How an e-mail got a structural biologist hooked on plants.
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Making the paper: Ning Zheng pxiii
Abstractions pxiii
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Key insight pxiii
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Editorials
Museums need two cultures p583
The resignation of the head of the Smithsonian Institution highlights a misguided tendency for museums to focus on communication at the expense of research. It also offers the chance of a fresh start.
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Timber and tapirs p583
A biodiversity conservation project needs support, a watchful eye, and maybe even a long-snouted ally.
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South Africa's mentors p584
Announcing this year's Nature awards for scientific mentoring.
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News
Proteins make light work of nerve control p588
Simple switch promises revolution in neuroscience.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/446588a
Car emissions are EPA's problem p589
Supreme Court affirms that greenhouse gases fall under the Clean Air Act.
Emma Marris
doi:10.1038/446589a
China plans to modernize traditional medicine p590
Government initiative aims to meet scientific standards.
Jane Qiu
doi:10.1038/446590a
Sidelines p591
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Joan of Arc's relics exposed as forgery p593
Perfume experts help unmask remains as Egyptian mummy.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/446593a
Smithsonian looks beyond ousted boss p594
Snapshot: Over the Moon p595
Galileo's lunar sketches are brought to light.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/443894b
News in brief p596
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Clarification p597
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Business
China's deadly drug problem p598
The head of China's drug-safety agency is under investigation for alleged corruption. David Cyranoski looks at how the inquiry might affect the country's fast-growing pharmaceutical industry.
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In brief p599
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Market watch p599
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News Features
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away p600
Vast stellar nurseries, clouds that dwarf the Solar System and lurking swarms of black holes. Jeff Kanipe probes the unfolding mysteries at the heart of the Milky Way.
Jeff Kanipe
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Endangered collections p605
Philadelphia's venerable natural history museum is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. A new president recently took the helm, but can he save one of America's great institutions? Rex Dalton reports.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/446605a
Biodiversity: Logging: the new conservation p608
Can a vast monoculture plantation be at the forefront of biodiversity protection? David Cyranoski meets conservation biologists who hope to save species by making peace with the enemy.
David Cyranoski
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Correspondence
Follow Thompson's map to turn biology from a science into a Science p611
Authors defend study that shows high Iraqi death toll p611
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Books and Arts
Avoiding system failure p613
An upgraded version of capitalism is needed to protect the world's resources.
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Neurons and knowledge p614
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Film: Dark days ahead p615
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Essay
ConnectionsUnity from conflict p616
Could the evolution of multicellular life have been fuelled by conflict among selective forces acting at different levels of organization?
Paul B. Rainey
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News and Views
神経科学：神経回路を光で制御
Neuroscience: Controlling neural circuits with light p617
Two light-sensitive proteins from unicellular organisms have been harnessed to rapidly activate or silence neurons. This optical remote control allows precise, millisecond control of neural circuits.
Michael Häusser & Spencer L. Smith
doi:10.1038/446617a
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アト秒物理学：トンネル効果を見る
Attophysics: Tunnel vision p619
The tunnelling of a bound electron out of an atom in a laser field is a well-known quantum-mechanical process. But it happens very quickly, and it takes some fast work with X-rays and lasers to see it in action.
Jonathan P. Marangos
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植物科学：オーキシンでくっつける
Plant biology: Sticking with auxin p621
Auxin is one of the main agents that regulate plant growth and development. Intricate crystallographic studies reveal how this hormone acts as a 'molecular glue' in mediating substrate–receptor interactions.
Tom Guilfoyle
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進化生物学：見直されるヌタウナギ
Evolutionary biology: Born-again hagfishes p622
The strange, slimy creatures called hagfishes are of abiding interest to students of vertebrate evolution: just where do they fit in? Investigations of hagfish development take the story forward.
Philippe Janvier
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古地磁気学：はるか昔からあった地球のシールド
Palaeomagnetism: A more ancient shield p623
Earth's magnetic field has protected our atmosphere from erosion by the solar wind ever since it started up. Silicate crystals from some of Earth's oldest rocks date that event to more than 3 billion years ago.
David J. Dunlop
doi:10.1038/446623a
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追悼：Frank Albert Cotton氏（1930-2007）
Obituary: Frank Albert Cotton (1930–2007) p626
Inorganic chemist, educator and discoverer of the quadruple bond.
Stephen J. Lippard
doi:10.1038/446626a
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Brief Communications Arising
Palaeontology: Undressing and redressing Ediacaran embryos pE9
Shuhai Xiao, Chuanming Zhou & Xunlai Yuan
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Palaeontology: Undressing and redressing Ediacaran embryos (Reply) pE10
Jake V. Bailey, Samantha B. Joye, Karen M. Kalanetra, Beverly E. Flood & Frank A. Corsetti
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Articles
物理：原子における電子トンネリングのアト秒リアルタイム観察
Attosecond real-time observation of electron tunnelling in atoms p627
M. Uiberacker, Th. Uphues, M. Schultze, A. J. Verhoef, V. Yakovlev, M. F. Kling, J. Rauschenberger, N. M. Kabachnik, H. Schröder, M. Lezius, K. L. Kompa, H.-G. Muller, M. J. J. Vrakking, S. Hendel, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher & F. Krausz
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神経：神経回路に対する多モードで高速の光学的操作・観察法
Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry p633
Feng Zhang, Li-Ping Wang, Martin Brauner, Jana F. Liewald, Kenneth Kay, Natalie Watzke, Phillip G. Wood, Ernst Bamberg, Georg Nagel, Alexander Gottschalk & Karl Deisseroth
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生化学：TIR1ユビキチンリガーゼによるオーキシンの認識機構
Mechanism of auxin perception by the TIR1 ubiquitin ligase p640
Xu Tan, Luz Irina A. Calderon-Villalobos, Michal Sharon, Changxue Zheng, Carol V. Robinson, Mark Estelle & Ning Zheng
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免疫：セマフォリン7Aは
Semaphorin 7A initiates T-cell-mediated inflammatory responses through
腫瘍：サイトカインにより活性化された核内IKK
Nuclear cytokine-activated IKK
Letters
宇宙：火星における最近のアルベドの変化による全球温暖化と気候強制力
Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars p646
Lori K. Fenton, Paul E. Geissler & Robert M. Haberle
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物理：ランタニド収縮と重希土類元素の磁性
Lanthanide contraction and magnetism in the heavy rare earth elements p650
I. D. Hughes, M. Däne, A. Ernst, W. Hergert, M. Lüders, J. Poulter, J. B. Staunton, A. Svane, Z. Szotek & W. M. Temmerman
doi:10.1038/nature05668
地球：白亜紀初期の炭素循環と硫黄循環に対する蒸発岩の堆積の影響
Effect of evaporite deposition on Early Cretaceous carbon and sulphur cycling p654
Ulrich G. Wortmann & Boris M. Chernyavsky
doi:10.1038/nature05693
地球：ケイ酸塩単結晶に記録された32億年前の地球磁場強度
Geomagnetic field strength 3.2 billion years ago recorded by single silicate crystals p657
John A. Tarduno, Rory D. Cottrell, Michael K. Watkeys & Dorothy Bauch
doi:10.1038/nature05667
進化：休眠卵嚢子の中に保存されていたドウシャンツオ産の胚化石
Doushantuo embryos preserved inside diapause egg cysts p661
Leiming Yin, Maoyan Zhu, Andrew H. Knoll, Xunlai Yuan, Junming Zhang & Jie Hu
doi:10.1038/nature05682
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進化：社会的グループの進化を定量化する
Quantifying social group evolution p664
Gergely Palla, Albert-László Barabási & Tamás Vicsek
doi:10.1038/nature05670
生態：抗生物質耐性に不利な選択をする方向に働く抗生物質相互作用
Antibiotic interactions that select against resistance p668
Remy Chait, Allison Craney & Roy Kishony
doi:10.1038/nature05685
発生：神経堤の進化に基づくヌタウナギの発生学
Hagfish embryology with reference to the evolution of the neural crest p672
Kinya G. Ota, Shigehiro Kuraku & Shigeru Kuratani
doi:10.1038/nature05633
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細胞：Mycの欠失は小腸のApc異常を救済する
Myc deletion rescues Apc deficiency in the small intestine p676
Owen J. Sansom, Valerie S. Meniel, Vanesa Muncan, Toby J. Phesse, Julie A. Wilkins, Karen R. Reed, J. Keith Vass, Dimitris Athineos, Hans Clevers & Alan R. Clarke
doi:10.1038/nature05674
免疫：セマフォリン7Aは
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1 インテグリンを介してT細胞による炎症反応を惹起する
Semaphorin 7A initiates T-cell-mediated inflammatory responses through 11 integrin p680
Kazuhiro Suzuki, Tatsusada Okuno, Midori Yamamoto, R. Jeroen Pasterkamp, Noriko Takegahara, Hyota Takamatsu, Tomoe Kitao, Junichi Takagi, Paul D. Rennert, Alex L. Kolodkin, Atsushi Kumanogoh & Hitoshi Kikutani
doi:10.1038/nature05652
免疫：転写因子Foxp3は転写因子AML1/Runx1との相互作用を介して制御性T細胞の機能を制御している
Foxp3 controls regulatory T-cell function by interacting with AML1/Runx1 p685
Masahiro Ono, Hiroko Yaguchi, Naganari Ohkura, Issay Kitabayashi, Yuko Nagamura, Takashi Nomura, Yoshiki Miyachi, Toshihiko Tsukada & Shimon Sakaguchi
doi:10.1038/nature05673
腫瘍：サイトカインにより活性化された核内IKKはMaspinを抑制することで前立腺癌の転移を制御する
Nuclear cytokine-activated IKK controls prostate cancer metastasis by repressing Maspin p690
Jun-Li Luo, Wei Tan, Jill M. Ricono, Olexandr Korchynskyi, Ming Zhang, Steven L. Gonias, David A. Cheresh & Michael Karin
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Region
Career Views
Recruitment
Spotlight
Highlights
Naturejobs
ProspectProspect p695
Taiwan is taking a determined approach to science R&D.
Paul Smaglik
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Region
Making it big in Taiwan p696
This small but inventive island is putting transgenics and nanotechnology to novel uses. A pay rise might be all it needs to lure its expatriate scientists home, says Paul Smaglik.
Paul Smaglik
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Career Views
Johann-Dietrich Wörner, chairman of the German Aerospace Centre p698
Johann-Dietrich Wörner takes up the challenge of running the German Aerospace Centre.
Sophie Stigler
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Minority report p698
Minority groups are striving to reap rewards from science careers.
Jose Rodriguez
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The benefactor p698
I need a benefactor to pursue my research – and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Maria Ocampo-Hafalla
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Recruitment
The inside track from academia and industry: Found in translation p700
For those who wish to marry research with clinical applications, finding the right environment can be hard.
David Shaywitz & Hayes Dansky
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Spotlight
Spotlight on Taiwan
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Highlights
Opportunities: The National Institute of Health
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