Table of contents
Volume 436 Number 7049 pp303-440
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Editorials
All together now p303
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.
doi: 10.1038/436303a
Socialism in one country p303
Cuba's scientific community has made substantial progress in addressing social problems.
doi: 10.1038/436303b
Agency under siege p304
Conflicts-of-interest at the US National Institutes of Health justify the agency's ethics crackdown.
doi: 10.1038/436304a
News
Psychologists warn of more suicide attacks in the wake of London bombs p308
Terror threat to the West 'will remain high for years to come', says analyst.
Jim Giles and Michael Hopkin
doi: 10.1038/436308a
Altered embryos offered as solution to stem-cell rift p309
Senators seek way out of voting dilemma.
Erika Check
doi: 10.1038/436309a
Bird flu: crossing borders p310
Despite recent reports from governments that bird flu is under control, it continues to spread through Asia's poultry and claim lives — there are even signs of human-to-human transmission. Declan Butler tracks the disease's inexorable spread.
doi: 10.1038/436310a
Arsenic-free water still a pipedream p313
Decontamination plants fail to free millions from poisoned supply.
Philip Ball
doi: 10.1038/436313a
Malaysia plans 'red book' in its attempts to go green p313
Biodiversity catalogue marks shift in attitude.
David Cyranoski
doi: 10.1038/436313b
Asia squeezes Europe's lead in science p314
Global share of scientific output rises in the East.
Andreas von Bubnoff
doi: 10.1038/436314a
Sidelines p315
doi: 10.1038/435315b
Animal-rights group sues over 'disturbing' work on sea lions p315
Conservation effort criticized for branding pups.
Rex Dalton
doi: 10.1038/436315a
News Features
Fusion energy: Just around the corner p318
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.
doi: 10.1038/436318a
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Cuban science: ¿Vive la revolución? p322
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.
doi: 10.1038/436322a
Business
Pumping up the volume p326
The business of writing popular science books is hard to break into — and even harder to make money out of. Tony Reichhardt reports.
doi: 10.1038/436326a
In brief p327
doi: 10.1038/436327a
Market watch p327
Quirin Schiermeier
doi: 10.1038/436327b
Correspondence
Unlike climate science, GM is full of uncertainties p328
Douglas Parr
doi: 10.1038/436328a
Leave GM analysis to the relevant scientists p328
Denis Couvet
doi: 10.1038/436328b
Compensation for climate change must meet needs p328
W. Neil Adger and Jon Barnett
doi: 10.1038/436328c
There's more to a colourful life than simply sex p328
Paul Kenton
doi: 10.1038/436328d
Books and Arts
Letters from a hero p329
What made Richard Feynman so much more than a Nobel prizewinning physicist?
Peter Galison reviews Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
doi: 10.1038/436329a
Darwin's first love p330
Martin Rudwick reviews Charles Darwin, Geologist by Sandra Herbert
doi: 10.1038/436330a
Documentary: In the right place at the right time p331
Henry Gee
doi: 10.1038/436331a
See also: Editor's summary
Science in culture: A trick of the tiles p332
Penrose tiling is realized on a huge scale in Perth to give a perceptual feast for the eyes.
Martin Kemp
doi: 10.1038/436332a
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News and Views
Palaeoclimate: Foreshadowing the glacial era p333
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
doi: 10.1038/436333a
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Behavioural genetics: Sex in fruitflies is fruitless p334
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
doi: 10.1038/436334a
See also: Editor's summary
Asteroids: Shaken on impact p335
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
doi: 10.1038/436335a
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50 and 100 years ago p336
doi: 10.1038/436336a
Metabolism: A is for adipokine p337
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 and Christopher B. Newgard
doi: 10.1038/436337a
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Parasitology: Triple genome triumph p337
Declan Butler
doi: 10.1038/436337b
Brief Communications
Radiocarbon dating: Jewish inspiration of Christian catacombs p339
A Jewish cemetery in ancient Rome harbours a secret that bears on the history of early Christianity.
Leonard V. Rutgers, Klaas van der Borg, Arie F. M. de Jong and Imogen Poole
doi: 10.1038/436339a
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Brief Communications Arising
Palaeoclimatology: Formation of Precambrian sediment ripples pE1
Douglas J. Jerolmack and David Mohrig
doi: 10.1038/nature04025
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Palaeoclimatology: Formation of Precambrian sediment ripples (reply) pE1
Philip Allen and Paul Hoffman
doi: 10.1038/nature04026
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Articles
Eocene bipolar glaciation associated with global carbon cycle changes p341
Aradhna Tripati, Jan Backman, Henry Elderfield and Patrizia Ferretti
doi: 10.1038/nature03874
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Neural crest origins of the neck and shoulder p347
Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Per E. Ahlberg, Nicoletta Kessaris, Palma Iannarelli, Ulla Dennehy, William D. Richardson, Andrew P. McMahon and Georgy Koentges
doi: 10.1038/nature03837
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Serum retinol binding protein 4 contributes to insulin resistance in obesity and type 2 diabetes p356
Qin Yang, Timothy E. Graham, Nimesh Mody, Frederic Preitner, Odile D. Peroni, Janice M. Zabolotny, Ko Kotani, Loredana Quadro and Barbara B. Kahn
doi: 10.1038/nature03711
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Letters
Extreme collisions between planetesimals as the origin of warm dust around a Sun-like star p363
Inseok Song, B. Zuckerman, Alycia J. Weinberger and E. E. Becklin
doi: 10.1038/nature03853
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Seismic resurfacing by a single impact on the asteroid 433 Eros p366
P. C. Thomas and Mark S. Robinson
doi: 10.1038/nature03855
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Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images p370
Pei Yu Chiou, Aaron T. Ohta and Ming C. Wu
doi: 10.1038/nature03831
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Direct observation of electron dynamics in the attosecond domain p373
A. Föhlisch, P. Feulner, F. Hennies, A. Fink, D. Menzel, D. Sanchez-Portal, P. M. Echenique and W. Wurth
doi: 10.1038/nature03833
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Spin transition of iron in magnesiowüstite in the Earth's lower mantle p377
Jung-Fu Lin, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Steven D. Jacobsen, Michael Y. Hu, Paul Chow, Jennifer Kung, Haozhe Liu, Ho-kwang Mao and Russell J. Hemley
doi: 10.1038/nature03825
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The long-term strength of Europe and its implications for plate-forming processes p381
M. Pérez-Gussinyé and A. B. Watts
doi: 10.1038/nature03854
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Reinforcement of pre-zygotic isolation and karyotype evolution in Agrodiaetus butterflies p385
Vladimir A. Lukhtanov, Nikolai P. Kandul, Joshua B. Plotkin, Alexander V. Dantchenko, David Haig and Naomi E. Pierce
doi: 10.1038/nature03704
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Deep sub-seafloor prokaryotes stimulated at interfaces over geological time p390
R. John Parkes, Gordon Webster, Barry A. Cragg, Andrew J. Weightman, Carole J. Newberry, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Jens Kallmeyer, Bo B. Jørgensen, Ivano W. Aiello and John C. Fry
doi: 10.1038/nature03796
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Male-specific fruitless specifies the neural substrates of Drosophila courtship behaviour p395
Devanand S. Manoli, Margit Foss, Adriana Villella, Barbara J. Taylor, Jeffrey C. Hall and Bruce S. Baker
doi: 10.1038/nature03859
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EphrinB2 is the entry receptor for Nipah virus, an emergent deadly paramyxovirus p401
Oscar A. Negrete, Ernest L. Levroney, Hector C. Aguilar, Andrea Bertolotti-Ciarlet, Ronen Nazarian, Sara Tajyar and Benhur Lee
doi: 10.1038/nature03838
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Regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope composition and virulence by intramembrane proteolysis p406
Hideki Makinoshima and Michael S. Glickman
doi: 10.1038/nature03713
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Trans-SNARE pairing can precede a hemifusion intermediate in intracellular membrane fusion p410
Christoph Reese, Felix Heise and Andreas Mayer
doi: 10.1038/nature03722
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Structural basis of family-wide Rab GTPase recognition by rabenosyn-5 p415
Sudharshan Eathiraj, Xiaojing Pan, Christopher Ritacco and David G. Lambright
doi: 10.1038/nature03798
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Chloride/proton antiporter activity of mammalian CLC proteins ClC-4 and ClC-5 p420
Alessandra Picollo and Michael Pusch
doi: 10.1038/nature03720
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Voltage-dependent electrogenic chloride/proton exchange by endosomal CLC proteins p424
Olaf Scheel, Anselm A. Zdebik, Stéphane Lourdel and Thomas J. Jentsch
doi: 10.1038/nature03860
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SUMO-modified PCNA recruits Srs2 to prevent recombination during S phase p428
Boris Pfander, George-Lucian Moldovan, Meik Sacher, Carsten Hoege and Stefan Jentsch
doi: 10.1038/nature03665
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Naturejobs
ProspectA tangential route to success p435
Young scientist follows a bench tangent to biotech success
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7049-435a
Postdocs and Students
Learning to mentor p436
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
doi:10.1038/nj7049-436a
Career Views
Giovanni Galizia, professor of neurobiology, University of Konstanz, Germany p438
German scientist coming home from California
Giovanni Galizia
doi:10.1038/nj7049-438a
Scientists & Societies p438
Swedish scientists seek strength in numbers
Marita Teräs
doi:10.1038/nj7049-438b
Graduate Journal: A study in time p438
Graduate experience warps time
Anne Margaret Lee
doi:10.1038/nj7049-438c