Table of contents
Volume 436 Number 7048 pp151-302
Editorials
Action, not words p151
Japan is beginning to recognize that the status and treatment of women researchers must change — but it has yet to take decisive action to address the problem.
doi: 10.1038/436151a
Two cheers for the G8 p151
World leaders made modest but welcome progress on poverty in Africa and climate change.
doi: 10.1038/436151b
Diversionary tactics p152
A map in a Nature supplement is being used to divert debate about science funding in China.
doi: 10.1038/436152a
News
Grim but determined — the G8 reaches accord on Africa and climate p156
Overshadowed by terror attacks in London, the G8 leaders remain focused at summit's close.
Declan Butler and Quirin Schiermeier
doi: 10.1038/436156a
Deep Impact: sifting through the debris p158
When Deep Impact's washing-machine-sized probe slammed into comet Tempel 1 on 4 July, teams of astronomers watched using telescopes in space and around the world. Nature investigates what the images tell us so far about the comet's composition and history.
Mark Peplow
doi: 10.1038/436158a
Rival monsoon forecasts banned p161
Storm over India's restrictions on rainfall predictions.
K. S. Jayaraman
doi: 10.1038/436161a
Sidelines p162
doi: 10.1038/436162a
Caveman DNA hints at map of migration p162
Oldest American genetic sample reveals early New World frontiers.
Rex Dalton
doi: 10.1038/436162b
Time to move on from shuttle, says astronaut p163
Tony Reichhardt talks to former spaceman George 'Pinky' Nelson about NASA's future.
doi: 10.1038/436163a
News Features
Spray-on skin: Hard graft p166
Surgeon Fiona Wood has pioneered a controversial treatment to reduce scarring in burns victims. Carina Dennis finds out how she counters her critics.
doi: 10.1038/436166a
Earth observing: Something to watch over us p168
An ambitious international project to unite the planet's Earth-observing systems is under way. But getting everyone on board is no easy task, says Naomi Lubick.
doi: 10.1038/436168a
See also: Editor's summary
Nobel laureates: Close encounters p170
After a low-key existence for more than 50 years, Germany's Lindau meetings have opened their doors to the world. Alison Abbott joined 44 Nobel laureates as they mingled with young scientists.
doi: 10.1038/436170a
See also: Editor's summary
Business
Industry lured by the gains of going green p173
Global report highlights how ecology and the environment affect business.
Virginia Gewin
doi: 10.1038/436173a
In brief p173
doi: 10.1038/436173b
Correspondence
Mysterious disappearance of female investigators p174
Darach Watson, Anja C. Andersen and Jens Hjorth
doi: 10.1038/436174a
Rising temperatures are likely to reduce crop yields p174
John R. Porter
doi: 10.1038/436174b
No royal road to protein structure determination p174
Luca Pellegrini
doi: 10.1038/436174c
Commentary
When will we tame the oceans? p175
In fisheries across the world, fish stocks are declining fast. Future preservation and management of the ocean's resources will require a transformation of our relationship with the seas, argues John Marra.
doi: 10.1038/436175a
See also: Editor's summary
Books and Arts
The Arctic paradox p177
The traditional diet of Inuits has health benefits but exposes them to dangerous levels of pollutants.
Geir Wing Gabrielsen reviews Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic by Marla Cone
doi: 10.1038/436177a
Dissecting the right brain p178
Paul Bloom reviews The Ethical Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga
doi: 10.1038/436178a
Science in culture p179
An art installation hints that, even in a forest, wind may disperse tree seeds farther than expected.
Henry S. Horn
doi: 10.1038/436179a
News and Views
Developmental biology: Tiny brakes for a growing heart p181
The discovery of microRNAs has revolutionized many areas of biology. The latest news is that these RNAs seem to regulate the crucial balance between growth and specialization of cardiac cells.
Benoit G. Bruneau
doi: 10.1038/436181a
See also: Editor's summary
Astronomy: Giant planet seeks nursery place p182
A further discovery of a planet in a binary star system — this time close in — could prove a problem for accepted theories of planetary formation. The implication is that there are more planets out there than we thought.
Artie P. Hatzes and Günther Wuchterl
doi: 10.1038/436182a
See also: Editor's summary
Evolutionary biology: Relativity for molecular clocks p183
An analysis of genetic data sets from primates and birds provides firm evidence that molecular evolution is faster on shorter than on longer timescales. The estimated times of various evolutionary events require a rethink.
David Penny
doi: 10.1038/436183a
Cancer biology: Sleeping Beauty awakens p184
Ancient jumping DNA found napping in fish has been revived and is being used to identify cancer genes in mice. But the benefits of this aptly named 'Sleeping Beauty' system could reach far beyond cancer.
Keith C. Weiser and Monica J. Justice
doi: 10.1038/436184a
See also: Editor's summary
50 and 100 years ago p185
doi: 10.1038/436185a
Particle physics: Weighty questions p186
In an unprecedented feat of computation, particle theorists made the most precise prediction yet of the mass of the 'charm−bottom' particle. Days later, experimentalists dramatically confirmed that prediction.
Ian Shipsey
doi: 10.1038/436186a
Physical chemistry: Trapped gas p187
Acetylene is a gas with many industrial applications. A highly efficient method to separate it from its close relation, carbon dioxide, is a promising route for purifying and storing 'strategic' gases in general.
Gérard Férey
doi: 10.1038/436187a
Entomology: Incompatible mosquitoes p189
Infection of mosquitoes by a particular bacterium has a fiendishly complicated influence on the success or failure of mosquito breeding. A window now opens on the molecular basis of this 'cytoplasmic incompatibility'.
Ary A. Hoffmann
doi: 10.1038/436189a
See also: Editor's summary
Brief Communications
Avian flu: H5N1 virus outbreak in migratory waterfowl p191
A worrying development could help to spread this dangerous virus beyond its stronghold in southeast Asia.
H. Chen, G. J. D. Smith, S. Y. Zhang, K. Qin, J. Wang, K. S. Li, R. G. Webster, J. S. M. Peiris and Y. Guan
doi: 10.1038/nature03974
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Conservation: Top predators and biodiversity p192
Fabrizio Sergio, Ian Newton and Luigi Marchesi
doi: 10.1038/436192a
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Review Article
Common mechanisms of nerve and blood vessel wiring p193
Peter Carmeliet and Marc Tessier-Lavigne
doi: 10.1038/nature03875
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Articles
Insight into the 2004 Sumatra−Andaman earthquake from GPS measurements in southeast Asia p201
C. Vigny, W. J. F. Simons, S. Abu, Ronnachai Bamphenyu, Chalermchon Satirapod, Nithiwatthn Choosakul, C. Subarya, A. Socquet, K. Omar, H. Z. Abidin and B. A. C. Ambrosius
doi: 10.1038/nature03937
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Blimp1 is a critical determinant of the germ cell lineage in mice p207
Yasuhide Ohinata, Bernhard Payer, Dónal O'Carroll, Katia Ancelin, Yukiko Ono, Mitsue Sano, Sheila C. Barton, Tetyana Obukhanych, Michel Nussenzweig, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Mitinori Saitou and M. Azim Surani
doi: 10.1038/nature03813
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Serum response factor regulates a muscle-specific microRNA that targets Hand2 during cardiogenesis p214
Yong Zhao, Eva Samal and Deepak Srivastava
doi: 10.1038/nature03817
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Bruneau
Mammalian mutagenesis using a highly mobile somatic Sleeping Beauty transposon system p221
Adam J. Dupuy, Keiko Akagi, David A. Largaespada, Neal G. Copeland and Nancy A. Jenkins
doi: 10.1038/nature03691
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Weiser & Justice
Letters
The discovery of a galaxy-wide superwind from a young massive galaxy at redshift z 
3 p227
R. J. Wilman, J. Gerssen, R. G. Bower, S. L. Morris, R. Bacon, P. T. de Zeeuw and R. L. Davies
doi: 10.1038/nature03718
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An extrasolar giant planet in a close triple-star system p230
Maciej Konacki
doi: 10.1038/nature03856
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Hatzes & Wuchterl
A frequency comb in the extreme ultraviolet p234
Christoph Gohle, Thomas Udem, Maximilian Herrmann, Jens Rauschenberger, Ronald Holzwarth, Hans A. Schuessler, Ferenc Krausz and Theodor W. Hänsch
doi: 10.1038/nature03851
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Highly controlled acetylene accommodation in a metal−organic microporous material p238
Ryotaro Matsuda, Ryo Kitaura, Susumu Kitagawa, Yoshiki Kubota, Rodion V. Belosludov, Tatsuo C. Kobayashi, Hirotoshi Sakamoto, Takashi Chiba, Masaki Takata, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe and Yoshimi Mita
doi: 10.1038/nature03852
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Regional insolation forcing of late Quaternary climate change in the Southern Hemisphere p242
Marcus J. Vandergoes, Rewi M. Newnham, Frank Preusser, Chris H. Hendy, Thomas V. Lowell, Sean J. Fitzsimons, Alan G. Hogg, Haino Uwe Kasper and Christian Schlüchter
doi: 10.1038/nature03826
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Trace-element fractionation in Hadean mantle generated by melt segregation from a magma ocean p246
Guillaume Caro, Bernard Bourdon, Bernard J. Wood and Alexandre Corgne
doi: 10.1038/nature03827
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Multiple volcanic episodes of flood basalts caused by thermochemical mantle plumes p250
Shu-Chuan Lin and Peter E. van Keken
doi: 10.1038/nature03697
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Basic avian pulmonary design and flow-through ventilation in non-avian theropod dinosaurs p253
Patrick M. O'Connor and Leon P. A. M. Claessens
doi: 10.1038/nature03716
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Wolbachia variability and host effects on crossing type in Culex mosquitoes p257
Steven P. Sinkins, Thomas Walker, Amy R. Lynd, Andrew R. Steven, Ben L. Makepeace, H. Charles J. Godfray and Julian Parkhill
doi: 10.1038/nature03629
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Long-term sensory deprivation prevents dendritic spine loss in primary somatosensory cortex p261
Yi Zuo, Guang Yang, Elaine Kwon and Wen-Biao Gan
doi: 10.1038/nature03715
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Neurosphere-derived multipotent precursors promote neuroprotection by an immunomodulatory mechanism p266
Stefano Pluchino, Lucia Zanotti, Barbara Rossi, Elena Brambilla, Linda Ottoboni, Giuliana Salani, Marianna Martinello, Alessandro Cattalini, Alessandra Bergami, Roberto Furlan, Giancarlo Comi, Gabriela Constantin and Gianvito Martino
doi: 10.1038/nature03889
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Cancer gene discovery in solid tumours using transposon-based somatic mutagenesis in the mouse p272
Lara S. Collier, Corey M. Carlson, Shruthi Ravimohan, Adam J. Dupuy and David A. Largaespada
doi: 10.1038/nature03681
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Weiser & Justice
Gli3 and Plzf cooperate in proximal limb patterning at early stages of limb development p277
Maria Barna, Pier Paolo Pandolfi and Lee Niswander
doi: 10.1038/nature03801
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An Arabidopsis hAT-like transposase is essential for plant development p282
Paul Bundock and Paul Hooykaas
doi: 10.1038/nature03667
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A substrate-specific inhibitor of protein translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum p285
Jennifer L. Garrison, Eric J. Kunkel, Ramanujan S. Hegde and Jack Taunton
doi: 10.1038/nature03821
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Selective inhibition of cotranslational translocation of vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 p290
Jürgen Besemer, Hanna Harant, Shirley Wang, Berndt Oberhauser, Katharina Marquardt, Carolyn A. Foster, Erwin P. Schreiner, Jan E. de Vries, Christiane Dascher-Nadel and Ivan J. D. Lindley
doi: 10.1038/nature03670
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A role for cell-cycle-regulated histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation in the DNA damage response p294
Hiroshi Masumoto, David Hawke, Ryuji Kobayashi and Alain Verreault
doi: 10.1038/nature03714
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Naturejobs
ProspectReality check p299
Complaints about supervisors ring true — but strategies to deal with them differ
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7048-299a
Career Views
Harry Stylli, chief executive and president, Sequenom, San Diego, California p300
Entrepreneur charts course from pharma to biotech
Harry Stylli
doi:10.1038/nj7048-300a
Nuts & Bolts p300
Advice for dealing with constant change
Deb Koen
doi:10.1038/nj7048-300b
Graduate Journal: The cost of moving abroad p300
Who supports mobility more, academia or industry?
Tobias Langenhan
doi:10.1038/nj7048-300c