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doi:10.1038/nature05417
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Volume 444 Number 7118 ppE6-518
In this issue (23 November 2006)
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Astrochemistry: Complex organic matter in Titan's aerosols? pE6
Astrochemistry: Complex organic matter in Titan's aerosols? (Reply) pE6
G. Israël, C. Szopa, F. Raulin, M. Cabane, H. B. Niemann, S. K. Atreya, S. J. Bauer, J.-F. Brun, E. Chassefière, P. Coll, E. Condé, D. Coscia, A. Hauchecorne, P. Millian, M. J. Nguyen, T. Owen, W. Riedler, R. E. Samuelson, J.-M. Siguier, M. Steller, R. Sternberg and C. Vidal-Madjar
doi:10.1038/nature05418
Corrigendum pE8
Making the paper: Len Pennacchio pxi
A brute-force approach uncovers elusive gene regulatory sequences.
doi:10.1038/7118xia
Abstractions pxi
doi:10.1038/7118xib
Key contributors pxi
doi:10.1038/7118xic
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Editorials
French science after Chirac p401
Presidential elections next spring are set to lend fresh impetus to research reform in France.
doi:10.1038/444401a
Smiles all round p401
A fresh start for Japan p402
Japan has a new prime minister, a new science adviser, and a chance to change its science policy.
doi:10.1038/444402a
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News
Special reportAnti-evolutionists raise their profile in Europe p406
The teaching of alternative theories to evolution in schools is not just an issue in the United States. Almut Graebsch and Quirin Schiermeier assess whether creationism is threatening science in Europe.
doi:10.1038/444406a
Q&A Peter Korevaar p407
Peter Korevaar is head of the physics and cosmology working group of Germany's Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen, one of the largest creationist groups in Europe. He holds a PhD in astrophysics and now works at IBM in Mannheim. Quirin Schiermeier asks him about his group's aims.
doi:10.1038/444407a
Tragedy increases woes of US ice fleet p408
Italian government eases in radical reforms p408
Changes to science policy get warm reception despite budget worries.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/444408b
Britain plans tough limits to curb emissions p409
Ambitious targets seek to tackle climate change.
Michael Hopkin
doi:10.1038/444409a
Aboriginal remains head for home p411
Sidelines p412
doi:10.1038/444412a
Universities urged to do more for poor nations p412
Fruits of research should be made available to developing world, say critics.
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/444412b
Snapshot: A night out in the park p413
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Business
Nuclear's core business p415
The job of cleaning up Britain's nuclear plants is up for auction — so who might profit from the newly privatized industry? Andrea Chipman reports.
doi:10.1038/444415a
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News Features
Science in Africa: Conscious of change p416
Khotso Mokhele, formerly in charge of developing research in South Africa, talks to Michael Cherry about the role that science is playing in the nation's development.
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/444416a
Well-being research: A measure of happiness p418
Philosophers since Aristotle have puzzled over the meaning of happiness. Tony Reichhardt asks what scientists, psychologists and economists can bring to the topic. Are we any closer to being able to quantify joy?
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/444418a
Ecology: Spying on nature p420
The biggest project in the history of ecology is nearing its dawn. Can its organizers pull off the seemingly impossible and unite a disparate field behind its vision to observe the ecosystems of the United States? Michael Hopkin reports.
Michael Hopkin
doi:10.1038/444420a
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Correspondence
The science community must unite over Iraq p422
German societies want to keep an international voice p422
Imagine projects with a strong emotional appeal p422
Religious authorities overrule scientists in Iran p422
One small point p422
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Books and Arts
Life in the universal porridge p423
What were the chances that the conditions in the Universe would be just right for life?
doi:10.1038/444423a
A giant leap? p424
doi:10.1038/444424a
Healthy fats p425
doi:10.1038/444425a
Learning from nature p425
doi:10.1038/444425b
Science in culture: Burning Bush p426
An exhibition in Australia highlights the country's bushfires.
Colin Martin
doi:10.1038/444426a
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News and Views
固体物理学：スーパーシリコン
Solid-state physics: Super silicon p427
Silicon is the archetypal semiconductor, and base material of the microelectronic age. But it turns out that, treated the right way, silicon the semiconductor can become silicon the superconductor.
Robert J. Cava
doi:10.1038/444427a
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ヒトゲノミクス：正常の範囲を探る
Human genomics: In search of normality p428
The first map of copy-number variation in the human genome has been created. It is now feasible to examine the role of such genome variation in disease and to explore in depth the extent of 'normal' variability.
Kevin V. Shianna and Huntington F. Willard
doi:10.1038/444428a
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細胞生物学：感染性のアルツハイマー病？
Cell biology: Infectious Alzheimer's disease? p429
Accumulation of organized, self-polymerizing protein aggregates is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and infectious prion diseases. The similarities between these conditions may be even closer than that.
Roland Riek
doi:10.1038/444429a
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分光学：分子の動きを撮影する
Spectroscopy: Molecular motion pictures p431
Molecules in solution change their conformations so quickly that no method has been able to record the process. This looks set to change, as infrared spectroscopy rises to the challenge.
Minhaeng Cho
doi:10.1038/444431a
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医学：割球と幹細胞
Medicine: Blastomeres and stem cells p432
Generating human stem cells from a single cell recovered during preimplantation genetic diagnosis does not, in principle, harm the embryo. Can the approach be used in assisted reproductive technology programmes?
Joe Leigh Simpson
doi:10.1038/444432a
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50 & 100 Years Ago p432
doi:10.1038/444432b
分子生物学：トリガー因子の働きをみる
Molecular biology: Triggering positive competition p435
In most bacteria, a molecule known as trigger factor prevents misfolding of newly made proteins emerging from their ribosome factory. The dynamic action of this molecule has been followed using fluorescence spectroscopy.
Ada Yonath
doi:10.1038/444435a
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Correction p436
doi:10.1038/444436a
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Brief Communications
Mullite and the mystery of Hessian wares p437
Crucibles popular in the Middle Ages owed their success to an ingredient used in modern ceramics.
Marcos Martinón-Torres, Thilo Rehren and Ian C. Freestone
doi:10.1038/444437a
Synaesthesia: The taste of words on the tip of the tongue p438
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Articles
地球：2004〜05年のセントへレンズ火山で起こった地震発生性の火山噴出の力学的性質
Dynamics of seismogenic volcanic extrusion at Mount St Helens in 2004–05 p439
Richard M. Iverson, Daniel Dzurisin, Cynthia A. Gardner, Terrence M. Gerlach, Richard G. LaHusen, Michael Lisowski, Jon J. Major, Stephen D. Malone, James A. Messerich, Seth C. Moran, John S. Pallister, Anthony I. Qamar, Steven P. Schilling and James W. Vallance
doi:10.1038/nature05322
遺伝：ヒトゲノムコピー数多型の全容
Global variation in copy number in the human genome p444
Richard Redon, Shumpei Ishikawa, Karen R. Fitch, Lars Feuk, George H. Perry, T. Daniel Andrews, Heike Fiegler, Michael H. Shapero, Andrew R. Carson, Wenwei Chen, Eun Kyung Cho, Stephanie Dallaire, Jennifer L. Freeman, Juan R. González, Mònica Gratacòs, Jing Huang, Dimitrios Kalaitzopoulos, Daisuke Komura, Jeffrey R. MacDonald, Christian R. Marshall, Rui Mei, Lyndal Montgomery, Kunihiro Nishimura, Kohji Okamura, Fan Shen, Martin J. Somerville, Joelle Tchinda, Armand Valsesia, Cara Woodwark, Fengtang Yang, Junjun Zhang, Tatiana Zerjal, Jane Zhang, Lluis Armengol, Donald F. Conrad, Xavier Estivill, Chris Tyler-Smith, Nigel P. Carter, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Charles Lee, Keith W. Jones, Stephen W. Scherer and Matthew E. Hurles
doi:10.1038/nature05329
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細胞：翻訳中のリボソームにおけるトリガー因子の機能のリアルタイム観察
Real-time observation of trigger factor function on translating ribosomes p455
Christian M. Kaiser, Hung-Chun Chang, Vishwas R. Agashe, Sathish K. Lakshmipathy, Stephanie A. Etchells, Manajit Hayer-Hartl, F. Ulrich Hartl and José M. Barral
doi:10.1038/nature05225
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Watching hydrogen-bond dynamics in a
Letters
材料：交番磁場の短いバーストを用いた励起による磁気ボルテックスコアの反転
Magnetic vortex core reversal by excitation with short bursts of an alternating field p461
B. Van Waeyenberge, A. Puzic, H. Stoll, K. W. Chou, T. Tyliszczak, R. Hertel, M. Fähnle, H. Brückl, K. Rott, G. Reiss, I. Neudecker, D. Weiss, C. H. Back and G. Schütz
doi:10.1038/nature05240
材料：ドープされた立方晶シリコンにおける超伝導
Superconductivity in doped cubic silicon p465
E. Bustarret,
C. Marcenat,
P. Achatz,
J. Ka
marik,
F. Lévy,
A. Huxley,
L. Ortéga,
E. Bourgeois,
X. Blase,
D. Débarre
and
J. Boulmer
doi:10.1038/nature05340
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生物物理：βターン中の水素結合の動態を過渡2次元赤外分光法で観察
Watching hydrogen-bond dynamics in a 
-turn by transient two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy p469
Christoph Kolano, Jan Helbing, Mariusz Kozinski, Wolfram Sander and Peter Hamm
doi:10.1038/nature05352
地球：台湾チェルンプ断層掘削で明らかにされた大地震のすべり帯のエネルギー散逸
Slip zone and energetics of a large earthquake from the Taiwan Chelungpu-fault Drilling Project p473
Kuo-Fong Ma, Hidemi Tanaka, Sheng-Rong Song, Chien-Ying Wang, Jih-Hao Hung, Yi-Ben Tsai, Jim Mori, Yen-Fang Song, Eh-Chao Yeh, Wonn Soh, Hiroki Sone, Li-Wei Kuo and Hung-Yu Wu
doi:10.1038/nature05253
生態：大規模な流体力学的撹乱がサンゴ礁に与える生態学的影響
Ecological consequences of major hydrodynamic disturbances on coral reefs p477
Joshua S. Madin and Sean R. Connolly
doi:10.1038/nature05328
細胞：単一割球に由来するヒト胚性幹細胞株
Human embryonic stem cell lines derived from single blastomeres p481
Irina Klimanskaya, Young Chung, Sandy Becker, Shi-Jiang Lu and Robert Lanza
doi:10.1038/nature05142
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細胞：内在性の神経ステロイドは2つの別々の膜貫通部位を介してGABAA受容体を調節する
Endogenous neurosteroids regulate GABAA receptors through two discrete transmembrane sites p486
Alastair M. Hosie, Megan E. Wilkins, Helena M. A. da Silva and Trevor G. Smart
doi:10.1038/nature05324
植物：ヒナゲシの自家不和合性は花粉の可溶性無機ピロホスファターゼを標的としている
Self-incompatibility in Papaver targets soluble inorganic pyrophosphatases in pollen p490
Barend H. J. de Graaf, Jason J. Rudd, Michael J. Wheeler, Ruth M. Perry, Elizabeth M. Bell, Kim Osman, F. Christopher H. Franklin and Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong
doi:10.1038/nature05311
細胞：Poloキナーゼは、コアクチベータータンパク質を標的とすることによって細胞周期に依存した転写を制御する
Polo kinase controls cell-cycle-dependent transcription by targeting a coactivator protein p494
Zoulfia Darieva, Richard Bulmer, Aline Pic-Taylor, Kathryn S. Doris, Marco Geymonat, Steven G. Sedgwick, Brian A. Morgan and Andrew D. Sharrocks
doi:10.1038/nature05339
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遺伝：保存されたヒトの非コード配列についてのin vivoでのエンハンサー分析
In vivo enhancer analysis of human conserved non-coding sequences p499
Len A. Pennacchio, Nadav Ahituv, Alan M. Moses, Shyam Prabhakar, Marcelo A. Nobrega, Malak Shoukry, Simon Minovitsky, Inna Dubchak, Amy Holt, Keith D. Lewis, Ingrid Plajzer-Frick, Jennifer Akiyama, Sarah De Val, Veena Afzal, Brian L. Black, Olivier Couronne, Michael B. Eisen, Axel Visel and Edward M. Rubin
doi:10.1038/nature05295
細胞：翻訳中のリボソームに結合した大腸菌E. coliシグナル認識粒子の構造
Structure of the E. coli signal recognition particle bound to a translating ribosome p503
Christiane Schaffitzel, Miro Oswald, Imre Berger, Takashi Ishikawa, Jan Pieter Abrahams, Henk K. Koerten, Roman I. Koning and Nenad Ban
doi:10.1038/nature05182
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細胞：リボソームのトンネル出口からシグナル認識粒子までのシグナル配列の動きを追跡
Following the signal sequence from ribosomal tunnel exit to signal recognition particle p507
Mario Halic, Michael Blau, Thomas Becker, Thorsten Mielke, Martin R. Pool, Klemens Wild, Irmgard Sinning and Roland Beckmann
doi:10.1038/nature05326
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Addendum
Human embryonic stem cell lines derived from single blastomeres p512
Irina Klimanskaya, Young Chung, Sandy Becker, Shi-Jiang Lu and Robert Lanza
doi:10.1038/nature05366
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Erratum
Eastern Pacific cooling and Atlantic overturning circulation during the last deglaciation p512
Markus Kienast, Stephanie S. Kienast, Stephen E. Calvert, Timothy I. Eglinton, Gesine Mollenhauer, Roger François and Alan C. Mix
doi:10.1038/nature05377
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Corrigenda
Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera p512
Potential of stem-cell-based therapies for heart disease p512
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Special Report
Career Views
Highlights
Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p513
Funding initiative offers boost for young scientists in Germany.
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj7118-513a
Special Report
Small talk p514
Nanobiotechnology is a growing field, but will it emulate the biotech boom? Virginia Gewin investigates.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7118-514a
Career Views
Robert Huber, professor, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK p516
Robert Huber continues to help advance structural biology.
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/nj7118-516a
Unhealthy choices p516
Monya Baker
doi:10.1038/nj7118-516b
Roller hockey or science? p516
Sometimes I wonder what I'd do instead of science.
Milan de Vries
doi:10.1038/nj7118-516c
Highlights
Highlight: Germany's Excellence Initiative
doi:10.1038/nj0134
