Opinion

South American science at a crossroads p635

Researchers in South America have a unique opportunity to advance their position in world science, provided they champion necessary reforms of universities and research agencies.

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Mirage in the Senate? p635

Enthusiasm for science is strong in Washington, but enthusiasm for necessary choices is not.

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News

US legislator warns of hollow promises on research spending p637

Colin Macilwain

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Europe may pool marine research efforts p637

Declan Butler

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Russian acoustics scientists defended on 'secrets' charges p638

Carl Levitin

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Fight hots up over Toronto racial discrimination claim p638

David Spurgeon

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US space agency sharpens focus on near-Earth objects p639

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/33485

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Petition strengthens hand of global warming sceptics p639

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/33487

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Teachers gain aid for evolutionary struggle p639

Colin Macilwain

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UN eco-fund under pressure to open up p640

K. S. Jayaraman and Ehsan Masood

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Ministry 'changing course' on lab closure p640

Ehsan Masood

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Curbs on research dropped from US medical privacy bill p641

Meredith Wadman

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CERN told to start technical thinking for next collider p641

Alison Abbott

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Collaboration is the name of the game for Europe's scientists p641

Alison Abbott

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Call to boost research on particulates p642

Tony Reichhardt

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US and Japanese scientists in dispute over 'poisoned' radishes p642

Asako Saegusa

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News in Brief p643

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Correspondence

Problems of germline therapy p645

Anne McLaren and Jonathan Ewbank

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DIY meetings p645

Alan J. McCarthy

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Italian reforms p645

Francesco Mauro

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No viral disease after xenotransplantation p646

A. Tibell and C. G. Groth

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Student cheats p646

Alexander Vinogradov

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Speculation is premature p646

Eric M. Meslin

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Plight of hawksbill turtles p646

N. Mrosovsky

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Commentary

Adapting to change in Latin America p647

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News and Views

In victu veritas p649

Harold McGee

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Mantle mineralogy:  Olivine emerges from isolation p650

Craig R. Bina

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Palaeontology:  The eyes have it p651

Henry Gee

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Crop genetics:  Reducing transgene escape routes p653

Alan J. Gray and Alan F. Raybould

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Mathematics:  How to melt if you must p654

Ivar Ekeland

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100 and 50 years ago p655

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Developmental biology:  Pulling the fly's leg p657

Ginés Morata and Ernesto Sánchez-Herrero

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Condensed-matter physics:  The noise is the signal p658

Rolf Landauer

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Animal navigation:  Ants match as they march p660

Mandyam V. Srinivasan

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Superconductors:  Cold cousin of the colloids p660

Stephen Battersby

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Plant extinction:  Frondless ferns lie low to survive p661

Peter D. Moore

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Daedalus:  Cleansing fire p662

David Jones

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Art and Science

Parker's pieces p663

Some readers were bemused, and others amused, to find a series of images by Cornelia Parker in the pages of Nature last autumn. Her work invites us to let our imaginations run free.

Martin Kemp

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Scientific Correspondence

Tree stem diameters fluctuate with tide p665

Ernst Zürcher, Maria-Giulia Cantiani, Francesco Sorbetti-Guerri and Denis Michel

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Code for collagen's stability deciphered p666

Steven K. Holmgren, Kimberly M. Taylor, Lynn E. Bretscher and Ronald T. Raines

doi:10.1038/33573

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Gene translocation links insects and crustaceans p667

Jeffrey L. Boore, Dennis V. Lavrov and Wesley M. Brown

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What's so special about figs? p668

Timothy G. O'Brien, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Nancy L. Conklin-Brittain, Richard W. Wrangham and Scott C. Silver

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Book Reviews

Bright light comes around again p669

Owen Gingerich

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A man for all seasons p669

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Brains trust p670

Glenn Northcutt

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Looking closely at neuroscience p670

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Is meta better? p671

Steve Blinkhorn

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Living with the moose p671

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Lighting up the dark p672

Philippe Grangier

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New in paperback p672

doi:10.1038/33601

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Progress

Microquasars in our Galaxy p673

I. F. Mirabel and L. F. Rodríguez

doi:10.1038/33603

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Article

Electron transfer by domain movement in cytochrome bc₁ p677

Zhaolei Zhang, Lishar Huang, Vladimir M. Shulmeister, Young-In Chi, Kyeong Kyu Kim, Li-Wei Hung, Antony R. Crofts, Edward A. Berry and Sung-Hou Kim

doi:10.1038/33612

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Letters to Nature

Outflow–infall interactions as a mechanism for terminating accretion in protostars p685

T. Velusamy and W. D. Langer

doi:10.1038/33624

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Discovery of a metastable -state in a superfluid ³He weak link p687

S. Backhaus, S. Pereverzev, R. W. Simmonds, A. Loshak, J. C. Davis and R. E. Packard

doi:10.1038/33629

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Phase-mapping of periodically domain-inverted LiNbO₃ with coherent X-rays p690

Z. H. Hu, P. A. Thomas, A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, A Souvorov, P. G. R. Smith, G. W. Ross and S. Teat

doi:10.1038/33637

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Identification of cathode materials for lithium batteries guided by first-principles calculations p694

G. Ceder, Y.-M. Chiang, D. R. Sadoway, M. K. Aydinol, Y.-I. Jang and B. Huang

doi:10.1038/33647

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Surface topography dependence of biomolecular hydrophobic hydration p696

Yuen-Kit Cheng and Peter J. Rossky

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Millennial-scale climate instability during the early Pleistocene epoch p699

M. E. Raymo, K. Ganley, S. Carter, D. W. Oppo and J. McManus

doi:10.1038/33658

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Iron partitioning in a pyrolite mantle and the nature of the 410-km seismic discontinuity p702

Tetsuo Irifune and Maiko Isshiki

doi:10.1038/33663

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See also: News and Views by Bina

Oldest known sea turtle p705

Ren Hirayama

doi:10.1038/33669

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Ecological importance of the Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current p708

Cynthia T. Tynan

doi:10.1038/33675

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Multiple stored views and landmark guidance in ants p710

S. P. D. Judd and T. S. Collett

doi:10.1038/33681

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Encoding of three-dimensional structure-from-motion by primate area MT neurons p714

David C. Bradley, Grace C. Chang and Richard A. Andersen

doi:10.1038/33688

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Glycine-receptor activation is required for receptor clustering in spinal neurons p717

J. Kirsch and H. Betz

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Cryptochrome blue-light photoreceptors of Arabidopsis implicated in phototropism p720

Margaret Ahmad, Jose A. Jarillo, Olga Smirnova and Anthony R. Cashmore

doi:10.1038/33701

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Control of antennal versus leg development in Drosophila p723

Fernando Casares and Richard S. Mann

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Forced degradation of Fas inhibits apoptosis in adenovirus-infected cells p726

Ann E. Tollefson, Terry W. Hermiston, Drew L. Lichtenstein, Clarence F. Colle, Ralph A. Tripp, Todor Dimitrov, Karoly Toth, Christopher E. Wells, Peter C. Doherty and William S. M. Wold

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Integrin binding and mechanical tension induce movement of mRNA and ribosomes to focal adhesions p730

Marina E. Chicurel, Robert H. Singer, Christian J. Meyer and Donald E. Ingber

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Electron currents generated by the human phagocyte NADPH oxidase p734

Jacques Schrenzel, Lena Serrander, Botond Bánfi, Oliver Nüe, Reyhaneh Fouyouzi, Daniel P. Lew, Nicolas Demaurex and Karl-Heinz Krause

doi:10.1038/33725

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Correction:  A late Neanderthal associated with Upper Palaeolithic artefacts p737

Jean-Jacques Hublin, Fred Spoor, Marc Braun, Frans Zonneveld and Silvana Condemi

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New on the Market

Instrumental medley p739

Featured in this section are analytical instruments and accessories, such as an ICP-HEX-MS and software for searching spectral libraries, and systems for scanning electron microscopy.
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