Table of contents
Volume 433 Number 7025 pp443-556
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Editorials
Facing reality at NASA p443
The US space agency is facing a crisis that neither it nor its political stakeholders seem willing to tackle. Something big has to give, and it shouldn't be science.
doi:10.1038/433443a
Turf battles versus German excellence p443
Disputes between Germany's states and its federal government need not cripple the country's research priorities.
doi:10.1038/433443b
News
DNA is burning issue as Japan and Korea clash over kidnaps p445
Cremated remains fail to prove fate of Japanese girl abducted in 1977.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/433445a
Publishers irritated by Google's digital library p446
Plan to digitize university library collections sparks copyright spat.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/433446a
University dispute puts Berlin science meetings in crisis p446
Future of Dahlem Conferences hangs in the balance as board contemplates resignation.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/433446b
Lab relations sour as 'missing disk' charges are proved false p447
Los Alamos lab's computer disks didn't go missing - they never existed.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/433447a
Cancellation e-mail shakes recipients of outer-planet grants p447
NASA notice of grant cuts was just a 'miscommunication', agency says.
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/433447b
Political deadlock delays promised German research cash p448
2 billion euros and a 3% budget rise held "hostage", says funding president.
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/433448a
Hopes rise as head named for troubled conservation centre p448
Graham Watkins named director of Charles Darwin Foundation in Galapagos.
Henry Nicholls
doi:10.1038/433448b
African network set to boost Earth sciences p449
Geophysicists aim to bolster local skills throughout Africa.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/433449a
Reformation of bird-brain terminology takes off p449
New nomenclature reflects similarities between bird and mammal brains.
Jessica Ebert
doi:10.1038/433449b
News Features
Women at work p452
Pakistan's traditional ways have blocked many women's careers in science. But, as Ehsan Masood discovers, women are now fighting for their rights, both in life and in research.
doi:10.1038/433452a
See also: Editor's summary
Skeleton keys p454
Mexican scientists now have the skills and technology to study their backlog of ancient bones. As this treasure trove begins to yield its secrets, Rex Dalton finds local scientists hoping to unravel the mysteries of the earliest settlers of America.
doi:10.1038/433454a
Correspondence
Rebuilding fisheries will add to Asia's problems p457
Overfishing has already caused depletion and conflict. Instead, train people for new jobs.
Daniel Pauly
doi:10.1038/433457a
Need for a risk-informed tsunami alert system p457
Gordon Woo and Willy Aspinall
doi:10.1038/433457b
Books and Arts
Part of the culture p459
Magazines and journals reveal how the Victorians viewed science.
Aileen Fyfe reviews Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature by Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan R. Topham and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index and Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media and Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
doi:10.1038/433459a
Fermi's legacy p460
Giulio Maltese reviews Fermi Remembered and Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy
doi:10.1038/433460a
Science in culture p461
It's still the periodic table — but with a twist.
Martin Kemp reviews
doi:10.1038/433461a
Life and death in Sumatra p462
Alison Jolly reviews Among Orangutans: Red Apes and the Rise of Human Culture by Carel van Schaik
doi:10.1038/433462a
Physics detective
Schrödinger's mousetrap p463
Part 3: Negative thoughts.
Liesbeth Venema
doi:10.1038/433463a
News and Views
Astronomy: Hot pursuit of missing matter p465
Astronomers are going to extraordinary lengths in the quest to tot up the 'ordinary' matter in the Universe. The latest initiative has probed hot gas in intergalactic space by means of an X-ray lighthouse.
J. Michael Shull
doi:10.1038/433465a
See also: Editor's summary
Evolutionary developmental biology: How and why to spot fly wings p466
How can different species evolve different physical features despite using similar molecular toolkits? Studies of wing colour development in fruitflies point to specific changes in a gene's regulatory region.
Paul M. Brakefield and Vernon French
doi:10.1038/433466a
See also: Editor's summary
Cell biology: Holding sisters for repair p467
When a DNA molecule breaks, its complementary copy can be used as a template for repair. A familiar protein complex is recruited to the damaged site, keeping it close to the undamaged copy.
Tatsuya Hirano
doi:10.1038/433467a
Mycology: To be or not to be a lichen p468
David Hawksworth
doi:10.1038/433468a
Life: In search of the simplest cell p469
Top-down, bottom-up; RNA-based, lipid-based; theory, experiment — there are many different ways of investigating what constitutes a 'minimal cell'. Progress requires finding common themes between them.
Eörs Szathmáry
doi:10.1038/433469a
100 and 50 years ago p469
doi:10.1038/433469b
Surface chemistry: Approximate challenges p470
There is growing evidence that the usual approach to modelling chemical events at surfaces is incomplete — an important concern in studies of the many catalytic processes that involve surface reactions.
Greg Sitz
doi:10.1038/433470a
Physiology: A welcome shortage of breath p471
The respiratory systems of animals must guarantee an efficient oxygen supply. But it seems that, in some insects, they have evolved to restrict the flow of oxygen too.
Thorsten Burmester
doi:10.1038/433471a
Atmospheric physics: Seeing the light p471
Karl Ziemelis
doi:10.1038/433471b
See also: Editor's summary
RNA interference: Methylation mystery p472
Tiny RNA molecules called microRNAs are important in development, and are thought to function by causing the degradation of matching messenger RNAs. That may not be their only mode of action, however.
Michael Ronemus and Rob Martienssen
doi:10.1038/433472a
Brief Communications
Burrowing mechanics: Burrow extension by crack propagation p475
A worm minimizes its energy expenditure as it forges a path through mud sediment.
Kelly M. Dorgan, Peter A. Jumars, Bruce Johnson, B. P. Boudreau and Eric Landis
doi:10.1038/433475a
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Nanotechnology: 'Buckypaper' from coaxial nanotubes p476
M. Endo, H. Muramatsu, T. Hayashi, Y. A. Kim, M. Terrones and M. S. Dresselhaus
doi:10.1038/433476a
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See also: Editor's summary
Top of page
Brief Communications Arising
Biochemistry: Role of PQQ as a mammalian enzyme cofactor? pE10
Leigh M. Felton and Chris Anthony
doi:10.1038/nature03322
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Biochemistry: Is pyrroloquinoline quinone a vitamin? pE10
Robert Rucker, David Storms, Annemarie Sheets, Eskouhie Tchaparian and Andrea Fascetti
doi:10.1038/nature03323
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Biochemistry: Is pyrroloquinoline quinone a vitamin? (Reply) pE11
Takaoki Kasahara and Tadafumi Kato
doi:10.1038/nature03324
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Progress
Regulation of cap-dependent translation by eIF4E inhibitory proteins p477
Joel D. Richter and Nahum Sonenberg
doi:10.1038/nature03205
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See also: Editor's summary
Articles
Chance caught on the wing: cis-regulatory evolution and the origin of pigment patterns in Drosophila p481
Nicolas Gompel, Benjamin Prud'homme, Patricia J. Wittkopp, Victoria A. Kassner and Sean B. Carroll
doi:10.1038/nature03235
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (427K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Brakefield & French
Structural basis of actin filament nucleation and processive capping by a formin homology 2 domain p488
Takanori Otomo, Diana R. Tomchick, Chinatsu Otomo, Sanjay C. Panchal, Mischa Machius and Michael K. Rosen
doi:10.1038/nature03251
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Letters to Nature
The mass of the missing baryons in the X-ray forest of the warm–hot intergalactic medium p495
Fabrizio Nicastro, Smita Mathur, Martin Elvis, Jeremy Drake, Taotao Fang, Antonella Fruscione, Yair Krongold, Herman Marshall, Rik Williams and Andreas Zezas
doi:10.1038/nature03245
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Shull
Creation of visible artificial optical emissions in the aurora by high-power radio waves p498
Todd. R. Pedersen and Elizabeth A. Gerken
doi:10.1038/nature03243
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Observation of random-phase lattice solitons p500
Oren Cohen, Guy Bartal, Hrvoje Buljan, Tal Carmon, Jason W. Fleischer, Mordechai Segev and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
doi:10.1038/nature03267
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Conversion of large-amplitude vibration to electron excitation at a metal surface p503
Jason D. White, Jun Chen, Daniel Matsiev, Daniel J. Auerbach and Alec M. Wodtke
doi:10.1038/nature03213
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See also: News and Views by Sitz
Low European methyl chloroform emissions inferred from long-term atmospheric measurements p506
Stefan Reimann, Alistair J. Manning, Peter G. Simmonds, Derek M. Cunnold, Ray H. J. Wang, Jinlong Li, Archie McCulloch, Ronald G. Prinn, Jin Huang, Ray F. Weiss, Paul J. Fraser, Simon O'Doherty, Brian R. Greally, Konrad Stemmler, Matthias Hill and Doris Folini
doi:10.1038/nature03220
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Global azimuthal seismic anisotropy and the unique plate-motion deformation of Australia p509
Eric Debayle, Brian Kennett and Keith Priestley
doi:10.1038/nature03247
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Effective leadership and decision-making in animal groups on the move p513
Iain D. Couzin, Jens Krause, Nigel R. Franks and Simon A. Levin
doi:10.1038/nature03236
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Insects breathe discontinuously to avoid oxygen toxicity p516
Stefan K. Hetz and Timothy J. Bradley
doi:10.1038/nature03106
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See also: News and Views by Burmester
Asymptotic prey profitability drives star-nosed moles to the foraging speed limit p519
Kenneth C. Catania and Fiona E. Remple
doi:10.1038/nature03250
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CD36 is a sensor of diacylglycerides p523
Kasper Hoebe, Philippe Georgel, Sophie Rutschmann, Xin Du, Suzanne Mudd, Karine Crozat, Sosathya Sovath, Louis Shamel, Thomas Hartung, Ulrich Zähringer and Bruce Beutler
doi:10.1038/nature03253
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Plastid proteins crucial for symbiotic fungal and bacterial entry into plant roots p527
Haruko Imaizumi-Anraku, Naoya Takeda, Myriam Charpentier, Jillian Perry, Hiroki Miwa, Yosuke Umehara, Hiroshi Kouchi, Yasuhiro Murakami, Lonneke Mulder, Kate Vickers, Jodie Pike, J. Allan Downie, Trevor Wang, Shusei Sato, Erika Asamizu, Satoshi Tabata, Makoto Yoshikawa, Yoshikatsu Murooka, Guo-Jiang Wu, Masayoshi Kawaguchi, Shinji Kawasaki, Martin Parniske and Makoto Hayashi
doi:10.1038/nature03237
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Interaction network containing conserved and essential protein complexes in Escherichia coli p531
Gareth Butland, José Manuel Peregrín-Alvarez, Joyce Li, Wehong Yang, Xiaochun Yang, Veronica Canadien, Andrei Starostine, Dawn Richards, Bryan Beattie, Nevan Krogan, Michael Davey, John Parkinson, Jack Greenblatt and Andrew Emili
doi:10.1038/nature03239
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Nanoarchaeum equitans creates functional tRNAs from separate genes for their 5'- and 3'-halves p537
Lennart Randau, Richard Münch, Michael J. Hohn, Dieter Jahn and Dieter Söll
doi:10.1038/nature03233
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Chemical structure and biological activity of the Caenorhabditis elegans dauer-inducing pheromone p541
Pan-Young Jeong, Mankil Jung, Yong-Hyeon Yim, Heekyeong Kim, Moonsoo Park, Eunmi Hong, Weontae Lee, Young Hwan Kim, Kun Kim and Young-Ki Paik
doi:10.1038/nature03201
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Structure and different conformational states of native AMPA receptor complexes p545
Terunaga Nakagawa, Yifan Cheng, Elizabeth Ramm, Morgan Sheng and Thomas Walz
doi:10.1038/nature03328
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Naturejobs
ProspectsThe places to be p551
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7025-551a
Special Report
The familial balancing act p552
From the loneliness of long-distance love to the practicality of new relocation services, Sally Goodman looks at solutions to the two-body problem.
Sally Goodman
doi:10.1038/nj7025-552a
Career View
Graduate Journal: Tough questions p554
Tobias Langenhan
doi:10.1038/nj7025-554a
Nuts & Bolts p554
Deb Koen
doi:10.1038/nj7025-554b
Movers p554
doi:10.1038/nj7025-554c
Futures
Play it again, Psam p556
It's all in your mind ... isn't it?
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/433556a