Opinion

How not to respond to The X-Files p815

Belief in pseudo-science is a widespread problem. But some entertainment is misleadingly condemned in that context, promoting the harmful image of the scientist as truth's ultimate custodian.

doi:10.1038/29592

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A chronic lack of definition p815

Tackling misconduct has been undermined by a lack of resolve of scientific advisers.

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News

Arizona professor files lawsuit after being fired for misconduct p817

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/29596

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Rethink urged on Framework programme p817

Alison Abbott

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Prisoners' DNA database ruled unlawful p818

Sally Lehrman

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NIH institute to work with trial of AIDS vaccine, despite concerns p818

Meredith Wadman

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DuPont opens up access to genetics tool p819

Meredith Wadman

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German transgenic crop trials face attack p819

Quirin Schiermeier

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Ocean drilling project fishes for members p820

Peter Pockley

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Spending spree propels Finland towards top of research league p820

Alison Abbott

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Outcry as 'scientific' badger cull is launched to target TB p821

Ehsan Masood

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India's short cow drags Roslin Institute into controversy p821

K.S. Jayaraman

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news in brief p822

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Correspondence

Tougher crackdown on fraud needed p823

Paolo del Guercio

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Modified animal feeds must be put to the test p823

Pantelis E. Zoiopoulos

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News and Views

White dwarfs sing the blues p825

Harvey B. Richer

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Evolutionary biology:  The secrets of faces p826

Magnus Enquist and Stefano Ghirlanda

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Earthquakes:  A deficit vanished p827

Steven N. Ward

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Translation:  Cinderella factors have a ball p829

Richard J. Jackson

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100 and 50 years ago p830

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Immunology:  Fetal fascination p831

Marie-Thérèse Heemels

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Statistical mechanics:  Brownian motion and microscopic chaos p831

Detlef Dürr and Herbert Spohn

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Mimicry:  Sheep in wolves' clothing p833

Graeme D. Ruxton

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Synaptic plasticity:  Down with novelty p834

Richard G. M. Morris

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Evolutionary ecology:  Bedazzled by flowers p835

Nick Waser and Lars Chittka

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Daedalus:  Total protection p836

David Jones

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Science and Image

Modelled moons p837

How do you bring a flat picture to three-dimensional life? Early photographers met the same visual challenges that confronted Galileo. They used ingenious methods to build relief models of the lunar landscape.

Martin Kemp

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Scientific Correspondence

The phylogeny of The Canterbury Tales p839

Adrian C. Barbrook, Christopher J. Howe, Norman Blake and Peter Robinson

doi:10.1038/29667

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Green-wave phenology p839

Mark D. Schwartz

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A posteriori teleportation p840

Samuel L. Braunstein and H. J. Kimble

doi:10.1038/29674

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Reply: A posteriori teleportation p841

D. Bouwmeester, J.-W. Pan, M. Daniell, H. Weinfurter, M. Zukowski and A. Zeilinger

doi:10.1038/29678

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DNA methylation models histone acetylation p842

S. Eden, T. Hashimshony, I. Keshet, H. Cedar and A. W. Thorne

doi:10.1038/29680

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Book Reviews

Anyone for tenets? p843

Walter Gratzer reviews Great Feuds in Science by Hal Hellman

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How to avoid making a fortune in medicine p844

Jean Lindenmann reviews The Story of Interferon: The Ups and Downs in the Life of a Scientist by Kari Cantell

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The king of rocking roles p845

Robert Muir-Wood reviews Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

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Monk-y puzzles p846

Andrew Bremner reviews The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson and Tracking the Automatic Ant by David Gale

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Articles

Simulated influence of carbon dioxide, orbital forcing and ice sheets on the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum p847

Andrew J. Weaver, Michael Eby, Augustus F. Fanning and Edward C. Wiebe

doi:10.1038/29695

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Eukaryotic ribosomes require initiation factors 1 and 1A to locate initiation codons p854

Tatyana V. Pestova, Sergei I. Borukhov and Christopher U. T. Hellen

doi:10.1038/29703

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See also: News and Views by Jackson

Letters to Nature

Old and blue white-dwarf stars as a detectable source of microlensing events p860

Brad M. S. Hansen

doi:10.1038/29710

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A symmetrically pulsed jet of gas from an invisible protostar in Orion p862

Hans Zinnecker, Mark J. McCaughrean and John T. Rayner

doi:10.1038/29716

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Experimental evidence for microscopic chaos p865

P. Gaspard, M. E. Briggs, M. K. Francis, J. V. Sengers, R. W. Gammon, J. R. Dorfman and R. V. Calabrese

doi:10.1038/29721

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See also: News and Views by Dürr & Spohn

Controlling local disorder in self-assembled monolayers by patterning the topography of their metallic supports p868

Joanna Aizenberg, Andrew J. Black and George M. Whitesides

doi:10.1038/29730

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Decadal variability in the outflow from the Nordic seas to the deep Atlantic Ocean p871

Sheldon Bacon

doi:10.1038/29736

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Melt to mush variations in crustal magma properties along the ridge crest at the southern East Pacific Rise p874

S. C. Singh, G. M. Kent, J. S. Collier, A. J. Harding and J. A. Orcutt

doi:10.1038/29740

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The intensity of the Earth's magnetic field over the past 160 million years p878

M. T. Juárez, L. Tauxe, J. S. Gee and T. Pick

doi:10.1038/29746

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The evolution of warning signals p882

Shigeo Yachi and Masahiko Higashi

doi:10.1038/29751

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Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness p884

D. I. Perrett, K. J. Lee, I. Penton-Voak, D. Rowland, S. Yoshikawa, D. M. Burt, S. P. Henzi, D. L. Castles and S. Akamatsu

doi:10.1038/29772

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See also: News and Views by Enquist & Ghirlanda

Separate body- and world-referenced representations of visual space in parietal cortex p887

Lawrence H. Snyder, Kenneth L. Grieve, Peter Brotchie and Richard A. Andersen

doi:10.1038/29777

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Spatial exploration induces a persistent reversal of long-term potentiation in rat hippocampus p891

Lin Xu, Roger Anwyl and Michael J. Rowan

doi:10.1038/29783

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See also: News and Views by Morris

Decreased lesion formation in CCR2^-/- mice reveals a role for chemokines in the initiation of atherosclerosis p894

Landin Boring, Jennifa Gosling, Michael Cleary and Israel F. Charo

doi:10.1038/29788

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Leptin modulates the T-cell immune response and reverses starvation-induced immunosuppression p897

Graham M. Lord, Giuseppe Matarese, Jane K. Howard, Richard J. Baker, Stephen R. Bloom and Robert I. Lechler

doi:10.1038/29795

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Csk controls antigen receptor-mediated development and selection of T-lineage cells p901

Christian Schmedt, Kaoru Saijo, Tetsuhiro Niidome, Ralf Kühn, Shinichi Aizawa and Alexander Tarakhovsky

doi:10.1038/29802

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FGF-mediated mesoderm induction involves the Src-family kinase Laloo p904

Daniel C. Weinstein, Jennifer Marden, Francesca Carnevali and Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou

doi:10.1038/29808

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Smad3 and Smad4 cooperate with c-Jun/c-Fos to mediate TGF--induced transcription p909

Ying Zhang, Xin-Hua Feng and Rik Derynck

doi:10.1038/29814

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New on the Market

Biochemical reagents on tap p915

doi:10.1038/29821

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