Table of contents
Volume 437 Number 7060 pp789-926
In this issue (6 October 2005)
Also this week
Editorials
Reaching for the Moon p789
Naive or not, NASA's next shot at landing on the Moon can succeed only if it is launched as a genuinely international collaboration.
doi: 10.1038/437789a
In need of rehab p789
The reputation of one of the world's most respected regulatory agencies is on the wane.
doi: 10.1038/437789b
Welcome Nature Physics p790
The launch of a new Nature journal comes at an exciting time for physics.
doi: 10.1038/437790a
News
The 1918 flu virus is resurrected p794
The recreation of one of the deadliest diseases known could help us to prevent another pandemic. Or it might trigger one, say critics. Andreas von Bubnoff investigates whether the benefits outweigh the risks.
doi: 10.1038/437794a
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Sidelines p796
doi: 10.1038/437796a
Japan jumps towards personalized medicine p796
Desktop-device uses advanced DNA chip to analyse patient's blood.
David Cyranoski
doi: 10.1038/437796b
Q marks the spot as ancient sculptures yield their origins p797
Hopes raised that discovery will save Mayan site from local destruction.
Alexandra Witze
doi: 10.1038/437797a
Electric current captures top sperm p799
Technique leads to birth of healthy baby after other methods fail.
Carina Dennis
doi: 10.1038/437799a
Australia mooted as dump for world's nuclear waste p799
Former prime minister suggests uranium by-products could subsidize environmental projects.
Carina Dennis
doi: 10.1038/437799b
Physics prize puts spotlight on optics p800
Understanding quantum nature of light led to breakthroughs.
Jim Giles
doi: 10.1038/437800a
California prepares to roll out stem-cell funding p800
Cash may soon be flowing despite legal challenges.
Rex Dalton
doi: 10.1038/437800b
Gut feeling secures medical Nobel for Australian doctors p801
Microbiologists win for proving link between bacteria and stomach ulcers.
Alison Abbott
doi: 10.1038/437801a
News in brief p802
doi: 10.1038/437802a
News in Brief: Correction p803
doi: 10.1038/437803a
News in Brief: Clarification p803
doi: 10.1038/437803b
News Features
Ornithology: Flight of the navigators p804
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.
doi: 10.1038/437804a
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American Chemical Society: Chemical reaction p807
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.
doi: 10.1038/437807a
Fetal-cell therapy: Paper chase p810
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.
doi: 10.1038/437810a
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Business
Innovation endgame p813
The commercial practices of some universities are quietly being transformed by an international chess grandmaster, as Jim Giles reports.
doi: 10.1038/437813a
Correspondence
Media should campaign on the basis of facts p814
Robert May
doi: 10.1038/437814a
No evidence for Croatian race claims p814
Dragan Primorac
doi: 10.1038/437814b
Katrina: don't blame the Bush administration p814
Stephen F. Larner
doi: 10.1038/437814c
Katrina revealed need for reform. Let's not forget it p814
Alison Chaiken
doi: 10.1038/437814d
Books and Arts
A secular religion p815
Should evolutionism be viewed as a modified descendant of Christianity?
John Hedley Brooke reviews The Evolution−Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse
doi: 10.1038/437815a
The rise of the computer p816
Anthony Ralston reviews Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age by Mike Hally
doi: 10.1038/437816a
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Exhibition: Lighting up the background p817
doi: 10.1038/437817a
A philosopher's vision p817
Richard L. Gregory reviews Action in Perception by Alva Noë
doi: 10.1038/437817b
Essay
A quantum recipe for life p819
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
doi: 10.1038/437819a
News and Views
Microbiology: Loading the type III cannon p821
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 and Olaf Schneewind
doi: 10.1038/437821a
Astrophysics: Short-burst sources p822
Measurements of the X-ray afterglow of long 
-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
doi: 10.1038/437822a
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Microbiology: Conspirators in blight p823
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
doi: 10.1038/437823a
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50 & 100 years ago p824
doi: 10.1038/437824a
Condensed-matter physics: Melted by mistakes p824
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
doi: 10.1038/437824b
Ecology: Stars beneath the waves p826
David W. Sims
doi: 10.1038/437826a
Palaeobiology: Sea change in sediments p826
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
doi: 10.1038/437826b
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Obituary: Hermann Bondi (1919−2005) p828
Mathematician, cosmologist and public servant.
Leon Mestel
doi: 10.1038/437828a
Brief Communications
Entomology: Asian honeybees parasitize the future dead p829
When a queen dies, unrelated workers seize the chance to move into her nest and lay their own eggs.
Piyamas Nanork, Jürgen Paar, Nadine C. Chapman, Siriwat Wongsiri and Benjamin P. Oldroyd
doi: 10.1038/437829a
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Seismology: Dynamic triggering of earthquakes p830
Joan Gomberg and Paul Johnson
doi: 10.1038/437830a
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Articles
Structure of the CED-4−CED-9 complex provides insights into programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans p831
Nieng Yan, Jijie Chai, Eui Seung Lee, Lichuan Gu, Qun Liu, Jiaqing He, Jia-Wei Wu, David Kokel, Huilin Li, Quan Hao, Ding Xue and Yigong Shi
doi: 10.1038/nature04002
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Structural insight into antibiotic fosfomycin biosynthesis by a mononuclear iron enzyme p838
Luke J. Higgins, Feng Yan, Pinghua Liu, Hung-wen Liu and Catherine L. Drennan
doi: 10.1038/nature03924
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The afterglow of GRB 050709 and the nature of the short-hard 
-ray bursts p845
D. B. Fox, D. A. Frail, P. A. Price, S. R. Kulkarni, E. Berger, T. Piran, A. M. Soderberg, S. B. Cenko, P. B. Cameron, A. Gal-Yam, M. M. Kasliwal, D.-S. Moon, F. A. Harrison, E. Nakar, B. P. Schmidt, B. Penprase, R. A. Chevalier, P. Kumar, K. Roth, D. Watson, B. L. Lee, S. Shectman, M. M. Phillips, M. Roth, P. J. McCarthy, M. Rauch, L. Cowie, B. A. Peterson, J. Rich, N. Kawai, K. Aoki, G. Kosugi, T. Totani, H.-S. Park, A. MacFadyen and K. C. Hurley
doi: 10.1038/nature04189
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Letters
A short -ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225 p851
N. Gehrels, C. L. Sarazin, P. T. O'Brien, B. Zhang, L. Barbier, S. D. Barthelmy, A. Blustin, D. N. Burrows, J. Cannizzo, J. R. Cummings, M. Goad, S. T. Holland, C. P. Hurkett, J. A. Kennea, A. Levan, C. B. Markwardt, K. O. Mason, P. Meszaros, M. Page, D. M. Palmer, E. Rol, T. Sakamoto, R. Willingale, L. Angelini, A. Beardmore, P. T. Boyd, A. Breeveld, S. Campana, M. M. Chester, G. Chincarini, L. R. Cominsky, G. Cusumano, M. de Pasquale, E. E. Fenimore, P. Giommi, C. Gronwall, D. Grupe, J. E. Hill, D. Hinshaw, J. Hjorth, D. Hullinger, K. C. Hurley, S. Klose, S. Kobayashi, C. Kouveliotou, H. A. Krimm, V. Mangano, F. E. Marshall, K. McGowan, A. Moretti, R. F. Mushotzky, K. Nakazawa, J. P. Norris, J. A. Nousek, J. P. Osborne, K. Page, A. M. Parsons, S. Patel, M. Perri, T. Poole, P. Romano, P. W. A. Roming, S. Rosen, G. Sato, P. Schady, A. P. Smale, J. Sollerman, R. Starling, M. Still, M. Suzuki, G. Tagliaferri, T. Takahashi, M. Tashiro, J. Tueller, A. A. Wells, N. E. White and R. A. M. J. Wijers
doi: 10.1038/nature04142
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Discovery of the short 
-ray burst GRB 050709 p855
J. S. Villasenor, D. Q. Lamb, G. R. Ricker, J.-L. Atteia, N. Kawai, N. Butler, Y. Nakagawa, J. G. Jernigan, M. Boer, G. B. Crew, T. Q. Donaghy, J. Doty, E. E. Fenimore, M. Galassi, C. Graziani, K. Hurley, A. Levine, F. Martel, M. Matsuoka, J.-F. Olive, G. Prigozhin, T. Sakamoto, Y. Shirasaki, M. Suzuki, T. Tamagawa, R. Vanderspek, S. E. Woosley, A. Yoshida, J. Braga, R. Manchanda, G. Pizzichini, K. Takagishi and M. Yamauchi
doi: 10.1038/nature04213
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The optical afterglow of the short -ray burst GRB 050709 p859
Jens Hjorth, Darach Watson, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Paul A. Price, Brian L. Jensen, Uffe G. Jørgensen, Daniel Kubas, Javier Gorosabel, Páll Jakobsson, Jesper Sollerman, Kristian Pedersen and Chryssa Kouveliotou
doi: 10.1038/nature04174
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Microscopic artificial swimmers p862
Rémi Dreyfus, Jean Baudry, Marcus L. Roper, Marc Fermigier, Howard A. Stone and Jérôme Bibette
doi: 10.1038/nature04090
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Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea p866
Jochen J. Brocks, Gordon D. Love, Roger E. Summons, Andrew H. Knoll, Graham A. Logan and Stephen A. Bowden
doi: 10.1038/nature04068
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Nonlinear dynamics, granular media and dynamic earthquake triggering p871
Paul A. Johnson and Xiaoping Jia
doi: 10.1038/nature04015
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Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China p875
Xiaolin Wang, Alexander W. A. Kellner, Zhonghe Zhou and Diogenes de Almeida Campos
doi: 10.1038/nature03982
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Trophic cascades across ecosystems p880
Tiffany M. Knight, Michael W. McCoy, Jonathan M. Chase, Krista A. McCoy and Robert D. Holt
doi: 10.1038/nature03962
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Pathogenic fungus harbours endosymbiotic bacteria for toxin production p884
Laila P. Partida-Martinez and Christian Hertweck
doi: 10.1038/nature03997
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Characterization of the 1918 influenza virus polymerase genes p889
Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Ann H. Reid, Raina M. Lourens, Ruixue Wang, Guozhong Jin and Thomas G. Fanning
doi: 10.1038/nature04230
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In vivo analysis of quiescent adult neural stem cells responding to Sonic hedgehog p894
Sohyun Ahn and Alexandra L. Joyner
doi: 10.1038/nature03994
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Sex-specific peptides from exocrine glands stimulate mouse vomeronasal sensory neurons p898
Hiroko Kimoto, Sachiko Haga, Koji Sato and Kazushige Touhara
doi: 10.1038/nature04033
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STIM1 is a Ca2+ sensor that activates CRAC channels and migrates from the Ca2+ store to the plasma membrane p902
Shenyuan L. Zhang, Ying Yu, Jack Roos, J. Ashot Kozak, Thomas J. Deerinck, Mark H. Ellisman, Kenneth A. Stauderman and Michael D. Cahalan
doi: 10.1038/nature04147
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Apolipoprotein-mediated pathways of lipid antigen presentation p906
Peter van den Elzen, Salil Garg, Luis León, Manfred Brigl, Elizabeth A. Leadbetter, Jenny E. Gumperz, Chris C. Dascher, Tan-Yun Cheng, Frank M. Sacks, Petr A. Illarionov, Gurdyal S. Besra, Sally C. Kent, D. Branch Moody and Michael B. Brenner
doi: 10.1038/nature04001
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Chaperone release and unfolding of substrates in type III secretion p911
Yukihiro Akeda and Jorge E. Galán
doi: 10.1038/nature03992
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Direct observation of steps in rotation of the bacterial flagellar motor p916
Yoshiyuki Sowa, Alexander D. Rowe, Mark C. Leake, Toshiharu Yakushi, Michio Homma, Akihiko Ishijima and Richard M. Berry
doi: 10.1038/nature04003
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Erratum: Deficiency of glutaredoxin 5 reveals Fe−S clusters are required for vertebrate haem synthesis p920
Rebecca A. Wingert, Jenna L. Galloway, Bruce Barut, Helen Foott, Paula Fraenkel, Jennifer L. Axe, Gerhard J. Weber, Kimberly Dooley, Alan J. Davidson, Bettina Schmid, Barry H. Paw, George C. Shaw, Paul Kingsley, James Palis, Heidi Schubert, Opal Chen, Jerry Kaplan, The Tübingen 2000 Screen Consortium and Leonard I. Zon
doi: 10.1038/nature04218
Naturejobs
ProspectOut in the cold p921
Despite some programmes, minorities in US science remain under-represented
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7060-921a
Postdocs and Students
To do today p922
Moving research quickly forward to publication tops the pre-tenure 'to do' list. Kendall Powell ticks off project management tips.
Kendall Powell
doi:10.1038/nj7060-922a
Career Views
Geoffrey West, president, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico p924
Theoretical physicist aims to create ideal interdisciplinary environment
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7060-924a
Recruiters & Academia p924
Multitasking can lead to alternative career paths
Santa Jeremy Ono
doi:10.1038/nj7060-924b
Graduate Journal: A time to reconnect p924
Taking a break, setting priorities
Tobias Langenhan
doi:10.1038/nj7060-924c
Highlights
Special Feature: Life in the NIH Intramural Research Program: Great Colleagues, Grand Possibilities, Cutting Edge Technology
doi:10.1038/nj0098
Futures
Sandcastles: a dystopia p926
Caught up in a storm.
Kathryn Cramer
doi: 10.1038/437926a