Table of contents
Volume 448 Number 7157 pp969-1080
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Editorials
Pulling rank p969
Why should US military personnel be singled out for genetic discrimination?
doi:10.1038/448969a
More than lip service p969
Biology and physics have much to offer each other — but they must forge equitable partnerships.
doi:10.1038/448969b
Space for capitalism p970
Rich people who play with rockets should be encouraged, but not subsidized.
doi:10.1038/448970a
News
Air force had early warning of pulsars p974
Staff sergeant spotted neutron star before astronomers.
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/448974a
Market takes a gamble on carbon futures p974
Business is booming on Europe's emissions market.
Emma Marris
doi:10.1038/448974b
Sidelines p976
doi:10.1038/448976a
Cheaper approaches to flu divide researchers p976
Could anti-inflammatory drugs replace Tamiflu for the next pandemic?
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/448976b
Flying insects threaten to deafen Japan p977
Cicadas cut off Osaka's citizens from their Internet connections.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/448977a
Space, science and the bottom line p978
NASA's head of science, Alan Stern, talks of Mars, Moon and the Universe.
doi:10.1038/448978a
No confidence vote for agency head p979
Director of NIH environmental agency under investigation.
Emma Marris
doi:10.1038/448979a
Business
How to make it in Moscow p983
Life for scientific entrepreneurs in Russia can be fraught with difficulty. Alison Abbott meets one who has ridden the rapids for more than a decade.
doi:10.1038/448983a
News Features
Physics in the cell: Spring theory p984
Physicists interested in the mechanics of single molecules are helping open one of the blackest boxes in biology. Brendan Maher discovers how the disciplines are working together.
doi:10.1038/448984a
Space: Dreams of the new space race p988
When it was trying to catapult satellites into orbit the private launch business didn't get very far. Can it do better now that it's focused on giving the rich the ride of their life, asks David Chandler.
doi:10.1038/448988a
See also: Editor's summary
Correspondence
Libya should stop denying scientific evidence on HIV p992
Vittorio Colizzi, Tulio de Oliveira & Richard J. Roberts
doi:10.1038/448992a
Fires and climate linked in nineteenth century p992
Stefan Brönnimann
doi:10.1038/448992b
Climate: Sawyer predicted rate of warming in 1972 p992
Neville Nicholls
doi:10.1038/448992c
Commentary
Cashing in palm oil for conservation p993
Tropical forests in southeast Asia are under threat from oil-palm growers. This is an opportunity to combine sustainable economic growth with biodiversity conservation, argue Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove.
doi:10.1038/448993a
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Books and Arts
An illusionary rival p995
Is our perception of the world a fantasy created by the brain to coincide with reality?
Siân Ede reviews Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World by Chris Frith
doi:10.1038/448995a
Two camps at cross-purposes p996
Paul D. Blanc reviews Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement by Phil Brown
doi:10.1038/448996a
Celebrating four centuries of astronomy p997
René Racine reviews The Telescope: Its History, Technology and Future by Geoff Andersen
doi:10.1038/448997a
Linguistic gem or just another pidgin? p998
Neil Smith reviews Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the Mind by Margalit Fox
doi:10.1038/448998a
Correction p998
doi:10.1038/448998b
News and Views
Behavioural neurobiology: Females can also be from Mars p999
Is the preference to mate as a male or a female irreversibly set during development? Apparently not: a study in mice shows that pheromone perception determines how an adult female behaves sexually.
Nirao M. Shah & S. Marc Breedlove
doi:10.1038/nature05892
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Theoretical physics: A black hole full of answers p1000
A facet of string theory, the currently favoured route to a 'theory of everything', might help to explain some properties of exotic matter phases — such as some peculiarities of high-temperature superconductors.
Jan Zaanen
doi:10.1038/4481000a
Molecular biology: Damage control p1001
The chemical composition of normal DNA at the end of chromosomes does not differ from that of damaged and broken DNA within chromosomes. New findings hint at how the DNA-repair machinery distinguishes the two.
Claus M. Azzalin & Joachim Lingner
doi:10.1038/4481001a
See also: Editor's summary
Planets: The first movement p1003
How do large objects form from the dusty gas surrounding a young star? A simulation suggests that several familiar processes, among them gas turbulence and self-gravitation, might work together to get the job done.
Jeff Cuzzi
doi:10.1038/4481003a
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Translation: Duality in the genetic code p1004
The encoding of two non-universal amino acids involves dynamic redefinition of 'stop' signals in the genetic code. Bacteria with multiple proteins containing these amino acids add to our appreciation of coding versatility.
John F. Atkins & Pavel V. Baranov
doi:10.1038/4481004a
Palaeoclimate: Oxygen's rise reduced p1005
Why did oxygen not appear in Earth's atmosphere until hundreds of millions of years after photosynthesizing organisms first produced it? Perhaps because reducing gases from undersea volcanoes claimed it first.
Timothy W. Lyons
doi:10.1038/4481005a
See also: Editor's summary
Materials science: Polymer crystals downsized p1006
A record has been broken — the smallest-ever polymer crystals have been prepared. Their surprising shape provides crucial evidence that might help explain how polymers crystallize.
Stephen Z. D. Cheng
doi:10.1038/4481006a
Articles
A functional circuit underlying male sexual behaviour in the female mouse brain p1009
Tali Kimchi, Jennings Xu & Catherine Dulac
doi:10.1038/nature06089
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (666K) | Supplementary information
See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Shah & Breedlove
IGF and FGF cooperatively establish the regulatory stem cell niche of pluripotent human cells in vitro p1015
Sean C. Bendall, Morag H. Stewart, Pablo Menendez, Dustin George, Kausalia Vijayaragavan, Tamra Werbowetski-Ogilvie, Veronica Ramos-Mejia, Anne Rouleau, Jiabi Yang, Marc Bossé, Gilles Lajoie & Mickie Bhatia
doi:10.1038/nature06027
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Letters
Rapid planetesimal formation in turbulent circumstellar disks p1022
Anders Johansen, Jeffrey S. Oishi, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Hubert Klahr, Thomas Henning & Andrew Youdin
doi:10.1038/nature06086
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Cuzzi
The development of a protoplanetary disk from its natal envelope p1026
Dan M. Watson, C. J. Bohac, C. Hull, William J. Forrest, E. Furlan, J. Najita, Nuria Calvet, Paola d'Alessio, Lee Hartmann, B. Sargent, Joel D. Green, Kyoung Hee Kim & J. R. Houck
doi:10.1038/nature06087
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Direct observation of second-order atom tunnelling p1029
S. Fölling, S. Trotzky, P. Cheinet, M. Feld, R. Saers, A. Widera, T. Müller & I. Bloch
doi:10.1038/nature06112
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Increased subaerial volcanism and the rise of atmospheric oxygen 2.5 billion years ago p1033
Lee R. Kump & Mark E. Barley
doi:10.1038/nature06058
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Lyons
Projected increase in continental runoff due to plant responses to increasing carbon dioxide p1037
Richard A. Betts, Olivier Boucher, Matthew Collins, Peter M. Cox, Peter D. Falloon, Nicola Gedney, Deborah L. Hemming, Chris Huntingford, Chris D. Jones, David M. H. Sexton & Mark J. Webb
doi:10.1038/nature06045
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Dating the origin of the Orchidaceae from a fossil orchid with its pollinator p1042
Santiago R. Ramírez, Barbara Gravendeel, Rodrigo B. Singer, Charles R. Marshall & Naomi E. Pierce
doi:10.1038/nature06039
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Mobility promotes and jeopardizes biodiversity in rock–paper–scissors games p1046
Tobias Reichenbach, Mauro Mobilia & Erwin Frey
doi:10.1038/nature06095
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A sequence-based variation map of 8.27 million SNPs in inbred mouse strains p1050
Kelly A. Frazer, Eleazar Eskin, Hyun Min Kang, Molly A. Bogue, David A. Hinds, Erica J. Beilharz, Robert V. Gupta, Julie Montgomery, Matt M. Morenzoni, Geoffrey B. Nilsen, Charit L. Pethiyagoda, Laura L. Stuve, Frank M. Johnson, Mark J. Daly, Claire M. Wade & David R. Cox
doi:10.1038/nature06067
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The detection of carbonation by the Drosophila gustatory system p1054
Walter Fischler, Priscilla Kong, Sunanda Marella & Kristin Scott
doi:10.1038/nature06101
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Dominant-negative mutations in the DNA-binding domain of STAT3 cause hyper-IgE syndrome p1058
Yoshiyuki Minegishi, Masako Saito, Shigeru Tsuchiya, Ikuya Tsuge, Hidetoshi Takada, Toshiro Hara, Nobuaki Kawamura, Tadashi Ariga, Srdjan Pasic, Oliver Stojkovic, Ayse Metin & Hajime Karasuyama
doi:10.1038/nature06096
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Tip60 is a haplo-insufficient tumour suppressor required for an oncogene-induced DNA damage response p1063
Chiara Gorrini, Massimo Squatrito, Chiara Luise, Nelofer Syed, Daniele Perna, Landon Wark, Francesca Martinato, Domenico Sardella, Alessandro Verrecchia, Samantha Bennett, Stefano Confalonieri, Matteo Cesaroni, Francesco Marchesi, Milena Gasco, Eugenio Scanziani, Maria Capra, Sabine Mai, Paolo Nuciforo, Tim Crook, John Lough & Bruno Amati
doi:10.1038/nature06055
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Protection of telomeres through independent control of ATM and ATR by TRF2 and POT1 p1068
Eros Lazzerini Denchi & Titia de Lange
doi:10.1038/nature06065
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See also: Editor's summary | News and Views by Azzalin & Lingner
Crystal structure of the MgtE Mg2+ transporter p1072
Motoyuki Hattori, Yoshiki Tanaka, Shuya Fukai, Ryuichiro Ishitani & Osamu Nureki
doi:10.1038/nature06093
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Erratum
RNA-templated DNA repair p1076
Francesca Storici, Katarzyna Bebenek, Thomas A. Kunkel, Dmitry A. Gordenin & Michael A. Resnick
doi:10.1038/nature06114
Corrigenda
A positive-feedback-based bistable 'memory module' that governs a cell fate decision p1076
Wen Xiong & James E. Ferrell
doi:10.1038/nature06125
Structure of the E. coli signal recognition particle bound to a translating ribosome p1076
Christiane Schaffitzel, Miro Oswald, Imre Berger, Takashi Ishikawa, Jan Pieter Abrahams, Henk K. Koerten, Roman I. Koning & Nenad Ban
doi:10.1038/nature06169
Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p1077
A snapshot of jobs in the biosciences industry suggests that business training may be worth the investment.
Gene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj7157-1077a
