The Kyoto Protocol is just a small first step in restricting man's influence on climate. If we can't prevent fires in Indonesia, such international efforts to limit the effects of climate change could be in vain.
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Volume 432 Number 7014 pp131-255
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Editorials
Burning issues p131
The stem-cell state p131
California's citizens have changed the landscape of a key area of biology — with intriguing implications for everyone else.
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News
Watchdogs call academies to account over conflicts of interest p133
Coal-mining committee accused of unhealthy ties to industry.
Tony Reichhardt
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Trust gives warm welcome to open access p134
Wellcome Trust endorses public archive for biomedical research.
Jim Giles
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Leukaemia sleuths accuse state of nuclear cover-up p134
German cancer commission members resign in protest over 'secret lab'.
Barbara Simm
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Joys match fears as California agrees to stem-cell proposal p135
State programme bypasses federal opposition to research.
Jonathan Knight
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Bush set to keep core science team for second term p135
US President's line-up of science advisers shapes up.
Emma Marris
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Herbicide critic dropped from pollution conference p136
Biologist accuses officials of censorship for cancelling his talk.
Rex Dalton
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Hopes rise for RNA therapy as mouse study hits target p136
Safety concerns eased for promising medical technique.
Erika Check
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Creative Commons ponders share options p137
Alternative licensing scheme for scientists set to launch.
Paula Gould
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WHO seeks system for tracking global clinical trials p137
Groundswell of support seen for easy-access register of medical data.
Erika Check
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News Features
Zoology: A mole in hand... p142
A strange Australian mole has eluded scientific study for more than a century. Now biologists are teaming up with Aboriginal trackers to unearth the secrets of the itjaritjari. Carina Dennis checks on their progress.
Carina Dennis
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Land remediation: Borneo is burning p144
Vast tracts of Indonesia's peat swamps have been drained in a misguided attempt to turn them into rice plantations. Now the landscape burns every year, belching smoke and hastening global warming. Peter Aldhous investigates.
Peter Aldhous
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Correspondence
Linear models can't keep up with sport gender gap p147
Will women runners ever overtake men at the Olympics? Don't hold your breath.
Weia Reinboud
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Sprint research runs into a credibility gap p147
Biology students find holes in gap study p147
Mind the gap: women racers are falling behind p147
Mind the gap: women racers are falling behind p147
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Books and Arts
The science of life and death p149
A look at the development of biological weapons and the threat they carry.
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The view from Budapest p150
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The art of seeing science p151
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Film: The story of life p151
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Essay
Turning pointsMaking waves p153
How a stroll in the park led to the beginning of quantum electronics.
Charles H. Townes
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News and Views
医学：RNA干渉法でコレステロール値を下げる
Medicine: A cholesterol connection in RNAi p155
RNA interference — RNAi for short — might provide a way to silence disease-associated genes, but problems of delivery have hampered progress. Those problems may have been solved, at least in animal studies.
John J. Rossi
doi:10.1038/432155a
地球科学：砂漠の化石からマントルの形を探る
Earth science: Mantle mapped in the desert p156
How does variation in ocean-floor rocks arise from differences in the temperature of their mantle source? A new angle on the question comes from painstaking work on one of the geological wonders of the world.
Georges Ceuleneer
doi:10.1038/432156a
DNA 修復：大きな装置で小さな亀裂を直す
DNA repair: Big engine finds small breaks p157
When a break occurs in the DNA double helix, it must be dealt with rapidly. The structure of one of the cellular machines responsible is now revealed, offering insights into its impressive speed and flexibility.
Anna Marie Pyle
doi:10.1038/432157a
生態学：高いところはツンドラの安全地帯
Ecology: Hope in the hills for tundra? p159
Will global warming cause northern forests to spread into arctic tundra? A study of black spruce suggests that the answer is complex and varies according to latitude and altitude.
Peter D. Moore
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動物行動：ランキングの罪と罰
100 and 50 years ago p160
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Animal behaviour: Rank crime and punishment p160
In paper wasps, facial markings are cheap 'status badges' that would seem to be susceptible to cheating. But wasps punish those whose markings lie. Social competition is, it appears, a strong selective force.
Joan E. Strassmann
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植物の発生：花束が葉束に変わる時
Plant development: A bunch of leaves p161
物性物理学：磁気の振り子
Condensed-matter physics: A magnetic pendulum p162
Where two oppositely magnetized regions meet, there is a so-called domain wall. Under the right conditions, this wall can be made to oscillate like a pendulum, suggesting a new approach to electronics.
Claude Chappert and Thibaut Devolder
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Brief Communications
Laser beams: Knotted threads of darkness p165
Dark lines within a laser beam can be manipulated to form stable vortex knots.
Jonathan Leach, Mark R. Dennis, Johannes Courtial and Miles J. Padgett
doi:10.1038/432165a
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Plant genetics: Gene transfer from parasitic to host plants p165
Jeffrey P. Mower,
Sa
a Stefanovi
,
Gregory J. Young
and
Jeffrey D. Palmer
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Brief Communications Arising
Evolution: How do characters evolve?
Evolution: How do characters evolve? (reply)
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Articles
地球：オマーンオフィオライトの過去の大洋中央海嶺に沿ったマントルの分割
Mantle segmentation along the Oman ophiolite fossil mid-ocean ridge p167
Laurent Le Mée, Jacques Girardeau and Christophe Monnier
doi:10.1038/nature03075
医学：修飾型siRNAの全身投与によって内在性遺伝子を抑制する治療
Therapeutic silencing of an endogenous gene by systemic administration of modified siRNAs p173
Jürgen Soutschek, Akin Akinc, Birgit Bramlage, Klaus Charisse, Rainer Constien, Mary Donoghue, Sayda Elbashir, Anke Geick, Philipp Hadwiger, Jens Harborth, Matthias John, Venkitasamy Kesavan, Gary Lavine, Rajendra K. Pandey, Timothy Racie, Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev, Ingo Röhl, Ivanka Toudjarska, Gang Wang, Silvio Wuschko, David Bumcrot, Victor Koteliansky, Stefan Limmer, Muthiah Manoharan and Hans-Peter Vornlocher
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発生：ネトリン受容体UNC5Bが血管系の形態形成を制御するガイダンス現象にかかわる
The netrin receptor UNC5B mediates guidance events controlling morphogenesis of the vascular system p179
Xiaowei Lu, Ferdinand le Noble, Li Yuan, Quingjan Jiang, Benjamin de Lafarge, Daisuke Sugiyama, Christiane Bréant, Filip Claes, Frederik De Smet, Jean-Léon Thomas, Monica Autiero, Peter Carmeliet, Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Anne Eichmann
doi:10.1038/nature03080
生化学：RecBCD酵素の結晶構造により明らかになるDNA切断処理機構
Crystal structure of RecBCD enzyme reveals a machine for processing DNA breaks p187
Martin R. Singleton, Mark S. Dillingham, Martin Gaudier, Stephen C. Kowalczykowski and Dale B. Wigley
doi:10.1038/nature02988
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宇宙：宇宙再電離の末期における電離したバブルに特徴的なおよそ10 Mpcの大きさ
A characteristic size of 
10 Mpc for the ionized bubbles at the end of cosmic reionization p194
物理：単一量子ドット−半導体微小共振器系における強い結合
Strong coupling in a single quantum dot–semiconductor microcavity system p197
J. P. Reithmaier,
G. S
k,
A. Löffler,
C. Hofmann,
S. Kuhn,
S. Reitzenstein,
L. V. Keldysh,
V. D. Kulakovskii,
T. L. Reinecke
and
A. Forchel
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物理：フォトニック結晶光ナノ共振器における単一量子ドットの真空ラビ分裂
Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in a photonic crystal nanocavity p200
T. Yoshie, A. Scherer, J. Hendrickson, G. Khitrova, H. M. Gibbs, G. Rupper, C. Ell, O. B. Shchekin and D. G. Deppe
doi:10.1038/nature03119
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物性：単一磁壁の電流誘起共鳴と質量決定
Current-induced resonance and mass determination of a single magnetic domain wall p203
Eiji Saitoh, Hideki Miyajima, Takehiro Yamaoka and Gen Tatara
doi:10.1038/nature03009
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光学：結合したマイクロリングレーザーを使った高速低電力光メモリ
A fast low-power optical memory based on coupled micro-ring lasers p206
Martin T. Hill, Harmen J. S. Dorren, Tjibbe de Vries, Xaveer J. M. Leijtens, Jan Hendrik den Besten, Barry Smalbrugge, Yok-Siang Oei, Hans Binsma, Giok-Djan Khoe and Meint K. Smit
doi:10.1038/nature03045
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惑星：もっとも若い年代の月の火成岩から示される月のKREEP火成活動の延長
Prolonged KREEP magmatism on the Moon indicated by the youngest dated lunar igneous rock p209
Lars E. Borg, Charles K. Shearer, Yemane Asmerom and James J. Papike
doi:10.1038/nature03070
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進化：哺乳類の歯の特徴は互いに独立性がない
Nonindependence of mammalian dental characters p211
Aapo T. Kangas, Alistair R. Evans, Irma Thesleff and Jukka Jernvall
doi:10.1038/nature02927
進化：有蹄類では性選択が老化の「使い捨ての体」説に関与する
Disposable-soma senescence mediated by sexual selection in an ungulate p215
Juan Carranza, Susana Alarcos, Cristina B. Sánchez-Prieto, Juliana Valencia and Concha Mateos
doi:10.1038/nature03004
生態：アシナガバチの一種では質を伝えるシグナルが社会的に施行される
A socially enforced signal of quality in a paper wasp p218
生態：ジャガイモの多様性中心地における環境生物安全性と遺伝子組換えジャガイモ
Environmental biosafety and transgenic potato in a centre of diversity for this crop p222
Carolina Celis, Maria Scurrah, Sue Cowgill, Susana Chumbiauca, Jayne Green, Javier Franco, Gladys Main, Daan Kiezebrink, Richard G. F. Visser and Howard J. Atkinson
doi:10.1038/nature03048
生理：膵島に特異的なマイクロRNAがインスリン分泌を制御する
A pancreatic islet-specific microRNA regulates insulin secretion p226
Matthew N. Poy, Lena Eliasson, Jan Krutzfeldt, Satoru Kuwajima, Xiaosong Ma, Patrick E. MacDonald, Sébastien Pfeffer, Thomas Tuschl, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Patrik Rorsman and Markus Stoffel
doi:10.1038/nature03076
生化学：マイクロプロセッサー複合体による一次マイクロRNAのプロセシング
Processing of primary microRNAs by the Microprocessor complex p231
Ahmet M. Denli, Bastiaan B. J. Tops, Ronald H. A. Plasterk, René F. Ketting and Gregory J. Hannon
doi:10.1038/nature03049
生化学：マイクロRNAの生成にはマイクロプロセッサー複合体が関与する
The Microprocessor complex mediates the genesis of microRNAs p235
Richard I. Gregory, Kai-ping Yan, Govindasamy Amuthan, Thimmaiah Chendrimada, Behzad Doratotaj, Neil Cooch and Ramin Shiekhattar
doi:10.1038/nature03120
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Technology Features
Cell signalling: Making connections p243
Technological innovations in detecting and studying protein–protein interactions are providing new ways of doing research in cell signalling. Diane Gershon investigates.
Diane Gershon
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In the market-place p243
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Quantum dots show their true colours p247
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Probing real-time protein interactions p249
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Table of suppliers p250
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Special Report
Naturejobs
ProspectsThe secrets of success p253
Special Report
Getting on the fast-track to full-time employment p254
The road to your first full-time position can be long and tortuous. But some researchers have found a shortcut to success. Eugene Russo reports.
Eugene Russo
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