Opinion

Time to take the plunge at Yucca Mountain p497

The process from which the Nevada desert has emerged as the only candidate site for disposal of US high-level nuclear waste has been flawed. But the result may still be a safe repository.

doi:10.1038/24927

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News

Patent on gene fragment sends researchers a mixed message... p499

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/24929

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... as Germany hesitates over Brussels directive p499

Tony Reichhardt

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Planned US nuclear repository 'at risk' ... p500

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/24934

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... as review board asks DoE to think again p500

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/24937

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Resignations hit French science reforms p501

Declan Butler

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Japanese industry defies recession to spend more on research p501

Asako Saegusa

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Mixed reaction to New Zealand reforms p502

Peter Pockley

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UK minister says sorry for science past p502

Natasha Loder

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Monsanto set to back down over 'terminator' gene? p503

Ehsan Masood

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Brazil's scientists fear ministry merger p503

Ricardo Bonalume Neto

doi:10.1038/24951

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Allow cloning in embryo research, says UK report p503

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/24954

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US scientists may boycott AIDS congress p504

Michael Cherry

doi:10.1038/24956

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Palaeontologists divided over 'stay at home' policy for fossils p504

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/24958

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Animal rights activists turn the screw p505

Quirin Schiermeier

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News in Brief p506

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Correspondence

No room for complacency over climate p509

David Fisk, (Chief scientist)

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Open up review system p509

Bostjan Kobe

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Whose law for sharing research tools? p509

Rudi Balling

doi:10.1038/24971

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Relativity and relativism: who's confused? p510

Gabriel Stolzenberg and Richard, Dawkins

doi:10.1038/24973

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Put a match to pyre review p510

Jacques Benveniste

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Pull off those price tags p510

Vincent Detours

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Commentary

The world needs more than protests p511

The green movement has an impressive history of drawing attention to environmental problems. But if these are to be solved it must be more closely engaged in forging partnerships with business and government.

doi:10.1038/24979

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News and Views

Twenty-eight ways to build a solar system p513

Brett Gladman

doi:10.1038/24983

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Membrane fusion:  Ready ... aim ... fire! p514

Randy Schekman

doi:10.1038/24986

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Volcanology:  Remote prospects p515

William I. Rose and Gregg J. S. Bluth

doi:10.1038/24989

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100 and 50 years ago p517

doi:10.1038/24992

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Molecular evolution:  A hydrogen-producing mitochondrion p517

T. Martin Embley and William Martin

doi:10.1038/24994

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Nonlinear physics:  Universality of turbulence p519

Victor S. L'vov

doi:10.1038/24998

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Ocean geochemistry:  Carbon dioxide uptake at sea p521

Alain Poisson

doi:10.1038/25002

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Palaeontology:  The face of Cinderella p521

Henry Gee

doi:10.1038/25004

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Evolutionary biology:  A plastic genome p522

Pierre Capy

doi:10.1038/25007

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Materials science:  A precious stone that isn't p523

Robert W. Cahn

doi:10.1038/25010

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Biophysics:  The A to Z of DNA p524

Alison Mitchell

doi:10.1038/25014

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Daedalus:  Vegetable electricity p524

David Jones

doi:10.1038/25017

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Science and Image

Kendrew constructs; Geis gazes p525

Today we need computers to create images of the complex structures of protein molecules. Irving Geis, nearly 40 years ago, painted a portrait of myoglobin using only his astounding observational skills.

Martin Kemp

doi:10.1038/25019

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Scientific Correspondence

A hydrogenosome with a genome p527

Anna Akhmanova, Frank Voncken, Theo van Alen, Angela van Hoek, Brigitte Boxma, Godfried Vogels, Marten Veenhuis and Johannes H.P. Hackstein

doi:10.1038/25023

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Did dinosaurs come up to scratch? p528

David M. Martill and Paul G. Davis

doi:10.1038/25027

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Increased summertime heat stress in the US p529

Dian J. Gaffen and Rebecca J. Ross

doi:10.1038/25030

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p53 polymorphism and risk of cervical cancer p530

Åslaug Helland, Anita Langerød, Hilde Johnsen, Anne O. Olsen, Eva Skovlund and Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale

doi:10.1038/25034

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p53 polymorphism and risk of cervical cancer p531

Agnetha M. Josefsson, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Nathalie Ylitalo, Pernilla Quarforth-Tubbin, Jan Pontén, Hans Olov Adami and Ulf B. Gyllensten

doi:10.1038/25037

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p53 polymorphism and risk of cervical cancer p531

Allan Hildesheim, Mark Schiffman, Louise A. Brinton, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr, Rolando Herrero, M. Concepcion Bratti, Peter Schwartz, Rodrigue Mortel, Willard Barnes, Mitchell Greenberg, Larry McGowan, David R. Scott, Maureen Martin, Jesus E. Herrera and Mary Carrington

doi:10.1038/25040

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p53 polymorphism and risk of cervical cancer p532

Alan Storey, Miranda Thomas, Ann Kalita, Catherine Harwood, Daniela Gardiol, Fiamma Mantovani, Judith Breuer, Irene M. Leigh, Greg Matlashewski and Lawrence Banks

doi:10.1038/25043

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Book Reviews

The riches found in a prospector's pan p533

Judith A. K. Howard reviews Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry

doi:10.1038/25045

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Bubbling bauble p534

doi:10.1038/25048

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Casting out the printers' devils p534

Michael Hunter reviews The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns

doi:10.1038/25051

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Roaming the landscape p536

David R. Montgomery reviews Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self-Organization by Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe and Andrea Rinaldo

doi:10.1038/25054

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The splendour of Yellowstone p536

doi:10.1038/25056

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Review

Quantum non-demolition measurements in optics p537

Philippe Grangier, Juan Ariel Levenson and Jean-Philippe Poizat

doi:10.1038/25059

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Article

Defining the functions of trans-SNARE pairs p543

Christian Ungermann, Ken Sato and William Wickner

doi:10.1038/25069

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Letters to Nature

Galaxy disruption as the origin of intracluster light in the Coma cluster of galaxies p549

Michael D. Gregg and Michael J. West

doi:10.1038/25078

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Universality of rare fluctuations in turbulence and critical phenomena p552

S. T. Bramwell, P. C. W. Holdsworth and J.-F. Pinton

doi:10.1038/25083

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Observation of 'third sound' in superfluid ³He p554

A. M. R. Schechter, R. W. Simmonds, R. E. Packard and J. C. Davis

doi:10.1038/25090

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Monochromatic electron emission from the macroscopic quantum state of a superconductor p557

K. Nagaoka, T. Yamashita, S. Uchiyama, M. Yamada, H. Fujii and C. Oshima

doi:10.1038/25098

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Quantification of decadal anthropogenic CO₂ uptake in the ocean based on dissolved inorganic carbon measurements p560

Tsung-Hung Peng, Rik Wanninkhof, John L. Bullister, Richard A. Feely and Taro Takahashi

doi:10.1038/25103

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Passive infrared spectroscopy of the eruption plume at Popocatépetl volcano, Mexico p563

S. P. Love, F. Goff, D. Counce, C. Siebe and H. Delgado

doi:10.1038/25109

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Remote measurements of volcanic gas compositions by solar occultation spectroscopy p567

Peter Francis, Mike R. Burton and Clive Oppenheimer

doi:10.1038/25115

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Roots exert a strong influence on the temperature sensitivityof soil respiration p570

Richard D. Boone, Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Jana D. Canary and Jason P. Kaye

doi:10.1038/25119

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Selective sweep of a newly evolved sperm-specific gene in Drosophila p572

Dmitry I. Nurminsky, Maria V. Nurminskaya, Daniel De Aguiar and Daniel L. Hartl

doi:10.1038/25126

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Ca²⁺/calmodulin signals the completion of docking and triggers a late step of vacuole fusion p575

Christopher Peters and Andreas Mayer

doi:10.1038/25133

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Control of apoptosis and mitotic spindle checkpoint by survivin p580

Fengzhi Li, Grazia Ambrosini, Emily Y. Chu, Janet Plescia, Simona Tognin, Pier Carlo Marchisio and Dario C. Altieri

doi:10.1038/25141

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Calcium promotes cell survival through CaM-K kinase activation of the protein-kinase-B pathway p584

Shigetoshi Yano, Hiroshi Tokumitsu and Thomas R. Soderling

doi:10.1038/25147

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Decoupling of nucleotide- and microtubule-binding sites in a kinesin mutant p587

Hebok Song and Sharyn A. Endow

doi:10.1038/25153

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Identification of the receptor component of the IB–ubiquitin ligase p590

Avraham Yaron, Ada Hatzubai, Matti Davis, Iris Lavon, Sharon Amit, Anthony M. Manning, Jens S. Andersen, Matthias Mann, Frank Mercurio and Yinon Ben-Neriah

doi:10.1038/25159

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Regulation of activity of the transcription factor GATA-1 by acetylation p594

Joan Boyes, Peter Byfield, Yoshihiro Nakatani and Vasily Ogryzko

doi:10.1038/25166

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New on the Market

Cell biology smorgasbord p599

Finding the answers to complex life science problems requires implements well matched to their task — such tools may be found in the emerging electronic marketplaces that operate over the the Internet and kick off this cell biology section.

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