Authors

Making the paper: Shehzaad Kaka and Fred Mancoff pxiii

Power from some devices can be more than the sum of their parts.

doi: 10.1038/7057xiiia

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Abstractions pxiii

doi: 10.1038/7057xiiib

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Quantified: Chile pxiii

doi: 10.1038/7057xiiic

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Editorials

The hand that feeds p295

The efficiency of research agencies and their responsiveness to grant applicants vary widely around the world. It is time for the laggards to reform.

doi: 10.1038/437295a

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Global reach p295

Nations need a more effective way to coordinate their responses to environmental challenges.

doi: 10.1038/437295b

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All things equal p296

Lack of affordable child care is a major impediment to women's careers, in science as elsewhere.

doi: 10.1038/437296a

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Research Highlights

Research highlights p298

doi: 10.1038/437298a

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News

New Orleans researchers fight to salvage work from submerged labs p300

Full extent of damage unclear as scientists question preparations for storm.

Rex Dalton

doi: 10.1038/437300a

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First tests show flood waters high in bacteria and lead p301

Domestic waste, sewage and vehicle fuels make toxic mix.

Emma Marris

doi: 10.1038/437301a

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US tests satellite tool for hurricane monitoring p301

Radar can see inside the eye of a storm.

Quirin Schiermeier

doi: 10.1038/437301b

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Ornithologists stunned by bird collector's deceit p302

Catalogue of fraud has taken years to uncover.

Rex Dalton

doi: 10.1038/437302a

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Free mice herald launch of Asia−Pacific network p302

Biologists make efforts to improve regional ties.

Carina Dennis

doi: 10.1038/437302b

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Can we score the millennium goals? p304

Critics say UN needs to collect better data.

Roxanne Khamsi

doi: 10.1038/437304a

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Europe backs trials on drugs for kids p304

Vote calls for stricter regulation of children's medicines.

Jennifer Wild

doi: 10.1038/437304b

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UK embryo licence draws global attention p305

Green light given to controversial experiment.

Erika Check

doi: 10.1038/437305a

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Sidelines p306

doi: 10.1038/437306a

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Spacecraft on course to score a first with asteroid samples p306

Japanese probe poised for collect-and-return mission.

Tony Reichhardt

doi: 10.1038/437306b

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News in brief p307

doi: 10.1038/437307a

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News Features

Research grants: The nightmare before funding p308

Asked to name one thing they hate about their jobs, many scientists say grant applications. Nature's reporters have asked researchers just why the process is so frustrating, and what can be done to improve matters.

doi: 10.1038/437308a

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Environmental health: Megacity, mega mess... p312

The creaking infrastructure of Indonesia's capital is overwhelmed by people, vehicles and pollution. As urbanization gathers pace across the developing world, Jessica Marshall visits Jakarta to witness its stomach-churning consequences.

doi: 10.1038/437312a

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Business

Defence group aims for take-off p316

A share offering beckons this autumn for QinetiQ, a business that is being built out of some of Britain's most famous military research laboratories. Andrea Chipman reports.

doi: 10.1038/437316a

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In brief p317

doi: 10.1038/437317a

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Market watch p317

Quirin Schiermeier

doi: 10.1038/437317b

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Correspondence

Re-wilding: introductions could reduce biodiversity p318

Christopher Irwin Smith

doi: 10.1038/437318a

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Re-wilding: other projects help carnivores stay wild p318

Guillaume Chapron

doi: 10.1038/437318b

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Malaysia can't thrive while it excludes minority talent p318

In Yee Phang

doi: 10.1038/437318c

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Harry Potter and the prisoner of presumption p318

Antony N. Dodd, Carlos T. Hotta and Michael J. Gardner

doi: 10.1038/437318d

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Books and Arts

Fear of the future p319

Will scientific innovation bring progress and benefits, or just risks and dangers?

Hubert S. Markl reviews Unersättliche Neugier: Innovation in einer fragilen Zukunft. [Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future]Helga Nowotny

doi: 10.1038/437319a

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A climate for social change p320

Julian Hunt reviews The Weather in the Imagination by Lucian Boia

doi: 10.1038/437320a

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Early views of viewing p321

John M. Findlay reviews The Moving Tablet of the Eye: The Origins of Modern Eye Movement Research by Nicholas J. Wade and Benjamin W. Tatler

doi: 10.1038/437321a

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Essay

Dirac's hidden geometry p323

Paul Dirac insisted that his approach to quantum physics was geometric not algebraic. But where is the evidence of this in his pioneering, algebra-rich papers?

Graham Farmelo

doi: 10.1038/437323a

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News and Views

Nanotechnology: Nano-oscillators get it together p325

Synchronized radiation from arrays of oscillators is widely used in microwave and wireless communications. Phase-locked oscillations produced at the atomic level now pave the way for devices on the nanoscale.

Pritiraj Mohanty

doi: 10.1038/437325a

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Genomics: Massively parallel sequencing p326

A sequencing system has been developed that can read 25 million bases of genetic code — the entire genome of some fungi — within four hours. The technique may provide an alternative approach to DNA sequencing.

Yu-Hui Rogers and J. Craig Venter

doi: 10.1038/437326a

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Device physics: Enlightening solutions p327

White-light-emitting diodes are becoming increasingly important, but what is the best way to build compact devices possessing high efficiency? Bright prospects are offered by multi-layer organic devices grown from solution.

Klaus Meerholz

doi: 10.1038/437327a

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50 & 100 years ago p328

doi: 10.1038/437328a

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Earthquakes: Giant returns in time p329

The behaviour of a seismic fault in Chile seemed to confound predictions of how often giant earthquakes should recur. Examination of a 2,000-year record of tsunami deposits in the region clarifies matters.

Sergio Barrientos

doi: 10.1038/437329a

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Microbiology: Bacterial speech bubbles p330

Many bacteria socialize using diffusible signals. But some of these messages are poorly soluble, so how do they move between bacteria? It seems they can be wrapped up in membrane packages instead.

Stephen C. Winans

doi: 10.1038/437330a

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Correction p330

doi: 10.1038/437330b

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Obituary: Charles David Keeling 1928−2005 p331

Pioneer in the modern science of climate change.

Martin Heimann

doi: 10.1038/437331a

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Brief Communications

Forensics: Age written in teeth by nuclear tests p333

A legacy from above-ground testing provides a precise indicator of the year in which a person was born.

Kirsty L. Spalding, Bruce A. Buchholz, Lars-Eric Bergman, Henrik Druid and Jonas Frisén

doi: 10.1038/437333a

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Botany: Floral fluorescence effect p334

Fernando Gandía-Herrero, Francisco García-Carmona and Josefa Escribano

doi: 10.1038/437334a

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Brief Communications Arising

DNA polymerases: Hoogsteen base-pairing in DNA replication? pE6

Jimin Wang

doi: 10.1038/nature04199

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DNA polymerases: Hoogsteen base-pairing in DNA replication? (reply) pE7

Aneel Aggarwal, Deepak Nair, Robert Johnson, Louise Prakash and Satya Prakash

doi: 10.1038/nature04200

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Articles

Psoriasis-like skin disease and arthritis caused by inducible epidermal deletion of Jun proteins p369

Rainer Zenz, Robert Eferl, Lukas Kenner, Lore Florin, Lars Hummerich, Denis Mehic, Harald Scheuch, Peter Angel, Erwin Tschachler and Erwin F. Wagner

doi: 10.1038/nature03963

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Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors p376

Marcel Margulies, Michael Egholm, William E. Altman, Said Attiya, Joel S. Bader, Lisa A. Bemben, Jan Berka, Michael S. Braverman, Yi-Ju Chen, Zhoutao Chen, Scott B. Dewell, Lei Du, Joseph M. Fierro, Xavier V. Gomes, Brian C. Godwin, Wen He, Scott Helgesen, Chun He Ho, Gerard P. Irzyk, Szilveszter C. Jando, Maria L. I. Alenquer, Thomas P. Jarvie, Kshama B. Jirage, Jong-Bum Kim, James R. Knight, Janna R. Lanza, John H. Leamon, Steven M. Lefkowitz, Ming Lei, Jing Li, Kenton L. Lohman, Hong Lu, Vinod B. Makhijani, Keith E. McDade, Michael P. McKenna, Eugene W. Myers, Elizabeth Nickerson, John R. Nobile, Ramona Plant, Bernard P. Puc, Michael T. Ronan, George T. Roth, Gary J. Sarkis, Jan Fredrik Simons, John W. Simpson, Maithreyan Srinivasan, Karrie R. Tartaro, Alexander Tomasz, Kari A. Vogt, Greg A. Volkmer, Shally H. Wang, Yong Wang, Michael P. Weiner, Pengguang Yu, Richard F. Begley and Jonathan M. Rothberg

doi: 10.1038/nature03959

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Letters

Discovery of a bright quasar without a massive host galaxy p381

Pierre Magain, Géraldine Letawe, Frédéric Courbin, Pascale Jablonka, Knud Jahnke, Georges Meylan and Lutz Wisotzki

doi: 10.1038/nature04013

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Extreme oxygen isotope ratios in the early Solar System p385

Jérôme Aléon, François Robert, Jean Duprat and Sylvie Derenne

doi: 10.1038/nature03947

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Mutual phase-locking of microwave spin torque nano-oscillators p389

Shehzaad Kaka, Matthew R. Pufall, William H. Rippard, Thomas J. Silva, Stephen E. Russek and Jordan A. Katine

doi: 10.1038/nature04035

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Phase-locking in double-point-contact spin-transfer devices p393

F. B. Mancoff, N. D. Rizzo, B. N. Engel and S. Tehrani

doi: 10.1038/nature04036

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Astronomical pacing of methane release in the Early Jurassic period p396

David B. Kemp, Angela L. Coe, Anthony S. Cohen and Lorenz Schwark

doi: 10.1038/nature04037

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River plumes as a source of large-amplitude internal waves in the coastal ocean p400

Jonathan D. Nash and James N. Moum

doi: 10.1038/nature03936

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Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake p404

Marco Cisternas, Brian F. Atwater, Fernando Torrejón, Yuki Sawai, Gonzalo Machuca, Marcelo Lagos, Annaliese Eipert, Cristián Youlton, Ignacio Salgado, Takanobu Kamataki, Masanobu Shishikura, C. P. Rajendran, Javed K. Malik, Yan Rizal and Muhammad Husni

doi: 10.1038/nature03943

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Mate fidelity and intra-lineage polygyny in greater horseshoe bats p408

Stephen J. Rossiter, Roger D. Ransome, Christopher G. Faulkes, Steven C. Le Comber and Gareth Jones

doi: 10.1038/nature03965

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A sensory source for motor variation p412

Leslie C. Osborne, Stephen G. Lisberger and William Bialek

doi: 10.1038/nature03961

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WNT7b mediates macrophage-induced programmed cell death in patterning of the vasculature p417

Ivan B. Lobov, Sujata Rao, Thomas J. Carroll, Jefferson E. Vallance, Masataka Ito, Jennifer K. Ondr, Savita Kurup, Donald A. Glass, Millan S. Patel, Weiguo Shu, Edward E. Morrisey, Andrew P. McMahon, Gerard Karsenty and Richard A. Lang

doi: 10.1038/nature03928

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Membrane vesicles traffic signals and facilitate group activities in a prokaryote p422

Lauren M. Mashburn and Marvin Whiteley

doi: 10.1038/nature03925

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A mechanosensory complex that mediates the endothelial cell response to fluid shear stress p426

Eleni Tzima, Mohamed Irani-Tehrani, William B. Kiosses, Elizabetta Dejana, David A. Schultz, Britta Engelhardt, Gaoyuan Cao, Horace DeLisser and Martin Alexander Schwartz

doi: 10.1038/nature03952

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An essential role for CoREST in nucleosomal histone 3 lysine 4 demethylation p432

Min Gyu Lee, Christopher Wynder, Neil Cooch and Ramin Shiekhattar

doi: 10.1038/nature04021

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LSD1 demethylates repressive histone marks to promote androgen-receptor-dependent transcription p436

Eric Metzger, Melanie Wissmann, Na Yin, Judith M. Müller, Robert Schneider, Antoine H. F. M. Peters, Thomas Günther, Reinhard Buettner and Roland Schüle

doi: 10.1038/nature04020

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Mesoscale conformational changes in the DNA-repair complex Rad50/Mre11/Nbs1 upon binding DNA p440

Fernando Moreno-Herrero, Martijn de Jager, Nynke H. Dekker, Roland Kanaar, Claire Wyman and Cees Dekker

doi: 10.1038/nature03927

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Naturejobs

Time for a change p445

Medical training could use a break with tradition.

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/nj7057-445a

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Small steps towards campus child care p446

For women researchers, child care can be a major obstacle to getting back to the lab. Virginia Gewin looks at the options for working mums.

Virginia Gewin

doi:10.1038/nj7057-446a

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Albert-László Barabási, visiting scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts p448

Mathematician follows networks.

Virginia Gewin

doi:10.1038/nj7057-448a

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Recruiters & Academia: A level playing field p448

Postdoc ponders alternative advancement schemes.

Michael Edel

doi:10.1038/nj7057-448b

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Graduate Journal: The right path p448

Graduate student revisits earlier choices.

Tobias Langenhan

doi:10.1038/nj7057-448c

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Futures

Men sell not such in any town p450

In the realm of the senses.

Nalo Hopkinson

doi: 10.1038/437450a

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