Table of contents
Volume 413 Number 6853 pp3-331
Naturejobs
prospectsMergers and acquisitions p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35095198
regions
Biopolis on the Elbe Dresden p4
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/35095201
Opinion
Fighting against terrorism, engaging with Islamic science p235
Last week's attacks in New York and Washington were an offence against fundamental values that merits a well-targeted response, helped by science. But enhanced contacts with Islamic colleagues should also be pursued.
doi:10.1038/35095165
News
Scientists react to attacks with shock and fears for the future p237
doi:10.1038/35095167
Technology will assist the fight against terrorism p238
William Triplett
doi:10.1038/35095172
Job refusal sparks row over mind-drug critic p240
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/35095176
Mad cow disease comes to Japan p240
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/35095180
Cancer institute director's exit leaves NIH in the lurch p241
Matthew Davis
doi:10.1038/35095182
Top researchers plan to snub fertility conference p241
Erica Klarreich
doi:10.1038/35095185
news feature
Two become one p244
Developmental biologists and cell biologists have long ploughed their separate furrows. But now these two disciplines are coming together in unexpected and exciting ways, says Helen Pearson.
Helen Pearson
doi:10.1038/35095116
The stowaways p247
Over the coming decade, exploration of Mars may reveal whether or not life ever existed on the red planet — but only if the missions can avoid detecting any microbes they bring with them, says Tom Clarke.
Tom Clarke
doi:10.1038/35095124
Correspondence
Probabilities will help us plan for climate change p249
Without estimates, engineers and planners will have to delay decisions or take a gamble.
A. Barrie Pittock, Roger N. Jones and Chris D. Mitchell
doi:10.1038/35095194
Vital parameters need to be in print p249
David Borhani
doi:10.1038/35095196
Book Reviews
Paradox of the savant mind p251
The provocative exceptions to our understanding of intellectual ability.
Allan Snyder reviews Bright Splinters of the Mind: A Personal Story of Research with Autistic Savants by Beate Hermelin
doi:10.1038/35095096
Spandrels or selection? p252
Michael A. Goldman reviews The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul by Richard Morris and Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny
doi:10.1038/35095099
Preaching to the chemical converts p253
John Emsley reviews Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules by Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/35095102
Reading the history of humanity p254
Howy Jacobs reviews The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Astonishing Story That Reveals How Each of Us Can Trace Our Genetic Ancestors/The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes
doi:10.1038/35095105
words
Sex, love and science p255
Serious treatments of science in fiction can be illuminating for both scientists and non-scientists.
Susan Gaines
doi:10.1038/35095130
News and Views
Walking with whales p259
Whales must have evolved from land-based mammals, but fossil evidence of some of the steps in between has been patchy. Newly discovered skeletons with legs fill in the gaps.
Christian de Muizon
doi:10.1038/35095137
Surface physics: A new crack at friction p260
One of the dirty little secrets of physics is that there is no generally accepted explanation of the basic laws of friction. An advance in the theory of cracks will stimulate fresh thinking on the question.
David A. Kessler
doi:10.1038/35095141
Plant biology: Mobile protein signals cell fate p261
In plant roots, different cell types are organized in a well-defined pattern: each cell knows exactly where it is and what it should do. A molecule that tells cells where they are has now been discovered.
Sarah Hake
doi:10.1038/35095143
100 and 50 years ago p263
doi:10.1038/35095147
Superconductivity: Up on the C60 elevator p264
The search for materials that lose electrical resistance — that is, become superconducting — at ever higher temperatures continues to pay dividends.
Paul Grant
doi:10.1038/35095149
Ecology: Crowd trouble for predators p265
Flocking, herding, swarming: call it what you will. But when you're somebody's lunch there's safety in numbers, even when the predator is an aquatic plant.
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/35095151
Nonlinear physics: Déjà vu in optics p267
Using optical fibres, experimentalists have confirmed that a physical version of déjà vu — whereby a system returns to its original state — does occur with light waves.
Nail N. Akhmediev
doi:10.1038/35095154
Cell cycle: Archipelago of destruction p268
The finely balanced activity of enzymes and their regulators keeps the cell-division cycle under control. A newly discovered molecule that ensures the timely destruction of one regulator is mutated in some cancer cells.
Michael Schwab and Mike Tyers
doi:10.1038/35095157
Daedalus: Genomes and souls p269
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35095160
Obituary: Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) p270
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/35095162
Brief Communications
Neonatal sunburn and melanoma in mice p271
Severe sunburn in newborn, but not adult, mice is linked with melanoma in later life.
Frances P. Noonan, Juan A. Recio, Hisashi Takayama, Paul Duray, Miriam R. Anver, Walter L. Rush, Edward C. De Fabo and Glenn Merlino
doi:10.1038/35095108
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Fisheries: Population of origin of Atlantic cod p272
Einar E. Nielsen, Michael M. Hansen, Cathrin Schmidt, Dorte Meldrup and Peter Grønkjaer
doi:10.1038/35095112
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Progress
Controlling photons using electromagnetically induced transparency p273
M. D. Lukin
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doi:10.1038/35095000
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Article
Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls p277
J. G. M. Thewissen, E. M. Williams, L. J. Roe and S. T. Hussain
doi:10.1038/35095005
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See also: News and Views by de Muizon
Letters to Nature
Microscopic electronic inhomogeneity in the high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x p282
S. H. Pan, J. P. O'Neal, R. L. Badzey, C. Chamon, H. Ding, J. R. Engelbrecht, Z. Wang, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, A. K. Gupta, K.-W. Ng, E. W. Hudson, K. M. Lang and J. C. Davis
doi:10.1038/35095012
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Friction and fracture p285
Eric Gerde and M. Marder
doi:10.1038/35095018
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See also: News and Views by Kessler
A high-strain-rate superplastic ceramic p288
B.-N. Kim, K. Hiraga, K. Morita and Y. Sakka
doi:10.1038/35095025
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Ultrafast holographic nanopatterning of biocatalytically formed silica p291
Lawrence L. Brott, Rajesh R. Naik, David J. Pikas, Sean M. Kirkpatrick, David W. Tomlin, Patrick W. Whitlock, Stephen J. Clarson and Morley O. Stone
doi:10.1038/35095031
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High-resolution record of climate stability in France during the last interglacial period p293
Patrick Rioual, Valérie Andrieu-Ponel, Miri Rietti-Shati, Richard W. Battarbee, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Rachid Cheddadi, Maurice Reille, Helena Svobodova and Aldo Shemesh
doi:10.1038/35095037
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An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus accelerates decomposition and acquires nitrogen directly from organic material p297
Angela Hodge, Colin D. Campbell and Alastair H. Fitter
doi:10.1038/35095041
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The rhythm of microbial adaptation p299
Philip Gerrish
doi:10.1038/35095046
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An agrin minigene rescues dystrophic symptoms in a mouse model for congenital muscular dystrophy p302
Joachim Moll, Patrizia Barzaghi, Shuo Lin, Gabriela Bezakova, Hanns Lochmüller, Eva Engvall, Ulrich Müller and Markus A. Ruegg
doi:10.1038/35095054
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Intercellular movement of the putative transcription factor SHR in root patterning p307
Keiji Nakajima, Giovanni Sena, Tal Nawy and Philip N. Benfey
doi:10.1038/35095061
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See also: News and Views by Hake
Archipelago regulates Cyclin E levels in Drosophila and is mutated in human cancer cell lines p311
Kenneth H. Moberg, Daphne W. Bell, Doke C. R. Wahrer, Daniel A. Haber and Iswar K. Hariharan
doi:10.1038/35095068
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See also: News and Views by Schwab & Tyers
Human F-box protein hCdc4 targets cyclin E for proteolysis and is mutated in a breast cancer cell line p316
Heimo Strohmaier, Charles H. Spruck, Peter Kaiser, Kwang-Ai Won, Olle Sangfelt and Steven I. Reed
doi:10.1038/35095076
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See also: News and Views by Schwab & Tyers
A mouse knock-in model exposes sequential proteolytic pathways that regulate p27Kip1 in G1 and S phase p323
Nisar P. Malek, Holly Sundberg, Seth McGrew, Keiko Nakayama, Themis R. Kyriakidis and James M. Roberts
doi:10.1038/35095083
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RNA-binding protein Nrd1 directs poly(A)-independent 3'-end formation of RNA polymerase II transcripts p327
Eric J. Steinmetz, Nicholas K. Conrad, David A. Brow and Jeffry L. Corden
doi:10.1038/35095090
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