Table of contents
Volume 436 Number 7052 pp753-888
In this issue (11 August 2005)
Also this week
Editorials
Keeping religion out of science class p753
President Bush's endorsement of 'intelligent design' has sparked a national debate in which scientists are well positioned to prevail.
doi: 10.1038/436753a
Life in the old doc yet p753
The need to bring new blood into science shouldn't force out talented older researchers prematurely.
doi: 10.1038/436753b
Tale of two tigers p754
Aspirant research hubs in southeast Asia have enjoyed contrasting fortunes.
doi: 10.1038/436754a
News
Medics braced for fresh superbug p758
Drug-resistant bacterium presents 'a real danger'.
Alison Abbott
doi: 10.1038/436758a
Preparations get under way for tsunami warning system p759
International partners agree on first steps to prevent another disaster.
David Cyranoski
doi: 10.1038/436759a
Scans provide picture of brain activity p759
Human study suggests fMRI can measure activity of brain cells.
Erika Check
doi: 10.1038/436759b
Four years on, no transgenes found in Mexican maize p760
Corn found to be free of GM contamination.
Emma Marris
doi: 10.1038/436760a
Scientists attack Bush over intelligent design p761
President's remarks spark angry response.
Virginia Gewin
doi: 10.1038/436761a
Anti-terror study tracks gas dispersal p763
New York simulates chemical-weapon attack.
Tom Simonite
doi: 10.1038/436763a
Japan accelerates global supercomputer war p763
Researchers make calculated bid to retake title for processor speed.
David Cyranoski
doi: 10.1038/436763b
Sidelines p764
doi: 10.1038/436764a
Europe set for tough debate on curbing aircraft emissions p764
European Commission looks to carbon trading to curb greenhouse-gas problem.
Jim Giles
doi: 10.1038/436764b
News in brief p766
doi: 10.1038/436766a
Correction p766
doi: 10.1038/436766b
News Features
Singapore: An irresistible force p767
Singapore's impressive advances in biomedicine are driven by the energetic personality of Philip Yeo. David Cyranoski meets a man who just can't stand still.
doi: 10.1038/436767a
Cell biology: The secret life of sperm p770
Far from being mere DNA delivery boys, it's now becoming clear that sperm also ship a complex cargo of RNA and proteins that may be crucial for an embryo's early development. Claire Ainsworth reports.
doi: 10.1038/436770a
See also: Editor's summary
Science after retirement age: Breaking the age barrier p772
Many scientists continue to run productive and innovative research programmes well beyond typical retirement age. But in many countries, tough retirement laws make staying in the lab a challenge. Laura Bonetta reports.
doi: 10.1038/436772a
See also: Editor's summary
Business
Ancient foil maker wraps up mobile-phone market p775
Centuries-old Japanese company carves out a fresh niche.
Ichiko Fuyuno
doi: 10.1038/436775a
In brief p775
doi: 10.1038/436775b
Correspondence
Harry Potter and the recessive allele p776
Jeffrey M. Craig, Renee Dow and MaryAnne Aitken
doi: 10.1038/436776a
Tunnel vision all in the mind at Hothouse High p776
Samantha G. Zeitlin
doi: 10.1038/436776b
Misconduct: acceptable practices differ by field p776
Frederick Grinnell
doi: 10.1038/436776c
Cannabis on a downer p776
Martin J. Neumann
doi: 10.1038/436776d
Books and Arts
The rovers' tale p777
How NASA scientists overcame the odds to find signs of water on Mars.
Gregory Benford reviews Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet by Steve Squyres
doi: 10.1038/436777a
Exhibition: Down and out p778
Collapse? At the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County until 15 January 2006 http://www.nhm.org/exhibitions/collapse/index.html
Philip Campbell
doi: 10.1038/436778a
Chemistry to die for p779
Roger P. Smith reviews The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John Emsley
doi: 10.1038/436779a
Creatures and craters p779
doi: 10.1038/436779b
News and Views
Neuroscience: Neurons and navigation p781
Where is the geometry of the environment represented in the brain? The entorhinal cortex, where neurons fire repeatedly when an animal's position coincides with the vertices of a grid of triangles, looks like a good bet.
György Buzsáki
doi: 10.1038/436781a
See also: Editor's summary
Magnetospheric physics: Turbulence on a small scale p782
The four-spacecraft Cluster mission has identified small-scale vortices in Earth's magnetosphere. The observation reveals processes that transfer energy and momentum from the solar wind to the magnetosphere.
Melvyn L. Goldstein
doi: 10.1038/436782a
Plant biology: Engineered male sterility p783
The phenomenon of 'cytoplasmic male sterility' in plants has long been exploited to enhance the productivity of certain crops. An innovative genetic-engineering system promises to widen applicability of the approach.
Muhammad Sarwar Khan
doi: 10.1038/436783a
50 & 100 years ago p785
doi: 10.1038/436785a
See also: Editor's summary
Oceanography: A bigger nitrogen fix p786
Biologically useful nitrogen is delivered to the upper ocean from the depths by vertical transport processes — or such was the received wisdom. In fact, bacteria that convert atmospheric nitrogen may be just as crucial.
Nicolas Gruber
doi: 10.1038/436786a
Cancer: Two in one p787
As cancer develops, at least two cell processes are disrupted — cell growth is promoted, and cell death inhibited. It seems that mutated versions of the notorious cancer-promoting protein MYC can accomplish both at once.
Anton Berns
doi: 10.1038/436787a
See also: Editor's summary
Organic chemistry: Dotty solutions p789
Richard Webb
doi: 10.1038/436789a
Mantle geochemistry: Big lessons from little droplets p789
How does Hawaii look deep below the surface? Like viewing an object at a different magnification, studies of minuscule inclusions in volcanic rocks on the surface provide a fresh perspective on the question.
Claude Herzberg
doi: 10.1038/436789b
Brief Communications
Phytochemistry: Structure of the blue cornflower pigment p791
Packaging red-rose anthocyanin as part of a 'superpigment' in another flower turns it brilliant blue.
Masaaki Shiono, Naohiro Matsugaki and Kosaku Takeda
doi: 10.1038/436791a
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Colorectal cancer: Mutations in a signalling pathway p792
D. Williams Parsons, Tian-Li Wang, Yardena Samuels, Alberto Bardelli, Jordan M. Cummins, Laura DeLong, Natalie Silliman, Janine Ptak, Steve Szabo, James K. V. Willson, Sanford Markowitz, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, Christoph Lengauer and Victor E. Velculescu
doi: 10.1038/436792a
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Articles
The map-based sequence of the rice genome p793
International Rice Genome Sequencing Project
doi: 10.1038/nature03895
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (241K) | Supplementary information
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Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex p801
Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn, Sturla Molden, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser
doi: 10.1038/nature03721
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (665K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Buzsáki
Evasion of the p53 tumour surveillance network by tumour-derived MYC mutants p807
Michael T. Hemann, Anka Bric, Julie Teruya-Feldstein, Andreas Herbst, Jonas A. Nilsson, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, John L. Cleveland, William P. Tansey and Scott W. Lowe
doi: 10.1038/nature03845
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (980K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Berns
A contractile nuclear actin network drives chromosome congression in oocytes p812
Péter Lénárt, Christian P. Bacher, Nathalie Daigle, Arthur R. Hand, Roland Eils, Mark Terasaki and Jan Ellenberg
doi: 10.1038/nature03810
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (695K) | Supplementary information
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Letters
A dark jet dominates the power output of the stellar black hole Cygnus X-1 p819
Elena Gallo, Rob Fender, Christian Kaiser, David Russell, Raffaella Morganti, Tom Oosterloo and Sebastian Heinz
doi: 10.1038/nature03879
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Discovery of the triple asteroidal system 87 Sylvia p822
Franck Marchis, Pascal Descamps, Daniel Hestroffer and Jérome Berthier
doi: 10.1038/nature04018
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In situ multi-satellite detection of coherent vortices as a manifestation of Alfvénic turbulence p825
David Sundkvist, Vladimir Krasnoselskikh, Padma K. Shukla, Andris Vaivads, Mats André, Stephan Buchert and Henri Rème
doi: 10.1038/nature03931
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See also: News and Views by Goldstein
Negative lattice expansion from the superconductivity−antiferromagnetism crossover in ruthenium copper oxides p829
A. C. Mclaughlin, F. Sher and J. P. Attfield
doi: 10.1038/nature03828
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A late Eemian aridity pulse in central Europe during the last glacial inception p833
F. Sirocko, K. Seelos, K. Schaber, B. Rein, F. Dreher, M. Diehl, R. Lehne, K. Jäger, M. Krbetschek and D. Degering
doi: 10.1038/nature03905
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The chemical structure of the Hawaiian mantle plume p837
Zhong-Yuan Ren, Stephanie Ingle, Eiichi Takahashi, Naoto Hirano and Takafumi Hirata
doi: 10.1038/nature03907
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A wide depth distribution of seismic tremors along the northern Cascadia margin p841
Honn Kao, Shao-Ju Shan, Herb Dragert, Garry Rogers, John F. Cassidy and Kumar Ramachandran
doi: 10.1038/nature03903
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The hangover gene defines a stress pathway required for ethanol tolerance development p845
Henrike Scholz, Mirjam Franz and Ulrike Heberlein
doi: 10.1038/nature03864
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Small vertical movement of a K+ channel voltage sensor measured with luminescence energy transfer p848
David J. Posson, Pinghua Ge, Christopher Miller, Francisco Bezanilla and Paul R. Selvin
doi: 10.1038/nature03819
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Gating charge displacement in voltage-gated ion channels involves limited transmembrane movement p852
Baron Chanda, Osei Kwame Asamoah, Rikard Blunck, Benoît Roux and Francisco Bezanilla
doi: 10.1038/nature03888
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Voltage-sensor activation with a tarantula toxin as cargo p857
L. Revell Phillips, Mirela Milescu, Yingying Li-Smerin, Joseph A. Mindell, Jae Il Kim and Kenton J. Swartz
doi: 10.1038/nature03873
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Predictive models of molecular machines involved in Caenorhabditis elegans early embryogenesis p861
Kristin C. Gunsalus, Hui Ge, Aaron J. Schetter, Debra S. Goldberg, Jing-Dong J. Han, Tong Hao, Gabriel F. Berriz, Nicolas Bertin, Jerry Huang, Ling-Shiang Chuang, Ning Li, Ramamurthy Mani, Anthony A. Hyman, Birte Sönnichsen, Christophe J. Echeverri, Frederick P. Roth, Marc Vidal and Fabio Piano
doi: 10.1038/nature03876
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The ERECTA gene regulates plant transpiration efficiency in Arabidopsis p866
Josette Masle, Scott R. Gilmore and Graham D. Farquhar
doi: 10.1038/nature03835
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Identification of JAK/STAT signalling components by genome-wide RNA interference p871
Patrick Müller, David Kuttenkeuler, Viola Gesellchen, Martin P. Zeidler and Michael Boutros
doi: 10.1038/nature03869
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A high-resolution map of active promoters in the human genome p876
Tae Hoon Kim, Leah O. Barrera, Ming Zheng, Chunxu Qu, Michael A. Singer, Todd A. Richmond, Yingnian Wu, Roland D. Green and Bing Ren
doi: 10.1038/nature03877
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Corrigendum: EphB receptor activity suppresses colorectal cancer progression p881
Eduard Batlle, Julinor Bacani, Harry Begthel, Suzanne Jonkheer, Alexander Gregorieff, Maaike van de Born, Núria Malats, Elena Sancho, Elles Boon, Tony Pawson, Steven Gallinger, Steven Pals and Hans Clevers
doi: 10.1038/nature03941
Erratum: An integrated view of the chemistry and mineralogy of martian soils p881
Albert S. Yen, Ralf Gellert, Christian Schröder, Richard V. Morris, James F. Bell, III, Amy T. Knudson, Benton C. Clark, Douglas W. Ming, Joy A. Crisp, Raymond E. Arvidson, Diana Blaney, Johannes Brückner, Philip R. Christensen, David J. DesMarais, Paulo A. de Souza, Jr, Thanasis E. Economou, Amitabha Ghosh, Brian C. Hahn, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, Larry A. Haskin, Joel A. Hurowitz, Bradley L. Joliff, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Göstar Klingelhöfer, Morten Bo Madsen, Scott M. McLennan, Harry Y. McSween, Lutz Richter, Rudi Rieder, Daniel Rodionov, Larry Soderblom, Steven W. Squyres, Nicholas J. Tosca, Alian Wang, Michael Wyatt and Jutta Zipfel
doi: 10.1038/nature04042
Corrigendum: Similar response of labile and resistant soil organic matter pools to changes in temperature p881
Changming Fang, Pete Smith, John B. Moncrieff and Jo U. Smith
doi: 10.1038/nature04044
Addendum: Evidence for magmatic evolution and diversity on Mars from infrared observations p882
P. R. Christensen, H. Y. McSween, Jr, J. L. Bandfield, S. W. Ruff, A. D. Rogers, V. E. Hamilton, N. Gorelick, M. B. Wyatt, B. M. Jakosky, H. H. Kieffer, M. C. Malin and J. E. Moersch
doi: 10.1038/nature04075
Naturejobs
ProspectSearching questions p883
Search-engine companies raise the IT recruitment ante
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7052-883a
Regions
Breaking open a closed system p884
Malaysia's research system is closed and isolated. What are scientists with a yen for rigorous research to do? David Cyranoski finds out.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/nj7052-884a
Correction p885
doi:10.1038/nj7052-885a
Career Views
Eric Staeva-Vieira, business analyst, Rodman and Renshaw, New York p886
A broad approach helps foster a business career
Eric Staeva-Vieira
doi:10.1038/nj7052-886a
Recruiters & Academia p886
Teaching interdisciplinary courses proves to be an educational experience
Ariana Sutton-Grier & Melissa Kenney
doi:10.1038/nj7052-886b
Graduate Journal: A tale of a whale p886
Taking a break offers a fresh perspective
Jason Underwood
doi:10.1038/nj7052-886c
Highlights
Highlight: Research Foundation and Charities
doi:10.1038/nj0076
Highlight: British Columbia
doi:10.1038/nj0078
Futures
Prometheus unbound, at last p888
And not a moment too soon.
Kim Stanley Robinson
doi: 10.1038/436888a
See also: Editor's summary