Opinion

Affirmative action ignored p795

A report from the White House valuably highlights the chronic difficulties in the United States in involving minority groups in science and technology. But it wrongly skirts around a key issue in alleviating a potential crisis.

doi:10.1038/35009203

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Wellcome in the dock p795

Power brings unfair criticism, fair scrutiny and a need for transparency.

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News

Clean-up strategy at Australian nuclear site called into question p797

Peter Pockley

doi:10.1038/35009207

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UK defence research goes private p797

Peter Aldhous

doi:10.1038/35009210

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Middle East's synchrotron heads for Jordan p798

Heather McCabe

doi:10.1038/35009212

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Top physicist crosses to Boston in search of like minds p798

Steve Nadis

doi:10.1038/35009214

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Critics blast US missile defence system as flawed p799

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/35009217

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California targets GM-trial vandals with new legislation p799

Sally Lehrmann

doi:10.1038/35009220

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Congress moves to open up access for foreign academics p800

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/35009222

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Women and ethnic minorities needed for US skills gap... p800

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/35009224

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...as academic pay fails to keep up p800

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35009227

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A first in computer printing p801

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/35009229

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US energy agency sequences human chromosome trio p801

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35009232

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Bid to relax rules on tissue transport runs into opposition p801

Michael Cherry

doi:10.1038/35009234

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Wellcome shoulders its share of blame for Oxford debacle p802

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/35009237

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Politicians seek to block human-gene patents in Europe p802

Alison Abbott and Ulrike Hellerer

doi:10.1038/35009240

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News in brief p803

doi:10.1038/35009242

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News Feature

A silence that speaks volumes p804

A biological gagging order, used in the fight against viruses, could revolutionize our understanding of genetics and development. Trisha Gura listens in on the world of gene silencing.

Trisha Gura

doi:10.1038/35009245

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Correspondence

Open-source work even more vital to genome project than to software p809

Andreas P. Russ, Samuel A. J. R. Aparicio and Mark B. L. Carlton

doi:10.1038/35009255

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Mayo and the mouse p809

Steven G. Younkin and Susan Stoddard

doi:10.1038/35009257

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Book Reviews

Science rules — OK? p811

An attempt to portray science as an unrivalled guide to action.

John Ziman reviews Prometheus Bedeviled: Science and the Contradictions of Contemporary Culture by Norman Levitt

doi:10.1038/35009000

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A meeting of rival cultures p811

doi:10.1038/35009002

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Advances in a toxic offensive p812

Alastair Hay reviews Plague Wars: A True Story of Biological Warfare by Tom Mangold and Jeff Goldberg

doi:10.1038/35009005

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Ecological Scrabble played in earnest p813

Jeffrey A. Harvey reviews Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons by Simon Levin

doi:10.1038/35009008

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A South American tail or two p813

doi:10.1038/35009010

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Turned out nice again p814

Mojib Latif reviews The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate by William K. Stevens

doi:10.1038/35009013

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New in paperback p814

doi:10.1038/35009015

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Millennium Essay

Mighty mice p815

Clarence Little's brainwave gave biomedical researchers their best friend.

Michael F.W. Festing and Elizabeth M.C. Fisher

doi:10.1038/35009167

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Futures

The paradigm and the pendulum p817

All hail the new Dark Ages.

William K. Hartmann

doi:10.1038/35009200

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News and Views

Respiration in the balance p819

Models of how forests will respond to climate change usually assume that carbon dioxide output from decomposing organic matter will increase with global warming. That assumption may be wrong.

John Grace and Mark Rayment

doi:10.1038/35009170

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Cognitive neuroscience: Seeing in the sound zone p820

Michael Merzenich

doi:10.1038/35009174

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Ceramic technology: Oxide-ion conductors by design p821

John B. Goodenough

doi:10.1038/35009177

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Cancer: New guardians of the genome p823

David B. Roth and Martin Gellert

doi:10.1038/35009180

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100 and 50 years ago p824

doi:10.1038/35009183

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Neurobiology: A moving experience p825

Kevin Fox

doi:10.1038/35009185

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Daedalus: High tension p827

David Jones

doi:10.1038/35009188

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Obituary: William Donald Hamilton (1936–2000) p828

Robert Trivers

doi:10.1038/35009190

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News and Views Feature

Small bodies of the Solar System p829

Discoveries of comets that behave like asteroids and asteroids that behave like comets are making us reassess our view of Earth's smallest neighbours.

Don Yeomans

doi:10.1038/35009193

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Brief Communications

Euler's disk and its finite-time singularity p833

Air viscosity makes the rolling speed of a disk go up as its energy goes down.

H. K. Moffatt

doi:10.1038/35009017

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Molecular transistors: Potential modulations along carbon nanotubes p834

Sander J. Tans and Cees Dekker

doi:10.1038/35009026

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Biogeochemistry: Microbial essentials at hydrothermal vents p835

Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Amy B. Banta, David R. Boone, Stephen C. Cary and George W. Luther

doi:10.1038/35009029

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Conservation: Rainforest fragmentation kills big trees p836

William F. Laurance, Patricia Delamônica, Susan G. Laurance, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos and Thomas E. Lovejoy

doi:10.1038/35009032

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Articles

Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers p837

J. J. Niemela, L. Skrbek, K. R. Sreenivasan and R. J. Donnelly

doi:10.1038/35009036

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Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex p841

Jitendra Sharma, Alessandra Angelucci and Mriganka Sur

doi:10.1038/35009043

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Letters to Nature

Extended magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause from detection of bi-directional jets p848

T. D. Phan, L. M. Kistler, B. Klecker, G. Haerendel, G. Paschmann, B. U. Ö. Sonnerup, W. Baumjohann, M. B. Bavassano-Cattaneo, C. W. Carlson, A. M. DiLellis, K.-H. Fornacon, L. A. Frank, M. Fujimoto, E. Georgescu, S. Kokubun, E. Moebius, T. Mukai, M. Øieroset, W. R. Paterson and H. Reme

doi:10.1038/35009050

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Statistical signatures of photon localization p850

A. A. Chabanov, M. Stoytchev and A. Z. Genack

doi:10.1038/35009055

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Spontaneous macroscopic magnetization at the superconducting transition temperature of YBa₂Cu₃O_7- p853

R. Carmi, E. Polturak, G. Koren and A. Auerbach

doi:10.1038/35009062

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Designing fast oxide-ion conductors based on La₂Mo₂O ₉ p856

Philippe Lacorre, François Goutenoire, Odile Bohnke, Richard Retoux and Yvon Laligant

doi:10.1038/35009069

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Evidence that decomposition rates of organic carbon in mineral soil do not vary with temperature p858

Christian P. Giardina and Michael G. Ryan

doi:10.1038/35009076

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Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests p861

R. Valentini, G. Matteucci, A. J. Dolman, E.-D. Schulze, C. Rebmann, E. J. Moors, A. Granier, P. Gross, N. O. Jensen, K. Pilegaard, A. Lindroth, A. Grelle, C. Bernhofer, T. Grünwald, M. Aubinet, R. Ceulemans, A. S. Kowalski, T. Vesala, Ü. Rannik, P. Berbigier, D. Loustau, J. Gumundsson, H. Thorgeirsson, A. Ibrom, K. Morgenstern, R. Clement, J. Moncrieff, L. Montagnani, S. Minerbi and P. G. Jarvis

doi:10.1038/35009084

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Determination of relative growth rates of natural quartz crystals p865

Phillip D. Ihinger and Stephen I. Zink

doi:10.1038/35009091

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Insurance-based advantage to helpers in a tropical hover wasp p869

Jeremy Field, Gavin Shreeves, Seirian Sumner and Maurizio Casiraghi

doi:10.1038/35009097

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Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway p871

Laurie von Melchner, Sarah L. Pallas and Mriganka Sur

doi:10.1038/35009102

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Experience-dependent plasticity of dendritic spines in the developing rat barrel cortex in vivo p876

Balazs Lendvai, Edward A. Stern, Brian Chen and Karel Svoboda

doi:10.1038/35009107

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Ion permeation mechanism of the potassium channel p881

Johan Åqvist and Victor Luzhkov

doi:10.1038/35009114

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CD1c-mediated T-cell recognition of isoprenoid glycolipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection p884

D. Branch Moody, Timo Ulrichs, Walter Mühlecker, David C. Young, Sudagar S. Gurcha, Ethan Grant, Jean-Pierre Rosat, Michael B. Brenner, Catherine E. Costello, Gurdyal S. Besra and Steven A. Porcelli

doi:10.1038/35009119

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Integration of floral inductive signals in Arabidopsis p889

Miguel A. Blázquez and Detlef Weigel

doi:10.1038/35009125

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Role of NF-B in p53-mediated programmed cell death p892

Kevin M. Ryan, Mary K. Ernst, Nancy R. Rice and Karen H. Vousden

doi:10.1038/35009130

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Interplay of p53 and DNA-repair protein XRCC4 in tumorigenesis, genomic stability and development p897

Yijie Gao, David O. Ferguson, Wei Xie, John P. Manis, JoAnn Sekiguchi, Karen M. Frank, Jayanta Chaudhuri, James Horner, Ronald A. DePinho and Frederick W. Alt

doi:10.1038/35009138

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Single-molecule analysis of DNA uncoiling by a type II topoisomerase p901

Terence R. Strick, Vincent Croquette and David Bensimon

doi:10.1038/35009144

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erratum: Uptake of apoptotic cells drives the growth of a pathogenic trypanosome in macrophages p904

Célio G. Freire-de-Lima, Danielle O. Nascimento, Milena B. P. Soares, Patricia T. Bozza, Hugo C. Castro-Faria-Neto, Fernando G. de Mello, George A. DosReis and Marcela F. Lopes

doi:10.1038/35009154

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erratum: Formation of molecular gas in the tidal debris of violent galaxy–galaxy interactions p904

Jonathan Braine, Ute Lisenfeld, Pierre-Alain Duc and Stéphane Leon

doi:10.1038/35009156

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correction: The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22 p904

I. Dunham, N. Shimizu, B. A. Roe and S. Chissoe

doi:10.1038/35009158

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correction: Tribosphenic mammal from the North American Early Cretaceous p904

Richard L. Cifelli

doi:10.1038/35009160

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New on the Market

Something for the weekend p905

Molecular biology is easier with good alcohol, and ³²P delivered on a Friday.

doi:10.1038/35009162

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