Nature.com has taken the lead in addressing some of the problems of the developing world - for open access see this.
Contents
- First Words- Jacob Palis
- Editor's Notes- Ehsan Masood and Daniel Schaffer
Features
- Worlds Apart Together - Mohamed Hassan
- Losing Faculties - Phillip Griffiths
- Caution: Men at Work - Çiğdem KağitÇibaşi
- Learn to Earn - Calestous Juma
- Joining the Fast Lane - Ismail Serageldin
Pressure Points
- Food Fault Lines - Hans Herren
- Home Sickness - Thomas G. Egwang
- Cold Shower - Mohamed El-Ashry
- People Power - Dilip Ahuja
- Pumping Renewables - Josè Goldemberg
- Warming Signs - Mohan Munasinghe
- Let Deserts Be - Farouk El-Baz
- Lost Diversity - Abdul H. Zakri
- Urban Future - Hans van Ginkel
- The Science of Influence - Raghunath Mashelkar
Frontiers
- Space Landings - Turner Isoun
- Nano Rising - Bai Chunli
- Physics Now - Reza Mansouri
- Water Woes - Akissa Bahri
- Bio-Revolution - Indira Nath
- Back to Nature - Iqbal Choudhary
- Do the Maths - Lê Dũng Tráng
- A Better Pill - María G. Guzmàn
- Creative Accounting -Partha Dasgupta
End Note
- Basics Matter - C. N. R. Rao
Viewpoints
- Money counts but merit and freedom count even more - Ahmed Zewail
- More than good enough to do world-class research - Zohra Ben Lakhdar-Akrout
- Air pollution is a global problem with local solutions - Mario Molina
- It is the knowledge (not digital) divide that matters - Abdul Waheed Khan
- Science is helping Rwanda give up the ghosts of the past - Romain Murenzi
- The green revolution is slowing. What next? - Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella
- International collaboration is part of science's DNA - Martin Rees
- Chemistry needs a new formula for success - Atta-ur-Rahman
- Why poor countries need nuclear research capacity - Ana Mariá Cetto
- What others can — and cannot — learn from China - Lu Yongxiang
- Research is no luxury - Berit Olsson