Table of contents
Volume 388 Number 6643 pp607-698
Opinion
Flawed understanding of the scientific process p607
Scientific robustness — not certainty — is the key to good environmental regulation. Only when this is recognized will debates about the soundness of scientific advice or access to data be properly resolved.
Taking on the barons p607
Italy must grasp a unique chance to reform its grant system before the window of opportunity closes.
News
Fight over Italian research policy threatens chance for reform p609
Alison Abbott
Government considers plans to create biomedical research institute p609
Alison Abbott
Universities rally against cuts in Pentagon-funded research p610
Colin Macilwain
US to tighten protection of medical data p611
Meredith Wadman
After Dolly, meet Gene, the cloned calf p611
Pathfinder probes the weather on Mars p612
Stephen Battersby
'Neutral' mechanism sought to fund environmental research p612
Tony Reichhardt
Independence, but no Nobel winners for India since then p613
K. S. Jayaraman
Make marijuana research easier, panel urges NIH p613
Sally Lehrman
Greenhouse talks edge towards targets p614
Quirin Schiermeier and Robert Triendl
Head of French leukaemia inquiry quits after partisan remarks p614
Eric Glover
News Analysis
Japan tightens focus in space research p615
Cuts in Japan's space programme indicate a shift towards users' needs, rather than providing broad-based support for space technology.
Robert Triendl
Correspondence
A permanent decline in oil production? p618
Hendrik S. Houthakker and Craig Bond Hatfield
Russian science misrepresented p618
Eugen F. Makarov
Commentary
What cannot be said in science p619
The scientific enterprise is full of experts on specialist areas but woefully short of people with a unified world-view. This state of affairs can only inhibit progress, and could threaten political and financial support for research.
News and Views
Will solid hydrogen ever be a metal? p621
Peter P. Edwards and Friedrich Hensel
Evolutionary biology: Even-toed fingerprints on whale ancestry p622
Michel C. Milinkovitch and J. G. M. Thewissen
100 and 50 years ago p623
Adenosine receptors: Knockouts anxious for new therapy p624
Solomon H. Snyder
Atmospheric chemistry: Ozone clouds over the Atlantic p625
Paul Crutzen and Mark Lawrence
Immunotherapy: Fusion induces tumour rejection p626
Ian Hart and Camilo Colaco
Biodiversity: Global change through invasion p627
Gábor L. Lövei
Acoustics: Unwanted and wanted sound p628
Thomas D. Rossing
LDL-receptor structure: Calcium cages, acid baths and recycling receptors p629
Michael S. Brown, Joachim Herz and Joseph L. Goldstein
Daedalus: Command performance p630
David Jones
Scientific Correspondence
Framboidal pyrites in antique books p631
Javier Garcia-Guinea, Jesus Martinez-Frias, Rafael Gonzalez-Martin and Luis Zamora
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (163K)
Intercropping increases parasitism of pests p631
Z. R. Khan, K. Ampong-Nyarko, P. Chiliswa, A. Hassanali, S. Kimani, W. Lwande, W. A. Overholt, W. A. Overholt, J. A. Picketta, L. E. Smart and C. M. Woodcock
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (163K)
Stochastic resonance at the single-cell level p632
R. Dean Astumian, R. K. Adair and James C. Weaver
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (172K)
Reply: Stochastic resonance at the single-cell level p633
Sergey M. Bezrukov and Igor Vodyanoy
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (122K)
Sequence-specific RNA binding by Bicoid p634
Siu-Kwong Chan and Gary Struhl
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (315K)
Correction: Metallothionein in snail CD and Cu metabolism p634
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (315K)
Book Reviews
I'll be judge, I'll be jury p635
Sheila Jasanoff
On the horns of a dilemma p636
Brian Bertram
Motion of the heavens p636
Jacques Laskar
Film review: Aliens, lies and videotape p637
Leslie Sage is an assistant editor of Nature.
Outdoor man p638
Review
Fossils, genes and the evolution of animal limbs p639
Neil Shubin, Cliff Tabin and Sean Carroll
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (510K)
Letters to Nature
Deep winds on Jupiter as measured by the Galileo probe p649
David H. Atkinson, Andrew P. Ingersoll and Alvin Seiff
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (235K)
Wind speeds measured in the deep jovian atmosphere by the Galileo probe accelerometers p650
A. Seiff, R. C. Blanchard, T. C. D. Knight, G. Schubert, D. B. Kirk, D. Atkinson, J. D. Mihalov and R. E. Young
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (258K)
Spontaneous polarization in dense hydrogen p652
B. Edwards and N. W. Ashcroft
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (302K)
Resonant pattern formation in achemical system p655
Valery Petrov, Qi Ouyang and Harry L. Swinney
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (381K)
Plasticity and avalanche behaviour in microfracturing phenomena p658
Stefano Zapperi, Alessandro Vespignani and H. Eugene Stanley
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (537K)
Ozone-rich transients in the upper equatorial Atlantic troposphere p661
K. Suhre, J.-P. Cammas, P. Nédelec, R. Rosset, A. Marenco and H. G. J. Smit
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (257K)
Conspecific sperm precedence in Drosophila p663
Catherine S. C. Price
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (311K)
Molecular evidence from retroposons that whales form a clade within even-toed ungulates p666
Mitsuru Shimamura, Hiroshi Yasue, Kazuhiko Ohshima, Hideaki Abe, Hidehiro Kato, Toshiya Kishiro, Mutsuo Goto, Isao Munechika and Norihiro Okada
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (387K)
Formation of olfactory memories mediated by nitric oxide p670
K. M. Kendrick, R. Guevara-Guzman, J. Zorrilla, M. R. Hinton, K. D. Broad, M. Mimmack and S. Ohkura
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (386K)
Aggressiveness, hypoalgesia and high blood pressure in mice lacking the adenosine A2a receptor p674
Catherine Ledent, Jean-Marie Vaugeois, Serge N. Schiffmann, Thierry Pedrazzini, Malika El Yacoubi, Jean-Jacques Vanderhaeghen, Jean Costentin, John K. Heath, Gilbert Vassart and Marc Parmentier
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (358K)
Altered pain perception and inflammatory response in mice lacking prostacyclin receptor p678
Takahiko Murata, Fumitaka Ushikubi, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Masakazu Hirata, Atsushi Yamasaki, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Atsushi Ichikawa, Yoshiya Aze, Takashi Tanaka, Nobuaki Yoshida, Akinori Ueno, Sachiko Oh-ishi and Shuh Narumiya
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (361K)
Crustacean appendage evolution associated with changes in Hox gene expression p682
Michalis Averof and Nipam H. Patel
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (806K)
Recruitment of functional GABAA receptors to postsynaptic domains by insulin p686
Q. Wan, Z. G. Xiong, H. Y. Man, C. A. Ackerley, J. Braunton, W. Y. Lu, L. E. Becker, J. F. MacDonald and Y. T. Wang
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (537K)
Molecular basis of familial hypercholesterolaemia from structure of LDL receptor module p691
Deborah Fass, Stephen Blacklow, Peter S. Kim and James M. Berger
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (342K)
Crystal structure of a small G protein in complex with the GTPase-activating protein rhoGAP p693
Katrin Rittinger, Philip A. Walker, John F. Eccleston, Kurshid Nurmahomed, Darerca Owen, Ernest Laue, Steven J. Gamblin and Stephen J. Smerdon
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (629K)
Correction: A new chromosomal protein essential for mitotic spindle assembly p697
Jing-Ping Yeo, Frank Alderuccio and Ban-Hock Toh
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (154K)
Correction: RNA recognition and translational regulation by a homeodomain protein p697
Josh Dubnau and Gary Struhl
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (154K)
Erratum: Synapse specificity of long-term potentiation breaks down at short distances p698
Florian Engert and Tobias Bonhoeffer
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (515K)
