Table of contents
Volume 388 Number 6642 pp501-603
Opinion
When steady state is no longer good enough p501
The US Department of Energy will have to build something soon if it is to retain its role as provider of state-of-the-art scientific facilities. It should draw up a realistic medium-term plan for facility construction.
Double trouble p501
Unesco should think again before endorsing an outright condemnation of human cloning.
News
Delays at Brookhaven reactor worsen US 'neutron drought' p503
Colin Macilwain
Women researchers take on 'old boys' network' p504
Colin Macilwain
Backing for anti-cloning bill reopens embryo debate p505
Meredith Wadman
Japan leads rise in research budgets in OECD countries p505
US grants support teraflop computing simulations p506
David Kramer
Endangered species bill faces battle against property lobby p506
Tony Reichhardt
Modest increase proposed for EU research budget p506
Alison Abbott
New DFG head vows to back Germany's young scientists — and genetics research p507
Alison Abbott
Energy laboratories to open joint DNA sequence 'factory' p507
Sally Lehrman
Unesco text will target gene techniques p508
Meredith Wadman
Australian policy review backs huge cuts in research funding p509
Peter Pockley
Correspondence
Cloning, dignity and ethical reasoning p511
David Shapiro
Back to basics p511
Jukka Heinonen
Alphabetical orders p511
Tom Tregenza
Commentary
Turning back the harmful red tide p513
Harmful algal blooms are a serious and increasing problem in marine waters, yet scientists and funding agencies have been slow to investigate possible control strategies.
News and Views
A bug with excess gastric avidity p515
Russell F. Doolittle
Asteroids: Eros's extended family p516
Richard P. Binzel
Mycorrhizal fungi: The ties that bind p517
David Read
Fluid dynamics: A fractal world of cloistered waves p518
Peter G. Baines
Signal transduction: I
B kinase all zipped up p519
Alain Israë
100 and 50 years ago p520
Climate change: Is the ocean at the helm? p521
Mike McCartney
Carbon cycle: Inside the black box p522
Richard Norby
Erratum: How one Galaxy can be a cluster p523
Daedalus: Counting on the truth p523
David Jones
Obituary: Drummond Hoyle Matthews (1931-97) p524
Robert S. White
Scientific Correspondence
Acoustic alarms reduce porpoise mortality p525
Scott D. Kraus, Andrew J. Read, Andrew Solow, Ken Baldwin, Trevor Spradlin, Eric Anderson and John Williamson
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UK birds are laying eggs earlier p526
Humphrey Q. P. Crick, Caroline Dudley, David E. Glue and David L. Thomson
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CO2 increases oceanic primary production p526
Mette Hein and Kaj Sand-Jensen
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Structural biology and phylogenetic estimation p527
Gavin J. P. Naylor and Wesley M. Brown
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Book Reviews
The planetary piggy bank p529
Mary Power reviews Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems edited by Gretchen C. Daily and The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us by Yvonne Baskin
Life in the freezer p529
Science in the service of the Raj p530
Ehsan Masood reviews The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India by Zaheer Baber and Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 by Matthew H. Edney
A private function p532
Alison Jolly reviews Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
Articles
The role of nitrogen fixation in biogeochemical cycling in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean p533
D. Karl, R. Letelier, L. Tupas, J. Dore, J. Christian and D. Hebel
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The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori p539
Jean-F. Tomb, Owen White, Anthony R. Kerlavage, Rebecca A. Clayton, Granger G. Sutton, Robert D. Fleischmann, Karen A. Ketchum, Hans Peter Klenk, Steven Gill, Brian A. Dougherty, Karen Nelson, John Quackenbush, Lixin Zhou, Ewen F. Kirkness, Scott Peterson, Brendan Loftus, Delwood Richardson, Robert Dodson, Hanif G. Khalak, Anna Glodek, Keith McKenney, Lisa M. Fitzegerald, Norman Lee, Mark D. Adams, Erin K. Hickey, Douglas E. Berg, Jeanine D. Gocayne, Teresa R. Utterback, Jeremy D. Peterson, Jenny M. Kelley, Matthew D. Cotton, Janice M. Weidman, Claire Fujii, Cheryl Bowman, Larry Watthey, Erik Wallin, William S. Hayes, Mark Borodovsky, Peter D. Karp, Hamilton O. Smith, Claire M. Fraser and J. Craig Venter
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A cytokine-responsive IB kinase that activates the transcription factor NF-B p548
Joseph A. DiDonato, Makio Hayakawa, David M. Rothwarf, Ebrahim Zandi and Michael Karin
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Letters to Nature
A rotating disk of gas and dust around a young counterpart to 
Pictoris p555
Vincent Mannings, David W. Koerner and Anneila I. Sargent
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Observation of an internal wave attractor in a confined, stably stratified fluid p557
Leo R. M. Maas, Dominique Benielli, Joël Sommeria and Frans-Peter A. Lam
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Discovery of a reactive azeotrope p561
W. Song, R. S. Huss, M. F. Doherty and M. F. Malone
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Decadal predictability of North Atlantic sea surface temperature and climate p563
R. T. Sutton and M. R. Allen
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Orbitally paced climate oscillations across the Oligocene/Miocene boundary p567
James C. Zachos, Benjamin P. Flower and Hilary Paul
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Geodynamic estimates of the viscosity of the Earth's inner core p571
Bruce A. Buffett
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Deep marine biosphere fuelled by increasing organic matter availability during burial and heating p573
Peter Wellsbury, Kim Goodman, Tanja Barth, Barry A. Cragg, Stephen P. Barnes and R. John Parkes
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The fate of carbon in grasslands under carbon dioxide enrichment p576
Bruce A. Hungate, Elisabeth A. Holland, Robert B. Jackson, F. Stuart Chapin, III, Harold A. Mooney and Christopher B. Field
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Net transfer of carbon between ectomycorrhizal tree species in the field p579
Suzanne W. Simard, David A. Perry, Melanie D. Jones, David D. Myrold, Daniel M. Durall and Randy Molina
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Dissociating prefrontal and hippocampal function in episodic memory encoding p582
R. J. Dolan and P. C. Fletcher
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Absence of opiate rewarding effects in mice lacking dopamine D2 receptors p586
Rafael Maldonado, Adolfo Saiardi, Olga Valverde, Tarek A. Samad, Bernard P. Roques and Emiliana Borrelli
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Rab3A is essential for mossy fibre long-term potentiation in the hippocampus p590
Pablo E. Castillo, Roger Janz, Thomas C. Sdhof, Thanos Tzounopoulos, Robert C. Malenka and Roger A. Nicoll
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Rim is a putative Rab3 effector in regulating synaptic-vesicle fusion p593
Yun Wang, Masaya Okamoto, Frank Schmitz, Kay Hofmann and Thomas C. Südhof
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Chromatin-remodelling factor CHRAC contains the ATPases ISWI and topoisomerase II p598
Patrick D. Varga-Weisz, Matthias Wilm, Edgar Bonte, Katia Dumas, Matthias Mann and Peter B. Becker
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Modelling teleconnections between the North Atlantic and North Pacific during the Younger Dryas p602
Uwe Mikolajewicz, Thomas J. Crowley, Andreas Schiller and Reinhard Voss
New on the Market
The breakdown on bioinformatics p603
Hardware and software make up this survey — items include software for genomics work, DNA and protein sequence analysis, protein viewing, and a number of products for drug discovery and drug screening applications.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.