Table of contents
Volume 390 Number 6655 pp1-100
Opinion
Hollow arguments against nuclear test ban p1
The Senate's approach to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty will show whether the United States is ready to lead a world emerging from the deceptive simplicities of the Cold War.
doi:10.1038/36156
News
Admission on Gulf War vaccines spurs debate on medical records p3
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/36158
Ariane-5 saves Europe's place in space p3
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/36161
Critics claim US inquiry was 'irreparably flawed' p4
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/36163
Fusion results 'confirm the scientific case for ITER' p5
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/36165
Monsanto links up with Millenium on genome research p5
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/36168
NIH heads for 7.1 per cent budget growth p6
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/36170
Canada 'still has a long way to go' in effective control of acid rain p6
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/36172
World Bank fund finds allies and sceptics p7
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36175
Kyoto 'dress rehearsal' ends in deadlock p7
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36178
Space science projects may be grounded p8
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/36181
Millennium Moon mission seeks private funds p8
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/36183
Dutch reforms raise alarm in universities p9
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/36186
South Africa increases central control of higher education p9
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/36189
News and Views
The U, J and L of bird flight p13
R. McNeill Alexander
doi:10.1038/36196
Structural chemistry: Oxygen bridges in molten glass p14
Ian Farnan
doi:10.1038/36199
Cell adhesion: How integrins are activated p15
Laurence A. Lasky
doi:10.1038/36204
Photonics: A photon in solitary confinement p17
Yoshihisa Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/36206
100 and 50 years ago p17
doi:10.1038/36208
Ageing: New mice for old questions p18
George M. Martin and I. Saira Mian
doi:10.1038/36210
Evolutionary biology: Sex and synergism p19
Emily J. Lyons
doi:10.1038/36213
Palaeontology: Fins made for walking p21
Oleg A. Lebedev
doi:10.1038/36215
Remote sensing: Night lights p21
Karen Southwell
doi:10.1038/36217
Daedalus: A radical steam-trap p22
David Jones
doi:10.1038/36220
News and Views Feature
Galileo at Jupiter — meetings with remarkable moons p23
The four large moons of Jupiter form the most coherently organized planetary system known. Over the past two years, the Galileo spacecraft has illuminated both the interconnections between these worlds and the uniqueness of each, challenging theories of moon formation and evolution.
William B. McKinnon
doi:10.1038/36222
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Art and Science
Derges's designs p27
Drop sheets of photographic paper into a river and let the play of light and water paint its own picture. That is one of the innovative techniques used by Susan Derges in her 'photo-works'.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/36231
Scientific Correspondence
Of fingers, toes and penises p29
Takashi Kondo, József Zákány, Jeffrey W. Innis and Denis Duboule
doi:10.1038/36234
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Chaperoning extended life p30
Marc Tatar, Aziz A. Khazaeli and James W. Curtsinger
doi:10.1038/36237
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Probabilities of conspecificity p30
J. F. Thackeray
doi:10.1038/36240
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Xenoturbella 's molluscan relatives... p31
Michael Norén and Ulf Jondelius
doi:10.1038/36242
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...and molluscan embryogenesis p32
Olle Israelsson
doi:10.1038/36246
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Film Review
Discrimination down to a science p33
Kevin Davies reviews GATTACA A film written and directed by Andrew Niccol
doi:10.1038/36250
Autumn Books
The fragile contract p34
Harvey Brooks reviews Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century by G. Pascal Zachary
doi:10.1038/36253
A bluffer's guide p35
Walter Gratzer reviews Loose Ends by Sydney Brenner
doi:10.1038/36256
Life's dead letter p36
Benno Müller-Hill reviews Lifelines: Biology, Freedom, Determination by Steven Rose
doi:10.1038/36258
Après lui le déluge p37
Philippe Janvier reviews Buffon by Roger Jacques
doi:10.1038/36260
Students rule p38
Daniel S. Greenberg reviews Academic Duty by Donald Kennedy
doi:10.1038/36263
Credit control p39
Mary J. Dobson reviews Ronald Ross: Malariologist and Polymath — A Biography by Edwin R. Nye and Mary E. Gibson
doi:10.1038/36266
Heavyweight history p40
Graham Farmelo reviews Science in the Twentieth Century by John Krige and Dominique Pestre
doi:10.1038/36269
Inner visions p41
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi reviews The Ovary of Eve: Eggs and Sperm and Preformation by Clara Pinto-Correia
doi:10.1038/36271
No direction known p42
Huw Price reviews The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature by Ilya Prigogine and In Search of Lost Time by Derek York
doi:10.1038/36274
Future present p42
Martin Campbell-Kelly reviews Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing edited by Peter J. Denning and Robert M. Metcalfe
doi:10.1038/36277
Incomplete theorems p43
Ivar Ekeland reviews What is Mathematics, Really? by Reuben Hersh
doi:10.1038/36279
O brave new world that has Prozac in't! p44
Chris McManus reviews Britain on the Couch: Why We're Unhappier Compared With 1950 Despite Being Richer — A Treatment for the Low-Serotonin Society by Oliver James
doi:10.1038/36282
Article
Mutation of the mouse klotho gene leads to a syndrome resembling ageing p45
Makoto Kuro-o, Yutaka Matsumura, Hiroki Aizawa, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Tatsuo Suga, Toshihiro Utsugi, Yoshio Ohyama, Masahiko Kurabayashi, Tadashi Kaname, Eisuke Kume, Hitoshi Iwasaki, Akihiro Iida, Takako Shiraki-Iida, Satoshi Nishikawa, Ryozo Nagai and Yo-ichi Nabeshima
doi:10.1038/36285
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Letters to Nature
A subsurface flow of material from the Sun's equator to its poles p52
P. M. Giles, T. L. Duvall, Jr, P. H. Scherrer and R. S. Bogart
doi:10.1038/36294
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Metamorphosis of a quantum wire into quantum dots p54
Joel Hasen, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Aron Pinczuk, Song He, Ken W. West and Brian S. Dennis
doi:10.1038/36299
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Large magnetoresistance in non-magnetic silver chalcogenides p57
R. Xu, A. Husmann, T. F. Rosenbaum, M.-L. Saboungi, J. E. Enderby and P. B. Littlewood
doi:10.1038/36306
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NMR evidence for excess non-bridging oxygen in an aluminosilicate glass p60
Jonathan F. Stebbins and Zhi Xu
doi:10.1038/36312
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Observation of stratospheric ozone depletion in rocket exhaust plumes p62
M. N. Ross, J. R. Benbrook, W. R. Sheldon, P. F. Zittel and D. L. McKenzie
doi:10.1038/36318
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Organic carbon burial forcing of the carbon cycle from Himalayan erosion p65
Christian France-Lanord and Louis A. Derry
doi:10.1038/36324
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Mechanical power output of bird flight p67
K. P. Dial, A. A. Biewener, B. W. Tobalske and D. R. Warrick
doi:10.1038/36330
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Impaired odour discrimination on desynchronization of odour-encoding neural assemblies p70
Mark Stopfer, Seetha Bhagavan, Brian H. Smith and Gilles Laurent
doi:10.1038/36335
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Prion (PrPSc)-specific epitope defined by a monoclonal antibody p74
C. Korth, B. Stierli, P. Streit, M. Moser, O. Schaller, R. Fischer, W. Schulz-Schaeffer, H. Kretzschmar, A. Raeber, U. Braun, F. Ehrensperger, S. Hornemann, R. Glockshuber, R. Riek, M. Billeter, K. Wüthrich and B. Oesch
doi:10.1038/36337
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The prostaglandin receptor EP4 triggers remodelling of the cardiovascular system at birth p78
MyTrang Nguyen, Todd Camenisch, John N. Snouwaert, Elizabeth Hicks, Thomas M. Coffman, Page A. W. Anderson, Nadia N. Malouf and Beverly H. Koller
doi:10.1038/36342
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Complementation of dominant suppression implicates CD98 in integrin activation p81
Csilla A. Fenczik, Tariq Sethi, Joe W. Ramos, Paul E. Hughes and Mark H. Ginsberg
doi:10.1038/36349
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Inhibitory and activating functions for MAPK Kss1 in the S. cerevisiae filamentous- growth signalling pathway p85
Jeanette Gowen Cook, Lee Bardwell and Jeremy Thorner
doi:10.1038/36355
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Switching of the coupling of the 
2-adrenergic receptor to different G proteins by protein kinase A p88
Yehia Daaka, Louis M. Luttrell and Robert J. Lefkowitz
doi:10.1038/36362
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Tyrosine phosphorylation of the EGF receptor by the kinase Jak2 is induced by growth hormone p91
Toshimasa Yamauchi, Kohjiro Ueki, Kazuyuki Tobe, Hiroyuki Tamemoto, Nobuo Sekine, Mitsufumi Wada, Masaru Honjo, Michio Takahashi, Tokiharu Takahashi, Hisamaru Hirai, Toshio Tushima, Yasuo Akanuma, Toshiro Fujita, Issei Komuro, Yoshio Yazaki and Takashi Kadowaki
doi:10.1038/36369
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Peptide bond formation by in vitro selected ribozymes p96
Biliang Zhang and Thomas R. Cech
doi:10.1038/36375
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Correction: Synthesis of epothilones A and B in solid and solution phase p100
K. C. Nicolaou, N. Winssinger, J. Pastor, S. Ninkovic, F. Sarabia, Y. He, D. Vourloumis, Z. Yang, T. Li, P. Giannakakou and E. Hamel
doi:10.1038/36382
Retraction: High levels of genetic change in rodents of Chernobyl p100
Robert J. Baker, Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, Amanda J. Wright, Lara E. Wiggins, Meredith J. Hamilton, Erin P. Reat, Michael H. Smith, Michael D. Lomakin and Ronald K. Chesser
doi:10.1038/36384
