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Interested in a career with one of the top journals in science publishing? Nature Communications is going through a phase of intense growth, and we are now recruiting an editor to join my team in the physical sciences. This is an exciting career opportunity. To me, reading up on exciting scientific discoveries on a daily basis, and being able to discuss these with scientists in the field, is a huge privilege and motivation.

As for this particular position, the ideal candidate should have a background in any area of physics. As the job advert states, a broad scientific knowledge and training, excellent literary skills and a keen interest in the practice and communication of science are important, as are excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

To apply, please do so via our recruitment web site below. Closing date is July 9th.

http://jobs.macmillan.com/VacancyDetail.aspx?VacancyUID=000000003029

Please note that the position is based in London, and we do require a pre-existing work permit for the UK.

In case you have further questions, please feel free to contact me at any time.

It become pretty much a routine, albeit an expensive one, to use transmission electron microscopes for imaging atoms in a crystal. But what has often been missing from those images is a crucial bit of information, the identity of the chemical element that has been looked at. Of course, the grey scales in the contrast of the different atoms do provide some information on the identity of an atom – at least as long as it was already known what kind of crystal is imaged. A more detailed and flexible elemental analysis, however, has been difficult. Writing in Physical Review Letters, Knut Urban from the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and colleagues now report an improved energy-filtering technique that is able to do a full elemental mapping on the atomic scale. Continue reading…