Opinion

International panel for GM food? p109

A proposal to set up a body analogous to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has much to commend it. But it raises questions that should critically influence the allocation of responsibility.

doi:10.1038/35004709

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Re-reforming Unesco p109

The organization's director-general should focus more closely on core goals.

doi:10.1038/35004711

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News

Genome leaders told to keep their eyes on the main prize p111

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35004713

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Revamped GenBank offers extra data links p111

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35004716

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GM debate must go global, says meeting... p112

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/35004718

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... and calls for openness and transparency p112

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/35004721

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Unesco 'worse than I imagined,' says new director p113

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/35004723

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China looks to west for economic growth p113

Tian Xuewen

doi:10.1038/35004726

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Expensive space crystal programme has produced little of scientific value, says panel p114

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/35004728

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Geneticists oppose consent ruling p114

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/35004731

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Panel will seek 'appropriate' AIDS goals for South Africa p115

Michael Cherry

doi:10.1038/35004733

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$350m gift boosts MIT brain power p115

Steve Nadis

doi:10.1038/35004736

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Indian research budget favours defence p116

K. S. Jayaraman

doi:10.1038/35004739

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Rival demands sink genome alliance plans p117

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/35004743

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Biology back issues free as publishers walk HighWire p117

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/35004746

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News in brief p118

doi:10.1038/35004748

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Correspondence

Why private institutions alone will not do enough to protect biodiversity p120

Alexander James, Kevin J. Gaston and Andrew Balmford

doi:10.1038/35004750

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Alzheimer's research is vital in work on ageing p120

Joseph M. Erwin

doi:10.1038/35004752

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Opportunism knocks? p120

Ingo Schubert and Ulrich Wobus

doi:10.1038/35004754

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Book Reviews

Rape as an adaptation p121

Is this contentious hypothesis advocacy, not science?

Jerry A. Coyne and Andrew Berry review A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer

doi:10.1038/35004636

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A celebration of Egyptian history p121

doi:10.1038/35004638

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New lease of life for a dinosaur prize p122

doi:10.1038/35004641

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Amassing the case for the defence p122

Douglas Palmer reviews Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinctions by Vincent Courtillot

doi:10.1038/35004644

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Unfinished portrait of the artist p123

John Nash reviews Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain by Semir Zeki

doi:10.1038/35004646

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Science's stall in the global market-place p124

Norman Myers reviews On the Edge: Living with Global Capitalism

doi:10.1038/35004649

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Millennium Essay

A century of cognitive decline p125

If we live long enough, will we all become demented?

Bruce A. Yankner

doi:10.1038/35004673

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Futures

The song of the Neanderthal p127

From ancient DNA, to an unusual nose, to a sound you can't quite place.

Mark W. Tiedemann

doi:10.1038/35004676

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News and Views

Palaeontology: Life's downs and ups p129

The peak in recovery of biodiversity seems to lag the peak of an extinction by about ten million years. This pattern is independent of the severity of extinction, implying that recoveries create new ecological opportunities.

Douglas Erwin

doi:10.1038/35004679

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100 and 50 years ago p130

doi:10.1038/35004682

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Quantum cloning: Schrödinger's sheep p130

Wojciech H. Zurek

doi:10.1038/35004684

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Neurobiology: A chorus line p131

Emilio Salinas and Ranulfo Romo

doi:10.1038/35004686

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Condensed matter: Too hot to melt p134

A. Lindsay Greer

doi:10.1038/35004689

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Cell biology: Moving in mysterious ways p135

Alison M. Condliffe and Phillip T. Hawkins

doi:10.1038/35004693

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Molecular electronics: Pushing electrons around p137

Mark Ratner

doi:10.1038/35004697

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Entomology: Love is not puffed up p138

Amanda Tromans

doi:10.1038/35004700

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Plate tectonics: The Antarctic connection p139

Richard G. Gordon

doi:10.1038/35004703

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Daedalus: Expiry date guaranteed p140

David Jones

doi:10.1038/35004707

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Brief Communications

Urban benzene and population exposure p141

People aren't just at risk from carcinogenic benzene when they are out on city streets.

Vincenzo Cocheo, Paolo Sacco, Caterina Boaretto, Emile De Saeger, Pascual Perez Ballesta, Henrik Skov, Eddy Goelen, Norbert Gonzalez and Antonia Baeza Caracena

doi:10.1038/35004651

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Fisheries: Climate variability and North Sea cod p142

Carl M. O'Brien, Clive J. Fox, Benjamin Planque and John Casey

doi:10.1038/35004654

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Marine ecology: Bleaching patterns in reef corals p142

B. E. Brown, R. P. Dunne, M. S. Goodson and A. E. Douglas

doi:10.1038/35004657

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Vision: Myopia and ambient night-time lighting p143

Karla Zadnik, Lisa A. Jones, Brett C. Irvin, Robert N. Kleinstein, Ruth E. Manny, Julie A. Shin and Donald O. Mutti

doi:10.1038/35004661

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Vision: Myopia and ambient night-time lighting p144

J. Gwiazda, E. Ong, R. Held and F. Thorn

doi:10.1038/35004663

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Vision: reply: Myopia and ambient night-time lighting p144

Richard A. Stone, Maureen G. Maguire and Graham E. Quinn

doi:10.1038/35004665

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Articles

Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica p145

Steven C. Cande, Joann M. Stock, R. Dietmar Müller and Takemi Ishihara

doi:10.1038/35004501

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See also: News and Views by Gordon

Autoinhibition and activation mechanisms of the Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein p151

Annette S. Kim, Lazaros T. Kakalis, Norzehan Abdul-Manan, Grace A. Liu and Michael K. Rosen

doi:10.1038/35004513

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Letters to Nature

Discovery of calcium in Mercury's atmosphere p159

Thomas A. Bida, Rosemary M. Killen and Thomas H. Morgan

doi:10.1038/35004521

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North–south geological differences between the residual polar caps on Mars p161

P. C. Thomas, M. C. Malin, K. S. Edgett, M. H. Carr, W. K. Hartmann, A. P. Ingersoll, P. B. James, L. A. Soderblom, J. Veverka and R. Sullivan

doi:10.1038/35004528

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Impossibility of deleting an unknown quantum state p164

Arun Kumar Pati and Samuel L. Braunstein

doi:10.1038/35004532

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See also: News and Views by Zurek

Molecular control over Au/GaAs diodes p166

Ayelet Vilan, Abraham Shanzer and David Cahen

doi:10.1038/35004539

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See also: Letter by Vilan et al.

Sintering dense nanocrystalline ceramics without final-stage grain growth p168

I.-Wei Chen and X.-H. Wang

doi:10.1038/35004548

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The influence of Antarctic sea ice on glacial–interglacial CO ₂ variations p171

Britton B. Stephens and Ralph F. Keeling

doi:10.1038/35004556

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Interferometric radar measurements of water level changes on the Amazon flood plain p174

Douglas E. Alsdorf, John M. Melack, Thomas Dunne, Leal A. K. Mertes, Laura L. Hess and Laurence C. Smith

doi:10.1038/35004560

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Delayed biological recovery from extinctions throughout the fossil record p177

James W. Kirchner and Anne Weil

doi:10.1038/35004564

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See also: News and Views by Erwin

Simple rules yield complex food webs p180

Richard J. Williams and Neo D. Martinez

doi:10.1038/35004572

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Inhibitory threshold for critical-period activation in primary visual cortex p183

Michela Fagiolini and Takao K. Hensch

doi:10.1038/35004582

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Attention modulates synchronized neuronal firing in primate somatosensory cortex p187

P. N. Steinmetz, A. Roy, P. J. Fitzgerald, S. S. Hsiao, K. O. Johnson and E. Niebur

doi:10.1038/35004588

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Growth patterns in the developing brain detected by using continuum mechanical tensor maps p190

Paul M. Thompson, Jay N. Giedd, Roger P. Woods, David MacDonald, Alan C. Evans and Arthur W. Toga

doi:10.1038/35004593

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A clonogenic common myeloid progenitor that gives rise to all myeloid lineages p193

Koichi Akashi, David Traver, Toshihiro Miyamoto and Irving L. Weissman

doi:10.1038/35004599

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Regulation of intracellular calcium by a signalling complex of IRAG, IP₃ receptor and cGMP kinase I p197

Jens Schlossmann, Aldo Ammendola, Keith Ashman, Xiangang Zong, Andrea Huber, Gitte Neubauer, Ge-Xin Wang, Hans-Dieter Allescher, Michael Korth, Matthias Wilm, Franz Hofmann and Peter Ruth

doi:10.1038/35004606

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hCds1-mediated phosphorylation of BRCA1 regulates the DNA damage response p201

Jong-Soo Lee, Kimberly M. Collins, Alexandra L. Brown, Chang-Hun Lee and Jay H. Chung

doi:10.1038/35004614

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Ligand binding and conformational motions in myoglobin p205

Andreas Ostermann, Robert Waschipky, Fritz G. Parak and G. Ulrich Nienhaus

doi:10.1038/35004622

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New on the Market

Protein concentration p209

This week's quota of new products concentrates on proteins and peptides.

doi:10.1038/35004667

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