Fast delivery of meteorites to Earth after a major asteroid collision.

abstract：:Thermoelectric energy harvesting-the transformation of waste heat into useful electricity-is of great interest for energy sustainability. The main obstacle is the low thermoelectric efficiency of materials for converting heat to electricity, quantified by the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT. The best available n-ty...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rhyee JS,Lee KH,Lee SM,Cho E,Kim SI,Lee E,Kwon YS,Shim JH,Kotliar G

更新日期：2009-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-helix defined in 1951 by Pauling et al. on the basis of model building and X-ray fibre diffraction data has 3.65 residues per turn (n) achieved with planar peptides, torsion angles of phi = -48 degrees and psi = -57 degrees and hydrogen bonds which are close to linear. Although X-ray analyses of proteins hav...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Blundell T,Barlow D,Borkakoti N,Thornton J

更新日期：1983-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:How bacteria regulate cell cycle progression at a molecular level is a fundamental but poorly understood problem. In Caulobacter crescentus, two-component signal transduction proteins are crucial for cell cycle regulation, but the connectivity of regulators involved has remained elusive and key factors are unidentifie...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Biondi EG,Reisinger SJ,Skerker JM,Arif M,Perchuk BS,Ryan KR,Laub MT

更新日期：2006-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of ecosystems can cause subtle and chaotic responses to changes in external forcing. Although ecosystems may not normally behave chaotically, sensitivity to external influences associated with nonlinearity can lead to amplification of climatic signals. Strong correlations between an El Niño index and ra...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Taylor AH,Allen JI,Clark PA

更新日期：2002-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary divergence of a single species into two has never been directly observed in nature, primarily because speciation can take a long time to occur. A ring species, in which a chain of intergrading populations encircles a barrier and the terminal forms coexist without interbreeding, provides a situation in...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Irwin DE,Bensch S,Price TD

更新日期：2001-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The recurrent patterns in the commonness and rarity of species in ecological communities--the relative species abundance--have puzzled ecologists for more than half a century. Here we show that the framework of the current neutral theory in ecology can easily be generalized to incorporate symmetric density dependence....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Volkov I,Banavar JR,He F,Hubbell SP,Maritan A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl chloride is the largest natural source of ozone-depleting chlorine compounds, and accounts for about 15 per cent of the present atmospheric chlorine content. This contribution was likely to have been relatively greater in pre-industrial times, when additional anthropogenic sources-such as chlorofluorocarbons-we...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yokouchi Y,Ikeda M,Inuzuka Y,Yukawa T

更新日期：2002-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The 26S proteasome is the chief site of regulatory protein turnover in eukaryotic cells. It comprises one 20S catalytic complex (composed of four stacked rings of seven members) and two axially positioned 19S regulatory complexes (each containing about 18 subunits) that control substrate access to the catalytic chambe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lam YA,Lawson TG,Velayutham M,Zweier JL,Pickart CM

更新日期：2002-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:S-100 protein, one of the unique proteins found in the nervous system, has recently been discovered unexpectedly in the rat anterior pituitary. Immunocytochemistry reveals that stellate, follicular and folliculostellate cells, and marginal cells of the rat anterior pituitary contain this protein; however, as far as we...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ishikawa H,Nogami H,Shirasawa N

更新日期：1983-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Visible-light absorption and transport of the resultant electronic excitations to a reaction centre through Förster resonance energy transfer1-3 (FRET) are critical to the operation of biological light-harvesting systems4, and are used in various artificial systems made of synthetic dyes5, polymers6 or nanodots7,8. Th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lau JA,Chen L,Choudhury A,Schwarzer D,Verma VB,Wodtke AM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of a primordial crust is a critical step in the evolution of terrestrial planets but the timing of this process is poorly understood. The mineral zircon is a powerful tool for constraining crust formation because it can be accurately dated with the uranium-to-lead (U-Pb) isotopic decay system and is resi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bouvier LC,Costa MM,Connelly JN,Jensen NK,Wielandt D,Storey M,Nemchin AA,Whitehouse MJ,Snape JF,Bellucci JJ,Moynier F,Agranier A,Gueguen B,Schönbächler M,Bizzarro M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the substantia nigra, the dendrites of dopaminergic neurons that project to the striatum appear to play an active and nonclassical role in the physiology of the neuron in that they release transmitter and protein, but little is known of the factors controlling release of substances from these dendrites. In this...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nedergaard S,Bolam JP,Greenfield SA

更新日期：1988-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which an organism is selected to invest in defences against pathogens and parasites depends on the advantages that ensue should infection occur, but also on the costs of maintaining defences in the absence of infection. The presence of heritable variation in resistance suggests that costs exist, but we k...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kraaijeveld AR,Godfray HC

更新日期：1997-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen, one of the most abundant elements on Earth, often forms an undesired interstitial impurity or ceramic phase (such as an oxide particle) in metallic materials. Even when it adds strength, oxygen doping renders metals brittle1-3. Here we show that oxygen can take the form of ordered oxygen complexes, a state in ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lei Z,Liu X,Wu Y,Wang H,Jiang S,Wang S,Hui X,Wu Y,Gault B,Kontis P,Raabe D,Gu L,Zhang Q,Chen H,Wang H,Liu J,An K,Zeng Q,Nieh TG,Lu Z

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, archaea, fungi and plants the Trk, Ktr and HKT ion transporters are key components of osmotic regulation, pH homeostasis and resistance to drought and high salinity. These ion transporters are functionally diverse: they can function as Na(+) or K(+) channels and possibly as cation/K(+) symporters. They ar...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vieira-Pires RS,Szollosi A,Morais-Cabral JH

更新日期：2013-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:It is thought that immunity depends on naive CD4 T cells that proliferate in response to microbial antigens, differentiate into memory cells that produce anti-microbial lymphokines, and migrate to sites of infection. Here we use immunohistology to enumerate individual naive CD4 T cells, specific for a model antigen, i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Reinhardt RL,Khoruts A,Merica R,Zell T,Jenkins MK

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neptune has five narrow ring arcs, spanning about 40 degrees in longitude, which are apparently confined against the rapid azimuthal and radial spreading that normally results from inter-particle collisions. A gravitational resonance based on the vertical motion of the nearby neptunian moon Galatea was proposed to exp...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Namouni F,Porco C

更新日期：2002-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has defined a class of transcriptional activators, members of which activate transcription in yeast, plant, insect and mammalian cells. These proteins contain two parts: one directs DNA binding and the other, called the activating region, presumably interacts with some component of the transcriptional mach...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sadowski I,Ma J,Triezenberg S,Ptashne M

更新日期：1988-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Change history: In Fig. 1c of this Letter, the two graphs were duplicates. The right panel of Fig. 1c has been corrected online. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lai B,Gao W,Cui K,Xie W,Tang Q,Jin W,Hu G,Ni B,Zhao K

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of antisteroids is not understood and explanations of their antagonistic activity have been sought at all levels of hormone action. It has been proposed that antisteroids, after binding to receptor, trap it into a non-activated (non DNA-binding) form possibly through interaction with a heat-sho...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Guiochon-Mantel A,Loosfelt H,Ragot T,Bailly A,Atger M,Misrahi M,Perricaudet M,Milgrom E

更新日期：1988-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) increase the rate of GTP hydrolysis on guanine nucleotide-binding proteins by many orders of magnitude. Studies with Ras and Rho have elucidated the mechanism of GAP action by showing that their catalytic machinery is both stabilized by GAP binding and complemented by the insertion of...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Seewald MJ,Körner C,Wittinghofer A,Vetter IR

更新日期：2002-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation can reveal with remarkable precision the conditions of the Universe when it was approximately 400,000 years old. The three most fundamental properties of the CMB are its frequency spectrum (which determines the temperature), and the fluctuations in both t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Leitch EM,Kovac JM,Pryke C,Carlstrom JE,Halverson NW,Holzapfel WL,Dragovan M,Reddall B,Sandberg ES

更新日期：2002-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fireflies communicate with each other by emitting yellow-green to yellow-orange brilliant light. The bioluminescence reaction, which uses luciferin, Mg-ATP and molecular oxygen to yield an electronically excited oxyluciferin species, is carried out by the enzyme luciferase. Visible light is emitted during relaxation o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nakatsu T,Ichiyama S,Hiratake J,Saldanha A,Kobashi N,Sakata K,Kato H

更新日期：2006-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing an optical amplifier on silicon is essential for the success of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic integrated circuits. Recently, optical gain with a 1-nm bandwidth was demonstrated using the Raman effect, which led to the demonstration of a Raman oscillator, lossless optical modulation and optically tunab...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Foster MA,Turner AC,Sharping JE,Schmidt BS,Lipson M,Gaeta AL

更新日期：2006-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Superantigens such as the staphylococcal enterotoxins bind to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules and activate T cells through a specific interaction between the V beta region of the T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) and the toxin. The TCR beta-chain alone is sufficient to produce the interaction wit...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Irwin MJ,Hudson KR,Fraser JD,Gascoigne NR

更新日期：1992-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations from Earth-orbiting satellites have been a key component in monitoring climate change for the past two decades. This has become possible with the availability of air temperatures from the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) since 1979, sea surface temperatures from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wentz FJ,Schabel M

更新日期：2000-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosomes evolve differently from autosomes, but general governing principles have not emerged. For example, genes with male-biased expression are under-represented on the X chromosome of D. melanogaster, but are randomly distributed in the genome of Anopheles gambiae. In direct global profiling experiments using ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sturgill D,Zhang Y,Parisi M,Oliver B

更新日期：2007-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycans such as heparan sulphate and chondroitin sulphate are extracellular sugar chains involved in intercellular signalling. Disruptions of genes encoding enzymes that mediate glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis have severe consequences in Drosophila and mice. Mutations in the Drosophila gene sugarless, which ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mizuguchi S,Uyama T,Kitagawa H,Nomura KH,Dejima K,Gengyo-Ando K,Mitani S,Sugahara K,Nomura K

更新日期：2003-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Commission has made good progress in gathering support for its new programme of basic and applied research. Now Europe's industries and heads of state need to fulfill promises made two years ago. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors：

更新日期：2002-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural crest, a source of many different cell types in vertebrate embryos, has not been identified in other chordates. Current opinion therefore holds that neural crest cells were a vertebrate innovation. Here we describe a migratory cell population resembling neural crest cells in the ascidian urochordate Ecteina...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jeffery WR,Strickler AG,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2004-10-07 00:00:00