Table of contents
Volume 434 Number 7032 pp421-544
In this issue (24 March 2005)
Also this week
Editorial
Joys of (top-notch) supervision p421
The roles of mentors in research are seldom appreciated, let alone rewarded. All the more reason to celebrate the winners of the Nature/NESTA awards for creative mentoring in science.
doi:10.1038/434421a
News
US launches probe into sales of unapproved transgenic corn p423
Syngenta admits 150 square kilometres accidentally sown with wrong seeds.
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/nature03570
Obesity expert owns up to million-dollar crime p424
Physiologist pleads guilty to one of the largest misconduct cases on record.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/434424a
No-confidence vote fails to shift Harvard president p424
University faculty members may call for Larry Summers to step down.
Emily Singer
doi:10.1038/434424b
France takes on Google in scanning race p425
Jacques Chirac calls for proposals to digitize Europe's libraries.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/434425a
Surfeit of boys could spread AIDS in China's cities p425
Gender bias could spell bad news for health in Shanghai.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/434425b
Academies seek better prospects for postdocs p426
US report advises reforms to improve the lot of young scientists.
Jessica Ebert
doi:10.1038/434426a
US undervalues foreign researchers, survey reveals p426
Foreign postdocs work longer hours and are paid less than American counterparts.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/434426b
Lawsuits and logistics tie up California's stem-cell funds p427
State funding for stem-cell research delayed by red tape.
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/434427a
Fake papers hamper plans for nuclear store at Yucca Mountain p427
Documents relating to safety may have been falsified.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/434427b
News Features
Condensed matter physics: Some like it cold p430
In 1995, scientists created the first ultracold quantum gas and to their surprise launched a new scientific field. Ten years on and its chilly revelations are attracting a growing number of physicists. Karen Fox joins the party.
doi:10.1038/434430a
See also: Editor's summary
Palaeoanthropology: Looking for the ancestors p432
The scientists who discovered a new species of human in Indonesia last year are now back, looking for the bones that will flesh out their theories. Rex Dalton joins them.
doi:10.1038/434432a
See also: Editor's summary
Correspondence
Immigration could ease climate-change impact p435
A modest proposal to allow the big gas-emitters to take their share of responsibility.
Sujatha Byravan and Sudhir Chella Rajan
doi:10.1038/434435a
Consumer law is used to attack climate findings p435
Michael C. MacCracken
doi:10.1038/434435b
That chemist pose is a classic because we do it p435
Piers R. J. Gaffney
doi:10.1038/434435c
Erratum p435
doi:10.1038/434435d
Books and Arts
The never-ending story p437
A guide to the biggest idea in the Universe: infinity.
Simon Singh reviews The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless by John D. Barrow
doi:10.1038/434437a
Wine with a deep flavour p438
George W. Moore reviews The Winemaker's Dance: Exploring Terroir in the Napa Valley by Jonathan Swinchatt and David G. Howell
doi:10.1038/434438a
The quantum Universe p438
Frank Close reviews Science and Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology and Complexity edited by John D. Barrow, Paul C. W. Davies and Charles L. Harper, , Jr
doi:10.1038/434438b
Museum: Waxing and waning p439
Achim Schneider
doi:10.1038/434439a
Physics Detective
Schrödinger's mousetrap p440
Part 10: The trap is sprung.
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/434440a
News and Views
Genetics: Hotheaded healer p443
A previously unknown way of reversing genome-wide sequence changes in DNA has been revealed by an analysis of plants carrying mutations in a gene called HOTHEAD. The mechanism remains a mystery.
Detlef Weigel and Gerd Jürgens
doi:10.1038/434443a
See also: Editor's summary
Genomics: Frontiers of gene function p444
The technique of RNA interference continues to pay dividends. The latest application of the method to the nematode worm adds detail to the list of genes known to function in the early stages of development.
Sean M. O'Rourke and Bruce Bowerman
doi:10.1038/434444a
See also: Editor's summary
Earth science: A different kind of foreshock p445
Underwater sound recordings have been used to monitor transform faults in the equatorial Pacific, implicating a mechanism of foreshock generation distinct from that on most continental fault systems.
DelWayne R. Bohnenstiehl
doi:10.1038/434445a
Physiology: Do neural signals remodel bone? p447
The hormone leptin is best known for its influence on body weight. But it also controls bone mass, and recent work in mice is beginning to uncover the neuroendocrine systems involved.
Joel K. Elmquist and Gordon J. Strewler
doi:10.1038/434447a
See also: Editor's summary
Condensed-matter physics: Lab in a trap p448
May Chiao
doi:10.1038/434448a
Biodiversity: Gut feeling for yeasts p449
The startling news that has emerged from studies of the intestines of beetles is a reminder of how little is known about the diversity of even such comparatively well-characterized groups as the yeasts.
Teun Boekhout
doi:10.1038/434449a
Nanotechnology: New spin on correlated electrons p451
In the Kondo effect, the flow of electrons in a solid is modulated by magnetic impurities. Nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes can be designed to obtain even more complex versions of this intriguing effect.
Ronald M. Potok and David Goldhaber-Gordon
doi:10.1038/434451a
100 and 50 years ago p451
doi:10.1038/434451b
Obituary: Hubert Curien (1924–2005) p453
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/434453a
Brief Communications
Animal behaviour: Elephants are capable of vocal learning p455
Two animals coin unexpected sounds as a surprising form of social communication.
Joyce H. Poole, Peter L. Tyack, Angela S. Stoeger-Horwath and Stephanie Watwood
doi:10.1038/434455a
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See also: Editor's summary
Meteorology: Dusty ice clouds over Alaska p456
Kenneth Sassen
doi:10.1038/434456a
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Articles
Foreshock sequences and short-term earthquake predictability on East Pacific Rise transform faults p457
Jeffrey J. McGuire, Margaret S. Boettcher and Thomas H. Jordan
doi:10.1038/nature03377
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (499K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Bohnenstiehl
Full-genome RNAi profiling of early embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans p462
B. Sönnichsen, L. B. Koski, A. Walsh, P. Marschall, B. Neumann, M. Brehm, A.-M. Alleaume, J. Artelt, P. Bettencourt, E. Cassin, M. Hewitson, C. Holz, M. Khan, S. Lazik, C. Martin, B. Nitzsche, M. Ruer, J. Stamford, M. Winzi, R. Heinkel, M. Röder, J. Finell, H. Häntsch, S. J. M. Jones, M. Jones, F. Piano, K. C. Gunsalus, K. Oegema, P. Gönczy, A. Coulson, A. A. Hyman and C. J. Echeverri
doi:10.1038/nature03353
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (542K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by O'Rourke & Bowerman
Encoding social signals in the mouse main olfactory bulb p470
Da Yu Lin, Shao-Zhong Zhang, Eric Block and Lawrence C. Katz
doi:10.1038/nature03414
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (617K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary
Letters to Nature
Filamentary structure on the Sun from the magnetic Rayleigh–Taylor instability p478
Hiroaki Isobe, Takehiro Miyagoshi, Kazunari Shibata and Takaaki Yokoyama
doi:10.1038/nature03399
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (698K)
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Spatial quantum noise interferometry in expanding ultracold atom clouds p481
Simon Fölling, Fabrice Gerbier, Artur Widera, Olaf Mandel, Tatjana Gericke and Immanuel Bloch
doi:10.1038/nature03500
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (394K)
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Orbital Kondo effect in carbon nanotubes p484
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Jing Kong, Herre S.J. van der Zant, Cees Dekker, Leo P. Kouwenhoven and Silvano De Franceschi
doi:10.1038/nature03422
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (317K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Potok & Goldhaber-Gordon
Compact, stable and efficient all-fibre gas cells using hollow-core photonic crystal fibres p488
F. Benabid, F. Couny, J. C. Knight, T. A. Birks and P. St J. Russell
doi:10.1038/nature03349
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Obliquity pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial terminations p491
Peter Huybers and Carl Wunsch
doi:10.1038/nature03401
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Two episodes of microbial change coupled with Permo/Triassic faunal mass extinction p494
Shucheng Xie, Richard D. Pancost, Hongfu Yin, Hongmei Wang and Richard P. Evershed
doi:10.1038/nature03396
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (171K) | Supplementary information
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Affinities of 'hyopsodontids' to elephant shrews and a Holarctic origin of Afrotheria p497
Shawn P. Zack, Tonya A. Penkrot, Jonathan I. Bloch and Kenneth D. Rose
doi:10.1038/nature03351
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (421K) | Supplementary information
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Evidence that sensory traps can evolve into honest signals p501
Constantino Macías Garcia and Elvia Ramirez
doi:10.1038/nature03363
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (536K) | Supplementary information
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Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis p505
Susan J. Lolle, Jennifer L. Victor, Jessica M. Young and Robert E. Pruitt
doi:10.1038/nature03380
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (296K)
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Weigel & Jürgens
Independent recruitment of a conserved developmental mechanism during leaf evolution p509
C. Jill Harrison, Susie B. Corley, Elizabeth C. Moylan, Debbie L. Alexander, Robert W. Scotland and Jane A. Langdale
doi:10.1038/nature03410
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Leptin regulation of bone resorption by the sympathetic nervous system and CART p514
Florent Elefteriou, Jong Deok Ahn, Shu Takeda, Michael Starbuck, Xiangli Yang, Xiuyun Liu, Hisataka Kondo, William G. Richards, Tony W. Bannon, Masaki Noda, Karine Clement, Christian Vaisse and Gerard Karsenty
doi:10.1038/nature03398
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Elmquist & Strewler
Recognition of bacterial glycosphingolipids by natural killer T cells p520
Yuki Kinjo, Douglass Wu, Gisen Kim, Guo-Wen Xing, Michael A. Poles, David D. Ho, Moriya Tsuji, Kazuyoshi Kawahara, Chi-Huey Wong and Mitchell Kronenberg
doi:10.1038/nature03407
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Exogenous and endogenous glycolipid antigens activate NKT cells during microbial infections p525
Jochen Mattner, Kristin L. DeBord, Nahed Ismail, Randal D. Goff, Carlos Cantu, III, Dapeng Zhou, Pierre Saint-Mezard, Vivien Wang, Ying Gao, Ning Yin, Kasper Hoebe, Olaf Schneewind, David Walker, Bruce Beutler, Luc Teyton, Paul B. Savage and Albert Bendelac
doi:10.1038/nature03408
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Fission yeast Mes1p ensures the onset of meiosis II by blocking degradation of cyclin Cdc13p p529
Daisuke Izawa, Masuo Goto, Akira Yamashita, Hiroyuki Yamano and Masayuki Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/nature03406
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Recruitment of Drosophila Polycomb group proteins to chromatin by DSP1 p533
Jérôme Déjardin, Aurélien Rappailles, Olivier Cuvier, Charlotte Grimaud, Martine Decoville, Daniel Locker and Giacomo Cavalli
doi:10.1038/nature03386
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Naturejobs
ProspectsTale of two surveys p539
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7032-539a
Special Report
Pity poor postdocs p540
Many European PhD students and junior researchers are getting a bad deal, with few rights and little or no supervision. But things are about to change, reports Quirin Schiermeier.
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/nj7032-540a
Career View
Graduate Journal: Facing the reviewers p542
Jason Underwood
doi:10.1038/nj7032-542a
Recruiters & Academia p542
Jonas F. Ludvigsson
doi:10.1038/nj7032-542b
Movers p542
doi:10.1038/nj7032-542c
