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Volume 429 Number 6989 pp227-326
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Editorials
Future shock p227
At first glance, India's electorate has just put the brakes on the country's modernization, by ousting a government that has promoted entrepreneurship and invested in high technology. But appearances can be deceptive.
doi:10.1038/429227a
Equal treatment under the law p227
If this fundamental right is denied to visiting researchers, the quality of US science will suffer.
doi:10.1038/429227b
News
Iranian physicist locked out of laboratory by energy department p229
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/429229a
Health assembly rebuffs Taiwan's bid for 'observer' status p230
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/429230a
Panel slated for leniency over study of NIH consulting roles p230
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/429230b
Software company bans competitive users p231
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/429231a
Charging plan casts a shadow on Japan's light beam p231
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/429231b
Germany backs genome networks to tackle diseases p232
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/429232a
Talks pave way for docking between Russia and ESA p232
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/429232b
Big buzz as cicadas arrive after 17-year gap p233
Laura Nelson
doi:10.1038/429233a
Britain plans laws to restrain animal-rights activists p233
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/429233b
news feature
Giardia: Not so special, after all? p236
The parasite Giardia was thought to represent a throwback to the earliest days of advanced cellular life. But biologists are now arguing over its true status. Jonathan Knight reports.
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/429236a
Energy: Nuclear power's new dawn p238
Global warming and rising energy needs are rehabilitating the concept of nuclear power. But if it is to figure in the energy equation, it will need to be cheaper, cleaner and safer, says Declan Butler.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/429238a
Correspondence
Bioinformatics: smartest software is still just a tool p241
The proliferation of ever-more-sophisticated biological software can lead to misuse.
Steven Bottomley
doi:10.1038/429241a
Bioinformatics needs a software archive p241
A. Jamie Cuticchia and Gregg W. Silk
doi:10.1038/429241b
Autistic geniuses? We're too ready to pathologize p241
Oliver Sacks
doi:10.1038/429241c
Books and Arts
Time waits for no man p243
Do you know what you think before you see what you say?
Kevan Martin reviews Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness by Benjamin Libet
doi:10.1038/429243a
A global problem p244
Hans von Storch reviews Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet under Pressure by W. Steffen, A. Sanderson, P. D. Tyson, J. Jäger, P. A. Matson, B. Moore, III, F. Oldfield, K. Richardson, H. J. Schellnhuber, B. L. Turner, II and R. J. Wasson
doi:10.1038/429244a
A world of paint p244
doi:10.1038/429244b
Improving on nature p245
David Knight reviews Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature by William R. Newman
doi:10.1038/429245a
Science in culture: Magnificent mayflies p246
Gaylord Schanilec is hooked on fishing flies that imitate nature.
Colin Martin
doi:10.1038/429246a
Essay
ConceptLast hideout of the unknown? p247
Scale and proportion: do the mechanisms of planar polarity also help determine the shape and size of animals?
Peter A. Lawrence
doi:10.1038/429247a
News and Views
Reproductive biology: Pillow talk in plants p249
Flowering plants have sophisticated mating systems that determine whether a pollen suitor is accepted or rejected. Knowledge of how such systems operate has just taken two steps forward.
Bruce McClure
doi:10.1038/429249a
Planetary science: A perfect match? p250
The 'S-complex' asteroids are not easily identified as the source of the most common meteorites reaching Earth. Their relationship might be disguised, however, by the effects of space weathering.
Beth Ellen Clark
doi:10.1038/429250a
Condensed-matter physics: Atomic beads on strings of light p251
A new regime of strongly correlated quantum behaviour has been reached with the creation of a one-dimensional Tonks–Girardeau gas from ultracold atoms trapped within thin tubes of light.
Murray J. Holland
doi:10.1038/429251a
Malaria: The calcium connection p253
Amanda Tromans
doi:10.1038/429253a
Gene regulation: Selfish elements make a mark p253
Transposons qualify as 'selfish' DNA elements, adding new copies of themselves into our genomes without regard for the consequences. This wilful habit may, however, help in normal gene regulation.
Frederic Bushman
doi:10.1038/429253b
100 and 50 years ago p254
doi:10.1038/429254a
Chemistry: Atom tracking p255
Diffraction patterns, generated using X-ray pulses of only picosecond duration, reveal the motion of individual atoms as iodine molecules dissociate, then recombine, in solution.
Stuart A. Rice
doi:10.1038/429255a
Solar System: Captain Cook and the black drop p257
Alison Wright
doi:10.1038/429257a
Obituary: John Maynard Smith (1920–2004) p258
Eörs Szathmáry and Peter Hammerstein
doi:10.1038/429258a
News and views in brief p260
doi:10.1038/429260a
Brief Communications
Red deer stocks in the Highlands of Scotland p261
A drastic culling of deer may not be the best strategy to arrest erosion of heather cover.
T. H. Clutton-Brock, T. Coulson and J. M. Milner
doi:10.1038/429261a
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Vision: Steady-state misbinding of colour and motion p262
Daw-An Wu, Ryota Kanai and Shinsuke Shimojo
doi:10.1038/429262a
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Corrigendum p262
doi:10.1038/429262b
Top of page
Brief Communications Arising
Evolutionary biology: Lamprey Hox genes and the evolution of jaws
Yoko Takio, Massimo Pasqualetti, Shigehiro Kuraku, Shigeki Hirano, Filippo M. Rijli and Shigeru Kuratani
doi:10.1038/nature02616
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Articles
Regional climate shifts caused by gradual global cooling in the Pliocene epoch p263
Ana Christina Ravelo, Dyke H. Andreasen, Mitchell Lyle, Annette Olivarez Lyle and Michael W. Wara
doi:10.1038/nature02567
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Transcriptional disruption by the L1 retrotransposon and implications for mammalian transcriptomes p268
Jeffrey S. Han, Suzanne T. Szak and Jef D. Boeke
doi:10.1038/nature02536
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Letters to Nature
An age–colour relationship for main-belt S-complex asteroids p275
Robert Jedicke,
David Nesvorný,
Robert Whiteley,
eljko Ivezi
and
Mario Juri
doi:10.1038/nature02578
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See also: News and Views by Clark
Tonks–Girardeau gas of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice p277
Belén Paredes, Artur Widera, Valentin Murg, Olaf Mandel, Simon Fölling, Ignacio Cirac, Gora V. Shlyapnikov, Theodor W. Hänsch and Immanuel Bloch
doi:10.1038/nature02530
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See also: News and Views by Holland
Synthesis and characterization of chiral mesoporous silica p281
Shunai Che, Zheng Liu, Tetsu Ohsuna, Kazutami Sakamoto, Osamu Terasaki and Takashi Tatsumi
doi:10.1038/nature02529
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Analysing the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes with recent instrumentally recorded aftershocks p284
Karl Mueller, Susan E. Hough and Roger Bilham
doi:10.1038/nature02557
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Articulated Palaeozoic fossil with 17 plates greatly expands disparity of early chitons p288
Michael J. Vendrasco, Troy E. Wood and Bruce N. Runnegar
doi:10.1038/nature02548
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Iron and phosphorus co-limit nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical North Atlantic p292
Matthew M. Mills, Celine Ridame, Margaret Davey, Julie La Roche and Richard J. Geider
doi:10.1038/nature02550
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Evidence for ecology's role in speciation p294
Jeffrey S. McKinnon, Seiichi Mori, Benjamin K. Blackman, Lior David, David M. Kingsley, Leia Jamieson, Jennifer Chou and Dolph Schluter
doi:10.1038/nature02556
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Zinc transporter LIVI controls epithelial-mesenchymal transition in zebrafish gastrula organizer p298
Susumu Yamashita, Chiemi Miyagi, Toshiyuki Fukada, Naofumi Kagara, Yong-Suk Che and Toshio Hirano
doi:10.1038/nature02545
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Identification of the pollen determinant of S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility p302
Paja Sijacic, Xi Wang, Andrea L. Skirpan, Yan Wang, Peter E. Dowd, Andrew G. McCubbin, Shihshieh Huang and Teh-hui Kao
doi:10.1038/nature02523
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See also: News and Views by McClure
Self-incompatibility triggers programmed cell death in Papaver pollen p305
Steven G. Thomas and Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong
doi:10.1038/nature02540
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See also: News and Views by McClure
Rab5 is a signalling GTPase involved in actin remodelling by receptor tyrosine kinases p309
Letizia Lanzetti, Andrea Palamidessi, Liliana Areces, Giorgio Scita and Pier Paolo Di Fiore
doi:10.1038/nature02542
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A highly active synthetic mammalian retrotransposon p314
Jeffrey S. Han and Jef D. Boeke
doi:10.1038/nature02535
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Structural basis for overhang-specific small interfering RNA recognition by the PAZ domain p318
Jin-Biao Ma, Keqiong Ye and Dinshaw J. Patel
doi:10.1038/nature02519
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Retraction: Unaltered cosmic spherules in a 1.4-Gyr-old sandstone from Finland p322
Alexander Deutsch, Ansgar Greshake, Lauri J. Pesonen and Pekka Pihlaja
doi:10.1038/nature02607
Naturejobs
ProspectsA delicate balance p323
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6989-323a
Postdocs
From industry to academia p324
A postdoc stint in industry can mean better pay and superior facilities. But will doing such a fellowship jeopardize your academic aspirations? Beth Martin investigates.
Beth Martin
doi:10.1038/nj6989-324a
Career View
Graduate Journal: A lab affair p326
Sidney Omelon
doi:10.1038/nj6989-326a
Bricks & Mortar p326
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6989-326b
Movers p326
doi:10.1038/nj6989-326c