Opinion

Time to withdraw an undesirable privilege? p617

The practice by which some researchers restrict access to published data for a year has hitherto been accepted. Nature and Science are collaborating to investigate whether that acceptance should cease.

doi:10.1038/35435

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Stockpiler's suppression p617

Is the US Department of Energy abusing its monopoly of information on nuclear weapons to stifle argument?

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News

$6bn package to cut US carbon emissions comes under attack p619

Colin Macilwain

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Clues to the origins of canyons on Mars p619

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Physicists oppose plan to slim down fusion reactor... p620

Alison Abbott

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...while project wins backing in Canada p620

Alison Abbott

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Drugs merger seeks strength in breadth p621

Ehsan Masood

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Curtain falls on gene sequencing deal p621

Declan Butler

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Weapons physicist 'denied access' to remanufacture data p622

Colin Macilwain

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Tokyo centre takes steps to boost patent output p622

Asako Saegusa

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Stamp marks Max Planck milestone p622

Burkhardt Roeper

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US Senate bills on cloning under fire from researchers p623

Meredith Wadman

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Population explosion raises alarm over lab animal health p623

Meredith Wadman

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Germany remains split on animal testing p624

Barbara Miller

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Science advice gets a face-lift in Australian reorganization p624

Peter Pockley

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News Analysis

South Korea keeps a cool head in a crisis p625

The economic crisis that hit Korea at the end of last year has brought hard times for the nation's scientists, but despite cuts and the effect of the plummeting won, some researchers see hope for the future.

David Swinbanks

doi:10.1038/35471

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News in Brief p626

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Correspondence

The disciplines of national wealth p628

Tiiu Ojasoo

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Commentary

Economic returns from the biosphere p629

doi:10.1038/35481

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News and Views

Robust solutions to hard problems p631

John Preskill

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Evolutionary biology:  Eyes viewed from the skin p632

Heinz Arnheiter

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Earth science:  Continental mechanics p634

John Haines

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Behavioural ecology:  Love thine enemy? p635

Bruno J. Ens

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Computational science:  Unlocking dislocation secrets p637

Michael Marder

doi:10.1038/35500

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HIV vaccines:  Viral envelope fails to deliver? p638

Dani P. Bolognesi and Thomas J. Matthews

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100 and 50 years ago p639

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Photonics:  More than transparent p641

Roy Sambles

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Ecology:  Spring origami p641

Rory Howlett

doi:10.1038/35512

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Immunology:  Unmasking the killer's accomplice p642

Marco Colonna

doi:10.1038/35515

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Daedalus:  Craters of doom p643

David Jones

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Obituary:  Reginald Victor Jones (1911-97) p644

Brebis Bleaney

doi:10.1038/35521

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Art and Science

Wright's ruptions p645

A volcanic eruption was a fitting subject for Joseph Wright. The artist had links with some of the great scientific thinkers in an age when science was beginning to discover the secrets of the forces that shape the Earth.

Martin Kemp

doi:10.1038/35524

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Scientific Correspondence

Sex and violence in hermaphrodites p647

N. K. Michiels and L. J. Newman

doi:10.1038/35527

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Gas hydrate crystals may help build reefs p648

J. P. Henriet, B. De Mol, S. Pillen, M. Vanneste, D. Van Rooij, W. Versteeg, P. F. Croker, P. M. Shannon, V. Unnithan, S. Bouriak, P. Chachkine and Belgica 97 Shipboard Party

doi:10.1038/35530

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Role for lichen melanins in uranium remediation p649

J. McLean, O. W. Purvis, B. J. Williamson and E. H. Bailey

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Electric current stimulates laughter p650

Itzhak Fried, Charles L. Wilson, Katherine A. MacDonald and Eric J. Behnke

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Book Reviews

Wobbly pursuit of extrasolar planets p651

David W. Hughes

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Letters to Leibniz in Berlin p652

Alison Abbott

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Life laws p652

Per Bak

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Individual view p653

Mark Ridley

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New in paperback p653

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Novel adaptation p654

Marek Kohn

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The social life of baboons p654

doi:10.1038/35553

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Articles

The motion of crustal blocks driven by flow of the lower lithosphere and implications for slip rates of continental strike-slip faults p655

S. J. Bourne, P. C. England and B. Parsons

doi:10.1038/35556

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Crystal structure of the yeast MAT2/MCM1/DNA ternary complex p660

Song Tan and Timothy J. Richmond

doi:10.1038/35563

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Letters to Nature

Extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays p667

T. W. Ebbesen, H. J. Lezec, H. F. Ghaemi, T. Thio and P. A. Wolff

doi:10.1038/35570

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Connecting atomistic and mesoscale simulations of crystal plasticity p669

Vasily Bulatov, Farid F. Abraham, Ladislas Kubin, Benoit Devincre and Sidney Yip

doi:10.1038/35577

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Impact energy measurement in time-of-flight mass spectrometry with cryogenic microcalorimeters p672

G. C. Hilton, John M. Martinis, D. A. Wollman, K. D. Irwin, L. L. Dulcie, Daniel Gerber, Patrick M. Gillevet and Damian Twerenbold

doi:10.1038/35582

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Increased stratospheric ozone depletion due to mountain-induced atmospheric waves p675

K. S. Carslaw, M. Wirth, A. Tsias, B. P. Luo, A. Dörnbrack, M. Leutbecher, H. Volkert, W. Renger, J. T. Bacmeister, E. Reimer and Th. Peter

doi:10.1038/35589

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Reduced sensitivity of recent tree-growth to temperature at high northern latitudes p678

K. R. Briffa, F. H. Schweingruber, P. D. Jones, T. J. Osborn, S. G. Shiyatov and E. A. Vaganov

doi:10.1038/35596

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Evidence for partial melt at the core–mantle boundary north of Tonga from the strong scattering of seismic waves p682

John E. Vidale and Michael A. H. Hedlin

doi:10.1038/35601

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The breeding structure of a tropical keystone plant resource p685

John D. Nason, E. Allen Herre and J. L. Hamrick

doi:10.1038/35607

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Female–female cooperation in polygynous oystercatchers p687

Dik Heg and Rob van Treuren

doi:10.1038/35612

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Evidence for evolutionary conservation of sex-determining genes p691

Christopher S. Raymond, Caroline E. Shamu, Michael M. Shen, Kelly J. Seifert, Betsy Hirsch, Jonathan Hodgkin and David Zarkower

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Three neural tubes in mouse embryos with mutations in the T-box gene Tbx6 p695

Deborah L. Chapman and Virginia E. Papaioannou

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Neural noise limitations on infant visual sensitivity p697

Ann M. Skoczenski and Anthony M. Norcia

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Requirement for IRF-1 in the microenvironment supporting development of natural killer cells p700

Kouetsu Ogasawara, Shigeaki Hida, Nazli Azimi, Yutaka Tagaya, Takeo Sato, Taeko Yokochi-Fukuda, Thomas A. Waldmann, Tadatsugu Taniguchi and Shinsuke Taki

doi:10.1038/35636

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Immunoreceptor DAP12 bearing a tyrosine-based activation motif is involved in activating NK cells p703

Lewis L. Lanier, Brian C. Corliss, Jun Wu, Clement Leong and Joseph H. Phillips

doi:10.1038/35642

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Involvement of p85 in p53-dependent apoptotic response to oxidative stress p707

Yuxin Yin, Yasuo Terauchi, Gregory G. Solomon, Shinichi Aizawa, P. N. Rangarajan, Yoshio Yazaki, Takashi Kadowaki and J. Carl Barrett

doi:10.1038/35648

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Location of enhancers is essential for the imprinting of H19 and Igf2 genes p711

Andrea L. Webber, Robert S. Ingram, John M. Levorse and Shirley M. Tilghman

doi:10.1038/35655

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Rad23 links DNA repair to the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway p715

Cherylene Schauber, Li Chen, Prasad Tongaonkar, Irving Vega, David Lambertson, Warren Potts and Kiran Madura

doi:10.1038/35661

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New on the Market

Going software in the neural network p719

doi:10.1038/35669

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