Table of contents
Volume 454 Number 7208 pp1029-1150
In this issue (28 August 2008)
Also this week
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Editorials
Doubly endangered p1029
The landmark Endangered Species Act in the United States needs more flexibility and fresh thinking — but not of the kind being advocated by the Bush administration.
doi:10.1038/4541029a
After Musharraf p1030
Pakistan's elected governments should break the habit of a lifetime and give due priority to science.
doi:10.1038/4541030a
Future transport p1030
The hike in the price of oil means that new ways of fuelling transport are no longer fantasy.
doi:10.1038/4541030b
Research Highlights
Biophysics: Water bomb p1032
doi:10.1038/4541032a
Electronics: Silicon enhancement p1032
doi:10.1038/4541032b
Evolutionary biology: Commonality and cuckoos p1032
doi:10.1038/4541032c
Microbiology: Suffocating tuberculosis p1032
doi:10.1038/4541032d
Particle physics: Antimatter bounces back p1032
doi:10.1038/4541032e
Evolution: Serotonin for mothers p1032
doi:10.1038/4541032f
Palaeobiology: Megabite p1033
doi:10.1038/4541033a
Materials science: Finding focus p1033
doi:10.1038/4541033b
Geosciences: Soil sink surprise p1033
doi:10.1038/4541033c
Zoology: Under pressure p1033
doi:10.1038/4541033d
News
Georgian science pays price of conflict p1034
Conflict with Russia puts reforms in jeopardy.
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/4541034a
Fresh doubts over T. rex chicken link p1035
Critics call on researchers to disclose protein spectra data.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/4541035a
Do the locomotion p1036
Rail travel produces more than a third less emissions than road transport — even though trains carry 7% of traffic, they emit just 0.2% of the carbon monoxide, 2% of nitrogen oxides and 1% of the volatile organic compounds. Although electric passenger trains are relatively green, most of the world's trains are used for haulage and run on diesel. In the latest of our Future Transport series, Duncan Graham-Rowe sees trains switching to a greener track.
Duncan Graham-Rowe
doi:10.1038/4541036a
Death and life beneath the sea floor p1038
Viral action identified as key component in carbon cycle.
Heidi Ledford
doi:10.1038/4541038a
Snapshot: New window on the gamma-ray Universe p1038
GLAST provides first sky map – and gets a new name.
Eric Hand
doi:10.1038/4541038b
Q & A: Too close for comfort p1039
In early 2002, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked the American Society for Microbiology to canvas its 43,000 members for information about the 2001 anthrax mail attacks that killed five people. Nancy Haigwood, now director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro, suggested that agents should investigate microbiologist Bruce Ivins, who had been harassing her for more than 20 years. On 29 July, Ivins killed himself as authorities were close to indicting him for the anthrax attacks.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/4541039a
Rector sacked in Austrian stem-cell scandal p1041
doi:10.1038/4541041a
Nuclear group to rule on Indian trade p1041
doi:10.1038/4541041b
NIH promises funds for cheaper DNA sequencing p1041
doi:10.1038/4541041c
Inquiry launched into Indian drug trials p1041
doi:10.1038/4541041d
Cracks spotted in Greenland's glaciers p1041
doi:10.1038/4541041e
Orion crash-landing leaves NASA hunting for clues p1041
doi:10.1038/4541041f
News Features
Genetics: The production line p1042
If more than 90% of the genome is 'junk' then why do cells make so much RNA from it? Anna Petherick goes in search of some answers.
doi:10.1038/4541042a
Natural selection: The evolution of cancer p1046
Cancer cells vary; they compete; the fittest survive. Patrick Goymer reports on how evolutionary biology can be applied to cancer — and what good it might do.
doi:10.1038/4541046a
Correspondence
Postdoc glut means academic pathway needs an overhaul p1049
Ian M. Brooks
doi:10.1038/4541049a
Olympics may have a negative impact on China's research p1049
Yijun Chen & Nan Liu
doi:10.1038/4541049b
Changes in the rules now governing Italy's drug industry p1049
Sergio Dompé
doi:10.1038/4541049c
Atheism could be science's contribution to religion p1049
Matthew Cobb & Jerry Coyne
doi:10.1038/4541049d
Books and Arts
The blossoming of Japanese mathematics p1050
A new compilation of the illustrated geometry problems that decorated shrines in seventeenth-century Japan provides puzzles that are still intriguing today, finds Peter J. Lu.
Peter J. Lu reviews Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Fukagawa Hidetoshi & Tony Rothman
doi:10.1038/4541050a
The future ain't what it used to be p1051
Adam Rutherford reviews Future Proof/You Call This the Future? by Nick Sagan, Mark Frary & Andy Walker
doi:10.1038/4541051a
More cacophony than harmony p1051
John Carmody reviews The World In Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin
doi:10.1038/4541051b
Culture dish p1052
doi:10.1038/4541052a
Innovations of an ancient nation p1052
Jane Qiu reviews Chinese Memory: Treasures of a 5,000-year-old Civilization
doi:10.1038/4541052b
Spartan sport laid bare p1053
Edgar Degas's painting of female athletes challenging male competitors in classical Sparta raises subtle questions about gender, politics and sport, explains Martin Kemp.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/4541053a
Essay
Battle of the sexes may set the brain p1054
A tug-of-war between the mother's and father's genes in the developing brain could explain a spectrum of mental disorders from autism to schizophrenia, suggest Christopher Badcock and Bernard Crespi.
Christopher Badcock & Bernard Crespi
doi:10.1038/4541054a
See also: Editor's summary
News and Views
Human behaviour: Share and share alike p1057
The happy tendency to share resources equitably — at least with members of one's own social group — is a central and unique feature of human social life. It emerges, it seems, in middle childhood.
Michael Tomasello & Felix Warneken
doi:10.1038/4541057a
See also: Editor's summary
Earth science: A sheet-metal geodynamo p1058
A decade of modelling Earth's core on computers has led to the belief that we understand what produces Earth's magnetic field. More realistic simulations are now shaking that complacency.
Ulrich R. Christensen
doi:10.1038/4541058a
See also: Editor's summary
Systems biology: Reverse engineering the cell p1059
Borrowing ideas that were originally developed to study electronic circuits, two reports decipher how yeast reacts to changes in its environment by analysing the organism's responses to oscillating input signals.
Nicholas T. Ingolia & Jonathan S. Weissman
doi:10.1038/4541059a
50 & 100 Years Ago p1061
doi:10.1038/4541061a
Condensed-matter physics: Dual realities in superconductors p1062
In some copper oxides, superconductivity emerges when fixed electrons become mobile. A microscopy technique reveals that this process is associated with the transfer of electrons between real and abstract spaces.
Tetsuo Hanaguri
doi:10.1038/4541062a
See also: Editor's summary
Developmental genetics: A sex-specific switch p1063
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/4541063a
Review
Puzzles, promises and a cure for ageing p1065
Jan Vijg & Judith Campisi
doi:10.1038/nature07216
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Articles
How Cooper pairs vanish approaching the Mott insulator in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+
p1072
Y. Kohsaka, C. Taylor, P. Wahl, A. Schmidt, Jhinhwan Lee, K. Fujita, J. W. Alldredge, K. McElroy, Jinho Lee, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, D.-H. Lee & J. C. Davis
doi:10.1038/nature07243
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,242K) | Supplementary information
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Egalitarianism in young children p1079
Ernst Fehr, Helen Bernhard & Bettina Rockenbach
doi:10.1038/nature07155
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (268K) | Supplementary information
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Major viral impact on the functioning of benthic deep-sea ecosystems p1084
Roberto Danovaro, Antonio Dell'Anno, Cinzia Corinaldesi, Mirko Magagnini, Rachel Noble, Christian Tamburini & Markus Weinbauer
doi:10.1038/nature07268
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (448K) | Supplementary information
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Misfolded proteins partition between two distinct quality control compartments p1088
Daniel Kaganovich, Ron Kopito & Judith Frydman
doi:10.1038/nature07195
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (925K) | Supplementary information
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Letters
A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way p1096
Louis E. Strigari, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat, Joshua D. Simon, Marla Geha, Beth Willman & Matthew G. Walker
doi:10.1038/nature07222
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Experimental demonstration of a BDCZ quantum repeater node p1098
Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Yu-Ao Chen, Bo Zhao, Shuai Chen, Jörg Schmiedmayer & Jian-Wei Pan
doi:10.1038/nature07241
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (348K) | Supplementary information
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Late Pliocene Greenland glaciation controlled by a decline in atmospheric CO2 levels p1102
Daniel J. Lunt, Gavin L. Foster, Alan M. Haywood & Emma J. Stone
doi:10.1038/nature07223
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Formation of current coils in geodynamo simulations p1106
Akira Kageyama, Takehiro Miyagoshi & Tetsuya Sato
doi:10.1038/nature07227
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Acetylcholine contributes through muscarinic receptors to attentional modulation in V1 p1110
J. L. Herrero, M. J. Roberts, L. S. Delicato, M. A. Gieselmann, P. Dayan & A. Thiele
doi:10.1038/nature07141
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A blend of small molecules regulates both mating and development in Caenorhabditis elegans p1115
Jagan Srinivasan, Fatma Kaplan, Ramadan Ajredini, Cherian Zachariah, Hans T. Alborn, Peter E. A. Teal, Rabia U. Malik, Arthur S. Edison, Paul W. Sternberg & Frank C. Schroeder
doi:10.1038/nature07168
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Metabolic gene regulation in a dynamically changing environment p1119
Matthew R. Bennett, Wyming Lee Pang, Natalie A. Ostroff, Bridget L. Baumgartner, Sujata Nayak, Lev S. Tsimring & Jeff Hasty
doi:10.1038/nature07211
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Crystal structure of the polymerase PAC–PB1N complex from an avian influenza H5N1 virus p1123
Xiaojing He, Jie Zhou, Mark Bartlam, Rongguang Zhang, Jianyuan Ma, Zhiyong Lou, Xuemei Li, Jingjing Li, Andrzej Joachimiak, Zonghao Zeng, Ruowen Ge, Zihe Rao & Yingfang Liu
doi:10.1038/nature07120
PDB code
3D view
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (864K) | Supplementary information
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The structural basis for an essential subunit interaction in influenza virus RNA polymerase p1127
Eiji Obayashi, Hisashi Yoshida, Fumihiro Kawai, Naoya Shibayama, Atsushi Kawaguchi, Kyosuke Nagata, Jeremy R. H. Tame & Sam-Yong Park
doi:10.1038/nature07225
PDB code
3D view
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Multipotent somatic stem cells contribute to the stem cell niche in the Drosophila testis p1132
Justin Voog, Cecilia D'Alterio & D. Leanne Jones
doi:10.1038/nature07173
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Mouse development with a single E2F activator p1137
Shih-Yin Tsai, Rene Opavsky, Nidhi Sharma, Lizhao Wu, Shan Naidu, Eric Nolan, Enrique Feria-Arias, Cynthia Timmers, Jana Opavska, Alain de Bruin, Jean-Leon Chong, Prashant Trikha, Soledad A. Fernandez, Paul Stromberg, Thomas J. Rosol & Gustavo Leone
doi:10.1038/nature07066
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Cell-specific ATP7A transport sustains copper-dependent tyrosinase activity in melanosomes p1142
Subba Rao Gangi Setty, Danièle Tenza, Elena V. Sviderskaya, Dorothy C. Bennett, Graça Raposo & Michael S. Marks
doi:10.1038/nature07163
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Naturejobs
ProspectProspects p1147
How to rekindle your love affair with science.
Gene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj7208-1147a
Futures
Spamface p1150
Down in the jungle, something stirs.
Martin Hayes
doi:10.1038/4541150a
