Lake sediments: Pollen probes the past

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

16 January 2008

Nature China highlights the best research coming out of Mainland China and Hong Kong, providing scientists from around the world with a convenient portal into publications drawn from across all scientific disciplines.

Lake sediments: Pollen probes the past
Pollen trapped in lake sediments on the Tibetan Plateau provides an indicator of the past climate

Trace fossils: Revealing an ancient gardener
Alternating layers of trace fossils of marine organisms yield clues to a prehistoric gardening animal at the Sydney basin of south-eastern Australia

Zinc nanowire: Easy wiring
High-quality zinc nanowires have been synthesized using a shortcut strategy that does not require templates, seeds or catalysts

Visual perception: Left or right
The two sides of the brain play different roles during visual recognition to identify general properties before specific features

Boron nanotubes: Rolling metals into semiconductors
Boron can make better nanotubes than carbon

Quantum computing: Making qudits
Qudits, entangled qudits and multicolour entangled qudits can be generated using a series of single-photon sources

Published: 16 Jan 2008

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