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By Joseph Milton of Nature magazine A key feature of human childbirth, long thought to be unique to Homo sapiens --the arrival of the baby facing backwards relative to its mother--has been observed in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.

By Melissa Gaskill of Nature News In April 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sank. [More]

Dough Boys: “I love OpenTable,” says David Steele (center) of the restaurant Flour + Water, flanked here by his partners David White and chef Thomas McNaughton. | Photograph by Toby Burditt The inevitable push-pull between a platform and its customers. Network Effect: OpenTable CEO Jeffrey Jordan says his service’s attrition rate is “tiny,” less than 1%.

By Richard Lovett of Nature magazine In the calculus of global warming, natural gas is generally considered to be preferable to coal as a fuel. [More]

By Sid Perkins for Nature magazine Beginning in late 2004, a flurry of massive, tsunami-spawning earthquakes have rocked the world, first slamming Indonesia, then Chile and most recently Japan. [More]

By Joanna Marchant of Nature magazine Female athletes may not be eligible to compete as women if they have natural testosterone levels in the male range. [More]

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard physicists have expanded the possibilities for quantum engineering of novel materials such as high-temperature superconductors by coaxing ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice -- a light crystal -- to self-organize into a magnet, using only the minute disturbances resulting from quantum mechanics. The research, published in the journal Nature, is the first demonstration of such a “quantum magnet” in an optical lattice.

By Daniel Cressey of Nature magazine Ranching cod off the coast of Iceland is far more financially sensible than conventional fishing methods or keeping the fish in cages, according to a new analysis. Fish ranching -- where the animals are free to roam but trained to return to a certain point so they can be caught -- could one day become a significant part of global fisheries, fitting between traditional catching and aquaculture, says Bj

In this installment, "The Big Thirst" author and Fast Company writer explains how every drop of water you'll ever know, from the spigot to the toilet, is about 4.3 billion years old. Facts: Two things about water are indisputable. Water is the most familiar substance in our lives, its look and feel and appeal as routine as the spray of the shower or the splash of the kitchen faucet.

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Before committing suicide at the age of 22, an anonymous man with schizophrenia donated a biopsy of his skin cells to research. [More]

By a strange coincidence, I was called to jury duty for my very first time shortly after I started as director of a new MacArthur Foundation project exploring the issues that neuro

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By Nadia Drake of Nature magazine Every year, thousands of undocumented migrants make the dangerous crossing from Mexico to Arizona in the United States through the Sonoran Desert. [More]

By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib of Nature magazine Cancer patients desperate to get into government run clinical trials will be sidelined.

During the morning of April 6, our colleagues at Nature ran a live, online question-and-answer event about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis . Visitors posted questions for Jim Smith, an environmental physicist from the University of Portsmouth, U.K., and Geoff Brumfiel, Nature’s senior physical sciences correspondent. Brian Owen served as moderator.