Table of contents
Volume 428 Number 6984 pp679-782
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Editorials
True lies p679
Attempts to fool the public into mistakenly believing that lie detectors work do not make for either good law enforcement or sound public policy.
doi:10.1038/428679a
Why China needs an NIH p679
Chinese biomedical scientists are right to push for a research agency that will distribute grants on the basis of peer review.
doi:10.1038/428679b
News
Push to protect whales leaves seafloor research high and dry p681
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/428681a
French government concedes defeat to researchers p682
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/428682a
Trial analysis questions use of antidepressants in children p682
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/428682b
Publishers go head-to-head over search tool p683
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/428683a
Six-day sacking over as researcher regains Italian job p683
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/428683b
Arctic lake promises hot data on past climate p684
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/428684a
Queen flies the flag for cancer alliance at Paris bash p684
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/428684b
News Features
US postdocs: Young, gifted ... and broke p690
At the turn of the millennium, the US National Academies put the spotlight on the miserable pay and conditions experienced by most US postdocs. Things are now starting to change, but slowly. Betsy Mason reports.
doi:10.1038/428690a
The truth about lying p692
Crooks, terrorists and liars can be hard to spot. But some researchers hope that scanning brains, faces or voices might reveal deceivers. Jonathan Knight looks at lie-detection technology, and wonders who is being fooled.
doi:10.1038/428692a
Correspondence
Intersex surgery disregards children's human rights p695
Infancy is too early to take an irreversible step that may assign a child to the wrong sex.
Tony Briffa
doi:10.1038/428695a
Dedication put Møller ahead, not fabrication p695
Juan Moreno and Tim Mousseau
doi:10.1038/428695b
Getting in a twist again p695
Eric Henderson
doi:10.1038/428695c
US visa restrictions harm job prospects abroad too p695
Toby F. Bolton
doi:10.1038/428695d
Books and Arts
Earth's crude mosaic p697
How plate tectonics triggered a seismic upheaval in geology.
Gordon L. Herries Davies reviews The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
doi:10.1038/428697a
Whales with a nose for culture p698
M. Wahlberg reviews Sperm Whales: Social Evolution in the Ocean by Hal Whitehead
doi:10.1038/428698a
Statistically unlikely p699
Eileen Magnello reviews Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry by Michael Bulmer
doi:10.1038/428699a
Website p699
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/428699b
Essay
Turning pointsThe productivity of failures p701
How a rejected paper generated a flourishing research programme.
Ernst Fehr
doi:10.1038/428701a
News and Views
Evolutionary biology: Lost and found p703
Can we ever hope to pin down the genetic changes that underlie the big steps in evolution? Possibly so, if a study of the variation in the pelvic fins of sticklebacks is anything to go by.
Neil H. Shubin and Randall D. Dahn
doi:10.1038/428703a
Astronomy: The missing black-hole link p704
A class of black holes of intermediate mass is expected but has never been detected. The suggestion that these beasts might lurk behind powerful X-ray sources in nearby galaxies is now strengthened.
Nate McCrady
doi:10.1038/428704a
Cancer: Kip moving p705
The p27Kip1 protein inhibits cell proliferation, helping to prevent tumours developing. We now know that it also affects cell migration, by regulating Rho proteins. Does this function influence tumour progression?
John G. Collard
doi:10.1038/428705a
100 and 50 years ago p705
doi:10.1038/428705b
Animal behaviour: Fickle females? p708
The courtship of satin bowerbirds is a complicated business. Different parts of a male's display appeal to females of different ages, so age-biased variation might underlie the evolution of these displays.
Michael J. Ryan
doi:10.1038/428708a
Meteorology: Testing time for El Niño p709
Analyses that largely exploit indirect data from the past 150 years show that El Niño and La Niña might be more predictable than was thought. The results presage the prospect of extended climate forecasts.
David Anderson
doi:10.1038/428709a
Mars: Blueberry fields for ever p711
The Mars saga continues. The latest finds — wide areas covered in balls of haematite, or 'blueberries', and large sulphate deposits in rocks — enable us to draw in more details of the planet's past climate.
Jeffrey M. Moore
doi:10.1038/428711a
News and views in brief p713
doi:10.1038/428713a
Brief Communications
Sex differences in learning in chimpanzees p715
Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Lynn E. Eberly and Anne E. Pusey
doi:10.1038/428715a
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Network dynamics: Jamming is limited in scale-free systems p716
Zoltán Toroczkai and Kevin E. Bassler
doi:10.1038/428716a
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Top of page
Brief Communications Arising
Pathology: Whales, sonar and decompression sickness
Claude A. Piantadosi and Edward D. Thalmann
doi:10.1038/nature02527a
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Pathology: Whales, sonar and decompression sickness (reply)
A. Fernández, M. Arbelo, R. Deaville, I. A. P. Patterson, P. Castro, J. R. Baker, E. Degollada, H. M. Ross, P. Herráez, A. M. Pocknell, E. Rodríguez, F. E. Howie, A. Espinosa, R. J. Reid, J. R. Jaber, V. Martin, A. A. Cunningham and P. D. Jepson
doi:10.1038/nature02528a
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Article
Genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacks p717
Michael D. Shapiro, Melissa E. Marks, Catherine L. Peichel, Benjamin K. Blackman, Kirsten S. Nereng, Bjarni Jónsson, Dolph Schluter and David M. Kingsley
doi:10.1038/nature02415
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (638K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Shubin & Dahn
Letters to Nature
Formation of massive black holes through runaway collisions in dense young star clusters p724
Simon F. Portegies Zwart, Holger Baumgardt, Piet Hut, Junichiro Makino and Stephen L. W. McMillan
doi:10.1038/nature02448
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (180K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by McCrady
Chaotic electron diffusion through stochastic webs enhances current flow in superlattices p726
T. M. Fromhold, A. Patanè, S. Bujkiewicz, P. B. Wilkinson, D. Fowler, D. Sherwood, S. P. Stapleton, A. A. Krokhin, L. Eaves, M. Henini, N. S. Sankeshwar and F. W. Sheard
doi:10.1038/nature02445
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Observation of rare-earth segregation in silicon nitride ceramics at subnanometre dimensions p730
Naoya Shibata, Stephen J. Pennycook, Tim R. Gosnell, Gayle S. Painter, William A. Shelton and Paul F. Becher
doi:10.1038/nature02410
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Predictability of El Niño over the past 148 years p733
Dake Chen, Mark A. Cane, Alexey Kaplan, Stephen E. Zebiak and Daji Huang
doi:10.1038/nature02439
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See also: News and Views by Anderson
A lower limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels 3.2 billion years ago p736
Angela M. Hessler, Donald R. Lowe, Robert L. Jones and Dennis K. Bird
doi:10.1038/nature02471
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Dynamic response of Permian brachiopod communities to long-term environmental change p738
Thomas D. Olszewski and Douglas H. Erwin
doi:10.1038/nature02464
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Variable female preferences drive complex male displays p742
Seth W. Coleman, Gail L. Patricelli and Gerald Borgia
doi:10.1038/nature02419
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See also: News and Views by Ryan
Variation in behaviour promotes cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma game p745
John M. McNamara, Zoltan Barta and Alasdair I. Houston
doi:10.1038/nature02432
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Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity p748
Edward K. Vogel and Maro G. Machizawa
doi:10.1038/nature02447
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Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex p751
J. Jay Todd and René Marois
doi:10.1038/nature02466
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The endothelial-cell-derived secreted factor Egfl7 regulates vascular tube formation p754
Leon H. Parker, Maike Schmidt, Suk-Won Jin, Alane M. Gray, Dimitris Beis, Thinh Pham, Gretchen Frantz, Susan Palmieri, Kenneth Hillan, Didier Y. R. Stainier, Frederic J. de Sauvage and Weilan Ye
doi:10.1038/nature02416
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Costimulatory signals mediated by the ITAM motif cooperate with RANKL for bone homeostasis p758
Takako Koga, Masanori Inui, Kazuya Inoue, Sunhwa Kim, Ayako Suematsu, Eiji Kobayashi, Toshio Iwata, Hiroshi Ohnishi, Takashi Matozaki, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Hiroshi Takayanagi and Toshiyuki Takai
doi:10.1038/nature02444
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Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception p764
Cyril Zipfel, Silke Robatzek, Lionel Navarro, Edward J. Oakeley, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Georg Felix and Thomas Boller
doi:10.1038/nature02485
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Cdc42 and mDia3 regulate microtubule attachment to kinetochores p767
Shingo Yasuda, Fabian Oceguera-Yanez, Takayuki Kato, Muneo Okamoto, Shigenobu Yonemura, Yasuhiko Terada, Toshimasa Ishizaki and Shuh Narumiya
doi:10.1038/nature02452
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Technology Features
Bioinformatics: Data's future shock p774
Databases are having to move with the times as people expect more from them than simple data storage and retrieval. Steve Buckingham investigates.
Steve Buckingham
doi:10.1038/428774a
Exploring the public domain p774
doi:10.1038/428774b
Buying into the knowledge game p775
doi:10.1038/428775a
Getting the meaning p776
doi:10.1038/428776a
Table of suppliers p778
doi:10.1038/428778a
Naturejobs
ProspectsBalancing the books p781
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6984-781a
Career View
Graduate Journal: Losing control p782
Tshaka Cunningham
doi:10.1038/nj6984-782a
Bricks & Mortar p782
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6984-782b
Movers p782
doi:10.1038/nj6984-782c
