Opinion

Is there a spin doctor in the house? p211

A report on science and society provides a useful overview of recent controversies and ways of approaching them. More could have been said about improving researchers' anticipation of the media and lobbyists.

doi:10.1038/35005225

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A job half done p211

Spanish universities' need for research evaluation and competition is as strong as ever.

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News

Europe joins race to turn the Internet into one vast computer p213

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/35005229

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Uproar at Oxford as suspended professor returns to work p214

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/35005232

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Homegrown computer roots out phylogenetic networks p214

Henry Gee

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Irish researchers divided over how to spend huge new fund p215

Alison Abbott

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Protests force primate farm to close p215

Peter Aldhous

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NEON to shed light on environment research p216

Rex Dalton

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Are AIDS dissidents advising South Africa? p216

Michael Cherry

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German research agency stifles creativity p217

Quirin Schiermeier and Patrick Weydt

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EU centres saved from 'catastrophe' p217

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/35005252

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New form of hydrogen power provokes scepticism p218

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/35005254

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Art imitating high-energy physics p219

Alison Abbott

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Older women scientists fight USGS over layoffs p219

Rex Dalton

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News in brief p220

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News

Correction p221

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Correspondence

There's enough food for everyone, but the poor can't afford to buy it p222

Jonathan R. Latham

doi:10.1038/35005264

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Spanish university study ignores research p222

Jorge Mira-Pérez

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Not too late to apologize p222

Bernd Wirsing

doi:10.1038/35005268

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DoE still involved in the Human Genome Project p222

James F. Decker

doi:10.1038/35005270

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Book Reviews

Questions suspended in the ether p223

A recent discovery of early writings by Heinrich Hertz sheds light on his work.

David Hyder and Heinz Lübbig review Über die Constitution der Materie (On the Constitution of Matter) by Heinrich Hertz

doi:10.1038/35005147

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Sewage, motorists and more p224

Henry Petroski reviews The Further Inventions of Daedalus by David E.H. Jones

doi:10.1038/35005150

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Igniting interest in a broad readership p224

William I. Rose reviews Encyclopedia of Volcanoes

doi:10.1038/35005153

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A century of physical endeavour p225

Graham Farmelo reviews Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century by Helge Kragh

doi:10.1038/35005156

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Science in culture p226

Taketo Mizota, Mickey Zdravkovich, Kai-U. Graw and Alfred Leder review

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Millennium Essay

A 1,000-year chain of thinkers p227

...Kant is connected to Abel, Abel's connected to Maxwell ...

Giovanni F. Bignami

doi:10.1038/35005178

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Futures

Reality check p229

Do you sometimes get the feeling that everything's too bad to be true?

David Brin

doi:10.1038/35005182

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News and Views

Quantum engineering: Push-button entanglement p231

Quantum mechanics allows matter to be prepared in a strangely correlated way called entanglement. In future, large numbers of entangled particles may be put to work in quantum computers and precise quantum measurements.

Rainer Blatt

doi:10.1038/35005185

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Plant pathology: Pathogen-driven forest diversity p232

Wim H. van der Putten

doi:10.1038/35005188

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Hydrocarbon fuels: Hopes for a flame-free future p233

Kevin Kendall

doi:10.1038/35005191

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Evolution: In search of the whales' sisters p235

Zhexi Luo

doi:10.1038/35005194

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100 and 50 years ago p236

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Fibre optics: Transparent talk p237

Karen Southwell

doi:10.1038/35005199

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Photonuclear physics: Laser light splits atom p239

Donald Umstadter

doi:10.1038/35005202

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High-pressure physics: The element of uncertainty p240

Russell J. Hemley

doi:10.1038/35005205

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Cell biology: Reeling CASK into the nucleus p241

David S. Bredt

doi:10.1038/35005208

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Daedalus: Electric flight p242

David Jones

doi:10.1038/35005211

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Brief Communications

Growth of carbon micro-trees p243

Carbon deposition under extreme conditions causes tree-like structures to spring up.

P. M. Ajayan, J. M. Nugent, R. W. Siegel, B. Wei and Ph. Kohler-Redlich

doi:10.1038/35005161

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Human performance: Scaling in athletic world records p244

Sandra Savaglio and Vincenzo Carbone

doi:10.1038/35005165

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Transcription: Gene silencing in worms and fungi p245

Caterina Catalanotto, Gianluca Azzalin, Giuseppe Macino and Carlo Cogoni

doi:10.1038/35005169

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Review

Quantum information and computation p247

Charles H. Bennett and David P. DiVincenzo

doi:10.1038/35005001

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Letters to Nature

Experimental entanglement of four particles p256

C. A. Sackett, D. Kielpinski, B. E. King, C. Langer, V. Meyer, C. J. Myatt, M. Rowe, Q. A. Turchette, W. M. Itano, D. J. Wineland and C. Monroe

doi:10.1038/35005011

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Quantum distribution of protons in solid molecular hydrogen at megabar pressures p259

Hikaru Kitamura, Shinji Tsuneyuki, Tadashi Ogitsu and Takashi Miyake

doi:10.1038/35005027

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Towards the clarity limit in optical fibre p262

Gordon A. Thomas, Boris I. Shraiman, Paul F. Glodis and Michael J. Stephen

doi:10.1038/35005034

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Direct oxidation of hydrocarbons in a solid-oxide fuel cell p265

Seungdoo Park, John M. Vohs and Raymond J. Gorte

doi:10.1038/35005040

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Single crystals of an ionic anthracene aggregate with a triplet ground state p267

H. Bock, K. Gharagozloo-Hubmann, M. Sievert, T. Prisner and Z. Havlas

doi:10.1038/35005048

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Seismic hazard in the Marmara Sea region following the 17 August 1999 Izmit earthquake p269

Aurélia Hubert-Ferrari, Aykut Barka, Eric Jacques, Süleyman S. Nalbant, Bertrand Meyer, Rolando Armijo, Paul Tapponnier and Geoffrey C. P. King

doi:10.1038/35005054

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Fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth's inner core p273

John E. Vidale and Paul S. Earle

doi:10.1038/35005059

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The oldest known anthropoid postcranial fossils and the early evolution of higher primates p276

Daniel L. Gebo, Marian Dagosto, K. Christopher Beard, Tao Qi and Jingwen Wang

doi:10.1038/35005066

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Soil pathogens and spatial patterns of seedling mortality in a temperate tree p278

Alissa Packer and Keith Clay

doi:10.1038/35005072

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The ecological cost of sex p281

C. Patrick Doncaster, Graeme E. Pound and Simon J. Cox

doi:10.1038/35005078

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NMDA spikes in basal dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons p285

Jackie Schiller, Guy Major, Helmut J. Koester and Yitzhak Schiller

doi:10.1038/35005094

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The Ras-MAPK pathway is important for olfaction in Caenorhabditis elegans p289

Takaaki Hirotsu, Satoshi Saeki, Masayuki Yamamoto and Yuichi Iino

doi:10.1038/35005101

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An RNA-directed nuclease mediates post-transcriptional gene silencing in Drosophila cells p293

Scott M. Hammond, Emily Bernstein, David Beach and Gregory J. Hannon

doi:10.1038/35005107

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A genetic link between co-suppression and RNA interference in C. elegans p296

René F. Ketting and Ronald H. A. Plasterk

doi:10.1038/35005113

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Nuclear translocation and transcription regulation by the membrane-associated guanylate kinase CASK/LIN-2 p298

Yi-Ping Hsueh, Ting-Fang Wang, Fu-Chia Yang and Morgan Sheng

doi:10.1038/35005118

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Phosphorylation of CPE binding factor by Eg2 regulates translation of c-mos mRNA p302

Raul Mendez, Laura E. Hake, Thorkell Andresson, Laurie E. Littlepage, Joan V. Ruderman and Joel D. Richter

doi:10.1038/35005126

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The structure of malaria pigment -haematin p307

Silvina Pagola, Peter W. Stephens, D. Scott Bohle, Andrew D. Kosar and Sara K. Madsen

doi:10.1038/35005132

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New on the Market

Why not do it by halves? p311

Save with 'half-area' assays and let's hear it for the grapevine in DNA preps.

doi:10.1038/35005172

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Careers and Recruitment

Pushing the frontiers of interdisciplinary research: an idea whose time has come p313

Opportunities for research at the interface between biology and the more quantitative sciences are growing fast. Diane Gershon assesses the field.

Diane Gershon

doi:10.1038/35005213

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Changing the face of training for science at the interface p315

Diane Gershon

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Web watch p316

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Crossing the divide between theory and practice p316

Diane Gershon

doi:10.1038/35005223

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