Opinion

Whose scans are they, anyway? p443

Raw data are useful for researchers wishing to replicate the results of an experiment. Care needs to be taken when, as with brain-imaging measurements, such data can be misused or misinterpreted.

doi:10.1038/35020214

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Britain's science bounties p443

Announcements of enhanced funding for researchers and equipment are almost as good as they look.

doi:10.1038/35020216

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News

UK hopes that big-money deals will attract top talent p446

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/35020224

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Science may lose out from sale of 'flying reptile' fossil p446

Jessa Netting

doi:10.1038/35020252

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Researchers criticize response to killer algae p447

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35020226

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France may bid for fusion reactor p447

Heather McCabe

doi:10.1038/35020229

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Astronomers silenced in star-name wars p448

William Triplett

doi:10.1038/35020232

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Berlin genome centre to go ahead p448

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/35020235

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Ocean researchers dive to deep-sea stations p449

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/35020238

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News Feature

Ecology goes underground p452

The functioning of terrestrial ecosystems seems to depend heavily on soil biodiversity. But what controls this diversity, and how will it fare in the global greenhouse? Jon Copley digs for some answers.

Jon Copley

doi:10.1038/35020131

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Correspondence

How can the developing world protect itself from biotech patent-holders? p455

John H. Barton and Joseph Strauss

doi:10.1038/35020244

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Cost of institute was small change to Roche p455

Urs Christen

doi:10.1038/35020246

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How neptunium led to the birth of plutonium p455

C. R. Richmond

doi:10.1038/35020248

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Book Reviews

The road to decarbonized energy p457

Speeding towards a hydrogen economy — and the obstacles along the way

Stanford R. Ovshinsky reviews Powering the Future: The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World by Tom Koppel and Prospects for Sustainable Energy: A Critical Assessment by Edward S. Cassedy

doi:10.1038/35020138

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Romancing the dome p458

Rodney Cotterill reviews The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions, Consciousness, and the Secret of the Self by Susan Greenfield

doi:10.1038/35020141

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Forces to be reckoned with p458

Peter Wrobel

doi:10.1038/35020143

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Trek to an inhabited wilderness p459

Louis Warren reviews Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition

doi:10.1038/35020146

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Nature in hot water p459

doi:10.1038/35020148

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Science in culture p460

Haim Watzman reviews

doi:10.1038/35020151

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Millennium Essay

Start making sense p461

Scientists must stop isolating themselves behind walls of jargon.

Raúl Camba

doi:10.1038/35020154

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Futures

Taking control p462

Great moments in megaengineering.

Gregory Benford

doi:10.1038/35020157

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News and Views

Biodiversity's ups and downs p463

Natural ecosystems are devilishly difficult to study. Hence the resort to laboratory simulations, involving short-lived organisms like bacteria, to tackle the question of why some ecosystems support more species than others.

Peter J. Morin

doi:10.1038/35020160

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Phase transitions: Catching crystals at birth p464

David W. Oxtoby

doi:10.1038/35020163

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Alzheimer's disease: Plaque removers and shakers p465

Marie-Thérèse Heemels

doi:10.1038/35020165

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100 and 50 years ago p465

doi:10.1038/35020168

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Cancer: Molecular switches in metastasis p466

Anne Ridley

doi:10.1038/35020170

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High-temperature superconductors: Some vortices like it hot p467

Patrick A. Lee

doi:10.1038/35020173

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Global change: Iron uncertainty p468

Adina Paytan

doi:10.1038/35020176

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Bacterial genomics: Treasure trove for cholera research p469

Matthew K. Waldor and Debabrata RayChaudhuri

doi:10.1038/35020178

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Geophysics: Taking the Earth's temperature p470

Ian Jackson

doi:10.1038/35020182

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Daedalus: The soda solution p471

David Jones

doi:10.1038/35020185

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Obituary: Seymour S. Kety (1915–2000) p472

Leon Elsenberg

doi:10.1038/35020187

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Brief Communications

Oncogene inactivation in a mouse model p473

Tissue invasion by leukaemic cells is stalled by loading them with a designer ribozyme.

Tsuyoshi Tanabe, Tomoko Kuwabara, Masaki Warashina, Kenzaburo Tani, Kazunari Taira and Shigetaka Asano

doi:10.1038/35020190

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Entomology: Home-site fidelity in migratory honeybees p474

Peter Neumann, Nikolaus Koeniger, Gudrun Koeniger, Salim Tingek, Per Kryger and Robin F. A. Moritz

doi:10.1038/35020193

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Entomology: Giant honeybees return to their nest sites p475

J. Paar, B. P. Oldroyd and G. Kastberger

doi:10.1038/35020196

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Article

DNA sequence of both chromosomes of the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae p477

John F. Heidelberg, Jonathan A. Eisen, William C. Nelson, Rebecca A. Clayton, Michelle L. Gwinn, Robert J. Dodson, Daniel H. Haft, Erin K. Hickey, Jeremy D. Peterson, Lowell Umayam, Steven R. Gill, Karen E. Nelson, Timothy D. Read, Hervé Tettelin, Delwood Richardson, Maria D. Ermolaeva, Jessica Vamathevan, Steven Bass, Haiying Qin, Ioana Dragoi, Patrick Sellers, Lisa McDonald, Teresa Utterback, Robert D. Fleishmann, William C. Nierman, Owen White, Steven L. Salzberg, Hamilton O. Smith, Rita R. Colwell, John J. Mekalanos, J. Craig Venter and Claire M. Fraser

doi:10.1038/35020000

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See also: News and Views by Waldor & RayChaudhuri

Letters to Nature

Evidence for free precession in a pulsar p484

I. H. Stairs, A. G. Lyne and S. L. Shemar

doi:10.1038/35020010

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Vortex-like excitations and the onset of superconducting phase fluctuation in underdoped La_2-xSr_xCuO₄ p486

Z. A. Xu, N. P. Ong, Y. Wang, T. Kakeshita and S. Uchida

doi:10.1038/35020016

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See also: News and Views by Lee

Pixel switching of epitaxial Pd/YH_x/CaF₂ switchable mirrors p489

J. W. J. Kerssemakers, S. J. van der Molen, N. J. Koeman, R. Günther and R. Griessen

doi:10.1038/35020024

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Electrostatic trapping of ammonia molecules p491

Hendrick L. Bethlem, Giel Berden, Floris M. H. Crompvoets, Rienk T. Jongma, André J. A. van Roij and Gerard Meijer

doi:10.1038/35020030

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Quasi-planar nucleus structure in apoferritin crystallization p494

S.-T. Yau and Peter G. Vekilov

doi:10.1038/35020035

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See also: News and Views by Oxtoby

Marine control of biological production in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean p497

Paul Loubere

doi:10.1038/35020041

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See also: News and Views by Paytan

Annual modulation of triggered seismicity following the 1992 Landers earthquake in California p500

Stephen S. Gao, Paul G. Silver, Alan T. Linde and I. Selwyn Sacks

doi:10.1038/35020045

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Ocean circulation off east Antarctica affects ecosystem structure and sea-ice extent p504

Stephen Nicol, Tim Pauly, Nathan L. Bindoff, Simon Wright, Deborah Thiele, Graham W. Hosie, Peter G. Strutton and Eric Woehler

doi:10.1038/35020053

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Diversity peaks at intermediate productivity in a laboratory microcosm p508

Rees Kassen, Angus Buckling, Graham Bell and Paul B. Rainey

doi:10.1038/35020060

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See also: News and Views by Morin

Herbivory-induced volatiles elicit defence genes in lima bean leaves p512

Gen-ichiro Arimura, Rika Ozawa, Takeshi Shimoda, Takaaki Nishioka, Wilhelm Boland and Junji Takabayashi

doi:10.1038/35020072

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Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms contribute to motor neuron pathfinding p515

Kamal Sharma, Ann E. Leonard, Karen Lettieri and Samuel L. Pfaff

doi:10.1038/35020078

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An intrinsic but cell-nonautonomous defect in GATA-1-overexpressing mouse erythroid cells p519

David Whyatt, Fokke Lindeboom, Alar Karis, Rita Ferreira, Eric Milot, Rudi Hendriks, Marella de Bruijn, An Langeveld, Joost Gribnau, Frank Grosveld and Sjaak Philipsen

doi:10.1038/35020086

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Different initiation of pre-TCR and TCR signalling p524

Claude Saint-Ruf, Maddalena Panigada, Orly Azogui, Pascale Debey, Harald von Boehmer and Fabio Grassi

doi:10.1038/35020093

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Distinct -catenins mediate adhesion and signalling functions in C. elegans p527

Hendrik C. Korswagen, Michael A. Herman and Hans C. Clevers

doi:10.1038/35020099

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Genomic analysis of metastasis reveals an essential role for RhoC p532

Edwin A. Clark, Todd R. Golub, Eric S. Lander and Richard O. Hynes

doi:10.1038/35020106

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See also: News and Views by Ridley

Molecular classification of cutaneous malignant melanoma by gene expression profiling p536

M. Bittner, P. Meltzer, Y. Chen, Y. Jiang, E. Seftor, M. Hendrix, M. Radmacher, R. Simon, Z. Yakhini, A. Ben-Dor, N. Sampas, E. Dougherty, E. Wang, F. Marincola, C. Gooden, J. Lueders, A. Glatfelter, P. Pollock, J. Carpten, E. Gillanders, D. Leja, K. Dietrich, C. Beaudry, M. Berens, D. Alberts, V. Sondak, N. Hayward and J. Trent

doi:10.1038/35020115

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A chromatin remodelling complex involved in transcription and DNA processing p541

Xuetong Shen, Gaku Mizuguchi, Ali Hamiche and Carl Wu

doi:10.1038/35020123

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Careers and Recruitment

Collaborations prepare to untangle the circuitry of the brain p545

Scientists from many disciplines are putting their heads together in an attempt to understand how the brain works. Diane Gershon listens in.

Diane Gershon

doi:10.1038/35020199

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Mahoney centre set to tackle brain cancer head on p546

Diane Gershon

doi:10.1038/35020204

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