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Volume 431 Issue 7012, 28 October 2004

Volume 431 Issue 7012

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Editorial

  • The shortages of flu vaccine in the United States this autumn have laid bare some troubling weaknesses in the nation's public-health system.

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  • The message from researchers about the state of European fish stocks is consistent, but its delivery could be improved.

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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • Earthquake researchers in the United States have long shunned the word ‘prediction’. But, thanks to improved data and a change in public perception, cracks are beginning to appear in their resolve. David Cyranoski tracks the debate.

    • David Cyranoski
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  • The gamma rays spat out by dying stars last an instant. Tony Reichhardt reports on the fast-response satellite that hopes to capture them.

    • Tony Reichhardt
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Correspondence

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Books & Arts

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Correction

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Turning Points

  • How failing a PhD led to a strategy for a successful scientific career.

    • Bruce Alberts
    Turning Points
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News & Views

  • We are the only living species of the genus Homo. Given the startling results of a cave excavation in Southeast Asia, it seems that we coexisted with another species until much more recently than had been thought.

    • Marta Mirazón Lahr
    • Robert Foley

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    News & Views

  • A famous sixteenth-century supernova, seen by Tycho Brahe, is still a hot topic. The stellar explosion might have been initiated by a companion star — and modern astronomers have at last identified it.

    • David Branch
    News & Views

  • The Red List Index is a new indicator of species' extinction risk. It will make a major contribution in measuring the success of an internationally agreed aim to slow biodiversity loss by 2010.

    • Thomas Brooks
    • Elizabeth Kennedy
    News & Views

  • An ingeniously constructed record of sunspot activity shows that the current episode is the most intense for several thousand years. But that does not let us off the anthropogenic hook of global warming.

    • Paula J. Reimer
    News & Views

  • How does natural selection affect lifespan? The question has exercised biologists for some years. The latest twist comes from ingenious experiments on tropical fish from different ecological backgrounds.

    • Peter A. Abrams
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Correction

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Research Highlights

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Brief Communication

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Article

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Letter

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Corrigendum

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Prospects

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Special Report

  • Are you on course for the career you want? Don't follow the crowd and lose your direction, warns Eugene Russo. Instead, map out your own postdoc path.

    • Eugene Russo
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Career View

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