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Volume 433 Number 7024 pp339-442
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Editorials
Summers' winter of discontent p339
The president of Harvard has learnt a painful lesson in public communication. The media and Harvard academics may have over-reacted to his comments about women in science, but there is an opportunity to benefit from the affair.
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Data sharing for disasters p339
Last month's tsunami and its aftermath have highlighted a need for more science — and more effective sharing of data.
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News
Medicare compels heart patients to enlist in follow-up research p341
Pacemakers come with strings attached in United States.
Meredith Wadman
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NASA urged to lay plans for mission to Europa p342
Scientists put Jupiter's moon in their sights.
Tony Reichhardt
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Cash shortall threatens to rock US geophysics project p342
EarthScope researchers fight for cash to study the inner Earth.
Rex Dalton
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Solo efforts hamper tsunami warning system p343
Lack of coordination and data sharing causes global confusion.
David Cyranoski
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See also: News by CyranoskiEditorial by News Feature by Schiermeier
A system that works ... if people listen p343
David Cyranoski
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Europe pares down double patents on breast-cancer gene p344
Decision to restrict patents poses ethnic ethical conundrum.
Alison Abbott
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Infection scare inflames fight against biodefence network p344
Accidental cases of tularaemia reduce faith in biocontainment labs.
Rex Dalton
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Global vaccine project gets a shot in the arm p345
Gates foundation and Norwegian government give total of US$1 billion.
Erika Check
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MIT wraps up Dublin lab following funding failure p345
Ireland's Media Lab closes after less than five years of operation.
Roxanne Khamsi
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News Features
On the trail of destruction p350
Quirin Schiermeier travels to Sri Lanka with a team of scientists in the wake of last month's tsunami. Together with locals they search through the damage for clues of where the wave hit hardest.
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Get off the beach — now! p354
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Correspondence
A right to voice dissent against the establishment p355
Is science the new dogma? Can religion coexist with progress? You debate the issues.
Ben MacArthur
doi:10.1038/433355a
Science flourishes in a secular democracy p355
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It's not just theologians who are morally troubled p355
Stephen J. McSorley
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Eastern creeds are less dogmatic about scripture p355
Rahul Siddharthan
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Commentary
Weapon of mass attraction p357
Scientists should embrace, not fear, television news.
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See also: Editor's summary
Books and Arts
Armed only with knowledge p359
Physicist Patrick Blackett made a stand against atomic weapons.
Jon Agar reviews Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century by Mary Jo Nye
doi:10.1038/433359a
Living with viruses p360
Steven Wolinsky reviews Viral Fitness: The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making by Jaap Goudsmit
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Peering out of the box p361
Nina Fedoroff reviews Pioneering Research: A Risk Worth Taking by Donald W. Braben
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Video installation: Twin peaks p361
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Physics detective
Schrödinger's mousetrap p363
Part 2: Enter the detective.
Neil Mathur
doi:10.1038/433363a
News and Views
Complex systems: Romanesque networks p365
Newly won evidence shows that many real-world network systems obey a power-law scaling, just as if they were fractal shapes. Could this be the harbinger of a new architectural law for complex systems?
Steven H. Strogatz
doi:10.1038/433365a
See also: Editor's summary
Sexually transmitted diseases: Epidemic cycling and immunity p366
Are syphilis epidemics caused by external factors such as human sexual behaviour, or are factors intrinsic to the pathogen more important? Comparing the dynamics of syphilis and gonorrhoea provides some clues.
Bryan Grenfell and Ottar Bjørnstad
doi:10.1038/433366a
Cell biology: Border crossing p367
The 'translocon' complex, which determines whether a protein segment will be inserted into or pushed through the cell membrane, seems to make the decision by performing a thermodynamic measurement.
James U. Bowie
doi:10.1038/433367a
Materials science: Build your own superlattice p369
Artificial materials made from oxide building blocks turn out to be excellent ferroelectrics. This shows that materials with specific properties can be designed by atomic-scale tailoring of their composition.
Guus Rijnders and Dave H. A. Blank
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Ecology: Paradise sustained p370
Biodiversity stabilizes ecosystem functioning in small-scale, short-term experiments, but do such findings scale up to the larger world? A global study of fossil reefs from the past 500 million years suggests they do.
Shahid Naeem and Andrew C. Baker
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See also: Editor's summary
100 and 50 years ago p371
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Obituary: Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005) p372
Richard M. Krause
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Brief Communications
Sexual behaviour: Rapid speciation in an arthropod p375
The likely force behind an explosion of new Hawaiian cricket species is revealed.
Tamra C. Mendelson and Kerry L. Shaw
doi:10.1038/433375a
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Oscillatory motion: Quantum whistling in superfluid helium-4 p376
E. Hoskinson, R. E. Packard and Thomas M. Haard
doi:10.1038/433376a
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Brief Communications Arising
Marine ecology: Different measures of biodiversity pE9
John R. Dolan
doi:10.1038/nature03320
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Marine ecology: Different measures of biodiversity (Reply) pE9
Xabier Irigoien, Jef Huisman and Roger P. Harris
doi:10.1038/nature03321
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Articles
Recognition of transmembrane helices by the endoplasmic reticulum translocon p377
Tara Hessa, Hyun Kim, Karl Bihlmaier, Carolina Lundin, Jorrit Boekel, Helena Andersson, IngMarie Nilsson, Stephen H. White and Gunnar von Heijne
doi:10.1038/nature03216
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See also: News and Views by Bowie
Drosophila Spire is an actin nucleation factor p382
Margot E. Quinlan, John E. Heuser, Eugen Kerkhoff and R. Dyche Mullins
doi:10.1038/nature03241
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Letters to Nature
Earth-mass dark-matter haloes as the first structures in the early Universe p389
J. Diemand, B. Moore and J. Stadel
doi:10.1038/nature03270
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See also: Editor's summary
Self-similarity of complex networks p392
Chaoming Song, Shlomo Havlin and Hernán A. Makse
doi:10.1038/nature03248
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Strogatz
Strong polarization enhancement in asymmetric three-component ferroelectric superlattices p395
Ho Nyung Lee, Hans M. Christen, Matthew F. Chisholm, Christopher M. Rouleau and Douglas H. Lowndes
doi:10.1038/nature03261
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See also: News and Views by Rijnders & Blank
Another continental pool in the terrestrial silicon cycle p399
Isabelle Basile-Doelsch, Jean Dominique Meunier and Claude Parron
doi:10.1038/nature03217
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See also: Editor's summary
Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases p403
D. A. Stainforth, T. Aina, C. Christensen, M. Collins, N. Faull, D. J. Frame, J. A. Kettleborough, S. Knight, A. Martin, J. M. Murphy, C. Piani, D. Sexton, L. A. Smith, R. A. Spicer, A. J. Thorpe and M. R. Allen
doi:10.1038/nature03301
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See also: Editor's summary
Spectroscopic evidence for a lava fountain driven by previously accumulated magmatic gas p407
Patrick Allard, Mike Burton and Filippo Muré
doi:10.1038/nature03246
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Long-term relationships between ecological stability and biodiversity in Phanerozoic reefs p410
Wolfgang Kiessling
doi:10.1038/nature03152
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Naeem & Baker
Stage-structured cycles promote genetic diversity in a predator–prey system of Daphnia and algae p413
William A. Nelson, Edward McCauley and Frederick J. Wrona
doi:10.1038/nature03212
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Host immunity and synchronized epidemics of syphilis across the United States p417
Nicholas C. Grassly, Christophe Fraser and Geoffrey P. Garnett
doi:10.1038/nature03072
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Grenfell & Bjørnstad
How the Venus flytrap snaps p421
Yoël Forterre, Jan M. Skotheim, Jacques Dumais and L. Mahadevan
doi:10.1038/nature03185
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Simulation and validation of modelled sphingolipid metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae p425
Fernando Alvarez-Vasquez, Kellie J. Sims, L. Ashley Cowart, Yasuo Okamoto, Eberhard O. Voit and Yusuf A. Hannun
doi:10.1038/nature03232
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APOBEC3G cytidine deaminase inhibits retrotransposition of endogenous retroviruses p430
Cécile Esnault, Odile Heidmann, Frédéric Delebecque, Marie Dewannieux, David Ribet, Allan J. Hance, Thierry Heidmann and Olivier Schwartz
doi:10.1038/nature03238
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Chd1 chromodomain links histone H3 methylation with SAGA- and SLIK-dependent acetylation p434
Marilyn G. Pray-Grant, Jeremy A. Daniel, David Schieltz, John R. Yates, III and Patrick A. Grant
doi:10.1038/nature03242
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Naturejobs
ProspectsCentral stations p439
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7024-439a
Regions
Homeward bound European Union p440
Quirin Schiermeier and Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7024-440a
See also: Editor's summary
Career View
Graduate Journal: Seeking sources of information p442
Karolina Tkaczuk
doi:10.1038/nj7024-442a
Recruiters & Academia p442
Primal de Lanerolle
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Movers p442
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