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Volume 430 Number 6999 pp489-592
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Editorials
Tribal culture versus genetics p489
A dispute between researchers and a small Native American tribe has cast an unduly large shadow over genetics. Both sides have much to gain from deeper communication, aided by those who belong to both communities.
doi:10.1038/430489a
States versus gases p489
A state-led lawsuit against greenhouse-gas emitters highlights a forceful regional movement in US climate policy.
doi:10.1038/430489b
News
Lawyers blast nuclear pact as a breach of disarmament treaty p491
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/430491a
Energy labs halt classified research amid security fears p491
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/430491b
Joint suits aim to weed out agencies' red tape p492
Helen Pearson
doi:10.1038/430492a
Sea snapshots will map frequency of freak waves p492
Michael Hopkin
doi:10.1038/430492b
Dinosaur eggs escape sale as smuggling claims unearthed p493
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/430493a
Swedish enthusiasm peps up plans for neutron source p493
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/430493b
Winged messenger set to follow ancient mariner to Mercury p494
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/430494a
Russian bid to drill Antarctic lake gets chilly response p494
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/430494b
Tough talker quits Congress for bioindustry p495
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/430495a
Biologists lobby China's government for funding reform p495
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/430495b
News Features
What's in a name? p498
Physicists agree that experiments at the Brookhaven atom collider have created a new form of matter. But theorists and experimentalists are still arguing about what to call it. Geoff Brumfiel investigates.
doi:10.1038/430498a
When two tribes go to war p500
Medical geneticists and isolated Native American communities afflicted by inherited diseases should have much to gain from working together. But the relationship can go sour, as Rex Dalton finds out.
doi:10.1038/430500a
Correspondence
If you can lose a driving licence, why not a PhD? p503
A doctorate is seen as a licence to do science. It should be revocable for misconduct.
Adam G. Hart
doi:10.1038/430503a
Species problem solved 100 years ago p503
James Mallet
doi:10.1038/430503b
Tight budget should fund benefits, not more posts p503
Robert D. Wells
doi:10.1038/430503c
Books and Arts
The decline of China's environment p505
The spread of agriculture led to deforestation and the growth of towns.
Crispin Tickell reviews The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin
doi:10.1038/430505a
The body-plan explosion p506
Stefan Bengtson reviews On the Origin of Phyla by James W. Valentine
doi:10.1038/430506a
Sorrows of the young statistician p507
Peter J. Bowler reviews Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age by Theodore M. Porter
doi:10.1038/430507a
Seeing the world p507
doi:10.1038/430507b
Science in culture p508
Margaret Leiteritz turns scientific graphs into painted diagrams.
Martin Kemp reviews
doi:10.1038/430508a
Essay
ConceptWhy can't planets be like stars? p509
Planetary science: both the deductive skills of geologists and the mathematical approach of astrophysicists are needed to study planets.
Stuart Ross Taylor
doi:10.1038/430509a
News and Views
Neurobiology: Odorant receptors make scents p511
The goal of making sense of the sense of smell has come a step closer. Work on fruitflies reveals that odorant receptors act as bidirectional chemical detectors and determine the function of sensory neurons.
Rainer W. Friedrich
doi:10.1038/430511a
Superconductivity: Why the temperature is high p512
According to a new empirical law, the transition temperature to superconductivity is high in copper oxides because their metallic states are as viscous as is permitted by the laws of quantum physics.
Jan Zaanen
doi:10.1038/430512a
Cell biology: How to build a cell junction p513
Structures of the protein vinculin reveal drastic conformational changes associated with binding to its partners in cell-adhesion contacts. These changes might let vinculin regulate the assembly of these complexes.
William I. Weis
doi:10.1038/430513a
Evolutionary biology: Oceans of bacteria p515
Cloning microbial genes from natural environments has revealed a surprising amount of diversity. In understanding how microorganisms function in ecosystems, how much of this diversity really matters?
Stephen Giovannoni
doi:10.1038/430515a
Nuclear physics: Not-so-magic numbers p517
When a nucleus has a 'magic' number of neutrons or protons, it is particularly stable. But it seems that for exotic nuclei, with large numbers of neutrons relative to protons, these magic numbers can change.
David Warner
doi:10.1038/430517a
Self-assembly: Towards precision micelles p519
Detailed imaging reveals the structure of a spherical 'micelle', self-assembled from cone-shaped molecules, and marks progress towards mimicking the natural assembly skills of biological systems.
Dennis E. Discher and Randall D. Kamien
doi:10.1038/430519a
100 and 50 years ago p520
doi:10.1038/430520a
Molecular biology: Cohesins slip sliding away p520
Cohesin complexes have a central role in cell division, mediating the association between sister chromosomes. It now seems that cohesin binding is dynamic, adapting to changes in gene transcription.
Karen E. Ross and Orna Cohen-Fix
doi:10.1038/430520b
Brief Communications
Animal communication: Ground squirrel uses ultrasonic alarms p523
This rodent emits a high-frequency shriek as a warning that is inaudible to predators.
David R. Wilson and James F. Hare
doi:10.1038/430523a
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Brief Communications Arising
Earth science: Role of fO2 on fluid saturation in oceanic basalt
Bruno Scaillet and Michel Pichavant
doi:10.1038/nature02814
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Earth science: Role of fO2 on fluid saturation in oceanic basalt (reply)
Alberto E. Saal, Erik H. Hauri, Charles H. Langmuir and Michael R. Perfit
doi:10.1038/nature02815
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Progress
The nonlinear nature of friction p525
Michael Urbakh, Joseph Klafter, Delphine Gourdon and Jacob Israelachvili
doi:10.1038/nature02750
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Article
Crystal structure of the calcium pump with a bound ATP analogue p529
Chikashi Toyoshima and Tatsuaki Mizutani
doi:10.1038/nature02680
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Letters to Nature
Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows p536
Bart De Pontieu, Robert Erdélyi and Stewart P. James
doi:10.1038/nature02749
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A universal scaling relation in high-temperature superconductors p539
C. C. Homes, S. V. Dordevic, M. Strongin, D. A. Bonn, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, G. Yu, N. Kaneko, X. Zhao, M. Greven, D. N. Basov and T. Timusk
doi:10.1038/nature02673
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See also: News and Views by Zaanen
Magnetic phase control by an electric field p541
Thomas Lottermoser, Thomas Lonkai, Uwe Amann, Dietmar Hohlwein, Jörg Ihringer and Manfred Fiebig
doi:10.1038/nature02728
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Demixing in simple fluids induced by electric field gradients p544
Yoav Tsori, François Tournilhac and Ludwik Leibler
doi:10.1038/nature02758
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Evidence of power-law flow in the Mojave desert mantle p548
Andrew M. Freed and Roland Bürgmann
doi:10.1038/nature02784
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Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community p551
Silvia G. Acinas, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, Dana E. Hunt, Chanathip Pharino, Ivica Ceraj, Daniel L. Distel and Martin F. Polz
doi:10.1038/nature02649
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See also: News and Views by Giovannoni
Cambrian origins and affinities of an enigmatic fossil group of arthropods p554
N. E. Vaccari, G. D. Edgecombe and C. Escudero
doi:10.1038/nature02705
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Social parasitism by male-producing reproductive workers in a eusocial insect p557
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, J. Will Koning, Ruth M. Brown, William C. Jordan and Andrew F. G. Bourke
doi:10.1038/nature02769
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Neurons compute internal models of the physical laws of motion p560
Dora E. Angelaki, Aasef G. Shaikh, Andrea M. Green and J. David Dickman
doi:10.1038/nature02754
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Median bundle neurons coordinate behaviours during Drosophila male courtship p564
Devanand S. Manoli and Bruce S. Baker
doi:10.1038/nature02713
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Cyclophilin A retrotransposition into TRIM5 explains owl monkey resistance to HIV-1 p569
David M. Sayah, Elena Sokolskaja, Lionel Berthoux and Jeremy Luban
doi:10.1038/nature02777
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Cohesin relocation from sites of chromosomal loading to places of convergent transcription p573
Armelle Lengronne, Yuki Katou, Saori Mori, Shihori Yokobayashi, Gavin P. Kelly, Takehiko Itoh, Yoshinori Watanabe, Katsuhiko Shirahige and Frank Uhlmann
doi:10.1038/nature02742
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See also: News and Views by Ross & Cohen-Fix
Structural determinants for generating centromeric chromatin p578
Ben E. Black, Daniel R. Foltz, Srinivas Chakravarthy, Karolin Luger, Virgil L. Woods, Jr and Don W. Cleveland
doi:10.1038/nature02766
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Structural basis for vinculin activation at sites of cell adhesion p583
Constantina Bakolitsa, Daniel M. Cohen, Laurie A. Bankston, Andrey A. Bobkov, Gregory W. Cadwell, Lisa Jennings, David R. Critchley, Susan W. Craig and Robert C. Liddington
doi:10.1038/nature02610
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See also: News and Views by Weis
Low-populated folding intermediates of Fyn SH3 characterized by relaxation dispersion NMR p586
Dmitry M. Korzhnev, Xavier Salvatella, Michele Vendruscolo, Ariel A. Di Nardo, Alan R. Davidson, Christopher M. Dobson and Lewis E. Kay
doi:10.1038/nature02655
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Naturejobs
ProspectsUp for review p591
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6999-591a
Career View
Graduate Journal: The 'lab widow' p592
Tshaka Cunningham
doi:10.1038/nj6999-592a
Nuts & Bolts p592
Deb Koen
doi:10.1038/nj6999-592b
Movers p592
doi:10.1038/nj6999-592c
