Table of contents
Volume 414 Number 6863 pp3-566
Naturejobs
ProspectsA shift to the centre p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35107236
movers
Biotech, Biology, Genomics and Physics p99
doi:10.1038/35107238
Opinion
The good, the bad and the ugly p473
Reviews of books and other creations can be highly opinionated. Editors get used to the brickbats they receive in maintaining a balance between the rights of authors and reviewers, and between fact and interpretation.
doi:10.1038/35107198
Fallout from EuroWars p473
Analogies with a current conflict seem apt.
doi:10.1038/35107200
News
Proposed budget cuts threaten to short-circuit Grid network p475
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/35107202
Concern raised for missing biologist p475
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35107205
Cores set to unearth hole picture of evolution p476
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35107208
Students left cold by careers advice p476
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35107211
First human clones get a cool response p477
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35107213
China caught out as model shows net fall in fish p477
Helen Pearson
doi:10.1038/35107216
Protests as terror law targets foreigners at universities p478
Philipp Weis and Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35107219
Election result leaves Australian scientists fearful over funding p478
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/35107221
news feature
The crystal ball of chaos p480
Is it possible to predict when nations are about to descend into internal conflict? The US Central Intelligence Agency thinks so, and has spent millions of dollars on a controversial research programme. Robert Adler reports.
Robert Adler
doi:10.1038/35107196
Goliath befriends David p482
Increasingly, the drugs giants are outsourcing research in drug discovery to start-up companies. Tom Clarke and Helen Pearson analyse an emerging trend, and ask what both sides expect to gain.
Tom Clarke and Helen Pearson
doi:10.1038/35107158
An eye on the future p484
The next president of Germany's Max Planck Society is putting aside a glittering research career in developmental biology to wrestle with politics, ethics and budgets, says Alison Abbott.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35107227
Correspondence
Japan's funding cuts hit the future of science p485
Raising the cost of postgraduate education is likely to exclude many promising students.
Eisuke Enoki
doi:10.1038/35107230
Could sale of fossils be the key to ending theft? p485
Edward Krowitz
doi:10.1038/35107232
Messenger RNA: origins of a discovery p485
Alvin M. Weinberg
doi:10.1038/35107234
Book Reviews
Global energy prospects p487
Choices, challenges and uncertainties for the not-so-distant future.
Stuart Young reviews Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes and Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age? by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak and Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet by Peter Hoffmann
doi:10.1038/35107115
clarification: Genes, Girls and Gamow p487
doi:10.1038/35107153
Somewhere over the rainbow p488
Philip Ball reviews The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science by Raymond L. Lee Jr and Alistair B. Fraser
doi:10.1038/35107121
A severed thread p489
John Galloway reviews Medicine and the German Jews: A History by John M. Efron
doi:10.1038/35107124
Lily pads of Wisconsin p489
doi:10.1038/35107126
Phylogeny branches out p490
Yves Van de Peer reviews Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy: A How-to Manual for Molecular Biologists by Barry G. Hall
doi:10.1038/35107129
Barking up the right tree p490
doi:10.1038/35107131
enNews and Views
When one whale matters p493
North Atlantic right whales once faced extinction and are still under threat today. But the population decline could be halted if the lives of just a few females were spared each year.
Peter Kareiva
doi:10.1038/35107167
Laser science: Physics at the attosecond frontier p494
Ultrashort laser pulses allow physicists and chemists to watch fast molecular motion as it happens. But many fundamental atomic processes are even faster and require the shortest pulses ever created.
Yaron Silberberg
doi:10.1038/35107171
Oceanography: Sea snow microcosms p495
Marine bacteria can respond to organic particles in sea water, creating hotspots of bacterial growth and carbon cycling. This microscale behaviour should be included in models of the oceanic carbon cycle.
Farooq Azam and Richard A. Long
doi:10.1038/35107174
100 and 50 years ago p498
doi:10.1038/35107178
Cell cycle: Six steps to destruction p498
Cell division relies on the properly timed activation and destruction of certain regulatory proteins. New work shows that many rounds of phosphorylation can help to establish the timing of protein destruction.
James E. Ferrell, Jr
doi:10.1038/35107180
High-energy astrophysics: A new spin on black-hole masses p499
The extreme environment surrounding a black hole provides an ideal test bed for the predictions of general relativity. New observations of a spinning black hole push current theories to their limits.
Charles Bailyn
doi:10.1038/35107183
Ion channels: Accessory to kidney disease p502
The protein that is mutated in a human disorder of the kidney and ear turns out to be an accessory subunit for a chloride ion channel. The discovery explains the symptoms of the disease.
Malcolm Hunter
doi:10.1038/35107186
Materials science: A broader view of membranes p503
Membranes that get fatter when they are stretched are considered counterintuitive, but may be more common than we think. They might even turn up in human tissue.
Roderic Lakes
doi:10.1038/35107190
Daedalus: The art of copying p504
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35107194
Brief Communications
Asymmetric Broca's area in great apes p505
A region of the ape brain is uncannily similar to one linked with speech in humans.
Claudio Cantalupo and William D. Hopkins
doi:10.1038/35107134
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Entomology: Immune defence in bumble-bee offspring p506
Yannick Moret and Paul Schmid-Hempel
doi:10.1038/35107138
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Nanotechnology: Synthesis of carbon 'onions' in water p506
N. Sano, H. Wang, M. Chhowalla, I. Alexandrou and G. A. J. Amaratunga
doi:10.1038/35107141
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Palaeoecology (Communication arising): Fossils and avian evolution p507
Alan Feduccia
doi:10.1038/35107144
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Palaeoecology (Communication arising): Fossils and avian evolution p508
Julia A. Clarke and Mark A. Norell
doi:10.1038/35107146
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retraction: Furtive mating in female chimpanzees p508
doi:10.1038/35107148
Articles
Attosecond metrology p509
M. Hentschel, R. Kienberger, Ch. Spielmann, G. A. Reider, N. Milosevic, T. Brabec, P. Corkum, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher and F. Krausz
doi:10.1038/35107000
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See also: News and Views by Silberberg
Multisite phosphorylation of a CDK inhibitor sets a threshold for the onset of DNA replication p514
Piers Nash, Xiaojing Tang, Stephen Orlicky, Qinghua Chen, Frank B. Gertler, Michael D. Mendenhall, Frank Sicheri, Tony Pawson and Mike Tyers
doi:10.1038/35107009
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See also: News and Views by Ferrell
Letters to Nature
An unusually massive stellar black hole in the Galaxy p522
J. Greiner, J. G. Cuby and M. J. McCaughrean
doi:10.1038/35107019
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See also: News and Views by Bailyn
Atomic structure holography using thermal neutrons p525
B. Sur, R. B. Rogge, R. P. Hammond, V. N. P. Anghel and J. Katsaras
doi:10.1038/35107026
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Pressure-induced amorphization and an amorphous–amorphous transition in densified porous silicon p528
Sudip K. Deb, Martin Wilding, Maddury Somayazulu and Paul F. McMillan
doi:10.1038/35107036
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Real-time spectroscopy of transition states in bacteriorhodopsin during retinal isomerization p531
Takayoshi Kobayashi, Takashi Saito and Hiroyuki Ohtani
doi:10.1038/35107042
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Systematic distortions in world fisheries catch trends p534
Reg Watson and Daniel Pauly
doi:10.1038/35107050
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Demography of the endangered North Atlantic right whale p537
Masami Fujiwara and Hal Caswell
doi:10.1038/35107054
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See also: News and Views by Kareiva
Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico p541
David Quist and Ignacio H. Chapela
doi:10.1038/35107068
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Kranz anatomy is not essential for terrestrial C4 plant photosynthesis p543
Elena V. Voznesenskaya, Vincent R. Franceschi, Olavi Kiirats, Helmut Freitag and Gerald E. Edwards
doi:10.1038/35107073
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Interactive memory systems in the human brain p546
R. A. Poldrack, J. Clark, E. J. Paré-Blagoev, D. Shohamy, J. Creso Moyano, C. Myers and M. A. Gluck
doi:10.1038/35107080
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Inhibitory PAS domain protein is a negative regulator of hypoxia-inducible gene expression p550
Yuichi Makino, Renhai Cao, Kristian Svensson, Göran Bertilsson, Mikael Asman, Hirotoshi Tanaka, Yihai Cao, Anders Berkenstam and Lorenz Poellinger
doi:10.1038/35107085
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Extensive surface diversity of a commensal microorganism by multiple DNA inversions p555
Corinna M. Krinos, Michael J. Coyne, Katja G. Weinacht, Arthur O. Tzianabos, Dennis L. Kasper and Laurie E. Comstock
doi:10.1038/35107092
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Barttin is a Cl- channel 
-subunit crucial for renal Cl- reabsorption and inner ear K+ secretion p558
Raúl Estévez, Thomas Boettger, Valentin Stein, Ralf Birkenhäger, Edgar Otto, Friedhelm Hildebrandt and Thomas J. Jentsch
doi:10.1038/35107099
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See also: News and Views by Hunter
Isochorismate synthase is required to synthesize salicylic acid for plant defence p562
Mary C. Wildermuth, Julia Dewdney, Gang Wu and Frederick M. Ausubel
doi:10.1038/35107108
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New on the Market
Four assays and a fusion p566
Microarrays for the novice, expressive messengers and a breaking story.
doi:10.1038/35107150