Naturejobs

Going into industry? p3

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/nj6883-03a

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Getting into good company p5

Alexander Hellemans

doi:10.1038/nj6883-05a

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doi:10.1038/nj6883-99a

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Opinion

France sleepwalks into chaos p771

The success of the extreme right in the first round of the French presidential elections serves as a warning to all responsible citizens — scientists included — not to disengage from the political process.

doi:10.1038/416771a

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Maintaining the climate consensus p771

The election of a new chair for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has left wounds that the victor must heal.

doi:10.1038/416771b

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News

Allegations of rushed proposals mar disease fund's first awards p773

Erika Check

doi:10.1038/416773a

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Animal video nasty sets fur flying over exemption bill p773

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/416773b

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Climate panel unsettled by public battle for top job p774

Jim Giles

doi:10.1038/416774a

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Japan plots course for university on naval-base island p774

David Cyranoski

doi:10.1038/416774b

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Astronomers get physical for future plans p775

Geoff Brumfiel

doi:10.1038/416775a

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Laser gears up for star role p775

Natasha McDowell

doi:10.1038/416775b

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Melting ice triggers Himalayan flood warning p776

Natasha McDowell

doi:10.1038/416776a

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Twice-rescued Bronze Age disc goes on public view p776

Marion Kerstholt

doi:10.1038/416776b

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Poor nations' crop research hurt by Japanese cutbacks p777

David Cyranoski

doi:10.1038/416777a

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Chemistry caught in crisis catalysed by student apathy p777

David Adam

doi:10.1038/416777b

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news in brief p778

doi:10.1038/416778a

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news feature

Cell biology: Will the real Golgi please stand up p780

It was discovered more than a century ago, but cell biologists are still debating whether the Golgi complex is an autonomous entity. Erika Check profiles an organelle in identity crisis.

Erika Check

doi:10.1038/416780a

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Social insects: The police state p782

On the surface, beehives and ant nests seem to be model societies, with each individual striving for the common good. But maintaining this social order sometimes calls for brutal tactics. John Whitfield reports.

John Whitfield

doi:10.1038/416782a

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Correspondence

'Practical autonomy' entitles some animals to rights p785

Basic rights stem from the ability to desire, to act intentionally and to have a sense of self.

Steve Wise

doi:10.1038/416785a

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Cancer centre didn't shoot the messenger p785

Lee Hartwell

doi:10.1038/416785b

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A theory can be falsified or tested. Faith cannot p785

Mark W. Silby

doi:10.1038/416785c

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Spring Books

A few words about evolution p787

Building a hierarchical framework on the foundations of darwinism.

David B. Wake reviews The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould

doi:10.1038/416787a

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The nature of nature's economy p788

Norman Myers reviews Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment by Partha Dasgupta and The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable by Gretchen Daily and Katherine Ellison

doi:10.1038/416788a

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Building machines more like humans p789

Igor Aleksander reviews Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney A. Brooks and The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses by James Geary

doi:10.1038/416789a

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Putting evolution in context p790

Charlotte Sleigh reviews The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader: A Selection of Writings from the Field and Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology

doi:10.1038/416790a

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I am loved, therefore I think p791

Simon Baron-Cohen reviews The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking by Peter Hobson

doi:10.1038/416791a

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Improving on humanity? p792

Robert Winston reviews Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future by Gregory Stock

doi:10.1038/416792a

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Flexing our muscle power p793

R. McNeill Alexander reviews Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle by Steven Vogel

doi:10.1038/416793a

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The tale of the human genome p793

Sydney Brenner reviews The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome by John Sulston and Georgina Ferry

doi:10.1038/416793b

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New Journals p794

doi:10.1038/416794a

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concepts

Global enzymes: Sphere of influence p795

Dan Yakir

doi:10.1038/416795a

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News and Views

Astronomy: The cosmic accelerator p797

The cosmic rays that permeate our Galaxy have been attributed to various sources. The discovery of high-energy -rays from a supernova remnant at last provides concrete evidence for one of the proposed theories.

Felix Aharonian

doi:10.1038/416797a

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Mammalian evolution: Upwards and onwards p798

A newly described fossil sits on one of the lowest branches of the placental-mammal family tree. But its paws and claws suggest that, where actual vegetation was concerned, it could climb further than its contemporaries.

Anne Weil

doi:10.1038/416798a

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Semiconductors: An eye for impurity p799

As electronic devices become smaller, so the challenge of maintaining their electrical properties grows. Identifying the positions of introduced impurities in a semiconductor crystal is a major first step.

Paul S. Peercy

doi:10.1038/416799a

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Plant biology: On guard p801

Microorganisms that infect plants must suppress their hosts' defence mechanisms before they take up residence. But some plants use molecular guards to sense when they are being manipulated by pathogens.

Pierre J. G. M. de Wit

doi:10.1038/416801a

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Agriculture: Champagne surprise p801

David R. Smyth

doi:10.1038/416801b

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100 and 50 years ago p802

doi:10.1038/416802a

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Relativity: Testing times in space p803

We take for granted that physical 'constants', such as the speed of light, are fixed values. But they might not be, and experiments in space may allow us to investigate this possibility.

Steve K. Lamoreaux

doi:10.1038/416803a

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Developmental biology: An arresting activity p804

Vertebrate eggs pause at a crucial stage in their development, starting again only after being fertilized by sperm. Another component of the activity that ensures this arrest has been identified.

Nicholas S. Duesbery and George F. Vande Woude

doi:10.1038/416804a

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Daedalus: Problems with niches p805

David Jones

doi:10.1038/416805a

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Obituary: César Milstein (1927–2002) p806

Klaus Rajewsky

doi:10.1038/416806a

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Brief Communications

Coprophagy: An unusual source of essential carotenoids p807

A yellow-faced vulture includes ungulate faeces in its diet for cosmetic purposes.

J. J. Negro, J. M. Grande, J. L. Tella, J. Garrido, D. Hornero, J. A. Donázar, J. A. Sanchez-Zapata, J. R. BenÍtez and M. Barcell

doi:10.1038/416807a

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Biodiversity: Invasions by marine life on plastic debris p808

David K. A. Barnes

doi:10.1038/416808a

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Spintronics (Communication arising): Spin accumulation in mesoscopic systems p809

Mark Johnson

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Spintronics (Communication arising): Spin accumulation in mesoscopic systems p810

F. J. Jedema, A. T. Filip and B. J. van Wees

doi:10.1038/416810a

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Review

Insights into phase transition kinetics from colloid science p811

Valerie J. Anderson and Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker

doi:10.1038/416811a

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Article

The earliest known eutherian mammal p816

Qiang Ji, Zhe-Xi Luo, Chong-Xi Yuan, John R. Wible, Jian-Ping Zhang and Justin A. Georgi

doi:10.1038/416816a

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Letters to Nature

The acceleration of cosmic-ray protons in the supernova remnant RX J1713.7–3946 p823

R. Enomoto, T. Tanimori, T. Naito, T. Yoshida, S. Yanagita, M. Mori, P. G. Edwards, A. Asahara, G. V. Bicknell, S. Gunji, S. Hara, T. Hara, S. Hayashi, C. Itoh, S. Kabuki, F. Kajino, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, A. Kawachi, T. Kifune, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, S. Maeda, A. Maeshiro, Y. Matsubara, Y. Mizumoto, M. Moriya, H. Muraishi, Y. Muraki, T. Nakase, K. Nishijima, M. Ohishi, K. Okumura, J. R. Patterson, K. Sakurazawa, R. Suzuki, D. L. Swaby, K. Takano, T. Takano, F. Tokanai, K. Tsuchiya, H. Tsunoo, K. Uruma, A. Watanabe and T. Yoshikoshi

doi:10.1038/416823a

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Atomic-scale imaging of individual dopant atoms and clusters in highly n-type bulk Si p826

P. M. Voyles, D. A. Muller, J. L. Grazul, P. H. Citrin and H.-J. L. Gossmann

doi:10.1038/416826a

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Molecular segregation observed in a concentrated alcohol–water solution p829

S. Dixit, J. Crain, W. C. K. Poon, J. L. Finney and A. K. Soper

doi:10.1038/416829a

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Rapid freshening of the deep North Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades p832

Bob Dickson, Igor Yashayaev, Jens Meincke, Bill Turrell, Stephen Dye and Juergen Holfort

doi:10.1038/416832a

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Ecosystem consequences of species richness and composition in pond food webs p837

Amy L. Downing and Mathew A. Leibold

doi:10.1038/416837a

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Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest p841

Vojtech Novotny, Yves Basset, Scott E. Miller, George D. Weiblen, Birgitta Bremer, Lukas Cizek and Pavel Drozd

doi:10.1038/416841a

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Developmental constraints versus flexibility in morphological evolution p844

PatrÍcia Beldade, Kees Koops and Paul M. Brakefield

doi:10.1038/416844a

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Association of dwarfism and floral induction with a grape 'green revolution' mutation p847

Paul K. Boss and Mark R. Thomas

doi:10.1038/416847a

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Emi1 is required for cytostatic factor arrest in vertebrate eggs p850

Julie D. R. Reimann and Peter K. Jackson

doi:10.1038/416850a

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Dominant role of the niche in melanocyte stem-cell fate determination p854

Emi K. Nishimura, Siobhán A. Jordan, Hideo Oshima, Hisahiro Yoshida, Masatake Osawa, Mariko Moriyama, Ian J. Jackson, Yann Barrandon, Yoshiki Miyachi and Shin-Ichi Nishikawa

doi:10.1038/416854a

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Protein kinase C controls self-antigen-induced B-cell tolerance p860

Ingrid Mecklenbräuker, Kaoru Saijo, Nai-Ying Zheng, Michael Leitges and Alexander Tarakhovsky

doi:10.1038/416860a

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Increased proliferation of B cells and auto-immunity in mice lacking protein kinase C p865

Akitomo Miyamoto, Keiko Nakayama, Hiroyuki Imaki, Sachiko Hirose, Yi Jiang, Masaaki Abe, Tadasuke Tsukiyama, Hiroyasu Nagahama, Shigeo Ohno, Shigetsugu Hatakeyama and Keiichi I. Nakayama

doi:10.1038/416865a

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AP-1 functions upstream of CREB to control synaptic plasticity in Drosophila p870

Subhabrata Sanyal, David J. Sandstrom, Charles A. Hoeffer and Mani Ramaswami

doi:10.1038/416870a

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Deafness and renal tubular acidosis in mice lacking the K-Cl co-transporter Kcc4 p874

Thomas Boettger, Christian A. Hübner, Hannes Maier, Marco B. Rust, Franz X. Beck and Thomas J. Jentsch

doi:10.1038/416874a

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Structural determinants for GoLoco-induced inhibition of nucleotide release by G subunits p878

Randall J. Kimple, Michelle E. Kimple, Laurie Betts, John Sondek and David P. Siderovski

doi:10.1038/416878a

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Technology Features

Microarray technology: An array of opportunities p885

Diane Gershon

doi:10.1038/416885a

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DIY or off-the-shelf? p885

Diane Gershon

doi:10.1038/416885b

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Dealing with the data deluge p889

Diane Gershon

doi:10.1038/416889a

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table of suppliers p893

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