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The 60th Annual Lindau Meeting: Nobelists Inspire the Next Generation of Scientists

The interdisciplinary meeting gathered 61 Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry, along with 650 young researchers from 70 countries at Germany's Lindau Island in Lake Constance from June 27 to July 2. Laureates presented recent research results, reflected on their careers and floated new ideas during lectures and discussions between the two generations

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Video Series Gets Up Close and Personal with Lindau Meeting Scientists

A new video series produced by Nature Publishing Group features some of the key conversations that took place this year between Nobel laureates and aspiring young scientists at the 60th annual Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting in Germany

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A Nobel Prize-winning Biologist Shares His Skepticism about Systems Biology

At this year's Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, scientist Tim Hunt shares insights with aspiring student scientists. Shoes not required

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So you want to be a scientist

Play hard. Learn to explain what you do to people who know nothing about science. Put your collaborators’ needs first. A panel here at the 60th annual Nobel Laureate Lectures at Lindau gave young scientists tips—sometimes counterintuitive—about what it takes to succeed

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Discoveries 2010: An Exhibition of Energy Sources from Past to Future

Developed nations today are so dependent on fossil fuels that it is easy to forget that energy sources have changed throughout history

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