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The author reflects on the paper entitled "End the wasteful tyranny of reviewer experiments," which appeared in the April 27, 2011 issue of the journal "Nature" as well as its publications. The author notes that accusation on the passiveness of editors was not distinctly addressed at the journal. He stresses the significance of recognizing the efforts of referees in making suggestions to ensure that claims that the journal publications are supported by relevant evidence.

The author reflects on the scientific research papers that are being retracted by periodicals. It states that the periodical "Nature" has published four retracted research papers in 2010. It mentions a survey which shows that the proportion of retracted research papers has increased tenfold since 1990, which was the time when the number of research papers has doubled. Furthermore, it says that "Nature" is well-aware of the damage that could be done to authors as a result of false allegations.

Discusses the publication of high-profile papers announced at nature conferences in the 'Nature' journal. Misuse of advanced online publication; Citations of print references; Web site for papers published ahead of print.

The article presents that the authors of articles would be given more space to present full experimental methods as an integral part of their research paper in the online and print version of Nature. The online version of the article would allow authors to include details of the paper. The print version of Nature would include a 300 word summary of the methods which would also be available online.

The article highlights several scientific research papers published in 2007, which were selected by "Nature" editors. One of these research papers discusses the successful preparation of stem-like cells, which can develop into almost any cell types of the body, from adult mouse skin cells. The efficacy of gefitinib in treating certain types of lung cancer and its inhibition of an enzyme known as epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) kinase is also considered. The development of a highly-magnetized tips which generate large magnetic-field gradients is likewise regarded.

The author reflects that "Nature" journal aims to provide readers point of reflections through its previous and future publications in their 140th anniversary. The author notes that the journal which provides papers on impacts in and beyond natural sciences, ask for editor's approval regarding the papers that will be going to publish. The author also encourages for the creation of a system that will assess citations and effects of papers, and impacts of other scientist's contributions.

The author reflects on blogging and why more researchers should engage in the activity, particularly authors with published material. The author argues that blogging is part science, journalism, and discourse and offers an example of a blog in "Nature" to illustrate his point. Topics include how the scenario the author presents highlights a need for clarification about "Nature's" publication procedures, the promotion of scientific communication, and how blogs differ from traditional media.

The article presents numerical facts on various issues published during the year 2005 in the science journal "Nature." A total of 900 papers were published during the year describing original research. Nuclear fusion was identified as the most accessed paper during the period. There were 2,469 authors who contributed to research in the physical sciences during 2005.

The article discusses the results of a poll made by the journal "Nature" on what and how metrics are used in academic institutions. It says that 150 readers responded to the survey and provosts, department heads, and other administrators were also surveyed at nearly 30 research institutions throughout the world. It states that three-quarters of the researchers surveyed said that metrics are used in promotion and hiring decisions, and about 70% mentioned that metrics are applied in performance review and tenure decisions. Moreover, most administrators asserted that they ignore the metrics in promotion, hiring, and tenure decisions. It discusses how metrics are used in North America, Europe, and Asia.

The article focuses on the effort of "Nature" periodical to forestall the problem of digital manipulation of images by spot-checking the images in at least papers of each issue before publication. The periodical do its own tests on the figures to know whether the charges raised have merit. The periodical waits for the results of a formal inquiry before correcting the record.

The article reflects on the launch of the online commenting facility rule of the "Nature" magazine. It notes that the online discussions on its research papers are considered more inhibited. It points out that paper comment in the formal context of its Web site may be intimidating to some scientists or may offend the colleagues. It announces that the magazine adopts a twin-track approach to meet the demand of its readers using its commenting facility.

The article focuses on a controversy related to the spellings of Phosphorus. The authors says that although phosphorous is a legitimate adjective meaning phosphorus-rich, this is rarely the meaning intended when this spelling is used in literature. Many students and colleagues of the author, who misspell the word assert that phosphorous is the British spelling. The author wonders as the "Nature," as a journal with British spellings but a wide audience in the United States, intended a compromise solution to this spelling problem in its News story.

In this article, the author discusses his involvement in the blogsphere as a stem-cell faculty scientist along with an encouragement for his colleagues to be engaged in blogging. He relates his experiences of battling prostate cancer to the sudden closure of the stem-cell blog The Niche in the "Nature" magazine, which was his favorite. However, he says that other scientist were afraid to do blogging because they are worry on the negative paper reviews, grant, and insulting reader's comments.

The article presents the views and opinions of several readers regarding the question of student Anna Kushnir at Harvard Medical school about the process of scientific publishing "Nature." Staff Maxine Clarke of the journal has responded that most published authors say that the peer-review and the publication process have improved their work. Meanwhile, Craig Rowell of Duke University has replied that people sometimes forget about the gate-keeper role of the editor in which he or she has the power to decide whether a paper meets the publication criteria of a particular journal.

The author discusses the application of threads in the publication of researches in "Nature" journal that discusses results of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium. It states that threads that were used in the publication allows readers to combine paragraphs, figures, and tables that will be of particular interest to them. It adds the virtual machine which was integrated to allow readers access software that could perform set computational functions on the data from ENCODE.

Explains the launch of `Nature Cell Biology.' The field of cell biology flourishing; Goals of cell biologists; Pace of discovery in the field; Questions `Nature' editors are frequently asked; Policies of `Nature' unchanged; Other monthly Nature journals.

The article reports that people with red–green colour blindness cannot interpret figures in research papers that use these colours, and mentions about a image requiring colour discrimination published in the the periodical "Nature" in 2014.

The article focuses on the web technology blog of the journal "Nature." It states that the blog is used by scientists who follow the advent of online tools and to author papers for online peer review. It also mentions that the blog shows how a Wave discussion works, and reorders citations added in the database.

The article discusses an announcement by "Nature" regarding a freely accessible, online resource that biologists and others can use to explain evolution by natural selection. Readers can visit the Web site www.nature.com/evolutiongems to view a document which summarizes several lines of evidence for natural selection from papers previously published in "Nature."

The article provides information about "Nature" in South Africa. There are submissions to "Nature" coming from South African since January 2006. 15 authors who are working in South Africa have published original research in "Nature" in the past year. 75 percent of papers published in "Nature" that have contributing authors from South Africa have been in biological sciences.

The article offers information about a list of articles related to biological sciences that can be downloaded in the Nature's top ten Web sites. The articles are in portable document format. One article was written by Monica Bricelj on how genetic mutations of a protein in clams can lead to the accumulation of toxins and increase the risk of poisoning in humans.

The article reports that the website of the journal "Nature" has featured several services including research on metalloproteins, a chemistry blog, and a podcast of lively interviews about chemistry and biochemistry papers. The journal aims to convey information to a wider scientific community. The podcast and an online collection of chemistry content will be available from March 23, 2006.

Offers reflections on the content and services offered by 'Nature' magazine in light of the beginning of a new millennium. Assertion that the goal of the periodical is to keep researchers and society informed regarding scientific developments; Strengths of the magazine, such as its internationalism and independence from any scientific organization; Promise that the magazine will increase its weekly news features.

The author reflects on the decision of the journal "Nature" to implement a peer-review policy before publishing a research. He cites that the moves of the journal to implement the policy is to avoid any issues and scientific errors that can damage the reputation of the journal. The author believes through peer-review policy, a remarkable scientific developments can remain as free as possible from unwarranted speculation and controversy.

The author reflects on the United States food safety system. The Government Accountability Office(GAO) added food safety to its list of 'high-risk' federal policies and programmes most in need of reform. Serious concerns are raised for food safety system in the United States. Three steps are suggested which include an inter-agency panel to coordinate food safety, a revision of laws governing food safety and a research program coordinated and supported for informing food safety policy, practice.

Comments on an article published in the 'Nature' journal about the incorporation of transgenic DNA in traditional maize in Mexico. Discussion of the controversy surrounding transgenic introgression in Mexican maize; Conflicts of interest committed by 'Nature' in the publication of the article; Affiliation of the authors of the article to Torrey Mesa Research Institute.

The article focuses on the scientific controversy of a retracted research paper that was published in "Nature" in 2014 on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), which was claimed as a method to reprogram cells. The author discusses failed research efforts to replicate the findings, articles about STAP research in this present issue of "Nature," recommendations concerning cell line verification, and implications of this incident for future scientific research.

Provides background and analysis for a paper that attempts to explain what happened to the fragment of the object that exploded over Tunguska, Siberia in 1908. The paper by V.V. Svetsov found in the October 24, 1996 issue of `Nature'; The history of scientific research of the Tunguska explosion; The controversy between those who believe the object was a comet and those who believe it was an asteroid.

The article announces that the article "Systemic signals regulate ageing and rejuvenation of blood stem cell niches," by Shane R. Mayack and colleagues has been retracted by three of its authors from the 2010 issue of the journal "Nature."

This article presents electronic information resources about open peer review published in the Web site of "Nature" periodical. Academic papers deal with trusting the quality of data, opening up the process, ways in which scholars can get the best out of peer review, evolution of peer review for the Internet, and detection of misconduct.

The article comments on the introduction of the Podcast version of the science journal "Nature." The podcast features a selection of papers and news features. Scientists were given the chance to explain their research to a wider audience. Their results are supported by analysis and comments from the journal's editors and journalists.

This article presents excerpts of articles published previously in the journal "Nature." According to an article published in the August 27, 1955 issue of the journal, there is something very depressing about contemporary biological journals. Paper after paper records observations or experiments, analyses them cautiously, and in a timid and tentative way compares them with previous observations and experiments on the same theme. Only rarely does the writer disclose how his work is related to the broad panorama of biology. According to an article published in the August 24, 1905 issue of the journal,a somewhat lamentable aspect of modern science is the vast array of unorganized facts which are awaiting coordination. This is too often because they have been amassed without any definite idea of the purpose which they may serve.

This article presents excerpts of various papers that were published in previous issues of the periodical "Nature." One of the excerpts has been taken from a paper that was published in the July 23, 1955 issue of the periodical. Automation was defined by R.K. Geiser at a conference on "Automation and Industrial Development" at Syracuse, New York, in May 1954, as the accomplishment of a job by an integrated mechanism with a minimum of assistance of any kind. Another excerpt has been taken from a paper that was published in the July 20, 1905 issue of the periodical. This paper is related to a commander, who sailed to make a further attempt to reach the North Pole. His plan is based upon the Smith Sound, or "American" route to the Pole, and his object is to force his ship to a base within 500 miles of the Pole itself, and then to sledge across the Polar pack.

Comments on the article by Adam Lomnicki published in the 424 volume of the journal "Nature" under the debate on the impact of scientific work. Discontent of the author with the position of impact factors of scientific journals taken by Lomnicki in his article; Account of competitions between various journals and scientists for impact factors.

Comments on the letter by author Richard Buttery published in the 424 volume of the journal "Nature" about the Joint European Torus (JET) as of October 16, 2003. Statements given by the author on the situation that might occur if there were no substantial increase in the fusion budget in the Seventh Euratom Framework Programme; Criticism made by the author about the misinterpretation of his statements about JET in the letter; Relationship between JET and International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in La Jolla, California.

Reports on the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) survey showing that papers published in `Nature' are cited more frequently than papers in `Science' or `Proceedings of National Academy of Science' in all fields of research for the period 1981-1994. Frequency of citation of papers about immunology; Citation impact scores for chemistry topics.

Opinion. Discusses the reasons `Nature' is publishing a paper arguing against the Big Bang model under a new section called Hypothesis, despite a lack of full approval by the paper's referees.

The author reflects on the Heartland Institute and its climate conferences, which are designed to gather and share contrarian views. It says that the claim of the climate scientists is intertwined with protecting the science of anthropogenic global warming. It adds that the News Feature in the journal "Nature" is intended to provide a window into the motives and tactics to the researchers outside climate science.

The article offers world news briefs related to science in 2009. A cabinet-level working group chaired by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Japan recommended slashing funding for many prominent science projects. International climate negotiators at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark failed to craft a treaty to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. A series of "Nature" investigations uncovered plagiarism in papers co-authored by highlevel officials in Iran.

The article presents excerpts of research papers published in previous issues of the journal "Nature." An article published in the March 23, 1905 issue of the journal discussed the contents of the book "Die Kalahari." Another article published in the March 26, 1955 issue of the journal presented the views of scientist J.R. Oppenheimer on issues related to communication.

Discusses how the practice of cataloging genetic mutants can reveal relationships between genes, and how applying this practice has led to the establishment of a link between Ataxia telangiectasia (ATM) and Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS1), two genes involved in human diseases. Details of the four papers discussed in the May 25, 2000 edition of `Nature' magazine regarding genetic mutants.

The article reports on efforts by seven scientific laboratories to replicate the findings of a study of stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells, which was published in “Nature” in 2014 and later retracted. The article reports that the STAP stem-cell line discussed in the 2014 article was contaminated by embryonic stem (ES) cells. The authors call for validation of the properties and the origin of pluripotent stem cells using different scientific methods in future STAP research.

The article focuses on a study related to legislation on research involving the destruction of human embryos in Europe in response to a petition by the Europe's 'One of Us' Pro-Life group campaign in the periodical "Nature" in 2014.

The article discusses a study related to U.S. National Institutes of Health(NIH) including both sexes in effectively all preclinical studies could undermine its own objective by wasting resources, by J. A. Clayton and F. S. Collin, published in the periodical "Nature" in 2014.

The article offers information on the symposium organized by the periodical "Nature" in Melbourne, Australia, in February 2014. It states that in symposium a group of leading academics, funders and government advisers discussed the measurement process of research outcomes. It further presents the statement of David Sweeney, the director for research, innovation and skills at the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Robert Saint, of the University of Adelaide, and many others.

This section presents summaries of two papers on the expansion of the Earth's radius and the psychology of insects published in the September 14, 1963 and September 11, 1913 issues of "Nature," respectively.

Corrections to articles "A many layered thing" in the 2012 issue, and "Mine, all mine!" in the 2013 issue of the journal "Nature" are presented.

A letter to the editor is presented regarding the content of the 2010 issue of the journal "Nature."

The article offers information on the changes in the journal "Nature" which include the introduction of articles at the table of contents, the editorial "This Week" section and the research section.

The article reports on the views of various readers to the issues posted by the periodical "Nature" on making science metrics more scientific. Konrad Hinsen notes the apparency of the real value of many scientific discoveries only many years later. Martin Fenner mentions that science metrics can be improved by reducing the burden on researchers and administrators in assessing research. Björn Brembs cites the liability of any complex and sophisticated system to gaming.