Table of contents
Volume 388 Number 6641 pp405-500
Opinion
How to help universities meet obligation and opportunity p405
A landmark report on British higher education highlights an undercapitalized system ever more driven by a growing diversity of customers and the breakdown of trust between the academic community and the state.
News
Clinton pulls out the stops in bid to win backing for carbon cuts p407
Colin Macilwain
IPCC reports 'should be more user friendly' p407
NASA urged to extend all solar satellites p408
Tony Reichhardt
Three weeks into mission, Sojourner dusts off Mars' secrets p408
Stephen Battersby
Japan seeks funding for new drilling ship p409
David Swinbanks
German truce on genome data access p409
Quirin Schiermeier
US warned about complacency on Japanese economy p410
Colin Macilwain
'Skewed medical goals' revealed by Indian survey p410
K. S. Jayaraman
FDA seeks to close xenotransplant gap p411
Colin Macilwain
University settles with patients over trade in 'stolen' embryos p411
Sally Lehrman
US and Europe may link up planned arrays p412
Tony Reichhardt
Austria to go private in novel solution to grant distribution p412
Quirin Schiermeier
News Analysis
UK universities told: 'think strategically' p413
Last week's long-awaited Dearing report has urged the UK government to take immediate steps to remedy the underfunding of university research. But at a price: universities, it says, must agree to do things differently.
David Dickson
Correspondence
US support for malaria research p416
Harold Varmus
EMBO fellows go home p416
Frank Gannon, Jennifer Norman, Mare Kriis, Anne Walter and Lars Breimer
Nightmare antibiotics p416
Chris F. Inglehearn
News and Views
The democracy of the genes p417
Matt McGue
Palaeoclimatology: A warm future in the past p418
William R. Howard
Protein engineering: Reading, writing and redesigning p419
Michael Gro and Kevin W. Plaxco
Sociology of science: Irregular scientific conjugations p420
John Hodgson
Quantum mechanics: Whistles from superfluid helium p421
Peter McClintock
100 and 50 years ago p421
Cellular secretion: Now you see it, now you don't p423
W. J. Betz and J. K. Angleson
Schizophrenia: The price of language? p424
John Maddox
Photochemistry: Trees to trap photons p425
Shaul Mukamel
Neurobiology: Long-distance long-term depression p427
Roger A. Nicoll and Robert C. Malenka
: From RAGs to stitches p428
David T. Weaver and Fredrick W. Alt
Daedalus: Clearing the air p429
David Jones
Obituary: Martin Schwarzschild (1912-97) p430
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Scientific Correspondence
Light-induced amphiphilic surfaces p431
Rong Wang, Kazuhito Hashimoto, Akira Fujishima, Makota Chikuni, Eiichi Kojima, Atsushi Kitamura, Mitsuhide Shimohigoshi and Toshiya Watanabe
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S-nitrosylation regulates apoptosis p432
Gerry Melino, Francesca Bernassola, Richard A. Knight, Maria Tiziana Corasaniti, Giuseppe Nistic and Alessandro Finazzi-Agr
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Thermal-expansion materials not so new p433
Rustum Roy and Dinesh Agrawal
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Season of birth predicts mortality in rural Gambia p434
Sophie E. Moore, Timothy J. Cole, Elizabeth M. E. Poskitt, Bakary J. Sonko, Roger G. Whitehead, Ian A. McGregor and Andrew M. Prentice
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Book Reviews
Rise and eclipse of an elusive planet p435
Joseph N. Tatarewicz
Home is the hunter p436
Asako Saegusa
In-flight meals p436
Messages in melody p436
Christopher Longuet-Higgins
Born to science p437
Peter Bryant
New in paperback p437
At a glance p438
Nicholas C. Handy and Douglas Palmer
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Article
Propagation of activity-dependent synaptic depression in simple neural networks p439
Reiko Maki Fitzsimonds, Hong-jun Song and Mu-ming Poo
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Letters to Nature
Quantum oscillations between two weakly coupled reservoirs of superfluid 3He p449
S. V. Pereverzev, A. Loshak, S. Backhaus, J. C. Davis and R. E. Packard
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Graphitic cones and the nucleation of curved carbon surfaces p451
A. Krishnan, E. Dujardin, M. M. J. Treacy, J. Hugdahl, S. Lynum and T. W. Ebbesen
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Photoisomerization in dendrimers by harvesting of low-energy photons p454
Dong-Lin Jiang and Takuzo Aida
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Past ultraviolet radiation environments in lakes derived from fossil pigments p457
Peter R. Leavitt, Rolf D. Vinebrooke, David B. Donald, John P. Smol and David W. Schindler
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Predicted reduction in basal melt rates of an Antarctic ice shelf in a warmer climate p460
K. W. Nicholls
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Laboratory simulations of sustained volcanic eruptions p462
H. M. Mader, E. E. Brodsky, D. Howard and B. Sturtevant
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The advantage of sex in evolving yeast populations p465
Clifford Zeyl and Graham Bell
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The heritability of IQ p468
B. Devlin, Michael Daniels and Kathryn Roeder
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Second-order fear conditioning prevented by blocking NMDA receptors in amygdala p471
Jonathan C. Gewirtz and Michael Davis
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Transport, docking and exocytosis of single secretory granules in live chromaffin cells p474
J. A. Steyer, H. Horstmann and W. Almers
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Optical detection of a quantal presynaptic membrane turnover p478
Timothy A. Ryan, Harald Reuter and Stephen J Smith
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Cloning and characterization of a mammalian proton-coupled metal-ion transporter p482
Hiromi Gunshin, Bryan Mackenzie, Urs V. Berger, Yoshimi Gunshin, Michael F. Romero, Walter F. Boron, Stephan Nussberger, John L. Gollan and Matthias A. Hediger
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Cell-free V(D)J recombination p488
Dale A. Ramsden, Tanya T. Paull and Martin Gellert
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Activity of DNA ligase IV stimulated by complex formation with XRCC4 protein in mammalian cells p492
Ulf Grawunder, Matthias Wilm, Xiantuo Wu, Peter Kulesza, Thomas E. Wilson, Matthias Mann and Michael R. Lieber
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Yeast DNA ligase IV mediates non-homologous DNA end joining p495
Thomas E. Wilson, Ulf Grawunder and Michael R. Lieber
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New on the Market
Light fare p499
This serving of laser equipment will have to sustain readers until next year, offering a variety of lasers, software for laser measurement, a compact optical isolator for diode lasers, as well as mirror, filter and optics accessories.
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