Table of contents
Volume 388 Number 6637 pp1-102
Opinion
Cooperation can help get the message across p1
Those who study natural phenomena that pose risks to society need to work more closely with social scientists to ensure their science is put into practice. Such cooperation could also boost their funding prospects.
Coming down to earth p1
Last week's UN meeting in New York was a salutary lesson in the realities if environmental politics
News
Molecular biologists in Asia and Pacific plan research network p3
David Swinbanks
Promising signs for NSF budget increase p3
Colin Macilwain
Quake panel admits prediction is 'difficult' p4
David Swinbanks
German law could boost prospects for organ transplants p4
Alison Abbott
US air pollution rules stir up a stink about research p5
Tony Reichhardt
President of UN summit 'sobered' by outcome p5
Colin Macilwain
Cloning for research 'should be allowed' p6
Meredith Wadman
European biotech industry plans ethics panel p6
Declan Butler
France puts big science under scrutiny p7
Declan Butler
Uncertainty over fate of Mir experiments p8
Tony Reichhardt
Australian science review defends diversity and overlaps p8
Peter Pockley
News Analysis
Asian tiger claws its way up the ratings p9
Taiwan has ambitious plans to achieve international stature in science, and is investing accordingly. It is pursuing long-term national goals for technology development and to boost support for its best scientists.
Philip Campbell
Correspondence
Even sociologists need science p13
Jonathan R. Ellis
More danger in doctrine than in genetics p13
Christopher Badcock
George Wald believed in Apocalypse now p13
Thomas H. Jukes
Alphabetical listing and citation rates p14
Mark Shevlin and Mark N. O. Davies
CJD transmission p14
F.-X. Meslin
Greek is the word p15
Andreas Arvanitogiannis
Don't leave dignity out of the cloning debate p15
Karim Labib
Commentary
The reform of Russian science p16
Six years after the end of Communist rule in Russia, attempts to reform Russian science have produced a mixed scorecard. There have been some substantial achievements, but there is still need for further changes.
News and Views
Predicting where we walk p19
Michael Batty
Membrane fusion: Bridging the gap by AAA ATPases p20
Tony Rowe and William E. Balch
Chemistry: Oddly ordinary seaborgium p21
Ron Lougheed
Visual neurobiology: Colouring the cortex p23
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
Astrophysics: Not-so-cosmic rays p24
Peter L. Biermann
Palaeoclimatology: Back at the last interglacial p25
Joël Guiot
Environmental engineering p27
Tim Lincoln
100 and 50 years ago p28
Signal transduction: Mad about SMADs p28
Jeff Wrans and Tony Pawson
Semiconductors: Do the twist to get fit p29
Pauline Rigby
Daedalus: The watch on the line p30
David Jones
Scientific Correspondence
Inhibition of ICE slows ALS in mice p31
Robert M. Friedlander, Robert H. Brown, Valeria Gagliardini, Joy Wang and Junying Yuan
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Electronic properties of carbon toroids p31
R. C. Haddon
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Vision in dim light p32
David H. Hubel
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A polymerase I palm in adenylyl cyclase? p33
Peter J. Artymiuk, Andrew R. Poirrette, David W. Rice and Peter Willett
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Reply: A polymerase I palm in adenylyl cyclase? p34
Stephen H. Bryant, Tom Madej, Joel Janin, Yu Liu, Arnold E. Ruoho, Gongyi Zhang and James H. Hurley
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Book Reviews
The health of a nation p35
W. F. Bynum
France's famous scientific immortal p35
New in paperback p36
The higher idiocy p36
Walter Gratzer
Riddles in the sky p37
Wendy Freedman
The lure of the red planet p37
Science and salvation p38
George Marsden
Article
Evidence for human influence on climate from hemispheric temperature relations p39
Robert K. Kaufmann and David I. Stern
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Letters to Nature
Detection of ozone on Saturn's satellites Rhea and Dione p45
K. S. Noll, T. L. Roush, D. P. Cruikshank, R. E. Johnson and Y. J. Pendleton
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Modelling the evolution of human trail systems p47
Dirk Helbing, Joachim Keltsch and Péter Molnár
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Current switching of resistive states in magnetoresistive manganites p50
A. Asamitsu, Y. Tomioka, H. Kuwahara and Y. Tokura
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Controlled production of aligned-nanotube bundles p52
M. Terrones, N. Grobert, J. Olivares, J. P. Zhang, H. Terrones, K. Kordatos, W. K. Hsu, J. P. Hare, P. D. Townsend, K. Prassides, A. K. Cheetham, H. W. Kroto and D. R. M. Walton
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Chemical properties of element 106 (seaborgium) p55
M. Schädel, W. Brüchle, R. Dressler, B. Eichler, H. W. Gäggeler, R. Günther, K. E. Gregorich, D. C. Hoffman, S. Hübener, D. T. Jost, J. V. Kratz, W. Paulus, D. Schumann, S. Timokhin, N. Trautmann, A. Türler, G. Wirth and A. Yakuschev
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Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr p57
Cathy Whitlock and Patrick J. Bartlein
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Endemic African mammals shake the phylogenetic tree p61
Mark S. Springer, Gregory C. Cleven, Ole Madsen, Wilfried W. de Jong, Victor G. Waddell, Heather M. Amrine and Michael J. Stanhope
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Hypothermia in foraging king penguins p64
Y. Handrich, R. M. Bevan, J.-B. Charrassin, P. J. Butler, K. Ptz, A. J. Woakes, J. Lage and Y. Le Maho
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Colour tuning in human visual cortex measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging p68
Stephen Engel, Xuemei Zhang and Brian Wandell
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Hippocampal GABAAchannel conductance increased by diazepam p71
M. Eghbali, J. P. Curmi, B. Birnir and P. W. Gage
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p47 is a cofactor for p97-mediated membrane fusion p75
Hisao Kondo, Catherine Rabouille, Richard Newman, Timothy P. Levine, Darryl Pappin, Paul Freemont and Graham Warren
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Cofilin promotes rapid actin filament turnover in vivo p78
Pekka Lappalainen and David G. Drubin
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Mutations increasing autoinhibition inactivate tumour suppressors Smad2 and Smad4 p82
Akiko Hata, Roger S. Lo, David Wotton, Giorgio Lagna and Joan Massagué
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A structural basis for mutational inactivation of the tumour suppressor Smad4 p87
Yigong Shi, Akiko Hata, Roger S. Lo, Joan Massagué and Nikola P. Pavletich
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DNA-replication checkpoint control at the Drosophila midblastula transition p93
Ody C. M. Sibon, Victoria A. Stevenson and William E. Theurkauf
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Structure of the multimodular endonuclease FokI bound to DNA p97
David A. Wah, Joel A. Hirsch, Lydia F. Dorner, Ira Schildkraut and Aneel K. Aggarwal
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New on the Market
Taking inventory of biological reagents p101
Whether you are combing the shelves or digging in the back of the freezer, that missing reagent might just be here, such as cell-cycle antibodies, peptide controls, CO and haem oxygenases and those elusive FISH probes.
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