Table of contents
Volume 436 Number 7054 pp1065-1206
In this issue (25 August 2005)
Also this week
Editorials
Greens can be good for you p1065
Next month's general election in Germany may see the end of the Green Party's spell in government. The party has fared well, as has science with it, except where ideology won out over good sense.
doi:10.1038/4361065a
Join a social revolution p1066
Your bookmarks make your web life manageable. But we can all benefit by sharing them.
doi:10.1038/4361066a
Who owns your work? p1066
A case in the Kansas Supreme Court reflects a lack of clarity in US copyright law.
doi:10.1038/4361066b
News
Painkiller verdict shows mistrust of Merck p1070
More lawsuits to follow ruling against Vioxx makers.
Roxanne Khamsi
doi:10.1038/4361070a
Tsunami damage was enhanced by coral theft p1071
Missing reefs allowed wave to surge farther inland.
Emma Marris
doi:10.1038/4361071a
Dalai Lama gets go-ahead for meditation lecture p1071
Neuroscientists will hear Buddhist leader speak.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/4361071b
Embezzlement scandal rocks Korean universities p1072
National inquiry to follow arrest of two professors.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/4361072a
Kansas to rule on copyright for lecture notes p1072
Supreme Court to decide whether scientists' work belongs to their universities.
Emma Marris
doi:10.1038/4361072b
Adult suicides linked to popular antidepressant p1073
Data analysis suggests risk warnings should be extended.
Jennifer Wild
doi:10.1038/4361073a
Snapshot: Asia choked by peat smog p1075
Satellite images set off smoke alarms.
doi:10.1038/4361075a
Warning system makes the grade during quake p1075
Japanese predictions are put to the test.
Ichiko Fuyuno
doi:10.1038/4361075b
Sidelines p1076
doi:10.1038/4361076a
Alertness drug arouses fears about 'lifestyle' misuse p1076
'Brain booster' found to reverse effects of sleep deprivation.
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/4361076b
Africa urged to create more fish farms p1077
Experts warn of imminent collapse in stocks.
Andreas von Bubnoff
doi:10.1038/4361077a
News Features
Scar prevention: The healing touch p1079
Wound an embryo and it heals perfectly, with no scars. Can we teach adult wounds the same trick, asks Meredith Wadman.
doi:10.1038/4361079a
See also: Editor's summary
History of chemistry: In their element p1082
At first it was just an unusual, geeky hobby. But by combining their twin passions of chemistry and history, Jim and Jenny Marshall are now running an acclaimed project in science education. Alexandra Witze reports.
doi:10.1038/4361082a
Water and life: Seeking the solution p1084
Is there any fundamental reason to be fixated on water as the universal elixir of life? Philip Ball investigates.
doi:10.1038/4361084a
See also: Editor's summary
Business
Bridging the gap in the German economy p1087
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/4361087a
In brief p1087
doi:10.1038/4361087b
Correspondence
Dual role for Pluto in the great planetary debate p1088
Tom Gehrels
doi:10.1038/4361088a
Extra controls will waste yet more research time p1088
Vera Bongertz
doi:10.1038/4361088b
Complex research on sea lions is worth the expense p1088
William Hogarth
doi:10.1038/4361088c
A woman's place in Nature p1088
Fabio Salamanca-Buentello, Leonor Buentello-Malo and Fabio Salamanca-Gómez
doi:10.1038/4361088d
Books and Arts
Growth factors p1089
Putting the ideas of Russian agronomist Trofim Lysenko into political and scientific context.
Garland E. Allen reviews The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science by Nils Roll-Hansen
doi:10.1038/4361089a
The bigger picture p1090
Ingeborg Reichle reviews Art and Science by Siân Ede
doi:10.1038/4361090a
Focusing on the stars p1091
Robert H. van Gent reviews Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope by Fred Watson
doi:10.1038/4361091a
Science in culture: Marine undercurrents p1092
An installation by Ellen Gallagher builds on some little-known work by Sigmund Freud.
Colin Martin
doi:10.1038/4361092a
News and Views
Neuroscience: Finding the missing fundamental p1093
The whole orchestra tunes up to an A note from the oboe — but how do our brains tell that all the different sounds are the same pitch? The discovery of pitch-sensitive neurons provides some clues.
Robert J. Zatorre
doi:10.1038/4361093a
See also: Editor's summary
Biological chemistry: Just add chlorine p1094
Nature provides lessons about developing 'green chemistry' in seemingly out-of-the-way places. One such lesson comes from an enzymatic step in the production of a leaf toxin by a bacterium.
Nathan A. Schnarr and Chaitan Khosla
doi:10.1038/4361094a
Earth science: Helium not in store p1095
The ratio of helium isotopes in some oceanic volcanoes seemed to demand a reservoir of virgin primordial gas in the Earth's mantle. In fact, that might not be necessary — a relief for other geophysical models.
William M. White
doi:10.1038/4361095a
See also: Editor's summary
Biological chemistry: Enzymes in focus p1096
The technique of directed evolution creates thousands of mutant enzymes from a single original. A new approach helps to search for variants that have an increased range of substrates — and can thus be used for organic synthesis.
Romas Kazlauskas
doi:10.1038/4361096a
Evolution: A treasure trove of motors p1097
The myosins are a superfamily of protein motors. Analysis of their sequences in a wide range of organisms reveals an unexpected variety of domains, and provides insights into the nature of the earliest eukaryotes.
Margaret A. Titus
doi:10.1038/4361097a
See also: Editor's summary
50 & 100 years ago p1098
doi:10.1038/4361098a
Synthetic chemistry: Light on chirality p1099
Reactions that produce only one of two mirror-image forms of a molecule are a hot topic in organic synthesis. A light-driven catalyst provides good results, and the technique could be generally applicable.
Yoshihisa Inoue
doi:10.1038/4361099a
See also: Editor's summary
Brief Communications
Virology: Independent virus development outside a host p1101
Growing two long filamentous tails may help an archaeal virus to survive in a hostile environment.
Monika Häring, Gisle Vestergaard, Reinhard Rachel, Lanming Chen, Roger A. Garrett and David Prangishvili
doi:10.1038/4361101a
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Green chemistry: Reversible nonpolar-to-polar solvent p1102
Philip G. Jessop, David J. Heldebrant, Xiaowang Li, Charles A. Eckert and Charles L. Liotta
doi:10.1038/4361102a
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Corrigendum p1102
doi:10.1038/4361102b
Progress
Reversing histone methylation p1103
Andrew J. Bannister and Tony Kouzarides
doi:10.1038/nature04048
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (193K)
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Articles
Evolution of helium isotopes in the Earth's mantle p1107
Cornelia Class and Steven L. Goldstein
doi:10.1038/nature03930
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Myosin domain evolution and the primary divergence of eukaryotes p1113
Thomas A. Richards and Thomas Cavalier-Smith
doi:10.1038/nature03949
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Architecture of floral branch systems in maize and related grasses p1119
Erik Vollbrecht, Patricia S. Springer, Lindee Goh, Edward S. Buckler IV and Robert Martienssen
doi:10.1038/nature03892
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (886K) | Supplementary information
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Letters
Early planetesimal melting from an age of 4.5662 Gyr for differentiated meteorites p1127
Joel Baker, Martin Bizzarro, Nadine Wittig, James Connelly and Henning Haack
doi:10.1038/nature03882
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Meteoritic dust from the atmospheric disintegration of a large meteoroid p1132
Andrew R. Klekociuk, Peter G. Brown, Dee W. Pack, Douglas O. ReVelle, W. N. Edwards, Richard E. Spalding, Edward Tagliaferri, Bernard B. Yoo and Joseph Zagari
doi:10.1038/nature03881
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Ferroelectricity from iron valence ordering in the charge-frustrated system LuFe2O4 p1136
Naoshi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Ohsumi, Kenji Ohwada, Kenji Ishii, Toshiya Inami, Kazuhisa Kakurai, Youichi Murakami, Kenji Yoshii, Shigeo Mori, Yoichi Horibe and Hijiri Kitô
doi:10.1038/nature04039
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Catalytic enantioselective reactions driven by photoinduced electron transfer p1139
Andreas Bauer, Felix Westkämper, Stefan Grimme and Thorsten Bach
doi:10.1038/nature03955
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Base stacking controls excited-state dynamics in A
T DNA p1141
Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández, Boiko Cohen and Bern Kohler
doi:10.1038/nature03933
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Seasonal oscillations in water exchange between aquifers and the coastal ocean p1145
Holly A. Michael, Ann E. Mulligan and Charles F. Harvey
doi:10.1038/nature03935
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Frozen magma lenses below the oceanic crust p1149
Mladen R. Nedimovi
, Suzanne M. Carbotte, Alistair J. Harding, Robert S. Detrick, J. Pablo Canales, John B. Diebold, Graham M. Kent, Michael Tischer
and Jeffrey M. Babcock
doi:10.1038/nature03944
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Methanotrophic symbionts provide carbon for photosynthesis in peat bogs p1153
Ashna A. Raghoebarsing, Alfons J. P. Smolders, Markus C. Schmid, W. Irene C. Rijpstra, Mieke Wolters-Arts, Jan Derksen, Mike S. M. Jetten, Stefan Schouten, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Leon P. M. Lamers, Jan G. M. Roelofs, Huub J. M. Op den Camp and Marc Strous
doi:10.1038/nature03802
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The contribution of species richness and composition to bacterial services p1157
Thomas Bell, Jonathan A. Newman, Bernard W. Silverman, Sarah L. Turner and Andrew K. Lilley
doi:10.1038/nature03891
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The neuronal representation of pitch in primate auditory cortex p1161
Daniel Bendor and Xiaoqin Wang
doi:10.1038/nature03867
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Translational control of hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory by the eIF2
kinase GCN2 p1166
Mauro Costa-Mattioli, Delphine Gobert, Heather Harding, Barbara Herdy, Mounia Azzi, Martin Bruno, Michael Bidinosti, Cyrinne Ben Mamou, Edwige Marcinkiewicz, Madoka Yoshida, Hiroaki Imataka, A. Claudio Cuello, Nabil Seidah, Wayne Sossin, Jean-Claude Lacaille, David Ron, Karim Nader and Nahum Sonenberg
doi:10.1038/nature03897
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Aminoglycoside antibiotics induce bacterial biofilm formation p1171
Lucas R. Hoffman, David A. D'Argenio, Michael J. MacCoss, Zhaoying Zhang, Roger A. Jones and Samuel I. Miller
doi:10.1038/nature03912
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A new family of RhoGEFs activates the Rop molecular switch in plants p1176
Antje Berken, Christoph Thomas and Alfred Wittinghofer
doi:10.1038/nature03883
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Hassall's corpuscles instruct dendritic cells to induce CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in human thymus p1181
Norihiko Watanabe, Yi-Hong Wang, Heung Kyu Lee, Tomoki Ito, Yui-Hsi Wang, Wei Cao and Yong-Jun Liu
doi:10.1038/nature03886
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The DNA damage pathway regulates innate immune system ligands of the NKG2D receptor p1186
Stephan Gasser, Sandra Orsulic, Eric J. Brown and David H. Raulet
doi:10.1038/nature03884
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Cryptic chlorination by a non-haem iron enzyme during cyclopropyl amino acid biosynthesis p1191
Frédéric H. Vaillancourt, Ellen Yeh, David A. Vosburg, Sarah E. O'Connor and Christopher T. Walsh
doi:10.1038/nature03797
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Atomic model of a myosin filament in the relaxed state p1195
John L. Woodhead, Fa-Qing Zhao, Roger Craig, Edward H. Egelman, Lorenzo Alamo and Raúl Padrón
doi:10.1038/nature03920
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Corrigendum: Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003 p1200
P. A. Stott, D. A. Stone and M. R. Allen
doi:10.1038/nature04099
Corrigendum: Magnetic carbon p1200
Tatiana L. Makarova, Bertil Sundqvist, Roland Höhne, Pablo Esquinazi, Yakov Kopelevich, Peter Scharff, Valerii A. Davydov, Ludmila S. Kashevarova and Aleksandra V. Rakhmanina
doi:10.1038/nature04100
Erratum: Measurement of the conductance of single conjugated molecules p1200
Tali Dadosh, Yoav Gordin, Roman Krahne, Ilya Khivrich, Diana Mahalu, Veronica Frydman, Joseph Sperling, Amir Yacoby and Israel Bar-Joseph
doi:10.1038/nature04102
Naturejobs
ProspectFor love or money p1201
Pay for academic life scientists is disproportionately low compared with other non-scientific professions with similar levels of education and training
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7054-1201a
Careers and Recruitment
Chemistry's small world p1202
Recruitment of chemists in traditional bulk commodities and manufacturing may be slumping, but fresh opportunities are opening up for those whose skill sets are amenable to biotechnology applications, say Claudia Caruana and Paul Smaglik.
Claudia Caruana & Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7054-1202a
Career Views
Faith Vilas, director, MMT Observatory, Mount Hopkins, Arizona p1204
Female astronomer blazes own trail into management
Faith Vilas
doi:10.1038/nj7054-1204a
Scientists & societies p1204
Graduate students band together to foster communication
Manuel Corpas
doi:10.1038/nj7054-1204b
Graduate Journal: Rule of seven p1204
Light at the end tunnel?
Anne Margaret Lee
doi:10.1038/nj7054-1204c
Recruitment
Effective Talent Management
Reprinted with permission from Electronic Recruiting News. For more articles like this see www.interbiznet.com.
doi:10.1038/nj0080
Highlights
Highlight on Norway
doi:10.1038/nj0088
Futures
MAXO signals p1206
A new and unfortunate solution to the Fermi paradox.
Charles Stross, Caroline Haafkens and Wasiu Mohammed
doi:10.1038/4361206a