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By Jon Cartwright of Nature magazine Physicists have already unveiled invisibility cloaks that can hide objects from light, sound, seismic and even water waves. [More]

By Helen Pearson of Nature magazine Halfway through breakfast, Joe Thornton gets a call from his freezer.

By Carina Dennis of Nature magazine Mouse 'avatars' could in future allow physicians to find the most effective cocktail of cancer drugs to combat a particular tumor before giving them to a patient, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) in Australia last week. "Using a personalized cancer avatar makes it possible to try out different combinations and make some mistakes before going into the clinic," says Edison Liu, president of HUGO and head of the Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor in Maine

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By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine Each year, thousands of macaques and other monkeys are flown into Europe and North America to supply academic and industrial research labs -- more than 18,000 to the United States in 2011 alone. [More]

By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine Each year, thousands of macaques and other monkeys are flown into Europe and North America to supply academic and industrial research labs -- more than 18,000 to the United States in 2011 alone. [More]

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By Virginia Gewin of Nature magazine Hidden in the landscape of the fertile crescent of the Middle East, scientists say, lurk overlooked networks of small settlements that hold vital clues to ancient civilizations.

By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine The director who once jokingly proclaimed himself the "king of the world" is about to become the master of the depths.

By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine The director who once jokingly proclaimed himself the "king of the world" is about to become the master of the depths. [More]

By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine The director who once jokingly proclaimed himself the "king of the world" is about to become the master of the depths. [More]

Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum physics are expected to merge at the Planck-scale of extremely high energies and on very short distances. At this scale, new phenomena could arise. However, the Planck-scale is so remote from current experimental capabilities that tests of quantum gravity are widely believed to be nearly impossible.

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YAOUNDE (Reuters) - At least half the elephant population in Cameroon's Bouba N'Djida reserve have been slaughtered because the west African nation sent too few security forces to tackle poachers, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on Thursday. In what was described as one of the worst poaching massacres in decades, as many as 200 elephants have been killed for their tusks since January by poachers on horseback from Chad and Sudan. "WWF is disturbed by reports that the poaching continues unabated," Natasha Kofoworola Quist, WWF's representative in the region, said in a statement