Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

Volume 437 Issue 7060, 6 October 2005

Editorial

  • Naive or not, NASA's next shot at landing on the Moon can succeed only if it is launched as a genuinely international collaboration.

    Editorial

    Advertisement

  • The reputation of one of the world's most respected regulatory agencies is on the wane.

    Editorial
  • The launch of a new Nature journal comes at an exciting time for physics.

    Editorial
Top of page ⤴

Research Highlights

Top of page ⤴

News

Top of page ⤴

News in Brief

Top of page ⤴

News Feature

  • The Arctic is a unique testing ground for studying how birds navigate long distances. Jane Qiu catches up with an expedition to unravel the signals that help birds on their migrations.

    • Jane Qiu
    News Feature
  • The friction that arises when a scientific society aims both to serve its members and stay commercially competitive is generating heat within the American Chemical Society. Emma Marris takes the society's temperature.

    • Emma Marris
    News Feature
  • Thousands of patients are queueing to be treated by Hongyun Huang at his Beijing clinic. But no Western journal editor seems willing to publish his research. David Cyranoski talks to the neurosurgeon whose global reputation among the ailing hasn't swayed his peers.

    • David Cyranoski
    News Feature
Top of page ⤴

Business

  • The commercial practices of some universities are quietly being transformed by an international chess grandmaster, as Jim Giles reports.

    Business
Top of page ⤴

Correspondence

Top of page ⤴

Books & Arts

Top of page ⤴

Essay

  • Sixty years on, Erwin Schrödinger's prediction that quantum mechanics would solve the riddle of how life started has not been fulfilled. But the appeal of using quantum theory to solve the mystery persists.

    • Paul Davies
    Essay
Top of page ⤴

News & Views

  • Many pathogenic bacteria possess a secretion machine that shoots noxious proteins into host cells. But the ammunition is larger than the bore of the bacterial gun, so how is it fed into the machine?

    • Bill Blaylock
    • Olaf Schneewind
    News & Views
  • Measurements of the X-ray afterglow of long γ-ray bursts largely clarified the origin of these bright flashes of cosmic radiation. Their shorter-lived siblings are now beginning to divulge their secrets, too.

    • Luigi Piro
    News & Views
  • A fungus and a bacterium have been found in a symbiotic alliance that attacks rice plants. Rice feeds more people than any other crop, but the significance of this finding extends beyond its potential agricultural use.

    • Ian R. Sanders
    News & Views
  • Two-dimensional polymers are potentially useful structures — if we could only understand their properties. Observations of one polymer's intricate, two-stage, melting transition may help us do just that.

    • Edward J. Kramer
    News & Views
  • Earth's oxygen levels increased slowly over a long and ill-defined transitional period around two billion years ago. A microbial ‘footprint’ from this era provides biological evidence to complement existing geological data.

    • David J. Des Marais
    News & Views
Top of page ⤴

Brief Communication

Top of page ⤴

Article

Top of page ⤴

Letter

Top of page ⤴

Erratum

Top of page ⤴

Prospects

  • Despite some programmes, minorities in US science remain under-represented

    • Paul Smaglik
    Prospects
Top of page ⤴

Postdocs and Students

  • Moving research quickly forward to publication tops the pre-tenure 'to do' list. Kendall Powell ticks off project management tips.

    • Kendall Powell
    Postdocs and Students
Top of page ⤴

Movers

Top of page ⤴

Career View

  • Multitasking can lead to alternative career paths

    • Santa Jeremy Ono
    Career View
Top of page ⤴

Graduate Journal

  • Taking a break, setting priorities

    • Tobias Langenhan
    Graduate Journal
Top of page ⤴

Futures

Top of page ⤴

Authors

Top of page ⤴
Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing

Search

Quick links