Editorials

Dealing with design p1053

The idea of intelligent design is being promoted in schools and universities in the United States and Europe. Rather than ignoring it, scientists need to understand its appeal and help students recognize the alternatives.

doi: 10.1038/4341053a

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New accountability in China p1053

A Chinese funding agency has a new constitution, supporting better selection. Will it spread?

doi: 10.1038/4341053b

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News

Turkish government accused of hijacking boosted science budget p1055

Research spending tripled as part of bid for EU membership.

Tamara Grüner

doi: 10.1038/4341055a

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Satellite tags give fresh angle on tuna quota p1056

Stocks of prized bluefin in danger of collapse.

Rex Dalton

doi: 10.1038/4341056a

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Physicists look to crystal device for future of fusion p1057

Desktop apparatus yields stream of neutrons.

Mark Peplow

doi: 10.1038/4341057a

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US experts draw up guidelines for stem-cell research p1058

Ethics committees should ban primate chimaera experiments.

Erika Check

doi: 10.1038/4341058a

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Link to infection raises hope of preventing child leukaemia p1058

Radiation, chemicals and power lines are not significant.

Roxanne Khamsi

doi: 10.1038/4341058b

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Corporate culture nets big bucks for university heads p1059

Do fat salaries reward wrong type of leadership?

Emma Marris

doi: 10.1038/4341059b

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Climate change blamed for rise in hay fever p1059

Rachael Williams

doi: 10.1038/nature03682

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news in brief p1060

doi: 10.1038/4341060a

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News Features

Intelligent design:  Who has designs on your students' minds? p1062

The intelligent-design movement is a small but growing force on US university campuses. For some it bridges the gap between science and faith, for others it goes beyond the pale. Geoff Brumfiel meets the movement's vanguard.

doi: 10.1038/4341062a

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Quantum physics:  The philosopher of photons p1066

From meeting the Dalai Lama to national media star, Anton Zeilinger is on a mission to bring physics to a wider audience. Quirin Schiermeier listens in.

doi: 10.1038/4341066a

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Correspondence

A drug is effective if better than a harmless control p1067

Valid trials can still be held, as with HIVNET 012, when ethics rules out a placebo group.

Brooks Jackson and Thomas Fleming

doi: 10.1038/4341067a

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DNA barcoding does not compete with taxonomy p1067

T. Ryan Gregory

doi: 10.1038/4341067b

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Nice planet, shame about the human race p1067

Randall D. Kamien and Madhuri Kaul

doi: 10.1038/4341067c

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Books and Arts

Seeing sense p1069

A look back at work that established the link between eye and brain.

Charles G. Gross reviews Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration by David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel

doi: 10.1038/4341069a

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Recovered history p1070

Jon Agar reviews When Computers Were Human by David Alan Grier

doi: 10.1038/4341070a

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Theatre:  Artistic differences p1071

Robin Clark reviews

doi: 10.1038/4341071a

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Essay

Predicting with unpredictability p1073

Random numbers: from stone casting to computers to radioactive decay, the generation of random sequences has always preoccupied mankind.

Gianpietro Malescio

doi: 10.1038/4341073a

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News and Views

Astrophysics:  A certain flare p1075

Giant flashes from soft -ray repeaters are spectacular but rare events — only three have ever been observed in our Galaxy. The suspicion is that we have been missing some from farther afield.

Davide Lazzati

doi: 10.1038/4341075a

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Evolutionary biology:  Animal roots and shoots p1076

DNA sequence data from neglected animal groups support a controversial hypothesis of deep evolutionary history. Inferring that history using only whole-genome sequences can evidently be misleading.

Martin Jones and Mark Blaxter

doi: 10.1038/4341076a

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Technology:  Warm fusion p1077

A device that could fit in your lab-coat pocket uses nuclear fusion, and just a little heat, to produce neutrons. The advantages in simplicity and portability over conventional neutron generators could be considerable.

Michael J. Saltmarsh

doi: 10.1038/4341077a

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100 and 50 years ago p1079

doi: 10.1038/4341079a

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HIV:  Viral blitzkrieg p1080

It takes years for AIDS to develop from the damage inflicted on the immune system by HIV or its simian counterpart. Surprisingly, as many as half of the body's memory T cells may die at a very early stage of infection.

R. Paul Johnson and Amitinder Kaur

doi: 10.1038/4341080a

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Behavioural ecology:  Cue for kin p1080

Tim Lincoln

doi: 10.1038/4341080b

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Obituary:  Maurice R. Hilleman (1919−2005) p1083

Reinhard Kurth

doi: 10.1038/4341083a

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Research highlights p1084

doi: 10.1038/4341084a

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Brief Communications

Nanotechnology:  High-speed integrated nanowire circuits p1085

Inexpensive sophisticated circuitry can be 'painted' on to plastic or glass substrates.

Robin S. Friedman, Michael C. McAlpine, David S. Ricketts, Donhee Ham and Charles M. Lieber

doi: 10.1038/4341085a

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Earth science:  Microseismicity data forecast rupture area p1086

Danijel Schorlemmer and Stefan Wiemer

doi: 10.1038/4341086a

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Brief Communications Arising

Fisheries:  Decline of Pacific tuna populations exaggerated? pE1

John Hampton, John R. Sibert, Pierre Kleiber, Mark N. Maunder and Shelton J. Harley

doi: 10.1038/nature03581

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Fisheries:  Decline of Pacific tuna populations exaggerated? pE2

Ransom A. Myers and Boris Worm

doi: 10.1038/nature03582

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Articles

Reduced sleep in Drosophila Shaker mutants p1087

Chiara Cirelli, Daniel Bushey, Sean Hill, Reto Huber, Robert Kreber, Barry Ganetzky and Giulio Tononi

doi: 10.1038/nature03486

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Massive infection and loss of memory CD4⁺ T cells in multiple tissues during acute SIV infection p1093

Joseph J. Mattapallil, Daniel C. Douek, Brenna Hill, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Malcolm Martin and Mario Roederer

doi: 10.1038/nature03501

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An exceptionally bright flare from SGR 1806−20 and the origins of short-duration -ray bursts p1098

K. Hurley, S. E. Boggs, D. M. Smith, R. C. Duncan, R. Lin, A. Zoglauer, S. Krucker, G. Hurford, H. Hudson, C. Wigger, W. Hajdas, C. Thompson, I. Mitrofanov, A. Sanin, W. Boynton, C. Fellows, A. von Kienlin, G. Lichti, A. Rau and T. Cline

doi: 10.1038/nature03519

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Letters to Nature

An expanding radio nebula produced by a giant flare from the magnetar SGR 1806−20 p1104

B. M. Gaensler, C. Kouveliotou, J. D. Gelfand, G. B. Taylor, D. Eichler, R. A. M. J. Wijers, J. Granot, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, Y. E. Lyubarsky, R. W. Hunstead, D. Campbell-Wilson, A. J. van der Horst, M. A. McLaughlin, R. P. Fender, M. A. Garrett, K. J. Newton-McGee, D. M. Palmer, N. Gehrels and P. M. Woods

doi: 10.1038/nature03498

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A giant -ray flare from the magnetar SGR 1806−20 p1107

D. M. Palmer, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, R. M. Kippen, T. Cayton, C. Kouveliotou, D. Eichler, R. A. M. J. Wijers, P. M. Woods, J. Granot, Y. E. Lyubarsky, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, L. Barbier, M. Chester, J. Cummings, E. E. Fenimore, M. H. Finger, B. M. Gaensler, D. Hullinger, H. Krimm, C. B. Markwardt, J. A. Nousek, A. Parsons, S. Patel, T. Sakamoto, G. Sato, M. Suzuki and J. Tueller

doi: 10.1038/nature03525

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Repeated injections of energy in the first 600 ms of the giant flare of SGR 1806−20 p1110

Toshio Terasawa, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Yasuhiro Takei, Nobuyuki Kawai, Atsumasa Yoshida, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Ichiro Yoshikawa, Yoshifumi Saito, Yasumasa Kasaba, Takeshi Takashima, Toshifumi Mukai, Hirotomo Noda, Toshio Murakami, Kyoko Watanabe, Yasushi Muraki, Takaaki Yokoyama and Masahiro Hoshino

doi: 10.1038/nature03573

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Detection of a radio counterpart to the 27 December 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806−20 p1112

P. B. Cameron, P. Chandra, A. Ray, S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Frail, M. H. Wieringa, E. Nakar, E. S. Phinney, Atsushi Miyazaki, Masato Tsuboi, Sachiko Okumura, N. Kawai, K. M. Menten and F. Bertoldi

doi: 10.1038/nature03605

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Observation of nuclear fusion driven by a pyroelectric crystal p1115

B. Naranjo, J.K. Gimzewski and S. Putterman

doi: 10.1038/nature03575

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Increased productivity in the subantarctic ocean during Heinrich events p1118

Julian P. Sachs and Robert F. Anderson

doi: 10.1038/nature03544

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Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna p1121

Barbara A. Block, Steven L. H. Teo, Andreas Walli, Andre Boustany, Michael J. W. Stokesbury, Charles J. Farwell, Kevin C. Weng, Heidi Dewar and Thomas D. Williams

doi: 10.1038/nature03463

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Learned kin recognition cues in a social bird p1127

Stuart P. Sharp, Andrew McGowan, Matthew J. Wood and Ben J. Hatchwell

doi: 10.1038/nature03522

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A synthetic multicellular system for programmed pattern formation p1130

Subhayu Basu, Yoram Gerchman, Cynthia H. Collins, Frances H. Arnold and Ron Weiss

doi: 10.1038/nature03461

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Dynamics of Drosophila embryonic patterning network perturbed in space and time using microfluidics p1134

Elena M. Lucchetta, Ji Hwan Lee, Lydia A. Fu, Nipam H. Patel and Rustem F. Ismagilov

doi: 10.1038/nature03509

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IKK limits macrophage NF-B activation and contributes to the resolution of inflammation p1138

Toby Lawrence, Magali Bebien, George Y. Liu, Victor Nizet and Michael Karin

doi: 10.1038/nature03491

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A unique clonal JAK2 mutation leading to constitutive signalling causes polycythaemia vera p1144

Chloé James, Valérie Ugo, Jean-Pierre Le Couédic, Judith Staerk, François Delhommeau, Catherine Lacout, Loïc Garçon, Hana Raslova, Roland Berger, Annelise Bennaceur-Griscelli, Jean Luc Villeval, Stefan N. Constantinescu, Nicole Casadevall and William Vainchenker

doi: 10.1038/nature03546

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Peak SIV replication in resting memory CD4⁺ T cells depletes gut lamina propria CD4⁺ T cells p1148

Qingsheng Li, Lijie Duan, Jacob D. Estes, Zhong-Min Ma, Tracy Rourke, Yichuan Wang, Cavan Reilly, John Carlis, Christopher J. Miller and Ashley T. Haase

doi: 10.1038/nature03513

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Clathrin is required for the function of the mitotic spindle p1152

Stephen J. Royle, Nicholas A. Bright and Leon Lagnado

doi: 10.1038/nature03502

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Naturejobs

A question of age p1159

Paul Smaglik

doi: 10.1038/nj7037-1159a

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Thinking big Texas p1160

Diane Gershon

doi: 10.1038/nj7037-1160a

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Graduate Journal:  Leaving the family p1162

Jason Underwood

doi: 10.1038/nj7037-1162a

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Scientists & Societies p1162

Geoff Davis

doi: 10.1038/nj7037-1162b

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Movers p1162

doi: 10.1038/nj7037-1162c

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Futures

The Affinities p1164

Be careful how you describe yourself.

Robert Charles Wilson

doi: 10.1038/4341164a

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