Opinion

Time to grasp the international perspective on GM crops p715

Among the clamour of voices from around the globe for and against GM crops, many scientific academies have been quiet. Their views are urgently needed in determining the long-term research agenda.

doi:10.1038/21468

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Confrontation out, pragmatism in p715

A year-long 'stand-off' between French researchers and the science ministry signals the need for change.

doi:10.1038/21470

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News

Gore under fire in controversy over South Africa AIDS drug law p717

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/21472

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G8 leaders seek study on effects of biotech p717

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/21475

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Chlorine industry says EPA rules ignore good science p718

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/21477

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Wellcome Trust boosts researchers' pay p719

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/21480

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Japan tightens rules on GM crops to protect the environment p719

Asako Saegusa

doi:10.1038/21483

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Urgent talks follow damning report on US weapons labs p720

Wil Lepkowski

doi:10.1038/21485

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Varmus defends plan for global biomedical e-journal p720

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/21487

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One-stop shop for 200 life science journals p720

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/21489

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Compromise sought on 'Terminator'... p721

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/21491

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...as academies meet to plan a global approach p721

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/21494

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Five bid to host Middle East synchrotron p722

Heather McCabe

doi:10.1038/21496

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Israel 'must relax technology transfer law' p722

Haim Watzman

doi:10.1038/21499

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Researcher fights suspension over funds p723

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/21501

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First-born telescopic twin starts to deliver p723

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/21503

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News in Brief p724

doi:10.1038/21506

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News

Build confidence in research advice, says UK chief scientist p726

doi:10.1038/21508

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Readers give their hopes and fears for conference p726

doi:10.1038/21510

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Nature brings daily news from Budapest p726

doi:10.1038/21512

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Correspondence

Devolution threat to decision-making p727

Sir Ian Lloyd

doi:10.1038/21514

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Farm-scale evaluation of GM crops explained p727

L. G. Firbank, A. M. Dewar, M. O. Hill, M. J. May, J. N. Perry, P. Rothery, G. R. Squire and I. P. Woiwod

doi:10.1038/21516

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Bioethicists must come down to Earth p728

Lee M. Silver

doi:10.1038/21518

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Barking up the wrong pole p728

Austin Mardon

doi:10.1038/21520

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Let's all speak the same language p728

D. A. H. Taylor

doi:10.1038/21522

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German researchers won't be put in the dock p728

Wolfgang Apel

doi:10.1038/21524

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News and Views

The end of the road for silicon? p729

Max Schulz

doi:10.1038/21526

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Hox clusters:  Size doesn't matter p730

Mark Q. Martindale and Matthew J. Kourakis

doi:10.1038/21530

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Mantle geochemistry:  Unmixing Hawaiian cocktails p733

Alex N. Halliday

doi:10.1038/21533

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Geomorphology:  A bigger Hockney p734

Tim Lincoln

doi:10.1038/21536

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Cancer:  DNA damage enables p73 p734

Eileen White and Carol Prives

doi:10.1038/21539

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100 and 50 years ago p735

doi:10.1038/21542

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Evolutionary genetics:  No sex please, we're fungi p737

Ian R. Sanders

doi:10.1038/21544

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Lunar exploration:  Polar endeavours p738

Timothy D. Swindle

doi:10.1038/21547

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Alzheimer's disease:  Pinning down phosphorylated tau p739

Michel Goedert

doi:10.1038/21550

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erratum:  Shifting seas in the greenhouse? p740

doi:10.1038/21553

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Daedalus:  Metallic compost p740

David Jones

doi:10.1038/21555

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Scientific Correspondence

Menstrual cycle alters face preference p741

I. S. Penton-Voak, D. I. Perrett, D. L. Castles, T. Kobayashi, D. M. Burt, L. K. Murray and R. Minamisawa

doi:10.1038/21557

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Limbs move beyond the Radical fringe p742

Jennifer L. Moran, John M. Levorse and Thomas F. Vogt

doi:10.1038/21560

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reply:  Limbs move beyond the Radical fringe p743

Nian Zhang and Thomas Gridley

doi:10.1038/21563

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Risk of collisions for constellation satellites p743

A. Rossi, G. B. Valsecchi and P. Farinella

doi:10.1038/21565

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Book Reviews

When the means do not justify the end p745

Eörs Szathmáry reviews Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species by Jeffrey H. Schwartz

doi:10.1038/21569

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This passion of our kind p745

Lucia Galli-Resta reviews La Galassia Mente by Rita Levi Montalcini

doi:10.1038/21572

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Ditties of the fragile and the inscrutable p746

Christopher Longuet-Higgins reviews Musical Networks: Parallel Distributed Perception and Performance edited by Niall Griffith and Peter M. Todd

doi:10.1038/21574

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A sight of sound p746

doi:10.1038/21576

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The world as a patchwork p747

Camille Parmesan reviews Metapopulation Ecology by Ilkka Hanski

doi:10.1038/21579

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Taking a gender tiger by the tail p747

Christine Wennerås and Agnes Wold review Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women by Virginia Valian

doi:10.1038/21581

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Science in culture p748

John Maddox

doi:10.1038/21583

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Article

A record of atmospheric halocarbons during the twentieth century from polar firn air p749

James H. Butler, Mark Battle, Michael L. Bender, Stephen A. Montzka, Andrew D. Clarke, Eric S. Saltzman, Cara M. Sucher, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus and James W. Elkins

doi:10.1038/21586

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Letters to Nature

Understanding the valency of rare earths from first-principles theory p756

P. Strange, A. Svane, W. M. Temmerman, Z. Szotek and H. Winter

doi:10.1038/21595

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The electronic structure at the atomic scale of ultrathin gate oxides p758

D. A. Muller, T. Sorsch, S. Moccio, F. H. Baumann, K. Evans-Lutterodt and G. Timp

doi:10.1038/21602

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Molecular mechanistic origin of the toughness of natural adhesives, fibres and composites p761

Bettye L. Smith, Tilman E. Schäffer, Mario Viani, James B. Thompson, Neil A. Frederick, Johannes Kindt, Angela Belcher, Galen D. Stucky, Daniel E. Morse and Paul K. Hansma

doi:10.1038/21607

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Chiral nematic order in liquid crystals imposed by an engineered inorganic nanostructure p764

K. Robbie, D. J. Broer and M. J. Brett

doi:10.1038/21612

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A reversibly antigen-responsive hydrogel p766

Takashi Miyata, Noriko Asami and Tadashi Uragami

doi:10.1038/21619

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The use of path integration to guide route learning in ants p769

B. Schatz, S. Chameron, G. Beugnon and T. S. Collett

doi:10.1038/21625

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Hox genes in brachiopods and priapulids and protostome evolution p772

Renaud de Rosa, Jennifer K. Grenier, Tatiana Andreeva, Charles E. Cook, André Adoutte, Michael Akam, Sean B. Carroll and Guillaume Balavoine

doi:10.1038/21631

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A stop-codon mutation in the BRI gene associated with familial British dementia p776

Ruben Vidal, Blas Frangione, Agueda Rostagno, Simon Mead, Tamas Révész, Gordon Plant and Jorge Ghiso

doi:10.1038/21637

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Human theta oscillations exhibit task dependence during virtual maze navigation p781

Michael J. Kahana, Robert Sekuler, Jeremy B. Caplan, Matthew Kirschen and Joseph R. Madsen

doi:10.1038/21645

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The prolyl isomerase Pin1 restores the function of Alzheimer-associated phosphorylated tau protein p784

Pei-Jung Lu, Gerburg Wulf, Xiao Zhen Zhou, Peter Davies and Kun Ping Lu

doi:10.1038/21650

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Characterization of the human cysteinyl leukotriene CysLT₁ receptor p789

Kevin R. Lynch, Gary P. O'Neill, Qingyun Liu, Dong-Soon Im, Nicole Sawyer, Kathleen M. Metters, Nathalie Coulombe, Mark Abramovitz, David J. Figueroa, Zhizhen Zeng, Brett M. Connolly, Chang Bai, Christopher P. Austin, Anne Chateauneuf, Rino Stocco, Gillian M. Greig, Stacia Kargman, Shelley B. Hooks, Elizabeth Hosfield, David L. Williams, Jnr, Anthony W. Ford-Hutchinson, C. Thomas Caskey and Jilly F. Evans

doi:10.1038/21658

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MAP kinase and Wnt pathways converge to downregulate an HMG-domain repressor in Caenorhabditis elegans p793

Marc D. Meneghini, Tohru Ishitani, J. Clayton Carter, Naoki Hisamoto, Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Christopher J. Thorpe, Danielle R. Hamill, Kunihiro Matsumoto and Bruce Bowerman

doi:10.1038/21666

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The TAK1–NLK–MAPK-related pathway antagonizes signalling between -catenin and transcription factor TCF p798

Tohru Ishitani, Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Shin-ichi Nagai, Michiru Nishita, Marc Meneghini, Nick Barker, Marian Waterman, Bruce Bowerman, Hans Clevers, Hiroshi Shibuya and Kunihiro Matsumoto

doi:10.1038/21674

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TRA-1 regulates the cellular distribution of the tra-2 mRNA in C. elegans p802

L. E. Graves, S. Segal and E. B. Goodwin

doi:10.1038/21682

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The tyrosine kinase c-Abl regulates p73 in apoptotic response to cisplatin-induced DNA damage p806

JianGen Gong, Antonio Costanzo, Hong-Qiong Yang, Gerry Melino, William G. Kaelin, Jnr, Massimo Levrero and Jean Y. J. Wang

doi:10.1038/21690

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Interaction of c-Abl and p73 and their collaboration to induce apoptosis p809

Reuven Agami, Giovanni Blandino, Moshe Oren and Yosef Shaul

doi:10.1038/21697

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p73 is regulated by tyrosine kinase c-Abl in the apoptotic response to DNA damage p814

Zhi-Min Yuan, Hisashi Shioya, Takatoshi Ishiko, Xiangao Sun, Jijie Gu, YinYin Huang, Hua Lu, Surender Kharbanda, Ralph Weichselbaum and Donald Kufe

doi:10.1038/21704

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Correction:  p73 is a human p53-related protein that can induce apoptosis p817

Christine A. Jost, Maria C. Marin and William G. Kaelin Jr

doi:10.1038/21710

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Careers and Recruitment

Industry beckons Benelux's brightest p819

The best career prospects for scientists in the Benelux countries are in industry or administration. But the outlook in universities is improving too, with more postdoc jobs in Belgium, and many Dutch professors nearing retirement.

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/21712

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Belgian biotech boom brings skill shortage p820

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/21714

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