Naturejobs

Subtracting mathematicians p3

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35091275

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The numbers game p4

Mathematicians are in short supply in the United States. Potter Wickware examines how the federal agencies plan to boost the numbers.

Potter Wickware

doi:10.1038/35091267

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Opinion

A sound approach to GM debate p569

If genetic modification is to yield benefits in socially acceptable ways, governments need to ensure that there is broad but well-focused consultation. A New Zealand commission provides an excellent example.

doi:10.1038/35088179

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News

Drugs firms inflate research costs, watchdog says p571

Jonathan Knight

doi:10.1038/35088181

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Mad-cow outbreak spurs German drive to combat prion diseases p571

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/35088183

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Medical journals seek means to free authors from industry p572

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35088187

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Golf course threatens to leave hole in fossil records p572

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35088189

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Canada plans to give unified voice to science p573

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/35088192

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Commission plots transgenic future p573

Peter Pockley

doi:10.1038/35088195

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Whistle-blowers wait for overbilling verdict p574

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35088197

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Soccer robots get the ball rolling p574

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/35088200

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Enterprising drug company offers cash for chemicals p575

David Adam

doi:10.1038/35088203

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Senate urges Bush to act on climate change p575

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/35088205

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news in brief p576

doi:10.1038/35088208

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news feature

Down and out in Murray Hill p578

The name Bell Labs is a byword for technological creativity. But its future is now clouded by the financial woes of its parent company, Lucent Technologies. Irwin Goodwin reports.

Irwin Goodwin

doi:10.1038/35088139

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Faster, better, cheaper genotyping p580

Scanning the genome for subtle genetic variations across thousands of individuals may help researchers find genes that underpin susceptibility to common diseases. Marina Chicurel considers the technological requirements.

Marina Chicurel

doi:10.1038/35088146

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Correspondence

Finding the right questions to ask about the lives of human clones p583

Child-development experts may have useful information.

Ian Wilmut

doi:10.1038/35088212

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Why are Indian journals' impact factors so low? p583

S. B. Vohora and Divya Vohora

doi:10.1038/35088214

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Genome helpdesk site keeps information public p583

Sir George Radda

doi:10.1038/35088216

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Book Reviews

Society talks back p585

The time has come for science to accept that it must leave its cloistered cell.

Jean-Jacques Salomon reviews Re-thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty by Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott and Michael Gibbons

doi:10.1038/35088108

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The case of the missing carpaccio p586

Jerry A. Coyne reviews The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change by Stephen R. Palumbi

doi:10.1038/35088111

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An energetic view of nature p587

George Ellis reviews Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature by Eric J. Chaisson

doi:10.1038/35088114

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Science in culture p588

Martin Kemp reviews

doi:10.1038/35088116

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words

Avoiding ambiguity p589

Scientists sometimes use mathematics to give the illusion of certainty.

Sunetra Gupta

doi:10.1038/35088152

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concepts

Design by numbers p591

R. McNeill Alexander

doi:10.1038/35088155

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News and Views

Nifty nanoplankton p593

The nitrogen cycle in the oceans may need a rethink. It seems that the ability to transform N₂ gas to a biologically available form may be much more widespread than has been assumed.

Jed A. Fuhrman and Douglas G. Capone

doi:10.1038/35088159

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Molecular electronics: Momentous period for nanotubes p594

When conductors are reduced to molecular dimensions they can develop exotic properties. Physicists have now directly confirmed unusual electron behaviour in carbon nanotubes.

David Goldhaber-Gordon and Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon

doi:10.1038/35088162

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100 and 50 years ago p595

doi:10.1038/35088165

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Genome sequencing: The ABC of symbiosis p597

The latest bacterial genome to be completely sequenced has three separate parts and as many genes as yeast. The bacterium needs these genes for its complex life in and around its legume plant partner.

J. Allan Downie and J. Peter W. Young

doi:10.1038/35088167

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Chemistry: On the threshold of stability p598

Carbenes are short-lived compounds containing a highly reactive carbon atom, which makes them difficult to study. A stabilized derivative may lead to new magnetic materials.

Heinz D. Roth

doi:10.1038/35088170

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Signal transduction: Barriers come down p601

A protein known as erythropoietin might be useful in preventing the death of nerve cells in acute brain injury. But how does it work? Crosstalk between two signalling pathways could be the answer.

Ulrich Siebenlist

doi:10.1038/35088174

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Daedalus: Encapsulated gas p602

David Jones

doi:10.1038/35088177

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Brief Communications

Pattern of focal -bursts in chess players p603

Grandmasters call on regions of the brain not used so much by less skilled amateurs.

Ognjen Amidzic, Hartmut J. Riehle, Thorsten Fehr, Christian Wienbruch and Thomas Elbert

doi:10.1038/35088119

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Anabolism: Low mechanical signals strengthen long bones p603

Clinton Rubin, A. Simon Turner, Steven Bain, Craig Mallinckrodt and Kenneth McLeod

doi:10.1038/35088122

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Vision: Realignment of cones after cataract removal p604

Harvey S. Smallman, Donald I. A. MacLeod and Peter Doyle

doi:10.1038/35088126

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Palaeoceanography: Antarctic stratification and glacial CO₂ p605

Ralph F. Keeling and Martin Visbeck

doi:10.1038/35088129

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Palaeoceanography: Antarctic stratification and glacial CO₂ p606

Daniel M. Sigman and Edward A. Boyle

doi:10.1038/35088132

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Article

Structure of the Ku heterodimer bound to DNA and its implications for double-strand break repair p607

John R. Walker, Richard A. Corpina and Jonathan Goldberg

doi:10.1038/35088000

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Letters to Nature

History of trace gases in presolar diamonds inferred from ion-implantation experiments p615

A. P. Koscheev, M. D. Gromov, R. K. Mohapatra and U. Ott

doi:10.1038/35088009

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Two-dimensional imaging of electronic wavefunctions in carbon nanotubes p617

Serge G. Lemay, Jorg W. Janssen, Michiel van den Hout, Maarten Mooij, Michael J. Bronikowski, Peter A. Willis, Richard E. Smalley, Leo P. Kouwenhoven and Cees Dekker

doi:10.1038/35088013

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Observation of individual vortices trapped along columnar defects in high-temperature superconductors p620

A. Tonomura, H. Kasai, O. Kamimura, T. Matsuda, K. Harada, Y. Nakayama, J. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, T. Hanaguri, K. Kitazawa, M. Sasase and S. Okayasu

doi:10.1038/35088021

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Vacancies in solids and the stability of surface morphology p622

K. F. McCarty, J. A. Nobel and N. C. Bartelt

doi:10.1038/35088026

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Generation and characterization of a fairly stable triplet carbene p626

Hideo Tomioka, Eri Iwamoto, Hidetaka Itakura and Katsuyuki Hirai

doi:10.1038/35088038

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Normal faulting in central Tibet since at least 13.5 Myr ago p628

Peter M. Blisniuk, Bradley R. Hacker, Johannes Glodny, Lothar Ratschbacher, Siwen Bi, Zhenhan Wu, Michael O. McWilliams and Andy Calvert

doi:10.1038/35088045

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Resistance to mantle flow inferred from the electromagnetic strike of the Australian upper mantle p632

Fiona Simpson

doi:10.1038/35088051

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Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N₂ in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean p635

Jonathan P. Zehr, John B. Waterbury, Patricia J. Turner, Joseph P. Montoya, Enoma Omoregie, Grieg F. Steward, Andrew Hansen and David M. Karl

doi:10.1038/35088063

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Density-dependent mortality in an oceanic copepod population p638

M. D. Ohman and H.-J. Hirche

doi:10.1038/35088068

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Erythropoietin-mediated neuroprotection involves cross-talk between Jak2 and NF-B signalling cascades p641

Murat Digicaylioglu and Stuart A. Lipton

doi:10.1038/35088074

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Spred is a Sprouty-related suppressor of Ras signalling p647

Toru Wakioka, Atsuo Sasaki, Reiko Kato, Takanori Shouda, Akira Matsumoto, Kanta Miyoshi, Makoto Tsuneoka, Setsuro Komiya, Roland Baron and Akihiko Yoshimura

doi:10.1038/35088082

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General transcription factors bind promoters repressed by Polycomb group proteins p651

Achim Breiling, Bryan M. Turner, Marco E. Bianchi and Valerio Orlando

doi:10.1038/35088090

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A Drosophila Polycomb group complex includes Zeste and dTAFII proteins p655

Andrew J. Saurin, Zhaohui Shao, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Paul Tempst and Robert E. Kingston

doi:10.1038/35088096

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correction: A peptide vaccination prevents memory loss in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease p660

Dave Morgan, David M. Diamond, Paul E. Gottschall, Kenneth E. Ugen, Chad Dickey, John Hardy, Karen Duff, Paul Jantzen, Giovanni DiCarlo, Donna Wilcock, Karen Connor, Jaime Hatcher, Caroline Hope, Marcia Gordon and Gary W. Arendash

doi:10.1038/35088102

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erratum: LTRPC7 is a MgATP-regulated divalent cation channel required for cell viability p660

Monica J. S. Nadler, Meredith C. Hermosura, Kazunori Inabe, Anne-Laure Perraud, Qiqin Zhu, Alexander J. Stokes, Tomohiro Kurosaki, Jean-Pierre Kinet, Reinhold Penner, Andrew M. Scharenberg and Andrea Fleig

doi:10.1038/35088104

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erratum: Coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in the d-band metal ZrZn₂ p660

C. Pfleiderer, M. Uhlarz, S. M. Hayden, R. Vollmer, H. v. Löhneysen, N. R. Bernhoeft and G. G. Lonzarich

doi:10.1038/35088106

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New on the Market

The age of discovery p661

Lab equipment aimed at drug discovery and other high-throughput tasks.

doi:10.1038/35088134

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