Opinion

Collaborations essential for food in the developing world p829

The stakes in the debate on genetically modified crops increase dramatically as it moves to the developing countries. Governments need to help existing agencies to rise to the challenges.

doi:10.1038/44633

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Code for fairer lab management p829

A debate on the prospects for women in science reveals some pessimism as well as constructive ideas of wider relevance.

doi:10.1038/44635

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News

Developing countries look for guidance in GM crops debate... p831

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/44637

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...as Rockefeller head warns of backlash p831

Sally Lehrman

doi:10.1038/44640

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Japanese companies join international fight against malaria p832

Asako Saegusa

doi:10.1038/44642

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Database to standardize mouse phenotyping p833

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/44644

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Japan wins bid for top Unesco post p833

David Dickson and Peter Pockley

doi:10.1038/44647

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US Congressman boycotts science meeting with China p834

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/44650

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European biologists unite to lobby for more money p834

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/44652

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Ukrainian scientists charged over transfer of data to West p835

Natasha Loder and Carl Levitin

doi:10.1038/44655

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Indian government faces controversy over new IT ministry p835

K. S. Jayaraman

doi:10.1038/44658

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MIT promises us the sensitive computer ... p836

Steve Nadis

doi:10.1038/44660

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... and may look to Ireland for expansion p836

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/44663

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News Profile

Bringing a community-based vision to the heart of Europe's research p837

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/44665

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News in brief p838

doi:10.1038/44668

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News

correction p839

doi:10.1038/44888

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Correspondence

Accurate radiometers should measure the output of the Sun p841

T. J. Quinn and C. Fröhlich

doi:10.1038/44673

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Finding the complete bioinformaticist p841

David Jones

doi:10.1038/44676

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Pasadena pranks p842

Jean-Paul Revel and A. B. Ruddock

doi:10.1038/44678

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Hospital merger leaves clinical science intact p842

J. Michael Bishop

doi:10.1038/44680

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Freedom to speak or to misinform? p842

Hermann Hamacher

doi:10.1038/44682

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Commentary

Gaps in the Human Genome Project p843

If the multinational Human Genome Project is to continue its successful start, sequencing strategies must be changed.

doi:10.1038/44684

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Autumn Books

Feeling the neurobiological self p847

The self may be defined in terms of responses to experience.

Raymond J. Dolan reviews The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio

doi:10.1038/44690

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The claim of the inner world p848

Jane Kitto reviews Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis by Joseph Schwartz

doi:10.1038/44693

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Dogs, telepathy and quantum mechanics p849

John Maddox reviews Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home — And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals by Rupert Sheldrake

doi:10.1038/44696

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Eccentricities of an everyday substance p850

Frank H. Stillinger reviews H₂O: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball

doi:10.1038/44698

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New rhythms of our lives p851

Paolo Sassone-Corsi reviews The 24 Hour Society by Leon Kreitzman

doi:10.1038/44701

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Know thyself genetically p852

W. F. Bodmer reviews Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley

doi:10.1038/44704

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Darwin's evolution p853

Mark Pagel reviews Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species, Updated by Steve Jones

doi:10.1038/44707

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Coelacanth à la Marseillaise p854

Philippe Janvier reviews A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg

doi:10.1038/44710

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Pogo-centricity p856

Jürgen Heinze reviews Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized by Deborah Gordon

doi:10.1038/44713

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An exobiologist's life search p857

Christopher Chyba reviews Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos by William Poundstone and Carl Sagan: A Life by Keay Davidson

doi:10.1038/44716

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Millennium Essay

Innovation machine on the boil p859

Basic research and technological application are moving closer together.

Helga Nowotny

doi:10.1038/44721

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News and Views

Earth science:  Role reversal in geomagnetism p861

What drives the erratic reversal of Earth's magnetic field? Simulations that allow for variations in heat flow at the core–mantle boundary now implicate events in the mantle.

Bruce Buffett

doi:10.1038/44724

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Neurobiology: Exciting neurotrophins p862

Benedikt Berninger and Mu-ming Poo

doi:10.1038/44727

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Mathematics: Holes and hot spots p863

Ian Stewart

doi:10.1038/44730

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Ecology: Scaling, energetics and diversity p865

Robert J. Whittaker

doi:10.1038/44732

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100 and 50 years ago p865

doi:10.1038/44735

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Mutation: Enzymes of evolutionary change p866

Miroslav Radman

doi:10.1038/44738

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Quantum mechanics: Putting an electron to rest p869

P. Meystre

doi:10.1038/44742

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Immunogenetics: Soaring costs in defence p870

Peter Parham

doi:10.1038/44745

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Daedalus: Nuclear autumn p871

David Jones

doi:10.1038/44747

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Obituary: Arthur James Cain (1921–99) p872

Bryan Clarke

doi:10.1038/44749

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Brief Communications

Ultraviolet vision: The colourful world of the mantis shrimp p873

The colour-vision system of these crustaceans includes four types of UV photoreceptor.

Justin Marshall and Johannes Oberwinkler

doi:10.1038/44751

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AIDS: Re-emergence of HIV after stopping therapy p874

Tae-Wook Chun, Richard T. Davey, Jr, Delphine Engel, H. Clifford Lane and Anthony S. Fauci

doi:10.1038/44755

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Statistical mechanics: Microscopic chaos from brownian motion? p875

C. P. Dettmann, E. G. D. Cohen and H. van Beijeren

doi:10.1038/44759

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Statistical mechanics: Microscopic chaos from brownian motion? p875

Peter Grassberger and Thomas Schreiber

doi:10.1038/44762

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reply to: Statistical mechanics: Microscopic chaos from brownian motion? p876

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

doi:10.1038/44764

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Review

Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution p877

Mark Pagel

doi:10.1038/44766

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Article

The role of the Earth's mantle in controlling the frequency of geomagnetic reversals p885

Gary A. Glatzmaier, Robert S. Coe, Lionel Hongre and Paul H. Roberts

doi:10.1038/44776

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See also: News and Views by Buffett

Letters to Nature

Formation of the radio jet in M87 at 100 Schwarzschild radii from the central black hole p891

William Junor, John A. Biretta and Mario Livio

doi:10.1038/44780

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Controlled growth of hard-sphere colloidal crystals p893

Zhengdong Cheng, William B. Russel and P. M. Chaikin

doi:10.1038/44785

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High-efficiency multilevel zone plates for keV X-rays p895

E. Di Fabrizio, F. Romanato, M. Gentili, S Cabrini, B. Kaulich, J. Susini and R. Barrett

doi:10.1038/44791

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Influence of environmental changes on degradation of chiral pollutants in soils p898

David L. Lewis, A. Wayne Garrison, K. Eric Wommack, Alton Whittemore, Paul Steudler and Jerry Melillo

doi:10.1038/44801

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Mixing and convection in the Greenland Sea from a tracer-release experiment p902

A. J. Watson, M.-J. Messias, E. Fogelqvist, K. A. Van Scoy, T. Johannessen, K. I. C. Oliver, D. P. Stevens, F. Rey, T. Tanhua, K. A. Olsson, F. Carse, K. Simonsen, J. R. Ledwell, E. Jansen, D. J. Cooper, J. A. Kruepke and E. Guilyardi

doi:10.1038/44807

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Ecosystem consequences of wolf behavioural response to climate p905

Eric Post, Rolf O. Peterson, Nils Chr. Stenseth and Brian E. McLaren

doi:10.1038/44814

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Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants p907

Brian J. Enquist, Geoffrey B. West, Eric L. Charnov and James H. Brown

doi:10.1038/44819

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See also: News and Views by Whittaker

Optimizing the success of random searches p911

G. M. Viswanathan, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, M. G. E. da Luz, E. P. Raposo and H. Eugene Stanley

doi:10.1038/44831

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Water stress inhibits plant photosynthesis by decreasing coupling factor and ATP p914

W. Tezara, V. J. Mitchell, S. D. Driscoll and D. W. Lawlor

doi:10.1038/44842

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Neurotrophin-evoked rapid excitation through TrkB receptors p918

Karl W. Kafitz, Christine R. Rose, Hans Thoenen and Arthur Konnerth

doi:10.1038/44847

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See also: News and Views by Berninger & Poo

Complete sequence and gene map of a human major histocompatibility complex p921

The MHC sequencing consortium

doi:10.1038/44853

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See also: News and Views by Parham

The chicken B locus is a minimal essential major histocompatibility complex p923

Jim Kaufman, Sarah Milne, Thomas W. F. Göbel, Brian A. Walker, Jansen P. Jacob, Charles Auffray, Rima Zoorob and Stephan Beck

doi:10.1038/44856

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Actin-based motility of vaccinia virus mimics receptor tyrosine kinase signalling p926

Friedrich Frischknecht, Violaine Moreau, Sabine Röttger, Stefania Gonfloni, Inge Reckmann, Giulio Superti-Furga and Michael Way

doi:10.1038/44860

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Asynchronous replication of imprinted genes is established in the gametes and maintained during development p929

Itamar Simon, Toyoaki Tenzen, Benjamin E. Reubinoff, Dahlia Hillman, John R. McCarrey and Howard Cedar

doi:10.1038/44866

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A kinetic proofreading mechanism for disentanglement of DNA by topoisomerases p932

Jie Yan, Marcelo O. Magnasco and John F. Marko

doi:10.1038/44872

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A triple -spiral in the adenovirus fibre shaft reveals a new structural motif for a fibrous protein p935

Mark J. van Raaij, Anna Mitraki, Gilles Lavigne and Stephen Cusack

doi:10.1038/44880

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