Table of contents
Volume 438 Number 7064 pp1-128
In this issue (3 November 2005)
Also this week
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Editorials
Taking a stand on animal-rights violence p1
Governments must not turn a blind eye to intimidation and violence by animal-rights activists. A more resilient approach is needed.
doi: 10.1038/438001a
Turkey's evolution p1
Admission to the European Union can benefit Turkish science.
doi: 10.1038/438001b
Clamp down on copycats p2
Plagiarism is on the rise, thanks to the Internet. Universities and journals need to take action.
doi: 10.1038/438002a
News
Wartime tactic doubles power of scarce bird-flu drug p6
Use of common drug could stretch world stocks of Tamiflu.
Declan Butler
doi: 10.1038/438006a
Drug firms donate compounds for anti-HIV gel p6
Promising results raise hopes in the battle against AIDS.
Narelle Towie
doi: 10.1038/438006b
Universities scramble to assess scope of falsified results p7
MIT immunologist sacked for scientific misconduct.
Rex Dalton
doi: 10.1038/438007a
Sidelines p8
doi: 10.1038/438008a
Protists push animals aside in rule revamp p8
Redefined kingdoms give centre stage to single-celled organisms.
Tom Simonite
doi: 10.1038/438008b
Turkish rectors rally in support of university head thrown in jail p8
Dispute highlights tension between academic system and religion.
Alison Abbott
doi: 10.1038/438008c
Floods fail to save canyon beaches p10
River ecosystem might never return to normal.
Rex Dalton
doi: 10.1038/438010a
Expert witness: the scientists who testified against intelligent design p11
Researchers tell the tale of defending Darwin in the dock.
doi: 10.1038/438011a
Gene study raises fears for three-parent babies p12
Concern grows over mixing of mitochondrial DNA during assisted reproduction.
Erika Check
doi: 10.1038/438012a
News Features
Evolutionary theory: Personal effects p14
Living things from bacteria to humans change their environment, but the consequences for evolution and ecology are only now being understood, or so the 'niche constructivists' claim. Dan Jones investigates.
doi: 10.1038/438014a
Star of the south p18
This month South Africa will officially open the largest optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. But is the country ready to capitalize on its investment? Michael Cherry investigates.
doi: 10.1038/438018a
Meteorology: Winds of change p21
Hurricanes can grow more intense in a matter of hours, but exactly why remains a mystery. Mark Schrope flies into the eye of a storm to investigate.
doi: 10.1038/438021a
See also: Editor's summary
Business
Race is on for flu vaccine p23
Drug companies are using adjuvants to boost their vaccines in a bid to be ready for a flu pandemic, as Meredith Wadman reports.
Meredith Wadman
doi: 10.1038/438023a
Correspondence
UK must go on promoting and funding science p24
David A. King
doi: 10.1038/438024a
Universal fungus register offers pattern for zoology p24
David L. Hawksworth
doi: 10.1038/438024b
Mapping the complexities of science and politics p24
Ying-Hen Hsieh
doi: 10.1038/438024c
Books and Arts
Scientists on screen p25
Does Hollywood think we're all dangerous megalomaniacs with crazy hair?
Adam Rutherford reviews Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Scientist and the Cinema by Christopher Frayling
doi: 10.1038/438025a
Return to the fortress p26
Michael Fitzpatrick reviews The Science and Fiction of Autism by Laura Schreibman
doi: 10.1038/438026a
Green in tooth and claw p27
Peter D. Moore reviews Demons in Eden: The Paradox of Plant Diversity by Jonathan Silvertown
doi: 10.1038/438027a
Exhibition: In the croak room p27
doi: 10.1038/438027b
Essay
ConceptWit and wisdom p29
From pioneering xerographer to innovative teacher, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a physicist with many skills, but perhaps most remembered will be his acerbic aphorisms.
John L. Heilbron
doi: 10.1038/438029a
News and Views
Intelligence: A gender bender p31
The conclusion of a number-crunching exercise on various data sets is that male university students have significantly higher IQs than their female counterparts. But the methodology used is deeply flawed.
Steve Blinkhorn
doi: 10.1038/438031a
Astronomy: Light on a dark place p32
The sharpest images ever taken of matter around the probable black hole at the centre of our Galaxy bring us within grasp of a crucial test of general relativity — a picture of the black hole's 'point of no return'.
Christopher Reynolds
doi: 10.1038/438032a
See also: Editor's summary
Microbiology: Algae and the vitamin mosaic p33
The requirements for vitamin B12 vary among algal species in a seemingly inexplicable pattern. A study that exploits genomic data now provides enlightenment — and evidence of symbioses with bacteria.
Robert A. Andersen
doi: 10.1038/438033a
See also: Editor's summary
Global change: Sea level and volcanoes p35
Large volcanic eruptions cool the world ocean. In doing so, they temporarily reduce the increase in ocean heat content and the rise in sea level attributed to warming caused by greenhouse-gas emissions.
Anny Cazenave
doi: 10.1038/438035a
See also: Editor's summary
50 & 100 years ago p35
doi: 10.1038/438035b
Structural biology: Proteins flex to function p36
Static pictures of protein structures are so prevalent that it is easy to forget they are dynamic molecular machines. Characterizing their intrinsic motions may be necessary to understand how they work.
Yuanpeng J. Huang and Gaetano T. Montelione
doi: 10.1038/438036a
See also: Editor's summary
Cosmology: The infrared dawn of starlight p39
The modest-sized but successful Spitzer Space Telescope has detected fluctuations in cosmic light at infrared frequencies. Is this the signature of the first population of stars that formed in the Universe?
Richard S. Ellis
doi: 10.1038/438039a
See also: Editor's summary
Chemical biology: Bring them back alive p40
A deep search has turned up an RNA that can carry out the chemically complex 'aldol' reaction involved in sugar metabolism. Could this be similar to an ancestral catalyst that existed billions of years ago?
Michael Yarus
doi: 10.1038/438040a
Correction p40
doi: 10.1038/438040b
Obituary: Richard Doll (1912–2005) p41
Epidemiologist extraordinary.
Leo Kinlen
doi: 10.1038/438041a
Brief Communications
Theoretical mechanics: Crowd synchrony on the Millennium Bridge p43
Footbridges start to sway when packed with pedestrians falling into step with their vibrations.
Steven H. Strogatz, Daniel M. Abrams, Allan McRobie, Bruno Eckhardt and Edward Ott
doi: 10.1038/43843a
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Nanoscale hydrodynamics: Enhanced flow in carbon nanotubes p44
Mainak Majumder, Nitin Chopra, Rodney Andrews and Bruce J. Hinds
doi: 10.1038/43844a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (124K) | Supplementary information
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Brief Communications Arising
Ecology: Is speciation driven by species diversity? pE1
Carlos Daniel Cadena, Robert E. Ricklefs, Iván Jiménez and Eldredge Bermingham
doi: 10.1038/nature04308
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Ecology: Is speciation driven by species diversity? (Reply) pE2
Brent C. Emerson and Niclas Kolm
doi: 10.1038/nature04309
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (119K)
Articles
Tracing the first stars with fluctuations of the cosmic infrared background p45
A. Kashlinsky, R. G. Arendt, J. Mather and S. H. Moseley
doi: 10.1038/nature04143
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (299K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Ellis
Radiocarbon dating of interstratified Neanderthal and early modern human occupations at the Chatelperronian type-site p51
Brad Gravina, Paul Mellars and Christopher Bronk Ramsey
doi: 10.1038/nature04006
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (438K)
See also: Editor's summary
The yeast Pif1p helicase removes telomerase from telomeric DNA p57
Jean-Baptiste Boulé, Leticia R. Vega and Virginia A. Zakian
doi: 10.1038/nature04091
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (408K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary
Letters
A size of 
1 au for the radio source Sgr A* at the centre of the Milky Way p62
Zhi-Qiang Shen, K. Y. Lo, M.-C. Liang, Paul T. P. Ho and J.-H. Zhao
doi: 10.1038/nature04205
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (182K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Reynolds
Active control of slow light on a chip with photonic crystal waveguides p65
Yurii A. Vlasov, Martin O'Boyle, Hendrik F. Hamann and Sharee J. McNab
doi: 10.1038/nature04210
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (405K) | Supplementary information
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Simulating micrometre-scale crystal growth from solution p70
Stefano Piana, Manijeh Reyhani and Julian D. Gale
doi: 10.1038/nature04173
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (383K) | Supplementary information
Significant decadal-scale impact of volcanic eruptions on sea level and ocean heat content p74
John A. Church, Neil J. White and Julie M. Arblaster
doi: 10.1038/nature04237
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (439K)
See also: News and Views by Cazenave
Crustal rheology of the Himalaya and Southern Tibet inferred from magnetotelluric data p78
M. J. Unsworth, A. G. Jones, W. Wei, G. Marquis, S. G. Gokarn, J. E. Spratt and The INDEPTH-MT team
doi: 10.1038/nature04154
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (1,177K) | Supplementary information
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Proteorhodopsin in the ubiquitous marine bacterium SAR11 p82
Stephen J. Giovannoni, Lisa Bibbs, Jang-Cheon Cho, Martha D. Stapels, Russell Desiderio, Kevin L. Vergin, Michael S. Rappé, Samuel Laney, Lawrence J. Wilhelm, H. James Tripp, Eric J. Mathur and Douglas F. Barofsky
doi: 10.1038/nature04032
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (438K) | Supplementary information
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Photosynthesis genes in marine viruses yield proteins during host infection p86
Debbie Lindell, Jacob D. Jaffe, Zackary I. Johnson, George M. Church and Sallie W. Chisholm
doi: 10.1038/nature04111
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (376K) | Supplementary information
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Algae acquire vitamin B12 through a symbiotic relationship with bacteria p90
Martin T. Croft, Andrew D. Lawrence, Evelyne Raux-Deery, Martin J. Warren and Alison G. Smith
doi: 10.1038/nature04056
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (256K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Andersen | Authors
The transcription factor Engrailed-2 guides retinal axons p94
Isabelle Brunet, Christine Weinl, Michael Piper, Alain Trembleau, Michel Volovitch, William Harris, Alain Prochiantz and Christine Holt
doi: 10.1038/nature04110
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Protection of macaques from vaginal SHIV challenge by vaginally delivered inhibitors of virus–cell fusion p99
Ronald S. Veazey, Per Johan Klasse, Susan M. Schader, Qinxue Hu, Thomas J. Ketas, Min Lu, Preston A. Marx, Jason Dufour, Richard J. Colonno, Robin J. Shattock, Martin S. Springer and John P. Moore
doi: 10.1038/nature04055
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A protein interaction network of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum p103
Douglas J. LaCount, Marissa Vignali, Rakesh Chettier, Amit Phansalkar, Russell Bell, Jay R. Hesselberth, Lori W. Schoenfeld, Irene Ota, Sudhir Sahasrabudhe, Cornelia Kurschner, Stanley Fields and Robert E. Hughes
doi: 10.1038/nature04104
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (404K) | Supplementary information
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The Plasmodium protein network diverges from those of other eukaryotes p108
Silpa Suthram, Taylor Sittler and Trey Ideker
doi: 10.1038/nature04135
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A putative stimulatory role for activator turnover in gene expression p113
J. Russell Lipford, Geoffrey T. Smith, Yong Chi and Raymond J. Deshaies
doi: 10.1038/nature04098
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Intrinsic dynamics of an enzyme underlies catalysis p117
Elan Z. Eisenmesser, Oscar Millet, Wladimir Labeikovsky, Dmitry M. Korzhnev, Magnus Wolf-Watz, Daryl A. Bosco, Jack J. Skalicky, Lewis E. Kay and Dorothee Kern
doi: 10.1038/nature04105
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (481K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Huang & Montelione
Erratum: Marine microorganisms and global nutrient cycles p122
Kevin R. Arrigo
doi: 10.1038/nature04265
Corrigendum: Eocene bipolar glaciation associated with global carbon cycle changes p122
Aradhna Tripati, Jan Backman, Henry Elderfield and Patrizia Ferretti
doi: 10.1038/nature04289
Naturejobs
ProspectA transparent process p123
European recruitment would benefit from greater transparency.
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7064-123a
Career Views
Hendricus Hoogenboom, chief scientific officer, Ablynx, Ghent, Belgium p126
Antibody expert pursues nanobiotechnology.
Janet Wright
doi:10.1038/nj7064-126a
Scientists & Societies p126
Dutch postdocs retreat to discuss career development.
Erik van Beers, Anke Klerkx & Andrea Thiele
doi:10.1038/nj7064-126b
Graduate journal: Endurance test p126
Finishing a PhD is like running a marathon.
Anne Margaret Lee
doi:10.1038/nj7064-126c
Spotlight
Spotlight on Italy
doi:10.1038/nj0095
Highlights
Special Feature: Training the Next Generation of Academic Physicians
doi:10.1038/nj0096
