Fossils and astronomy provide clues to why species come and go.
doi:10.1038/7112xiiia
Fossils and astronomy provide clues to why species come and go.
doi:10.1038/7112xiiia
doi:10.1038/7112xiiib
If not a global non-nuclear proliferation regime based on international treaties, then what?
doi:10.1038/443605a
North Korea's nuclear test raises more questions than answers. Despite the small size of the blast, Jim Giles and Geoff Brumfiel get little reassurance from the weapon watchers.
doi:10.1038/443610a
Teaching creationism becomes an election issue in Michigan.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/443615b
doi:10.1038/443616a
Woodpecker research flies away with alternative prize.
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/443616b
The crash of a demonstration train in Germany casts a shadow on magnetic levitation technology. Ned Stafford reports.
doi:10.1038/443621a
What can pirates' journals and centuries-old cookbooks teach modern-day ecologists? Mark Schrope meets the researchers who trawl history books for deeper insights into marine ecosystems.
Mark Schrope
doi:10.1038/443622a
AIDS treatment in South Africa is often a tug-of-war between clinicians and traditional healers. Natasha Bolognesi meets a woman who is uniquely qualified to heal the rift.
Natasha Bolognesi
doi:10.1038/443626a
It started life as an anaesthetic, then became a psychedelic club drug. Now researchers think ketamine could hold the key to understanding and treating depression, says Erika Check.
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/443629a
An intriguing tour around and, especially, up the tree of life.
doi:10.1038/443633a
doi:10.1038/443634a
doi:10.1038/443635a
doi:10.1038/443635b
Mariko Mori's glass sculpture responds to the death of stars.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/443636a
Standard theories tell us that, at some point in the Universe's evolution, free quarks and gluons must have become bound together into the hadronic matter we see today. But was this transition abrupt or smooth?
Frank Wilczek
doi:10.1038/443637a
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The compound eyes of ancestral flies picked up only one picture point in each facet. The evolution of a means to split up the light-sensitive cells increased this number to seven, boosting the eye's resolution greatly.
Kevin Moses
doi:10.1038/nature05209
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doi:10.1038/443639a
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An effective but counter-intuitive trick to obtain highly ordered protein crystals is to 'seed' particles on disordered, porous surfaces. Computer simulations provide an explanation for the success of this strategy.
Daan Frenkel
doi:10.1038/443641a
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The finest scale of blood flow through the brain occurs in capillaries. Suspicions that capillary flow is regulated by cells that put the squeeze on these vessels are now borne out by detailed experiments.
Brian A. MacVicar and Michael W. Salter
doi:10.1038/443642a
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The latest models suggest that atmospheric oxygen could have fluctuated between high and low concentrations once photosynthesis had evolved. But does the geological evidence really support this?
James F. Kasting
doi:10.1038/443643a
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Pike move between two basins of a British lake to maximize their evolutionary fitness. This adaptive behaviour suggests that habitat selection is more significant in population dynamics than was thought.
Douglas W. Morris
doi:10.1038/443645a
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Mitochondria are central to the process of programmed cell death that kills damaged or superfluous cells. Surprisingly, components of the death machinery turn out to be essential for keeping these organelles in shape.
Barbara Conradt
doi:10.1038/443646a
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The rods in salamanders' retinas can co-opt a molecule derived from chlorophyll to detect red light.
T. Isayama, D. Alexeev, C. L. Makino, I. Washington, K. Nakanishi and N. J. Turro
doi:10.1038/443649a
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doi:10.1038/443649b
Mariusz Karbowski, Kristi L. Norris, Megan M. Cleland, Seon-Yong Jeong and Richard J. Youle
doi:10.1038/nature05111
Christian B. F. Andersen, Thomas Becker, Michael Blau, Monika Anand, Mario Halic, Bharvi Balar, Thorsten Mielke, Thomas Boesen, Jan Skov Pedersen, Christian M. T. Spahn, Terri Goss Kinzy, Gregers R. Andersen and Roland Beckmann
doi:10.1038/nature05126
Takao Aoki, Barak Dayan, E. Wilcut, W. P. Bowen, A. S. Parkins, T. J. Kippenberg, K. J. Vahala and H. J. Kimble
doi:10.1038/nature05147
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S. D. Katz
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K. K. Szabó
doi:10.1038/nature05120
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Colin Goldblatt, Timothy M. Lenton and Andrew J. Watson
doi:10.1038/nature05169
Jan A. van Dam, Hayfaa Abdul Aziz, M. Ángeles Álvarez Sierra, Frederik J. Hilgen, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Lucas J. Lourens, Pierre Mein, Albert J. van der Meulen and Pablo Pelaez-Campomanes
doi:10.1038/nature05163
D. T. Haydon, D. A. Randall, L. Matthews, D. L. Knobel, L. A. Tallents, M. B. Gravenor, S. D. Williams, J. P. Pollinger, S. Cleaveland, M. E. J. Woolhouse, C. Sillero-Zubiri, J. Marino, D. W. Macdonald and M. K. Laurenson
doi:10.1038/nature05177
Andrew C. Zelhof, Robert W. Hardy, Ann Becker and Charles S. Zuker
doi:10.1038/nature05128
Claire M. Peppiatt, Clare Howarth, Peter Mobbs and David Attwell
doi:10.1038/nature05193
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Andrés E. Chávez, Joshua H. Singer and Jeffrey S. Diamond
doi:10.1038/nature05123
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Shinsuke Oh-I, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Tetsurou Satoh, Shuichi Okada, Sachika Adachi, Kinji Inoue, Hiroshi Eguchi, Masanori Yamamoto, Toshihiro Imaki, Koushi Hashimoto, Takafumi Tsuchiya, Tsuyoshi Monden, Kazuhiko Horiguchi, Masanobu Yamada and Masatomo Mori
doi:10.1038/nature05162
Ivan Ahel, Ulrich Rass, Sherif F. El-Khamisy, Sachin Katyal, Paula M. Clements, Peter J. McKinnon, Keith W. Caldecott and Stephen C. West
doi:10.1038/nature05164
John P. Reganold, Jerry D. Glover, Preston K. Andrews and Herbert R. Hinman
doi:10.1038/nature05188
Kakoli Mitra, Christiane Schaffitzel, Tanvir Shaikh, Florence Tama, Simon Jenni, Charles L. Brooks, Nenad Ban and Joachim Frank
doi:10.1038/nature05086
Adaptability can trump planning in career considerations.
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7112-719a
New public health challenges for King Holmes at the University of Washington.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7112-720a
Two researchers offer their take on how to succeed as a PhD student.
Sarah Bekessy & Brendan Wintle
doi:10.1038/nj7112-720b
Sometimes dedication in the lab leaves little time for personal relationships.
Mhairi Dupré
doi:10.1038/nj7112-720c
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