Table of contents
Volume 389 Number 6646 pp1-102
Opinion
Obstacles of nomenclature p1
Most disciplines know how to handle the naming of newly discovered objects. Not so the molecular biologists, whose profligate and undisciplined labelling is hampering communication.
doi:10.1038/37816
Escape from UNEP? p1
Parties to the United Nations biodiversity convention have been given a rare opportunity.
doi:10.1038/37818
News
Relocation of geological survey 'could free funds for scientists' p3
Laura Garwin
doi:10.1038/37820
Exonerated researcher settles for $3m p3
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/37823
Modest increases prevail in Japanese budget bids p4
Robert Triendl
doi:10.1038/37825
Scripps Institute plan would boost research space p4
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/37828
Biodiversity boss to stay, averting crisis p5
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/37830
Animal researchers should 'start talking' to anti-vivisectionists p5
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/37833
Consortium aims to revive sterile-mosquito project p6
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/37835
US patent office withdraws patent on Indian herb p6
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/37838
Curbs on B6 highlight dietary dilemmas p7
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/37840
Flood control strategy agreed for Oder p7
Matthias Strobl
doi:10.1038/37843
Library tries to rebuild flooded collection p8
Laura Garwin
doi:10.1038/37845
Eugenics scandal reveals silence of Swedish scientists p9
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/37848
France gives go-ahead for genomics centre on complex diseases p10
doi:10.1038/37851
Correspondence
Gourmet cannibalism in New Guinea tribe p11
Richard Rhodes
doi:10.1038/37853
Pseudo-authorship p11
A. J. van Loon
doi:10.1038/37855
Fraud foreseen p11
Horacio Rivera
doi:10.1038/37857
Scientific advance thrives on openness p11
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/37859
Commentary
Achieving low-cost emissions targets p13
doi:10.1038/37861
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News and Views
Reversing the kinesin ratchet — a diverting tail p15
R. A. Cross
doi:10.1038/37864
Mathematics: What you eat is how many you are p16
Ivar Ekeland
doi:10.1038/37867
Membrane transport: Green light for Golgi traffic p17
Hugh R. B. Pelham
doi:10.1038/37870
100 and 50 years ago p20
doi:10.1038/37874
Climate change: Icy message from the Antarctic p20
Eugene Murphy and John King
doi:10.1038/37876
Epidemiology: A human germ project? p21
John Danesh, Robert Newton and Valerie Beral
doi:10.1038/37879
Solar physics: Down the sunspot plughole p23
Karen Southwell
doi:10.1038/37883
Daedalus: No-party democracy p24
David Jones
doi:10.1038/37886
Scientific Correspondence
Odour conveys status on cockroaches p25
Patricia J. Moore, Nancy L. Reagan-Wallin, Kenneth F. Haynes and Allen J. Moore
doi:10.1038/37888
Anandamide may mediate sleep induction p25
Raphael Mechoulam, Ester Fride, Lumir Hanu, Tzviel Sheskin, Tiziana Bisogno, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Michael Bayewitch and Zvi Vogel
doi:10.1038/37891
How hosts control worms p27
M. J. Stear, K. Bairden, J. L. Duncan, P. H. Holmes, Q. A. McKellar, M. Park, S. Strain, M. Murray, S. C. Bishop and G. Gettinby
doi:10.1038/37895
Salamander with a ballistic tongue p27
Stephen M. Deban, David B. Wake and Gerhard Roth
doi:10.1038/37898
Book Reviews
Everyday tales of ordinary madness p29
John C. Marshall
doi:10.1038/37902
Scales of progress p30
John Long
doi:10.1038/37905
New in paperback p30
doi:10.1038/37908
A sense of place p31
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/37910
Winged wonders p32
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/37913
Classic writings p32
doi:10.1038/37916
Review
The origin and early evolution of plants on land p33
Paul Kenrick and Peter R. Crane
doi:10.1038/37918
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Article
Structure of Cre recombinase complexed with DNA in a site-specific recombination synapse p40
Feng Guo, Deshmukh N. Gopaul and Gregory D. Van Duyne
doi:10.1038/37925
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Letters to Nature
Evidence for a downward mass flux in the penumbral region of a sunspot p47
C. Westendorp Plaza, J. C. del Toro Iniesta, B. Ruiz Cobo, V. Martínez Pillet, B. W. Lites and A. Skumanich
doi:10.1038/37933
A ductile ceramic eutectic composite with high strength at 1,873 K p49
Y. Waku, N. Nakagawa, T. Wakamoto, H. Ohtsubo, K. Shimizu and Y. Kohtoku
doi:10.1038/37937
Oxidative acylation using thioacids p52
Rihe Liu and Leslie E. Orgel
doi:10.1038/37944
RNA-catalysed carbon–carbon bond formation p54
Theodore M. Tarasow, Sandra L. Tarasow and Bruce E. Eaton
doi:10.1038/37950
Abrupt mid-twentieth-century decline in Antarctic sea-ice extent from whaling records p57
William K. de la Mare
doi:10.1038/37956
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Measurements of electric anisotropy due to solidification texturing and the implications for the Earth's inner core p60
Michael I. Bergman
doi:10.1038/37962
An intrinsic frequency limit to the cochlear amplifier p63
Jonathan E. Gale and Jonathan F. Ashmore
doi:10.1038/37968
Modulation of neuronal activity by target uncertainty p66
Michele A. Basso and Robert H. Wurtz
doi:10.1038/37975
PrP-expressing tissue required for transfer of scrapie infectivity from spleen to brain p69
Thomas Blättler, Sebastian Brandner, Alex J. Raeber, Michael A. Klein, Till Voigtländer, Charles Weissmann and Adriano Aguzzi
doi:10.1038/37981
The mouse Dazla gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein essential for gametogenesis p73
Matteo Ruggiu, Robert Speed, Mary Taggart, Stewart J. McKay, Fiona Kilanowski, Philippa Saunders, Julia Dorin and Howard J. Cooke
doi:10.1038/37987
Mechanism of inhibition of the human matrix metalloproteinase stromelysin-1 by TIMP-1 p77
Franz-Xaver Gomis-R¨th, Klaus Maskos, Michael Betz, Andreas Bergner, Robert Huber, Ko Suzuki, Naoki Yoshida, Hideaki Nagase, Keith Brew, Gleb P. Bourenkov, Hans Bartunik and Wolfram Bode
doi:10.1038/37995
ER-to-Golgi transport visualized in living cells p81
John F. Presley, Nelson B. Cole, Trina A. Schroer, Koret Hirschberg, Kristien J. M. Zaal and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
doi:10.1038/38001
Smad4 and FAST-1 in the assembly of activin-responsive factor p85
Xin Chen, Ellen Weisberg, Valerie Fridmacher, Minoru Watanabe, Grace Naco and Malcolm Whitman
doi:10.1038/38008
Actin-dependent localization of an RNA encoding a cell-fate determinant in yeast p90
Peter A. Takizawa, Anita Sil, Jason R. Swedlow, Ira Herskowitz and Ronald D. Vale
doi:10.1038/38015
Reversal in the direction of movement of a molecular motor p93
Ulrike Henningsen and Manfred Schliwa
doi:10.1038/38022
Structure of the inhibitory receptor for human natural killer cells resembles haematopoietic receptors p96
Qing R. Fan, Lidia Mosyak, Christine C. Winter, Nicolai Wagtmann, Eric O. Long and Don C. Wiley
doi:10.1038/38028
Erratum: Neurotactin, a membrane-anchored chemokine upregulated in brain inflammation p100
Yang Pan, Clare Lloyd, Hong Zhou, Sylvia Dolich, Jim Deeds, Jose-Angel Gonzalo, Jim Vath, Mike Gosselin, Jingya Ma, Barry Dussault, Elizabeth Woolf, Geoff Alperin, Janice Culpepper, Jose Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos and David Gearing
doi:10.1038/38048
New on the Market
Keeping growth under control p101
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doi:10.1038/38050
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