Editorials

Dangerous state of denial p91

Despite the warning shots of SARS and last year's Asian outbreak of avian flu, governments are still not doing enough to monitor and prepare for the next viral pandemic. This inaction is scandalous.

doi:10.1038/433091a

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Rockets in Russia's back yard p91

Users of the Baikonur rocket base should care more about the health of local people

doi:10.1038/433091b

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News

Forces gather behind proposal for a natural-disaster agency p93

Asian tsunami prompts political support for new international body.

Jim Giles and Emma Marris

doi:10.1038/433093a

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Agencies fear global crises will lose out to tsunami donations p94

AIDS, malaria among the issues that may face funding shortfall.

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/433094a

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Scientists seek action to fix Asia's ravaged ecosystems p94

Environmental concerns will be key to repairing communities.

Helen Pearson

doi:10.1038/433094b

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Study links sickness to Russian launch site p95

Baikonur Cosmodrome may cause disease in Siberia.

Jim Giles

doi:10.1038/433095a

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European research framework set to expand p96

Seventh funding programme set to be twice as big as the sixth.

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/433096a

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Health rules may hamper Japanese import of lab mice p96

New regulations to stem disease may make research harder.

Ichiko Fuyuno

doi:10.1038/433096b

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Science's next generation finds its own way p97

Young researchers meet in Marrakech for World Academy.

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/433097a

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news in brief p98

doi:10.1038/433098a

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News Features

Historical monuments: The film crew p100

Cave paintings and catacomb walls around Europe are decaying under microbial attack. Are nightclub lights and designer chemicals the answer? Federica Castellani finds out.

doi:10.1038/433100a

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Infectious disease: Vietnam's war on flu p102

Having suffered heavily from avian influenza in 2004, Vietnam might now be brewing the next human flu pandemic. Yet, as Peter Aldhous discovers, local researchers don't have the resources to investigate the risk properly.

doi:10.1038/433102a

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Correspondence

Oceans need protection from scientists too p105

Unregulated research poses a serious threat to some unique marine environments.

Magnus Johnson

doi:10.1038/433105a

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Oceans: fisheries not to blame for damage p105

Kjartan Hoydal

doi:10.1038/433105b

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No political interference in US agricultural grants p105

Anne Vidaver

doi:10.1038/433105c

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Books and Arts

Science lessons p107

Japan must learn from its mistakes in the human genome project.

Yoshiaki Ito reviews Genomu Haiboku (A Defeat in the Genome Project) by Nobuhito Kishi

doi:10.1038/433107a

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Museum collection:  A taste of their own medicines p108

doi:10.1038/433108a

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Positive thinking p108

Daniel Nettle reviews Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison

doi:10.1038/433108b

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Stemming the tide of turtle extinction p109

Graeme C. Hays reviews Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation by James R. Spotila

doi:10.1038/433109a

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Essay

Body doubles p111

Cryptic species: as we discover more examples of species that are morphologically indistinguishable, we need to ask why and how they exist.

Alberto G. Sáez and Encarnación Lozano

doi:10.1038/433111a

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News and Views

Medicine:  Knockout malaria vaccine? p113

An effective vaccine against malaria remains elusive. But the finding that a genetically manipulated malaria parasite can protect its host lends fresh appeal to the idea of vaccines involving live attenuated parasites.

Robert Ménard

doi:10.1038/433113a

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Planetary science:  Construction-site inspection p114

How do you build a planetary system? Astronomers are tackling the question by peering back in time at the gas and dust surrounding stars younger than our Sun.

Alycia J. Weinberger

doi:10.1038/433114a

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Palaeoclimate:  Ripples of stormy weather p115

Heike Langenberg

doi:10.1038/433115a

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100 and 50 years ago p116

doi:10.1038/433116a

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Mammalian palaeobiology:  Living large in the Cretaceous p116

Discoveries of large, carnivorous mammals from the Cretaceous challenge the long-held view that primitive mammals were small and uninteresting. Have palaeontologists been asking the wrong questions?

Anne Weil

doi:10.1038/433116b

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Astrophysics:  The process of carbon creation p117

In the Universe, the element carbon is created only in stars, in a remarkable reaction called the triple- process. Fresh insights into the reaction now come from the latest experiments carried out on Earth.

Mounib El Eid

doi:10.1038/433117a

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Conservation biology:  Parasite rattles diversity's cage p119

Grazing and mechanical mowing can increase plant diversity in grassland, probably by weakening dominant species and so allowing others to thrive. A partially parasitic flower can, it seems, have a similar effect.

Peter D. Moore

doi:10.1038/433119a

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Brief Communications

Behavioural ecology:  Tool manufacture by naive juvenile crows p121

The use of twigs by these birds to coax out hidden food seems to be an instinctive skill.

Ben Kenward, Alex A. S. Weir, Christian Rutz and Alex Kacelnik

doi:10.1038/433121a

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Brief Communications Arising

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi:  Hyphal fusion and multigenomic structure pE3

James D. Bever and Mei Wang

doi:10.1038/nature03294

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi:  Hyphal fusion and multigenomic structure (reply) pE4

Teresa E. Pawlowska and John W. Taylor

doi:10.1038/nature03295

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Articles

Extreme winds and waves in the aftermath of a Neoproterozoic glaciation p123

Philip A. Allen and Paul F. Hoffman

doi:10.1038/nature03176

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Simultaneous determination of protein structure and dynamics p128

Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Robert B. Best, Mark A. DePristo, Christopher M. Dobson and Michele Vendruscolo

doi:10.1038/nature03199

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Letters to Nature

Mid-infrared images of Pictoris and the possible role of planetesimal collisions in the central disk p133

Charles M. Telesco, R. Scott Fisher, Mark C. Wyatt, Stanley F. Dermott, Thomas J. J. Kehoe, Steven Novotny, Naibi Mariñas, James T. Radomski, Christopher Packham, James De Buizer and Thomas L. Hayward

doi:10.1038/nature03255

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Revised rates for the stellar triple- process from measurement of ¹²C nuclear resonances p136

Hans O. U. Fynbo, Christian Aa. Diget, Uffe C. Bergmann, Maria J. G. Borge, Joakim Cederkäll, Peter Dendooven, Luis M. Fraile, Serge Franchoo, Valentin N. Fedosseev, Brian R. Fulton, Wenxue Huang, Jussi Huikari, Henrik B. Jeppesen, Ari S. Jokinen, Peter Jones, Björn Jonson, Ulli Köster, Karlheinz Langanke, Mikael Meister, Thomas Nilsson, Göran Nyman, Yolanda Prezado, Karsten Riisager, Sami Rinta-Antila, Olof Tengblad, Manuela Turrion, Youbao Wang, Leonid Weissman, Katarina Wilhelmsen, Juha Äystö and The ISOLDE Collaboration

doi:10.1038/nature03219

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Systematic design of chemical oscillators using complexation and precipitation equilibria p139

Krisztina Kurin-Csörgei, Irving R. Epstein and Miklós Orbán

doi:10.1038/nature03214

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Efficient export of carbon to the deep ocean through dissolved organic matter p142

Charles S. Hopkinson, Jr and Joseph J. Vallino

doi:10.1038/nature03191

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Magma-assisted rifting in Ethiopia p146

J.-M. Kendall, G. W. Stuart, C. J. Ebinger, I. D. Bastow and D. Keir

doi:10.1038/nature03161

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Large Mesozoic mammals fed on young dinosaurs p149

Yaoming Hu, Jin Meng, Yuanqing Wang and Chuankui Li

doi:10.1038/nature03102

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The simplicity of metazoan cell lineages p152

Ricardo B. R. Azevedo, Rolf Lohaus, Volker Braun, Markus Gumbel, Muralikrishna Umamaheshwar, Paul-Michael Agapow, Wouter Houthoofd, Ute Platzer, Gaëtan Borgonie, Hans-Peter Meinzer and Armand M. Leroi

doi:10.1038/nature03178

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Unexpected complexity of the Wnt gene family in a sea anemone p156

Arne Kusserow, Kevin Pang, Carsten Sturm, Martina Hrouda, Jan Lentfer, Heiko A. Schmidt, Ulrich Technau, Arndt von Haeseler, Bert Hobmayer, Mark Q. Martindale and Thomas W. Holstein

doi:10.1038/nature03158

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Low gene copy number shows that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inherit genetically different nuclei p160

Mohamed Hijri and Ian R. Sanders

doi:10.1038/nature03069

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Genetically modified Plasmodium parasites as a protective experimental malaria vaccine p164

Ann-Kristin Mueller, Mehdi Labaied, Stefan H. I. Kappe and Kai Matuschewski

doi:10.1038/nature03188

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Binding of brassinosteroids to the extracellular domain of plant receptor kinase BRI1 p167

Toshinori Kinoshita, Ana Caño-Delgado, Hideharu Seto, Sayoko Hiranuma, Shozo Fujioka, Shigeo Yoshida and Joanne Chory

doi:10.1038/nature03227

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Stabilization of microtubule dynamics at anaphase onset promotes chromosome segregation p171

Toru Higuchi and Frank Uhlmann

doi:10.1038/nature03240

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Naturejobs

Scientific personalities p177

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/nj7022-177a

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Graduate Journal:  Over-specialization? p178

Anne Margaret Lee

doi:10.1038/nj7022-178a

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Scientists & Societies p178

Darlene Zellers

doi:10.1038/nj7022-178b

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Movers p178

doi:10.1038/nj7022-178c

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