2005 in Phnom Penh to provide disadvantaged students with IT training and qualifications leading to a job. In 2009 it will reach its full capacity and bring 200 people out poverty each year to become actors of the economic development of Cambodia within the IT sectors.

Summaries of other newsworthy papers include Walking after spinal rewiring in Nature Medicine and First sign of trouble in Nature Immunology

Summaries of newsworthy papers including - Tumour incidence: When three is better than two, Metabolic engineering: Brewing better biofuels, Magnetism: Poles apart in spin ice, Astrophysics: Newborn extrasolar planet still tied to parent star, Arctic climate: Warming up and Cancer: Breast cancer goes NUMB

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Trp’ing the copper fantastic, Compound screening gets more specific, Helium on the brane, Mechanical memories, The workings of deep brain stimulation, Foamy viruses join the gene therapy toolbox, Gene mutation affecting human brain size, The protective effects of brain damage and Gaining entry into the brain

In what will become an annual event, Nature is singling out a "Newsmaker of the Year". The newsmaker in question is Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian engineer and economist who currently chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Next-generation sequencing has been selected as the Method of the Year 2007 by Nature Methods.

Summaries of newsworthy papers including: Terrestrial ancestors of whales, Looking for cancer in all the right places, Optics: A fine-tooth comb, Stem cells: A case of mistaken functional identity, Superconductors: Who needs phonons?, Palaeoclimate: Early warming signs, Dating the Moon's formation and Making the most of melodious mistakes

A new method of analysing placental RNA in maternal plasma enables non-invasive prenatal detection of fetal chromosomal aneuploidy

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature research journals including: Meteoritic boost to biodiversity?, In the right direction, Silicon nanowires stay current, Genetic risk factor for ALS, Genetic susceptibility to Kawasaki disease, A pathway controlling body temperature, and Control of EGFR in breast cancer cell invasion

Summaries of newsworthy papers including: Mammals: Patterns of evolution, Remote control of tropical cyclones, A rotating ring current around Saturn, Fathoming giant rogue waves, Books: Seasonal kids' special, A gallery of protein pumps, Space: Halo halo, New compound comes out of the cool, and Why pregnant women don’t tip over

Homosexual men in China who seek sexual partners both on the Internet and in venues that traditionally attract homosexuals are at the highest risk of HIV transmission

Summaries of newsworthy papers including: Complementing IPCC, Cooling the Cretaceous greenhouse, The pulse of the San Andreas, Re-examining firefly bioluminescence, Silicon nanowires restore optical signals, How protein modules fit together, Compact synchrotron demonstrated, Pathway to breast cancer, You must remember this & Romancing the fly

Summaries of newsworthy papers including: Tracking volcanic activity on the Moon, Space: How close is too close? Joined-up thinking on bird flu, Cancer: A double agent exposed, Cinderella science, A quantum-dot light switch, Ancient magma ocean under Earth's mantle?, Snowball versus slushball, Are you a man or a mouse?

90% of the Earthʼs freshwater is locked up in the great Ice Sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. On December 13th, 2007, the International Polar Year (IPY) will launch its second 'International Polar Day', focussing on Ice Sheets and Traverses.

China's rapid economic development has accelerated biological invasion and more from Nature China this week

Bali is not the only island that will be hosting a climate change conference this week. Second Nature, Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) archipelago in Second Life, will host a series of talks to coincide with the UN climate change conference.

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature Geoscience including: In search of a plate boundary and Modern Arctic Ocean circulation exceptional?

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature journals including: Restoring bacterial killing in cystic fibrosis, Bad to the bone, Run away from your depression, Genetic risk factor for psoriasis, Genetic variants predispose to lupus, and Fuelling allergic inflammation

Shinya Yamanaka and colleagues show how to convert adult mouse or human skin cells into cells that resemble embryonic stem cells without using the tumour-causing gene c-Myc. Elimination of c-Myc is considered a critical step in making these so-called ‘reprogrammed’ cells safe for clinical applications in patients.

In Nature China this week - The scorpion toxin makes a fungal insecticide a lot more deadly and Computer simulations reveal how a bat uses its nostrils to emit sounds

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature including - Malaria: Molecular insight into clinical severity, Metabolism: New compounds offer promise for diabetes treatment, Cell biology: Architecture of the cell, Genomics: Rearranging genomes, Materials: Keeping an eye on guest behaviour, And finally... A new role for p53

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature research journals including Neural crest stem cells on tap, Mutation identified in neurodegenerative disorder, Immune delivery service and Normal cells lead tumour cell invasion

In Nature China this week - The northward transport of nutrient-rich waters through the Bering Strait could act as negative feedback on global warming and plants can be genetically engineered to stunt the growth of insect pests

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Ageing: A long and happy life, Environment: Browning of lakes and streams, Feature: Grand challenges in non-communicable diseases, Genetics: Insight into wood-munching termites, Earth science: Giant landslide, giant debris and finally... Babies weigh up the social situation