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Volume 445 Issue 7125, 18 January 2007

Editorial

  • The primary safeguard against scientific misconduct is the example set every day by thousands of senior researchers in the laboratory.

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  • Funding agencies face conflicting challenges in supporting the databases essential to modern biology.

    Editorial
  • A fresh perspective on science and politics.

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Research Highlights

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News

  • The legal quagmire, strain and bad press of misconduct investigations leave many universities tempted to ignore misconduct allegations. But getting an investigation right can reduce the pain and boost an institution's reputation, says Geoff Brumfiel.

    News
  • Understanding the social and psychological factors behind scientific misconduct will enable bad practice to be minimized, but never eliminated, says Jim Giles.

    News
  • Nature catches up with some past fraud investigations — and finds that, whether researchers are found to be guilty or innocent, the wounds are slow to heal.

    • Lucy Odling-Smee
    • Jim Giles
    • Emma Marris
    News
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News in Brief

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Column

  • With the shift of power in the US Congress comes an chance to re-engage in the debate over climate change. But the process will not be simple, says our new columnist David Goldston.

    • David Goldston
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Business

  • Technology companies across the United States are under investigation for manipulating the timing of their bosses’ stock options. Heidi Ledford reports.

    Business
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News Feature

  • Programming a robot to think like an insect is tough, finds Alison Abbott, but it could help breed machines as manoeuvrable as flies.

    • Alison Abbott
    News Feature
  • Statistics have the power to trip everyone up — including judges and juries. Even when extra care is taken to get the numbers right in court, confusion often reigns. Mark Buchanan reports.

    • Mark Buchanan
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Correspondence

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Commentary

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Books & Arts

  • The most commonly studied social insects are the Hymenoptera, but what about all the rest?

    • Jenai M. Milliser
    • George W. Uetz
    Books & Arts
  • Vija Celmins' graphite and charcoal drawings are inspired by the natural world.

    • Colin Martin
    Books & Arts
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Essay

  • Recent observations of vast numbers of galaxies may pose problems for the galaxy classification scheme proposed by Edwin Hubble.

    • Sidney van den Bergh
    Essay
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News & Views

  • Innate immune defences are our first line of protection against infection by viruses and are essential in limiting viral disease. But their reaction to the 1918 influenza virus could have been deadly.

    • Yueh-Ming Loo
    • Michael Gale Jr
    News & Views
  • The speed record for programming organic transistor memory has been shattered. Work is needed on the stability of the memory storage, but it's a promising step towards some novel technological applications.

    • Gerwin Gelinck
    News & Views
  • The burden of global warming falls most heavily on the developing world. A connection forged between the Indian Ocean climate, Asian monsoons and drought in Indonesia makes for an especially bleak outlook for that nation.

    • Jonathan T. Overpeck
    • Julia E. Cole
    News & Views
  • The size and uniformity of polymer molecules makes it difficult to modify them at just one selected site. But a single chemical group can be attached at the end of a polymer if part of the starting material is forfeited.

    • Sébastien Perrier
    • Xiaosong Wang
    News & Views
  • DNA replication is a necessary prelude to the division of a eukaryotic cell. Initiation of this process requires a complex script, involving many proteins: details of one of the main acts now emerge.

    • Michael Botchan
    News & Views
  • The deepest and clearest maps yet of the Universe's skeleton of dark-matter structure present a picture broadly in concord with favoured models — although puzzling discrepancies remain.

    • Eric V. Linder
    News & Views
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Article

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Letter

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Prospects

  • Perks beyond pay attract researchers to top employers.

    • Paul Smaglik
    Prospects
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Special Report

  • Unlike their US counterparts, European scientists can be forced to retire while they're still productive. But some in Germany are finding ways to go on. Britta Danger reports.

    • Britta Danger
    Special Report
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Recruitment

  • You know what you want from a job. But how do you convince an employer that your skills are relevant?

    • Jens-Peter Mayer
    Recruitment
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Authors

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