Naturejobs

A rich diversity p3

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35093203

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Physics, Biotechnology and Government p4

doi:10.1038/35093206

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Opinion

Bad peer reviewers p93

A small proportion of referees are undermining the scientific process, especially in biology. Some of the problems are getting worse, partly because of changes in scientific publishing.

doi:10.1038/35093213

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Astronomy's real priorities p93

Debates over the administration of US astronomy funding have highlighted areas for collaboration between agencies.

doi:10.1038/35093215

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News

French researchers take a stand against cancer gene patent p95

Declan Butler and Sally Goodman

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Venture capital concerns academics p95

Rex Dalton

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Helmholtz Society prepares itself for strategic reforms p96

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/35093222

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Summit to put education at the heart of Brazil's future p96

Ricardo Bonalume

doi:10.1038/35093225

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Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia p97

Mark Schrope

doi:10.1038/35093228

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WHO plans study of Gulf War fallout p97

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/35093231

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Relaxed restrictions blamed for rise in foot and mouth p98

Jim Giles

doi:10.1038/35093234

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Scotland aims to capitalize on spirit of scientific innovation p98

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/35093237

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Astronomers buoyed by rejection of merger p99

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/35093240

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NIH ponders repository for embryonic stem cells p99

Laura Bonetta

doi:10.1038/35093243

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news in brief p100

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News

Erratum p101

doi:10.1038/35093250

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news feature

Peers under pressure p102

As journal editors and scientists meet this week to discuss peer review, Rex Dalton considers what happens when competitive pressures disrupt the process, and examines measures designed to keep the system straight.

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35093252

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Keeping up with the Joneses p105

Massive financial endowments allow the top US universities to offer the best salaries and conditions in the academic world. David Adam asks how their British counterparts can close the gap.

David Adam

doi:10.1038/35093259

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Correspondence

Investment is the best cure for inbreeding p107

Lack of funding and difficulty in setting up new labs encourage researchers to stay put.

Juan Pedro M. Camacho

doi:10.1038/35093265

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Taxonomy is small, but it has its citation classics p107

Eugene Garfield

doi:10.1038/35093267

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Ethical link between IVF and stem-cell research p107

Lewis Wolpert

doi:10.1038/35093269

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Science archives should remain in public hands p108

Peter Harper and Julia Sheppard

doi:10.1038/35093271

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Nature's laws revealed in rhyming couplets p108

N. C. Craig Sharp

doi:10.1038/35093273

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Enthusiasm ran ahead of discoveries still to come p108

Alan P. Zelicoff

doi:10.1038/35093275

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Book Reviews

The 'new synthesis' vindicated p109

Sociobiology is here to stay and the debate now needs to move on.

Laurent Keller reviews The Triumph of Sociobiology by John Alcock

doi:10.1038/35093140

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Shedding light on a golden age p110

John H. Thomas reviews Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun by Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff

doi:10.1038/35093144

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Explosive secrets of the Sun p110

doi:10.1038/35093146

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Techy in fuzzy clothing p111

Horace Freeland Judson reviews Operators and Promoters: The Story of Molecular Biology and Its Creators by Harrison Echols,

doi:10.1038/35093149

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New in paperback p111

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Science in culture p112

Sara Abdulla reviews

doi:10.1038/35093153

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words

Good news is no news p113

How can scientists use the media to give their side of the story to the public?

John Emsley

doi:10.1038/35093175

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concepts

Fidelity and infidelity p115

Miroslav Radman

doi:10.1038/35093178

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News and Views

Particles driven to diffraction p117

Almost 70 years after it was first proposed, an experiment shows that electrons can be diffracted by light waves. This result highlights the interchangeable roles of matter and light.

Philip H. Bucksbaum

doi:10.1038/35093182

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Physiology: Nitric oxide and respiration p118

The theory that haemoglobin evolved to carry oxygen around the body may need a rethink in light of another way in which molecules related to nitric oxide, released from haemoglobin, help the brain control respiration.

Stuart A. Lipton

doi:10.1038/35093186

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100 and 50 years ago p119

doi:10.1038/35093189

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Evolutionary biology: Sum of the arthropod parts p121

Being an arthropod, with an external skeleton and jointed limbs, is a good thing in evolutionary terms. But the question of how the main groups of arthropods are related remains a subject of intense debate.

Mark Blaxter

doi:10.1038/35093191

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Nuclear physics: Sizing up the heavyweights p122

Colliding a heavy projectile with an even heavier target nucleus only occasionally produces superheavy elements. Analyses of the processes that prevent fusion suggest that projectile size is one of the problems.

Yuri Oganessian

doi:10.1038/35093194

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Metabolism: Controlling the glucose factory p125

In times of starvation the liver turns into a glucose-producing organ, providing fuel for the brain. The hormonal signals that control this switch in glucose metabolism may converge on a single regulatory molecule.

Antonio Vidal-Puig and Stephen O'Rahilly

doi:10.1038/35093198

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Daedalus: Extremes of rubbish p126

David Jones

doi:10.1038/35093201

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Brief Communications

Pack formation in cycling and orienteering p127

Avoiding conditions that draw competitors together may be a better way to test ability.

G. J. Ackland and D. Butler

doi:10.1038/35093156

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Sexual selection: Are ducks impressed by drakes' display? p128

Kevin G. McCracken, Robert E. Wilson, Pamela J. McCracken and Kevin P. Johnson

doi:10.1038/35093160

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Nitrogen fixation: Endocrine disrupters and flavonoid signalling p128

Jennifer E. Fox, Marta Starcevic, Kelvin Y. Kow, Matthew E. Burow and John A. McLachlan

doi:10.1038/35093163

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Palaeovegetation (Communications arising): Diversity of temperate plants in east Asia p129

S. P. Harrison, G. Yu, H. Takahara and I. C. Prentice

doi:10.1038/35093166

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Palaeovegetation (Communications arising): Diversity of temperate plants in east Asia p130

Hong Qian and Robert E. Ricklefs

doi:10.1038/35093169

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Article

Control of hepatic gluconeogenesis through the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1 p131

J. Cliff Yoon, Pere Puigserver, Guoxun Chen, Jerry Donovan, Zhidan Wu, James Rhee, Guillaume Adelmant, John Stafford, C. Ronald Kahn, Daryl K. Granner, Christopher B. Newgard and Bruce M. Spiegelman

doi:10.1038/35093050

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Letters to Nature

A high-velocity black hole on a Galactic-halo orbit in the solar neighbourhood p139

I. F. Mirabel, V. Dhawan, R. P. Mignani, I. Rodrigues and F. Guglielmetti

doi:10.1038/35093060

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Observation of the Kapitza–Dirac effect p142

Daniel L. Freimund, Kayvan Aflatooni and Herman Batelaan

doi:10.1038/35093065

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Unexpected inhibition of fusion in nucleus–nucleus collisions p144

A. C. Berriman, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, C. R. Morton, R. D. Butt and J. O. Newton

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Diffusion of point defects in two-dimensional colloidal crystals p147

Alexandros Pertsinidis and X. S. Ling

doi:10.1038/35093077

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Evolution of magma-poor continental margins from rifting to seafloor spreading p150

R. B. Whitmarsh, G. Manatschal and T. A. Minshull

doi:10.1038/35093085

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Mitochondrial protein phylogeny joins myriapods with chelicerates p154

Ui Wook Hwang, Markus Friedrich, Diethard Tautz, Chan Jong Park and Won Kim

doi:10.1038/35093090

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Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology p157

Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory D. Edgecombe and Ward C. Wheeler

doi:10.1038/35093097

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Dissociation between hand motion and population vectors from neural activity in motor cortex p161

Stephen H. Scott, Paul L. Gribble, Kirsten M. Graham and D. William Cabel

doi:10.1038/35093102

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Rae1 and H60 ligands of the NKG2D receptor stimulate tumour immunity p165

Andreas Diefenbach, Eric R. Jensen, Amanda M. Jamieson and David H. Raulet

doi:10.1038/35093109

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S-Nitrosothiols signal the ventilatory response to hypoxia p171

Andrew J. Lipton, Michael A. Johnson, Timothy Macdonald, Michael W. Lieberman, David Gozal and Benjamin Gaston

doi:10.1038/35093117

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The SH2/SH3 adaptor Grb4 transduces B-ephrin reverse signals p174

Chad A. Cowan and Mark Henkemeyer

doi:10.1038/35093123

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CREB regulates hepatic gluconeogenesis through the coactivator PGC-1 p179

Stephan Herzig, Fanxin Long, Ulupi S. Jhala, Susan Hedrick, Rebecca Quinn, Anton Bauer, Dorothea Rudolph, Gunther Schutz, Cliff Yoon, Pere Puigserver, Bruce Spiegelman and Marc Montminy

doi:10.1038/35093131

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erratum: Roles of tumour localization, second signals and cross priming in cytotoxic T-cell induction p183

Adrian F. Ochsenbein, Sophie Sierro, Bernhard Odermatt, Marcus Pericin, Urs Karrer, Ian Hermans, Silvio Hemmi, Hans Hengartner and Rolf M. Zinkernagel

doi:10.1038/35093138

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insight

Molecular sensing p185

doi:10.1038/35093000

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Visual transduction in Drosophila p186

Roger C. Hardie and Padinjat Raghu

doi:10.1038/35093002

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Molecular basis of mechanosensory transduction p194

Peter G. Gillespie and Richard G. Walker

doi:10.1038/35093011

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Molecular mechanisms of nociception p203

David Julius and Allan I. Basbaum

doi:10.1038/35093019

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How the olfactory system makes sense of scents p211

Stuart Firestein

doi:10.1038/35093026

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Receptors and transduction in taste p219

Bernd Lindemann

doi:10.1038/35093032

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Stochastic sensors inspired by biology p226

Hagan Bayley and Paul S. Cremer

doi:10.1038/35093038

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Molecular Sensing p232

doi:10.1038/35093043

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New on the Market

Order, order p233

Some of the latest offerings for the burgeoning sequencing industry.

doi:10.1038/35093171

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