Table of contents
Volume 432 Number 7020 pp933-1063
Editorials
Welcome climate bloggers p933
A group of just nine climate scientists is trying to change the media coverage of their discipline. Thanks to an ongoing revolution in electronic news, they might just succeed.
doi:10.1038/432933a
Wish list 2005 p933
Nature hereby offers its readers some New Year's resolutions.
doi:10.1038/432933b
News
Activists and researchers rally behind AIDS drug for mothers p935
Nevirapine trial was not flawed, say researchers.
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/432935a
Bush slips off the hook over funds for ocean management p936
Commission on Ocean Policy members disappointed in White House response.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/432936a
US proves a wet blanket at international climate meeting p936
United States 'deliberately obstructs' discussions about future emissions control.
Amanda Haag
doi:10.1038/432936b
Climatologists get real over global warming p937
RealClimate website battles poor media coverage.
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/432937a
Funding review sparks fears for Canadian science p937
Science agencies may be asked to cut 5% from budgets.
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/432937b
Spotlight turns on cosmetics for Asian skin p938
Companies expanding efforts to understand ageing and spots.
Ichiko Fuyuno
doi:10.1038/432938a
Nano names go on Internet sale in hope of mega profit p938
Entrepreneur aims to auction hundreds of websites.
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/432938b
News Features
New Year's wishes: All I want for 2005 is... p942
doi:10.1038/432942a
Highlights p943
doi:10.1038/432943a
Scandals p947
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Odds & ends p948
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Correspondence
Progress requires scientific thinking at all levels p949
This underpins the core values of a moderate society and must not be limited to an élite.
Sheheryar Kabraji
doi:10.1038/432949a
Meyer paper: don't hang the Soc. Wash. out to dry p949
Kristofer M. Helgen
doi:10.1038/432949b
Meyer publication worse than just bad science p949
Day B. Ligon and Matthew B. Lovern
doi:10.1038/432949c
Let's see what happens if I press this button... p949
Robin Thompson
doi:10.1038/432949d
Books and Arts
Beyond the culture shock p951
Culture is a key ingredient in the development of human societies.
Robin Dunbar reviews Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
doi:10.1038/432951a
Charting the past p952
Paul G. Bahn reviews The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World
doi:10.1038/432952a
Science in culture p953
What lies behind the hexagonal shape of the snowflake?
Martin Kemp reviews
doi:10.1038/432953a
Beginning again p953
Peter Coles reviews Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It by Simon Singh
doi:10.1038/432953b
Fizzical attraction p954
Richard N. Zare reviews Uncorked: The Science of Champagne by Gérard Liger-Belair
doi:10.1038/432954a
Essay
Turning pointsReality is wilder p955
How a terrifying interview led to fun doing physics.
Gregory Benford
doi:10.1038/432955a
News and Views
Early Solar System: Shock fronts in Hawaii p957
The most vexing question in meteoritics is on the verge of being answered — what process led to the small droplets of primordial dust that are found throughout the most primitive meteorites?
Alan P. Boss
doi:10.1038/432957a
Diabetes: Outfoxing insulin resistance? p958
Resistance to insulin predisposes people to diabetes; it is characterized by increased storage of fats and a failure to stop glucose synthesis. The molecular underpinnings of these effects have been uncovered.
Marc Montminy and Seung-Hoi Koo
doi:10.1038/432958a
Applied physics: Nanotube antennas p959
An antenna array that is metres high and wide can detect and transmit radio waves. This effect has now been demonstrated at much smaller electromagnetic wavelengths in a nanoscale array of carbon nanotubes.
M. S. Dresselhaus
doi:10.1038/432959a
100 and 50 years ago p960
doi:10.1038/432960a
Molecular biology: Hairpins at split ends in DNA p960
What do changing colours in corn kernels, mutations in houseflies and the variability of antibodies and of a T cell's antigen receptors in the vertebrate immune system have in common? A great deal, it turns out.
Marjorie A. Oettinger
doi:10.1038/432960b
Climate change: The cloud conundrum p962
One of the great uncertainties in projecting global warming is accounting for the effects of small particles in Earth's atmosphere. Progress is nonetheless being made with this fiendishly complex problem.
Joyce E. Penner
doi:10.1038/432962a
Developmental biology: Survival by self-digestion p963
Mammals face a problem just after birth: they are no longer nourished through the placenta, but suckling has not yet begun. How do they survive? Digestion of the animal's own cells could be the answer.
Nathaniel Heintz
doi:10.1038/432963a
Developmental biology: No red cell is an island p964
Red blood cells develop in the bone marrow in 'islands' nurtured by a central white blood cell. Work in mice shows that the retinoblastoma protein is crucial for these white cells to mature and form islands.
James Palis
doi:10.1038/432964a
Device physics: Microlever chilled out p965
New work shows how light might be used to cool a micrometre-size cantilevered mirror to the low temperatures required in physics experiments and applications.
Peter W. Milonni and Boris M. Chernobrod
doi:10.1038/432965a
Obituary: Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932–2004) p966
Tasuku Honjo
doi:10.1038/432966a
Brief Communications
Feeding behaviour: Hydrothermal vent crabs feast on sea 'snow' p969
The riddle is solved of how vast crab populations can thrive in an extreme, toxic habitat.
M.-S. Jeng, N. K. Ng and P. K. L. Ng
doi:10.1038/432969a
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Articles
Recent and episodic volcanic and glacial activity on Mars revealed by the High Resolution Stereo Camera p971
G. Neukum, R. Jaumann, H. Hoffmann, E. Hauber, J. W. Head, A. T. Basilevsky, B. A. Ivanov, S. C. Werner, S. van Gasselt, J. B. Murray, T. McCord and The HRSC Co-Investigator Team
doi:10.1038/nature03231
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Genome-wide survey of protein kinases required for cell cycle progression p980
M. Bettencourt-Dias, R. Giet, R. Sinka, A. Mazumdar, W. G. Lock, F. Balloux, P. J. Zafiropoulos, S. Yamaguchi, S. Winter, R. W. Carthew, M. Cooper, D. Jones, L. Frenz and D. M. Glover
doi:10.1038/nature03160
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The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16 p988
Joel Martin, Cliff Han, Laurie A. Gordon, Astrid Terry, Shyam Prabhakar, Xinwei She, Gary Xie, Uffe Hellsten, Yee Man Chan, Michael Altherr, Olivier Couronne, Andrea Aerts, Eva Bajorek, Stacey Black, Heather Blumer, Elbert Branscomb, Nancy C. Brown, William J. Bruno, Judith M. Buckingham, David F. Callen, Connie S. Campbell, Mary L. Campbell, Evelyn W. Campbell, Chenier Caoile, Jean F. Challacombe, Leslie A. Chasteen, Olga Chertkov, Han C. Chi, Mari Christensen, Lynn M. Clark, Judith D. Cohn, Mirian Denys, John C. Detter, Mark Dickson, Mira Dimitrijevic-Bussod, Julio Escobar, Joseph J. Fawcett, Dave Flowers, Dea Fotopulos, Tijana Glavina, Maria Gomez, Eidelyn Gonzales, David Goodstein, Lynne A. Goodwin, Deborah L. Grady, Igor Grigoriev, Matthew Groza, Nancy Hammon, Trevor Hawkins, Lauren Haydu, Carl E. Hildebrand, Wayne Huang, Sanjay Israni, Jamie Jett, Phillip B. Jewett, Kristen Kadner, Heather Kimball, Arthur Kobayashi, Marie-Claude Krawczyk, Tina Leyba, Jonathan L. Longmire, Frederick Lopez, Yunian Lou, Steve Lowry, Thom Ludeman, Chitra F. Manohar, Graham A. Mark, Kimberly L. McMurray, Linda J. Meincke, Jenna Morgan, Robert K. Moyzis, Mark O. Mundt, A. Christine Munk, Richard D. Nandkeshwar, Sam Pitluck, Martin Pollard, Paul Predki, Beverly Parson-Quintana, Lucia Ramirez, Sam Rash, James Retterer, Darryl O. Ricke, Donna L. Robinson, Alex Rodriguez, Asaf Salamov, Elizabeth H. Saunders, Duncan Scott, Timothy Shough, Raymond L. Stallings, Malinda Stalvey, Robert D. Sutherland, Roxanne Tapia, Judith G. Tesmer, Nina Thayer, Linda S. Thompson, Hope Tice, David C. Torney, Mary Tran-Gyamfi, Ming Tsai, Levy E. Ulanovsky, Anna Ustaszewska, Nu Vo, P. Scott White, Albert L. Williams, Patricia L. Wills, Jung-Rung Wu, Kevin Wu, Joan Yang, Pieter DeJong, David Bruce, Norman A. Doggett, Larry Deaven, Jeremy Schmutz, Jane Grimwood, Paul Richardson, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Evan E. Eichler, Paul Gilna, Susan M. Lucas, Richard M. Myers, Edward M. Rubin and Len A. Pennacchio
doi:10.1038/nature03187
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Transposition of hAT elements links transposable elements and V(D)J recombination p995
Liqin Zhou, Rupak Mitra, Peter W. Atkinson, Alison Burgess Hickman, Fred Dyda and Nancy L. Craig
doi:10.1038/nature03157
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See also: News and Views by Oettinger
Letters to Nature
Cavity cooling of a microlever p1002
Constanze Höhberger Metzger and Khaled Karrai
doi:10.1038/nature03118
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See also: News and Views by Milonni & Chernobrod
Plasma devices to guide and collimate a high density of MeV electrons p1005
R. Kodama, Y. Sentoku, Z. L. Chen, G. R. Kumar, S. P. Hatchett, Y. Toyama, T. E. Cowan, R. R Freeman, J. Fuchs, Y. Izawa, M. H. Key, Y. Kitagawa, K. Kondo, T. Matsuoka, H. Nakamura, M. Nakatsutsumi, P. A. Norreys, T. Norimatsu, R. A. Snavely, R. B. Stephens, M. Tampo, K. A. Tanaka and T. Yabuuchi
doi:10.1038/nature03133
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Bismuth embrittlement of copper is an atomic size effect p1008
Rainer Schweinfest, Anthony T. Paxton and Michael W. Finnis
doi:10.1038/nature03198
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Meteoric smoke fallout over the Holocene epoch revealed by iridium and platinum in Greenland ice p1011
Paolo Gabrielli, Carlo Barbante, John M. C. Plane, Anita Varga, Sungmin Hong, Giulio Cozzi, Vania Gaspari, Frédéric A. M. Planchon, Warren Cairns, Christophe Ferrari, Paul Crutzen, Paolo Cescon and Claude F. Boutron
doi:10.1038/nature03137
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The impact of humidity above stratiform clouds on indirect aerosol climate forcing p1014
Andrew S. Ackerman, Michael P. Kirkpatrick, David E. Stevens and Owen B. Toon
doi:10.1038/nature03174
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See also: News and Views by Penner
Break-up of the Atlantic deep western boundary current into eddies at 8° S p1018
M. Dengler, F. A. Schott, C. Eden, P. Brandt, J. Fischer and R. J. Zantopp
doi:10.1038/nature03134
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Dating the Late Archaic occupation of the Norte Chico region in Peru p1020
Jonathan Haas, Winifred Creamer and Alvaro Ruiz
doi:10.1038/nature03146
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High-quality male field crickets invest heavily in sexual display but die young p1024
John Hunt, Robert Brooks, Michael D. Jennions, Michael J. Smith, Caroline L. Bentsen and Luc F. Bussière
doi:10.1038/nature03084
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Foxa2 regulates lipid metabolism and ketogenesis in the liver during fasting and in diabetes p1027
Christian Wolfrum, Esra Asilmaz, Edlira Luca, Jeffrey M. Friedman and Markus Stoffel
doi:10.1038/nature03047
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See also: News and Views by Montminy & Koo
The role of autophagy during the early neonatal starvation period p1032
Akiko Kuma, Masahiko Hatano, Makoto Matsui, Akitsugu Yamamoto, Haruaki Nakaya, Tamotsu Yoshimori, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Takeshi Tokuhisa and Noboru Mizushima
doi:10.1038/nature03029
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See also: News and Views by Heintz
An endoribonuclease-prepared siRNA screen in human cells identifies genes essential for cell division p1036
Ralf Kittler, Gabriele Putz, Laurence Pelletier, Ina Poser, Anne-Kristin Heninger, David Drechsel, Steffi Fischer, Irena Konstantinova, Bianca Habermann, Hannes Grabner, Marie-Laure Yaspo, Heinz Himmelbauer, Bernd Korn, Karla Neugebauer, Maria Teresa Pisabarro and Frank Buchholz
doi:10.1038/nature03159
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Retinoblastoma promotes definitive erythropoiesis by repressing Id2 in fetal liver macrophages p1040
Antonio Iavarone, Emerson R. King, Xu-Ming Dai, Gustavo Leone, E. Richard Stanley and Anna Lasorella
doi:10.1038/nature03068
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See also: News and Views by Palis
Hedgehog signalling activity of Smoothened requires phosphorylation by protein kinase A and casein kinase I p1045
Jianhang Jia, Chao Tong, Bing Wang, Liping Luo and Jin Jiang
doi:10.1038/nature03179
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Accurate multiplex gene synthesis from programmable DNA microchips p1050
Jingdong Tian, Hui Gong, Nijing Sheng, Xiaochuan Zhou, Erdogan Gulari, Xiaolian Gao and George Church
doi:10.1038/nature03151
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The transcription factor Ifh1 is a key regulator of yeast ribosomal protein genes p1054
Joseph T. Wade, Daniel B. Hall and Kevin Struhl
doi:10.1038/nature03175
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Growth-regulated recruitment of the essential yeast ribosomal protein gene activator Ifh1 p1058
Stephan B. Schawalder, Mehdi Kabani, Isabelle Howald, Urmila Choudhury, Michel Werner and David Shore
doi:10.1038/nature03200
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