Table of contents
Volume 388 Number 6638 pp103-210
Opinion
Time for a belated rethink of fusion's goals p103
The ITER partners must acknowledge that the world has changed since the project's inception, and reconsider what they want from collaboration on magnetic confinement fusion.
Tremors that should be public p103
The verification of the CTBT will provide data whose open availability would serve scientists and defence interests.
News
Loss of Japanese satellite deals blow to remote sensing efforts p105
Robert Triendl
After 322 years, royal observatory loses out to Scottish rival p105
Ehsan Masood
'Political interference skewed scientific advice on fish stocks' p106
David Spurgeon
NRC backs open access to test-ban data p107
Laura Garwin
First radiotelescope images from space p107
El Niño forecast fails to convince sceptics p108
Ehsan Masood
Indian monsoon 'progressing normally' p108
K. S. Jayaraman
EU helps to save science jobs in Berlin p109
Quirin Schiermeier
Tariff waiver would aid instrument imports p109
Tony Reichhardt
CNRS returns fire on ethics review panel p110
Declan Butler
US budget plans jeopardize role in ITER p110
Colin Macilwain
Mentors seek to prove value for money p111
Colin Macilwain
Briefings
Is magnetic fusion heading for ignition or meltdown? p115
Physicists have long been keen to harness the energy of thermonuclear fusion. The next planned step is a major international project to build an experimental reactor, ITER. But the project has recently been running into a quagmire of technical, economic and political uncertainties that will require all the efforts of its supporters to overcome.
Colin Macilwain
Japanese industry fights budget setback p116
Robert Triendl
Rivals that might oust the tokamak p118
Colin Macilwain
European passions cool as bill increases p119
Alison Abbott
Correspondence
Mine waste pollutes Mediterranean p120
Jesús Martinez-Frias
French research needs p120
Xavier Michalet
News and Views
Just follow the acid chain p121
Gottfried Schatz
Seismology: New insights into old earthquakes p122
Paul Segall
Apoptosis: Placing death under control p123
David Wallach
100 and 50 years ago p125
X-ray astronomy: How one galaxy can be a cluster p126
Richard Mushotzky
Geochemistry: Neon signs mark Australian plume p127
Bernard Marty
Daedalus: Volatile hardware p129
David Jones
Alfred Hershey (1908-97) p130
John Cairns
Scientific Correspondence
Latent pigments activated by heat p131
J. S. Zambounis, Z. Hao and A. Iqbal
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Photosynthesis or planktonic respiration? p132
Richard J. Geider
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Reply: Photosynthesis or planktonic respiration? p132
Paul A. del Giorgio and Jonathan J. Cole
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Lifetime of plasma cells in the bone marrow p133
Rudolf A. Manz, Andreas Thiel and Andreas Radbruch
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Importance of ancestral DNA ages p134
J. F. Y. Brookfield
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Correction: Structures of molluse shell framework proteins p134
Book Reviews
Inventor who turned his back on riches p135
L. Pearce Williams
House of cards p136
Peter T. Landsberg
... nor any drop to drink p136
In retrospect chosen by Euan Nisbet p137
Euan Nisbet
Up the cosmos p138
William H. Press
Men behaving badly p138
Steven Rose
Article
Proximal–distal axis formation in the Drosophila leg p139
Thomas Lecuit and Stephen M. Cohen
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Letters to Nature
A dark cluster of galaxies at redshift z = 1 p146
M. Hattori, Y. Ikebe, I. Asaoka, T. Takeshima, H. Böhringer, T. Mihara, D. M. Neumann, S. Schindler, T. Tsuru and T. Tamura#
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Properties of ideal composite knots p148
Vsevolod Katritch, Wilma K. Olson, Piotr Pieranski, Jacques Dubochet and Andrzej Stasiak
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The dynamics of partially extended single molecules of DNA p151
Stephen R. Quake, Hazen Babcock and Steven Chu
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Multiple episodes of aridity in southern Africa since the last interglacial period p154
Stephen Stokes, David S. G. Thomas and Richard Washington
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Sensitivity of earthquake cycles on the San Andreas fault to small changes in regional compression p158
Chi-yuen Wang and Yongen Cai
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Plume-like neon in a metasomatic apatite from the Australian lithospheric mantle p162
Takuya Matsumoto, Masahiko Honda, Ian McDougall, Igor Yatsevich and Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
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How aggressive ant-guards assist seed-set in Acacia flowers p165
P. G. Willmer and G. N. Stone
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Evolution of genetic redundancy p167
Martin A. Nowak, Maarten C. Boerlijst, Jonathan Cooke and John Maynard Smith
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Distinct cortical areas associated with native and second languages p171
Karl H. S. Kim, Norman R. Relkin, Kyoung-Min Lee and Joy Hirsch
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Representation of motion boundaries in retinotopic human visual cortical areas p175
John B. Reppas, Sourabh Niyogi, Anders M. Dale, Martin I. Sereno and Roger B. H. Tootell
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The synaptic activation of kainate receptors p179
Michel Vignes and Graham L. Collingridge
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Kainate receptors mediate a slow postsynaptic current in hippocampal CA3 neurons p182
Pablo E. Castillo, Robert C. Malenka and Roger A. Nicoll
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Muscle force is generated by myosin heads stereospecifically attached to actin p186
Sergey Y. Bershitsky, Andrey K. Tsaturyan, Olga N. Bershitskaya, Gregory I. Mashanov, Paul Brown, Ronald Burns and Michael A. Ferenczi
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Inhibition of death receptor signals by cellular FLIP p190
Martin Irmler, Margot Thome, Michael Hahne, Pascal Schneider, Kay Hofmann, Véronique Steiner, Jean-Luc Bodmer, Michael Schröter, Kim Burns, Chantal Mattmann, Donata Rimoldi, Lars E. French and Jürg Tschopp
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Tom5 functionally links mitochondrial preprotein receptors to the general import pore p195
Klaus Dietmeier, Angelika Hönlinger, Ulf Bömer, Peter J. T. Dekker, Christoph Eckerskorn, Fritz Lottspeich, Michael Kübrich and Nikolaus Pfanner
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X-chromosome-counting mechanisms that determine nematode sex p200
Monique Nicoll, Chantal C. Akerib and Barbara J. Meyer
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Correction: Structure of the adenylyl cyclase catalytic core p204
Gongyi Zhang, Yu Liu, Arnold E. Ruoho and James H. Hurley
Techniques and Technology
Oligosaccharide sequencing technology p205
Pauline M. Rudd, Geoffrey R. Gulle, Bernhard Küster, David J. Harvey, Ghislain Opdenakker and Raymond A. Dwek
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New on the Market
New on the market p208
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Letters to Nature
Erratum: Integrin–ligand binding properties govern cell migration speed through cell–substratum adhesiveness p210
Sean P. Palecek, Joseph C. Loftus, Mark H. Ginsberg, Douglas A. Lauffenburger and Alan F. Horwitz
Erratum: Total synthesis of the potential anticancer vaccine KH-1 adenocarcinoma antigen p210
Prashant P. Deshpande and Samuel J. Danishefsky