Table of contents
Volume 434 Number 7029 pp1-122
Editorials
Why Harvard needs Summers p1
The head of Harvard University leaves much to be desired in terms of tact and demonstrable respect for those who disagree with him. But the university should stick with him, at least for the time being.
doi:10.1038/434001a
In pursuit of balance p1
Sunbelt states that have boomed economically should eventually earn a larger slice of the research pie.
doi:10.1038/434001b
News
NIH workers see red over revised rules for conflicts of interest p3
Employees complain revamped ethical guidelines go too far.
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/434003a
Physicists miss out on critical points as magazines vanish p4
Conspiracy theories circulate about issues "lost" on their way to Los Alamos.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/434004a
Fossil finders in tug of war over analysis of hobbit bones p5
Famous Indonesian skeletons given back to original discovery team.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/434005a
France lays plans for premier cancer centre in Toulouse p5
Europe's largest cancer centre to be built on site of massive explosion.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/434005b
Japanese call for more bite in animal rules p6
Activists battle researchers over upcoming animal-welfare law.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/434006a
Agency to bring fast-breeder reactor out of mothballs p6
Japanese nuclear energy prototype back on track after 1995 accident.
Ichiko Fuyuno
doi:10.1038/434006b
Protest letter accuses health agency of biodefence bias p7
US biologists warn that funding patterns threaten public health.
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/434007a
Pasteur researchers win fight to stay in city centre p7
Mediator report says move to commercial zone isn't needed.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/434007b
News Features
US science policy: Upstart states p10
The United States has a settled arrangement for distributing its research budget around the country, and the same states have dominated it for decades. But, as Emma Marris discovers in Florida, the have-nots have had enough.
doi:10.1038/434010a
Antiquities fraud: Reality check p13
They were highly prized artefacts with inscriptions that dated back to biblical times. The only problem was they were fake. Haim Watzman unearths the authentication work that has rocked Israel's archaeology community.
doi:10.1038/434013a
See also: Editor's summary
Correspondence
How volunteering for an MRI scan changed my life p17
Discovering a serious problem not only causes shock but can have financial implications.
doi:10.1038/434017a
Coping with unsuspected findings in volunteers p17
Michael Phillips
doi:10.1038/434017b
Solid evidence for bubble fusion? p17
Ross Tessien
doi:10.1038/434017c
India must cooperate on tsunami warning system p17
Costas Synolakis
doi:10.1038/434017d
Ethics and ethnoflora p18
Tony Miller and Miranda Morris
doi:10.1038/434018a
Biologists do not pose a threat to deep-sea vents p18
Paul Tyler, Christopher German and Verena Tunnicliffe
doi:10.1038/434018b
Making sure corrections don't vanish online p18
Eun-Hee Shim and Vishwas Parekh
doi:10.1038/434018c
Commentary
Watching over the world's oceans p19
A quick technological fix is not the best response to the December tsunami.
doi:10.1038/434019a
See also: Editor's summary
Books and Arts
Primate viewing p21
Chimpanzee behaviour shows remarkable regional variation.
Tetsuro Matsuzawa reviews The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology by William McGrew
doi:10.1038/434021a
Science in court p22
Sheila Jasanoff reviews Laws of Men and Laws of Nature: The History of Scientific Expert Testimony in England and America by Tal Golan
doi:10.1038/434022a
Sizing up the world p22
Stephen Senn reviews Measurement Theory and Practice: The World Through Quantification by David J. Hand
doi:10.1038/434022b
Museum: A medical history p23
doi:10.1038/434023a
Physics detective
Schrödinger's mousetrap p25
Part 7: Lessons from the past.
Nicola Spaldin
doi:10.1038/434025a
News and Views
Coupling and cross-presentation p27
Studies of cultured cells have revealed how the immune system may use intercellular pores to convey information that is important in initiating antiviral responses and in limiting the spread of infections.
William R. Heath and Francis R. Carbone
doi:10.1038/434027a
Astronomy: Blasts from the radio heavens p28
There is no coherent explanation for newly observed salvos of radio waves emanating from a direction near the Galactic Centre. Are they from a new type of stellar object? The search is on for similar radio emitters.
S. R. Kulkarni and E. Sterl Phinney
doi:10.1038/434028a
See also: Editor's summary
Evolutionary biology: The hydrogenosome's murky past p29
The evolution of specialized cellular powerhouses called hydrogenosomes has long confounded biologists. The discovery that in some cases they have their own genome sheds some much-needed light on the issue.
Michael W. Gray
doi:10.1038/434029a
See also: Editor's summary
Atmospheric chemistry: The decay of organic aerosols p31
The chemistry of organic aerosols has been somewhat neglected on the assumption that they are eliminated from the atmosphere mainly by rainfall. Laboratory studies indicate that a rethink is called for.
Euripides G. Stephanou
doi:10.1038/434031a
Biodiversity: An index of intactness p32
The global community is committed to reducing the rate of loss of biodiversity, but how can progress be measured? A novel system to tackle the problem may also identify key factors behind the changes.
Georgina M. Mace
doi:10.1038/434032a
See also: Editor's summary
Sonoluminescence: Cavitation hots up p33
Gas inside collapsing bubbles can become very hot and, as a result, emit light. It turns out that temperatures of more than 15,000 kelvin can be reached — as hot as the surface of a bright star.
Detlef Lohse
doi:10.1038/434033a
See also: Editor's summary
100 and 50 years ago p33
doi:10.1038/434033b
Cell cycle: Cyclin guides the way p34
The main enzymes that drive cell division can work on numerous substrates, but how is their specificity ensured? Regulatory subunits show the way, using various tricks to guide enzymes to their targets.
Curt Wittenberg
doi:10.1038/434034a
Correction p35
doi:10.1038/434035a
Brief Communications
Physiology: Postprandial cardiac hypertrophy in pythons p37
This snake can synthesize fresh heart muscle to cope with extra metabolic demand.
Johnnie B. Andersen, Bryan C. Rourke, Vincent J. Caiozzo, Albert F. Bennett and James W. Hicks
doi:10.1038/434037a
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Synaesthesia: When coloured sounds taste sweet p38
Gian Beeli, Michaela Esslen and Lutz Jäncke
doi:10.1038/434038a
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Articles
Quantum computing with realistically noisy devices p39
E. Knill
doi:10.1038/nature03350
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (332K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary
A biodiversity intactness index p45
R. J. Scholes and R. Biggs
doi:10.1038/nature03289
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Mace
Letters to Nature
A powerful bursting radio source towards the Galactic Centre p50
Scott D. Hyman, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Namir E. Kassim, Paul S. Ray, Craig B. Markwardt and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
doi:10.1038/nature03400
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (181K)
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Kulkarni & Phinney
Plasma formation and temperature measurement during single-bubble cavitation p52
David J. Flannigan and Kenneth S. Suslick
doi:10.1038/nature03361
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Lohse
Self-directed self-assembly of nanoparticle/copolymer mixtures p55
Yao Lin, Alexander Böker, Jinbo He, Kevin Sill, Hongqi Xiang, Clarissa Abetz, Xuefa Li, Jin Wang, Todd Emrick, Su Long, Qian Wang, Anna Balazs and Thomas P. Russell
doi:10.1038/nature03310
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Mesozoic Alpine facies deposition as a result of past latitudinal plate motion p59
Giovanni Muttoni, Elisabetta Erba, Dennis V. Kent and Valerian Bachtadse
doi:10.1038/nature03378
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Insolation-driven changes in atmospheric circulation over the past 116,000 years in subtropical Brazil p63
Francisco W. Cruz, Jr, Stephen J. Burns, Ivo Karmann, Warren D. Sharp, Mathias Vuille, Andrea O. Cardoso, José A. Ferrari, Pedro L. Silva Dias and Oduvaldo Viana, Jr
doi:10.1038/nature03365
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Water-rich basalts at mid-ocean-ridge cold spots p66
Marco Ligi, Enrico Bonatti, Anna Cipriani and Luisa Ottolini
doi:10.1038/nature03264
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Kin selection and cooperative courtship in wild turkeys p69
Alan H. Krakauer
doi:10.1038/nature03325
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Disruptive coloration and background pattern matching p72
Innes C. Cuthill, Martin Stevens, Jenna Sheppard, Tracey Maddocks, C. Alejandro Párraga and Tom S. Troscianko
doi:10.1038/nature03312
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An anaerobic mitochondrion that produces hydrogen p74
Brigitte Boxma, Rob M. de Graaf, Georg W. M. van der Staay, Theo A. van Alen, Guenola Ricard, Toni Gabaldón, Angela H. A. M. van Hoek, Seung Yeo Moon-van der Staay, Werner J. H. Koopman, Jaap J. van Hellemond, Aloysius G. M. Tielens, Thorsten Friedrich, Marten Veenhuis, Martijn A. Huynen and Johannes H. P. Hackstein
doi:10.1038/nature03343
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Gray
Image segmentation and lightness perception p79
Barton L. Anderson and Jonathan Winawer
doi:10.1038/nature03271
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Cross-presentation by intercellular peptide transfer through gap junctions p83
Joost Neijssen, Carla Herberts, Jan Wouter Drijfhout, Eric Reits, Lennert Janssen and Jacques Neefjes
doi:10.1038/nature03290
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See also: News and Views by Heath & Carbone
CD4+ T-cell help controls CD8+ T-cell memory via TRAIL-mediated activation-induced cell death p88
Edith M. Janssen, Nathalie M. Droin, Edward E. Lemmens, Michael J. Pinkoski, Steven J. Bensinger, Benjamin D. Ehst, Thomas S. Griffith, Douglas R. Green and Stephen P. Schoenberger
doi:10.1038/nature03337
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Two pathways converge at CED-10 to mediate actin rearrangement and corpse removal in C. elegans p93
Jason M. Kinchen, Juan Cabello, Doris Klingele, Kelvin Wong, Richard Feichtinger, Heinke Schnabel, Ralf Schnabel and Michael O. Hengartner
doi:10.1038/nature03263
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Phospholipase C
1 controls surface expression of TRPC3 through an intermolecular PH domain p99
Damian B. van Rossum, Randen L. Patterson, Sumit Sharma, Roxanne K. Barrow, Michael Kornberg, Donald L. Gill and Solomon H. Snyder
doi:10.1038/nature03340
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Cyclin specificity in the phosphorylation of cyclin-dependent kinase substrates p104
Mart Loog and David O. Morgan
doi:10.1038/nature03329
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See also: News and Views by Wittenberg
Defective DNA single-strand break repair in spinocerebellar ataxia with axonal neuropathy-1 p108
Sherif F. El-Khamisy, Gulam M. Saifi, Michael Weinfeld, Fredrik Johansson, Thomas Helleday, James R. Lupski and Keith W. Caldecott
doi:10.1038/nature03314
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Nutrient control of glucose homeostasis through a complex of PGC-1
and SIRT1 p113
Joseph T. Rodgers, Carlos Lerin, Wilhelm Haas, Steven P. Gygi, Bruce M. Spiegelman and Pere Puigserver
doi:10.1038/nature03354
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Corrigendum : Drosophila dFOXO controls lifespan and regulates insulin signalling in brain and fat body p118
Dae Sung Hwangbo, Boris Gershman, Meng-Ping Tu, Michael Palmer and Marc Tatar
doi:10.1038/nature03446
Naturejobs
ProspectsFighting urban myths p119
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7029-119a
Career View
Graduate Journal: A hard day's night p120
Tobias Langenhan
doi:10.1038/nj7029-120a
Nuts & Bolts p120
Deb Koen
doi:10.1038/nj7029-120b
Movers p120
doi:10.1038/nj7029-120c
Futures
A modest proposal... p122
...for the perfection of nature.
Vonda N. McIntyre
doi:10.1038/434122a
