Table of contents
Volume 426 Number 6963 pp105-211
Editorial
Towards a clean collider p105
The high-energy physics community has grand plans to probe deeper into the structure of matter and space-time. The proposal for a multinational linear collider merits strong support.
doi:10.1038/426105a
News
Consumers warned that time is not yet ripe for nutrition profiling p107
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/426107a
Antarctic research frozen out of Japan's budget plans p108
Keiko Kandachi
doi:10.1038/426108a
US reveals physics wish-list in bid for scientific frontier p108
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/426108b
Bone archives face prospect of dispersal p109
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/426109a
African states pledge increased spending on research p109
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/426109b
Magnetic effect sends physicists into a spin p110
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/426110a
Geologists call for desalination of Gaza Strip's water p110
Betsy Mason
doi:10.1038/426110b
Primatologist rocks Gibraltar by quitting over macaque cull p111
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/426111a
Italy's proposal for technology institute riles researchers p111
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/426111b
News Features
Drugs in sport: No dope p114
Don Catlin's lab has struck a major blow against drug abuse in athletics, by developing a test for a shadowy 'designer steroid'. Jonathan Knight visits the scientists who are striving to keep sport clean.
doi:10.1038/426114a
Night club p116
Growing numbers of amateurs are getting serious about astronomy. The professionals applaud their enthusiasm and success in collecting data and building telescopes — as long as they don't start competing with them for funding. Geoff Brumfiel joins the graveyard shift.
doi:10.1038/426116a
Correspondence
How genius can smooth the road to publication p119
If at first your paper doesn't succeed, try, try — and try to find a brilliant supporter.
Jens Brümmer
doi:10.1038/426119a
How genius can smooth the road to publication p119
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/426119b
Phosphorus: time for us to oust bad spelling p119
Nelson Hairston, Jr
doi:10.1038/426119c
Drinking your health? It's too early to say p119
Roger Corder, Alan Crozier and Paul A. Kroon
doi:10.1038/426119d
Books and Arts
Web masters p121
Spiders' silky skills hold the key to their evolutionary success.
Fritz Vollrath reviews Spider Webs and Silks: Tracing Evolution from Molecules to Genes to Phenotypes by Catherine L. Craig
doi:10.1038/426121a
From genes to biochemistry p122
Benno Müller-Hill reviews George Beadle, an Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century by Paul Berg and Maxine Singer
doi:10.1038/426122a
A recipe for success? p122
John Mann reviews Organic Syntheses Database
doi:10.1038/426122b
Installation: Making haze p123
Colin Martin
doi:10.1038/426123a
News and Views
Evolutionary biology: Essence of mitochondria p127
For years, a unicellular creature called Giardia has occupied a special place in biology because it was thought to lack mitochondria. But it does have them — though tiny, they pack a surprising anaerobic punch.
Katrin Henze and William Martin
doi:10.1038/426127a
Chemistry: Dendrimers set to self-destruct p128
The versatility of the branched macromolecules known as dendrimers is being exploited in various ways — explosively so, in the context of their application as potential drug-delivery systems.
E. W. Meijer and M. H. P. van Genderen
doi:10.1038/426128a
Virology: Fresh assault on hepatitis C p129
Hepatitis C virus causes severe liver disease. Initial trials of a newly developed agent that prevents the virus reproducing itself look promising. But what are the future prospects for this treatment?
Charles M. Rice
doi:10.1038/nature02105
Materials science: Close-up on cracks p131
How do things break? The fracture of materials is part of our everyday experience, and yet the process is not well understood. A study of crack propagation at microscopic scales shows the devil in the details.
Jay Fineberg
doi:10.1038/426131a
100 and 50 years ago p132
doi:10.1038/426132a
Plant development: An axis of auxin p132
Embryos have two distinct ends, which become apparent early on. Quite how this initial polarity is sustained in plant embryos has been unclear. Step forward the agent provocateur of plant development — auxin.
Stefan Kepinski and Ottoline Leyser
doi:10.1038/426132b
Condensed-matter physics: The quest for imperfection p135
The electrical properties of silver chalcogenides are unusually affected by magnetic fields. A simulation suggests how this might arise from tiny imperfections and could facilitate the design of new materials.
Thomas F. Rosenbaum
doi:10.1038/426135a
News and views in brief p136
doi:10.1038/426136a
Brief Communications
Radar imaging of the lunar poles p137
Long-wavelength measurements reveal a paucity of ice in the Moon's polar craters.
Bruce A. Campbell, Donald B. Campbell, John F. Chandler, Alice A. Hine, Michael C. Nolan and Phillip J. Perillat
doi:10.1038/426137a
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Astrophysics: refreshed shocks from a 
-ray burst p138
Jonathan Granot, Ehud Nakar and Tsvi Piran
doi:10.1038/426138a
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Astrophysics (communication arising): A constraint on canonical quantum gravity? p139
Igor G. Mitrofanov
doi:10.1038/426139a
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Condensed-matter physics (communication arising): Spurious magnetism in high-Tc superconductor p139
P. K. Mang, S. Larochelle and M. Greven
doi:10.1038/426139b
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Condensed-matter physics (communication arising): Spurious magnetism in high-Tc superconductor p140
H. J. Kang, Pengcheng Dai, J. W. Lynn, M. Matsuura, J. R. Thompson, Shou-Cheng Zhang, D. N. Argyriou, Y. Onose and Y. Tokura
doi:10.1038/426140a
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Articles
Hyperelasticity governs dynamic fracture at a critical length scale p141
Markus J. Buehler, Farid F. Abraham and Huajian Gao
doi:10.1038/nature02096
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See also: News and Views by Fineberg
Efflux-dependent auxin gradients establish the apical–basal axis of Arabidopsis p147
Ji
í Friml,
Anne Vieten,
Michael Sauer,
Dolf Weijers,
Heinz Schwarz,
Thorsten Hamann,
Remko Offringa
and
Gerd Jürgens
doi:10.1038/nature02085
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See also: News and Views by Kepinski & Leyser
Letters to Nature
A common origin for cosmic explosions inferred from calorimetry of GRB030329 p154
E. Berger, S. R. Kulkarni, G. Pooley, D. A. Frail, V. McIntyre, R. M. Wark, R. Sari, A. M. Soderberg, D. W. Fox, S. Yost and P. A. Price
doi:10.1038/nature01998
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Evolution of the polarization of the optical afterglow of the -ray burst GRB030329 p157
Jochen Greiner, Sylvio Klose, Klaus Reinsch, Hans Martin Schmid, Re'em Sari, Dieter H. Hartmann, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Arne Rau, Eliana Palazzi, Christian Straubmeier, Bringfried Stecklum, Sergej Zharikov, Gaghik Tovmassian, Otto Bärnbantner, Christoph Ries, Emmanuel Jehin, Arne Henden, Anlaug A. Kaas, Tommy Grav, Jens Hjorth, Holger Pedersen, Ralph A. M. J. Wijers, Andreas Kaufer, Hye-Sook Park, Grant Williams and Olaf Reimer
doi:10.1038/nature02077
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Experimental observation of symmetry-breaking nonlinear modes in an active ring p159
Sergej O. Demokritov, Alexander A. Serga, Vladislav E. Demidov, Burkard Hillebrands, Michail P. Kostylev and Boris A. Kalinikos
doi:10.1038/nature02042
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Non-saturating magnetoresistance in heavily disordered semiconductors p162
M. M. Parish and P. B. Littlewood
doi:10.1038/nature02073
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See also: News and Views by Rosenbaum
A polymer/semiconductor write-once read-many-times memory p166
Sven Möller, Craig Perlov, Warren Jackson, Carl Taussig and Stephen R. Forrest
doi:10.1038/nature02070
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Rapid body size decline in Alaskan Pleistocene horses before extinction p169
R. Dale Guthrie
doi:10.1038/nature02098
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Mitochondrial remnant organelles of Giardia function in iron-sulphur protein maturation p172
Jorge Tovar, Gloria León-Avila, Lidya B Sánchez, Robert Sutak, Jan Tachezy, Mark van der Giezen, Manuel Hernández, Miklós Müller and John M. Lucocq
doi:10.1038/nature01945
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See also: News and Views by Henze & Martin
Allele substitution at a flower colour locus produces a pollinator shift in monkeyflowers p176
H. D. Bradshaw, Jr and Douglas W. Schemske
doi:10.1038/nature02106
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Light-induced hormone conversion of T4 to T3 regulates photoperiodic response of gonads in birds p178
Takashi Yoshimura, Shinobu Yasuo, Miwa Watanabe, Masayuki Iigo, Takashi Yamamura, Kanjun Hirunagi and Shizufumi Ebihara
doi:10.1038/nature02117
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APL regulates vascular tissue identity in Arabidopsis p181
Martin Bonke, Siripong Thitamadee, Ari Pekka Mähönen, Marie-Theres Hauser and Ykä Helariutta
doi:10.1038/nature02100
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An NS3 protease inhibitor with antiviral effects in humans infected with hepatitis C virus p186
Daniel Lamarre, Paul C. Anderson, Murray Bailey, Pierre Beaulieu, Gordon Bolger, Pierre Bonneau, Michael Bös, Dale R. Cameron, Mireille Cartier, Michael G. Cordingley, Anne-Marie Faucher, Nathalie Goudreau, Stephen H. Kawai, George Kukolj, Lisette Lagacé, Steven R. LaPlante, Hans Narjes, Marc-André Poupart, Jean Rancourt, Roel E. Sentjens, Roger St George, Bruno Simoneau, Gerhard Steinmann, Diane Thibeault, Youla S. Tsantrizos, Steven M. Weldon, Chan-Loi Yong and Montse Llinàs-Brunet
doi:10.1038/nature02099
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CREB controls hepatic lipid metabolism through nuclear hormone receptor PPAR- p190
Stephan Herzig, Susan Hedrick, Ianessa Morantte, Seung-Hoi Koo, Francesco Galimi and Marc Montminy
doi:10.1038/nature02110
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A DNA damage checkpoint response in telomere-initiated senescence p194
Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, Philip M. Reaper, Lorena Clay-Farrace, Heike Fiegler, Philippa Carr, Thomas von Zglinicki, Gabriele Saretzki, Nigel P. Carter and Stephen P. Jackson
doi:10.1038/nature02118
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DNA self-recognition in the structure of Pot1 bound to telomeric single-stranded DNA p198
Ming Lei, Elaine R. Podell, Peter Baumann and Thomas R. Cech
doi:10.1038/nature02092
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New on the Market
Warming to the task p205
New for PCR, thermocyclers and DNA handling.
doi:10.1038/426205a
Naturejobs
ProspectsA question of gender p209
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6963-209a
SPECIAL REPORT
Europe attempts to promote women scientists p210
Europe is pushing to get more women scientists into industry and academia, but can the commission legislate for gender equality? Sally Goodman investigates.
Sally Goodman
doi:10.1038/nj6963-210a
The quota conundrum p211
Nicola Nosengo
doi:10.1038/nj6963-211a
