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Volume 436 Issue 7049, 21 July 2005

Volume 436 Issue 7049

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Editorial

  • The decision to site the fusion experiment ITER in France left relatively little bad blood between the international partners, who must now rally behind the project.

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  • Cuba's scientific community has made substantial progress in addressing social problems.

    Editorial

  • Conflicts-of-interest at the US National Institutes of Health justify the agency's ethics crackdown.

    Editorial
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Research Highlights

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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • For 50 years, physicists have been promising that power from nuclear fusion is imminent. Now they are poised to build an experiment that could vindicate their views. But will the machine work? Geoff Brumfiel investigates.

    • Geoff Brumfiel
    News Feature

  • Cuba's socialist science policies are producing top-notch research from scant economic resources. But, as Jim Giles reports, they have harsh consequences for scientists who do not fit in with government priorities.

    • Jim Giles
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Business

  • The business of writing popular science books is hard to break into — and even harder to make money out of. Tony Reichhardt reports.

    Business
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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

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News & Views

  • Under what circumstances do glaciations persist or occur only transiently? Indications that short-lived ‘icehouse’ conditions occurred during the otherwise warm Eocene provide further cause for debate on the question.

    • Lee R. Kump
    News & Views

  • The courtship rituals of fruitflies are disrupted by mutations in the fruitless gene. A close look at the gene's products — some of which are sex-specific — hints at the neural basis of the flies' behaviour.

    • Charalambos P. Kyriacou
    News & Views

  • A single recent impact may have modified the craters on the asteroid Eros into the pattern we see today. This finding has implications for how we view the structure of asteroids — and for addressing any hazards they present.

    • Erik Asphaug
    News & Views

  • Adipokines are hormones that signal changes in fatty-tissue mass and energy status so as to control fuel usage. A fat-derived adipokine that binds to vitamin A provides a new link between obesity and insulin resistance.

    • Deborah M. Muoio
    • Christopher B. Newgard
    News & Views
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Brief Communication

  • A Jewish cemetery in ancient Rome harbours a secret that bears on the history of early Christianity.

    • Leonard V. Rutgers
    • Klaas van der Borg
    • Imogen Poole
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Article

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Letter

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Prospects

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Postdocs and Students

  • Having a good mentor can determine the direction and probability of success for a young researcher. But mentoring takes skill, and institutions are paying attention to their training, says Virginia Gewin.

    • Virginia Gewin
    Postdocs and Students
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Movers

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Scientists and Societies

  • Swedish scientists seek strength in numbers

    • Marita Teräs
    Scientists and Societies
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Graduate Journal

  • Graduate experience warps time

    • Anne Margaret Lee
    Graduate Journal
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Futures

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Brief Communications Arising

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