Table of contents
Volume 413 Number 6857 pp3-755
Naturejobs
prospectsRight physics problem, but... p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35099733
movers
Government, Physics, Biotech, and University Administration p4
doi:10.1038/35099735
Opinion
Anti-terrorist agendas p655
The current security crisis will lead to the restoration of an intimate relationship between science and the US federal government, in which money-grubbing will take a back seat.
doi:10.1038/35099683
Top-heavy and out of touch? p655
A powerful new agency needs to attain a more appropriate balance between Japan's policy-makers and researchers.
doi:10.1038/35099685
News
Genetic sleuths rush to identify anthrax strains in mail attacks p657
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35099687
Bioweapons treaty under threat p657
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/35099691
Scientific leaders respond to US government's call to arms p658
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35099693
Gaps remain in Japan's biodefences p658
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35099695
Birds fly in the face of 'green' farming incentive scheme p659
John Whitfield
doi:10.1038/35099698
Plans to centralize biology research set for rough ride p659
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35099702
CERN's head rejects mismanagement claims p660
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35099704
Sanger Centre welcomes gene funds with a new name p660
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35099707
Chemistry prize reflects tailor-made reactions p661
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35099709
Bid to end EU's transgenic impasse p661
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35099712
news feature
The outrageous hypothesis p664
For over a quarter of a century, planetary scientists have believed that water helped to shape the surface of Mars. Now one geophysicist is trying to prove them wrong. Larry O'Hanlon reports.
Larry O'Hanlon
doi:10.1038/35099718
It all falls into place... p667
Researchers working on molecular self-assembly have never lacked ambition, but their dreams of producing commercially viable devices always looked like a distant goal. That may be about to change, says Philip Ball.
Phillip Ball
doi:10.1038/35099593
Correspondence
Owen was right, as Darwin's work continues p669
Tribute to Darwin was not a veiled attack but a genuine expression of hope for the future.
Jacob W. Gruber
doi:10.1038/35099725
SPOrt to fill a gap on cosmic maps p669
Stefano Cortiglioni
doi:10.1038/35099727
Singapore considers institute's future p669
Khaw Boon Wan
doi:10.1038/35099729
Peers under review p669
Stephen K. Donovan
doi:10.1038/35099731
New Journals
The best and worst of times p671
What winners will emerge from the battles over access to scholarly data?
David R. Worlock reviews
doi:10.1038/35099599
Lessons for the future of journals p672
Science journals can continue to thrive because they provide major benefits.
Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King review
doi:10.1038/35099602
Travelling the genomic road p674
Samuel Broder reviews Pharmacogenomics and Physiological Genomics and Current Genomics and Proteomics
doi:10.1038/35099606
The Earth cubed p675
Donald E. Canfield reviews Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3): An Electronic Journal of the Earth Sciences
doi:10.1038/35099609
Towards a common future p675
David R. Brown reviews Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development
doi:10.1038/35099612
Room for one more on board? p676
Amir Hoveyda reviews Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
doi:10.1038/35099615
Forum for the genomic onslaught p676
John D. McPherson reviews GenomeBiology.com
doi:10.1038/35099618
On the high side of life p677
Ronald J. White and Jancy C. McPhee review High Altitude Medicine & Biology
doi:10.1038/35099621
Outlook on a crisis discipline p678
Oscar E. Gaggiotti reviews Conservation Genetics
doi:10.1038/35099624
The organic chemist's newswire p678
Richard E. Taylor reviews Organic Letters
doi:10.1038/35099627
A European slant on mol biol p679
Hidde Ploegh reviews EMBO Reports
doi:10.1038/35099630
The way of the future? p680
William Hersh reviews BioMed Central (online only)
doi:10.1038/35099633
words
In the name of love? p681
By defining ideas precisely, as science does, fiction would deny its readers freedom of interpretation.
Alan Lightman
doi:10.1038/35099636
News and Views
Fat and formation in flight p685
Predictions of flight performance in birds rely heavily on aerodynamic theory because it is difficult to measure energy consumption in flight. Fresh data leave part of the theory up in the air.
Jeremy M. V. Rayner
doi:10.1038/35099643
Mathematics: Where drunkards hang out p686
The trail of a particle undergoing brownian motion might be unkindly described as a drunken walk. A 40-year-old conjecture related to brownian motion and such random walks has finally been proved.
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/35099646
Archaeology: Tree trail to Chaco Canyon p687
Strontium isotopes have been used to identify the sources of timber in buildings around one thousand years old. The method can now help to solve a range of other problems.
Jared Diamond
doi:10.1038/35099649
100 and 50 years ago p689
doi:10.1038/35099652
Materials science: A magnet made from carbon p690
Conventional wisdom says that magnetic materials have to contain some metallic atoms. So the discovery of a type of pure carbon that is magnetic at room temperature is bound to invite controversy.
Fernando Palacio
doi:10.1038/35099654
Huntington's disease: Exploiting expression p691
Huntington's disease results from defects in the huntingtin protein, but the exact mechanism has been unclear. Researchers now have a better idea, and the knowledge has proved beneficial — for flies at least.
Gillian P. Bates
doi:10.1038/35099656
Oceanography: Quo vadis, iceberg? p693
Heike Langenberg
doi:10.1038/35099659
Crystallization: Diversity suppresses growth p694
Colloids, which consist of small particles in suspension, can switch from a fluid to a crystalline state. But a careful simulation of this phase transition shows that some types of colloids cannot crystallize.
David W. Oxtoby
doi:10.1038/35099662
Molecular biology: RNA enzymes for RNA splicing p695
Many messenger RNAs are not functional until they are processed by a complex called the spliceosome. It seems increasingly likely that processing is catalysed by the RNA — and not the protein — parts of this complex.
Andy Newman
doi:10.1038/35099665
Daedalus: A word in your ear p696
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35099668
Brief Communications
Energy saving in flight formation p697
Pelicans flying in a 'V' can glide for extended periods using the other birds' air streams.
Henri Weimerskirch, Julien Martin, Yannick Clerquin, Peggy Alexandre and Sarka Jiraskova
doi:10.1038/35099670
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Deep-sea ecology: Developmental arrest in vent worm embryos p698
Florence Pradillon, Bruce Shillito, Craig M. Young and Françoise Gaill
doi:10.1038/35099674
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Geophysics: Longitudinal variation in springtime ozone trends p699
Bjørn M. Knudsen and Signe B. Andersen
doi:10.1038/35099677
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Plant genetics: Ancient wild olives in Mediterranean forests p700
Roselyne Lumaret and Noureddine Ouazzani
doi:10.1038/35099680
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Article
Splicing-related catalysis by protein-free snRNAs p701
Saba Valadkhan and James L. Manley
doi:10.1038/35099500
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See also: News and Views by Newman
Letters to Nature
Discovery of X-rays from the protostellar outflow object HH2 p708
Steven H. Pravdo, Eric D. Feigelson, Gordon Garmire, Yoshitomo Maeda, Yohko Tsuboi and John Bally
doi:10.1038/35099508
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Suppression of crystal nucleation in polydisperse colloids due to increase of the surface free energy p711
Stefan Auer and Daan Frenkel
doi:10.1038/35099513
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See also: News and Views by Oxtoby
Self-assembled monolayer organic field-effect transistors p713
Jan Hendrik Schön, Hong Meng and Zhenan Bao
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Magnetic carbon p716
Tatiana L. Makarova, Bertil Sundqvist, Roland Höhne, Pablo Esquinazi, Yakov Kopelevich, Peter Scharff, Valerii A. Davydov, Ludmila S. Kashevarova and Aleksandra V. Rakhmanina
doi:10.1038/35099527
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See also: News and Views by Palacio
Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctic ice sheet at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary p719
Tim R. Naish, Ken J. Woolfe, Peter J. Barrett, Gary S. Wilson, Cliff Atkins, Steven M. Bohaty, Christian J. Bücker, Michele Claps, Fred J. Davey, Gavin B. Dunbar, Alistair G. Dunn, Chris R. Fielding, Fabio Florindo, Michael J. Hannah, David M. Harwood, Stuart A. Henrys, Lawrence A. Krissek, Mark Lavelle, Jaap van der Meer, William C. McIntosh, Frank Niessen, Sandra Passchier, Ross D. Powell, Andrew P. Roberts, Leonardo Sagnotti, Reed P. Scherer, C. Percy Strong, Franco Talarico, Kenneth L. Verosub, Giuliana Villa, David K. Watkins, Peter-N. Webb and Thomas Wonik
doi:10.1038/35099534
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Agri-environment schemes do not effectively protect biodiversity in Dutch agricultural landscapes p723
David Kleijn, Frank Berendse, Ruben Smit and Niels Gilissen
doi:10.1038/35099540
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Endoscopic exploration of Red Sea coral reefs reveals dense populations of cavity-dwelling sponges p726
Claudio Richter, Mark Wunsch, Mohammed Rasheed, Iris Kötter and Mohammad I. Badran
doi:10.1038/35099547
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Carrying large fuel loads during sustained bird flight is cheaper than expected p730
Anders Kvist, Åke Lindström, Martin Green, Theunis Piersma and G. Henk Visser
doi:10.1038/35099556
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See also: News and Views by Rayner
Recognition of double-stranded RNA and activation of NF-
B by Toll-like receptor 3 p732
Lena Alexopoulou, Agnieszka Czopik Holt, Ruslan Medzhitov and Richard A. Flavell
doi:10.1038/35099560
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Histone deacetylase inhibitors arrest polyglutamine-dependent neurodegeneration in Drosophila p739
Joan S. Steffan, Laszlo Bodai, Judit Pallos, Marnix Poelman, Alexander McCampbell, Barbara L. Apostol, Alexsey Kazantsev, Emily Schmidt, Ya-Zhen Zhu, Marilee Greenwald, Riki Kurokawa, David E. Housman, George R. Jackson, J. Lawrence Marsh and Leslie M. Thompson
doi:10.1038/35099568
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See also: News and Views by Bates
Forkhead transcription factors contribute to execution of the mitotic programme in mammals p744
Beatriz Alvarez, Carlos Martínez-A., Boudewijn M. T. Burgering and Ana C. Carrera
doi:10.1038/35099574
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The bacteriophage 
29 portal motor can package DNA against a large internal force p748
Douglas E. Smith, Sander J. Tans, Steven B. Smith, Shelley Grimes, Dwight L. Anderson and Carlos Bustamante
doi:10.1038/35099581
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Uracil-DNA glycosylase acts by substrate autocatalysis p752
Aaron R. Dinner, G. Michael Blackburn and Martin Karplus
doi:10.1038/35099587
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