Table of contents
Volume 390 Number 6656 pp101-204
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Opinion
Strategy needs disciplines p101
The UK government will soon reveal its thinking about universities. There are critical challenges in science to be tackled by researchers, funders and advocates acting more coherently within disciplinary contexts.
doi:10.1038/36386
Make radio polluters pay p101
Governments need to do more to curb pollution of astronomically essential radio bands.
doi:10.1038/36388
News
Astronomers fight incursion of phones into radio frequencies p103
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/36390
Interference threatens Indian radiotelescope p103
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/36392
Congress moves swiftly to protect academy's independence p104
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/36395
Japan ties the industry/university knot p105
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/36398
British study will assess risks of vCJD blood transmission p105
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/36401
Greenhouse talks fail to smoke out US Kyoto strategy p106
Asako Saegusa & Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36403
Russian parliament ratifies chemical weapons treaty p106
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/36405
US panel proposes joint 'pathogens initiative' p106
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/36407
Malaysia backs 'gag' on haze scientists p107
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36409
Largest-ever study contests radiation role in childhood cancers p107
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/36412
'Mind body' claims put NIH on defensive p108
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/36414
India drafts law to protect bioresources p108
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/36416
Australia urged to revise Antarctic efforts p109
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/36418
'Disappointing lack of action' over illegal fishing p109
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/36421
Independent panel will oversee US research on Gulf War illnesses p110
doi:10.1038/36423
Correspondence
Dangers of hyperbole in climate prediction p111
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/36426
Alphabetical listing p111
Vasily Vlassov
doi:10.1038/36428
Headless tadpoles and an informed public p111
Jonathan Slack
doi:10.1038/36430
Mercury mining: profit or loss? p112
Javier Garcia-Guinea & Matthew Harffy
doi:10.1038/36432
Getting rid of mosquitoes p113
Karamjit S. Rai
doi:10.1038/36434
Funding fault p113
Henry Haslam
doi:10.1038/36436
News and Views
Galaxies take the distance record p115
Kenneth Lanzetta
doi:10.1038/36438
Apoptosis: A Bad kinase makes good p116
Thomas F. Franke & Lewis C. Cantley
doi:10.1038/36442
Climate change: Sudden end of an interglacial p117
Scott Lehman
doi:10.1038/36445
Accordioning with thorium p119
Scott Lehman
doi:10.1038/36448
Human evolution: Ecce Homo — behold mankind p120
Bernard Wood
doi:10.1038/36450
Evolutionary biology: Fungal foray p120
Orla Smith
doi:10.1038/36452
Nuclear physics: Doubly magical gamma decays p121
Philip Woods
doi:10.1038/36455
Signal transduction: Inositol lipid pathways turn turtle p123
Kath Hinchliffe & Robin Irvine
doi:10.1038/36458
100 and 50 years ago p124
doi:10.1038/36462
Photonics: The Vs and Qs of optical microcavities p125
Pauline Rigby & Thomas F. Krauss
doi:10.1038/36464
Daedalus: An interview with Daedalus p126
David Jones
doi:10.1038/36467
Art and Science
Piero's perspective p128
Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca plotted perspective so meticulously and consistently that he was able to make the divine, with its miraculous lack of optical logic, shine out in contrast to the rest of the picture.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/36469
Scientific Correspondence
Submarine columns of ikaite tufa p129
Bjørn Buchardt, Paul Seaman, Gabrielle Stockmann, Marie Vous, Uffe Wilken, Lene Düwel, Aase Kristiansen, Christopher Jenner, Michael J. Whiticar, Reinhardt M. Kristensen, Godtfred H. Petersen & Lone Thorbjørn
doi:10.1038/36474
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Saccades without eye movements p130
Iain D. Gilchrist, Valerie Brown & John M. Findlay
doi:10.1038/36478
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Site of particle selection in a bivalve mollusc p131
J. Evan Ward, Jeffrey S. Levinton, Sandra E. Shumway & Terry Cucci
doi:10.1038/36481
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In-store music affects product choice p132
Adrian C. North, David J. Hargreaves & Jennifer McKendrick
doi:10.1038/36484
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Book Reviews
The illusion of choice in patient power p133
Georges Annas reviews Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age by Michael L. Millenson
doi:10.1038/36487
Of pith and kin p133
doi:10.1038/36489
Chemist as catalyst p134
Kostas Gavroglu reviews Justus von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper by William H. Brock
doi:10.1038/36492
Diamonds in spades p135
Alison Mitchell
doi:10.1038/36495
Signs of the times p135
Donald Yeomans
doi:10.1038/36498
Getting down to business p136
William Bains reviews The Scientist as Consultant: Building New Career Opportunities by Carl J. Sindermann & Thomas K. Sawyer
doi:10.1038/36501
Corrections p136
doi:10.1038/36503
Article
A new symmetrodont mammal from China and its implications for mammalian evolution p137
Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Zhexi Luo & Chuankui Li
doi:10.1038/36505
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Letters to Nature
Photonic-bandgap microcavities in optical waveguides p143
J. S. Foresi, P. R. Villeneuve, J. Ferrera, E. R. Thoen, G. Steinmeyer, S. Fan, J. D. Joannopoulos, L. C. Kimerling, Henry I. Smith & E. P. Ippen
doi:10.1038/36514
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Branched fractal patterns in non-equilibrium electrochemical deposition from oscillatory nucleation and growth p145
Vincent Fleury
doi:10.1038/36522
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Discovery of a second family of bismuth-oxide-based superconductors p148
S. M. Kazakov, C. Chaillout, P. Bordet, J. J. Capponi, M. Nunez-Regueiro, A. Rysak, J. L. Tholence, P. G. Radaelli, S. N. Putilin & E. V. Antipov
doi:10.1038/36529
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Chemical composition of dissolved organic nitrogen in the ocean p150
Matthew McCarthy, Tom Pratum, John Hedges & Ronald Benner
doi:10.1038/36535
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Variability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation during the last interglacial period p154
Jess F. Adkins§, Edward A. Boyle, Lloyd Keigwin & Elsa Cortijo
doi:10.1038/36540
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Displacement rates of normal faults p157
A. Nicol‡, J. J. Walsh, J. Watterson & J. R. Underhill
doi:10.1038/36548
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Pb, U and Th diffusion in natural zircon p159
James K. W. Lee†, Ian S. Williams & David J. Ellis
doi:10.1038/36554
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Biodiversity regulates ecosystem predictability p162
Jill McGrady-Steed, Patricia M. Harris & Peter J. Morin
doi:10.1038/36561
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Mice lacking bombesin receptor subtype-3 develop metabolic defects and obesity p165
Hiroko Ohki-Hamazaki, Kei Watase, Kazutoshi Yamamoto, Hiroo Ogura, Mariko Yamano, Kazuyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Maeno, Junko Imaki, Sakae Kikuyama, Etsuko Wada & Keiji Wada
doi:10.1038/36568
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Math1 is essential for genesis of cerebellar granule neurons p169
Nissim Ben-Arie, Hugo J. Bellen, Dawna L. Armstrong, Alanna E. McCall, Polina R. Gordadze, Qiuxia Guo, Martin M. Matzuk & Huda Y. Zoghbi
doi:10.1038/36579
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Impaired mast cell-dependent natural immunity in complement C3-deficient mice p172
Andrey P. Prodeus, Xiaoning Zhou, Marcus Maurer, Stephen J. Galli & Michael C. Carroll
doi:10.1038/36586
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A homologue of the TNF receptor and its ligand enhance T-cell growth and dendritic-cell function p175
Dirk M. Anderson, Eugene Maraskovsky, William L. Billingsley, William C. Dougall, Mark E. Tometsko, Eileen R. Roux, Mark C. Teepe, Robert F. DuBose, David Cosman & Laurent Galibert
doi:10.1038/36593
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DAP kinase links the control of apoptosis to metastasis p180
Boaz Inbal, Ofer Cohen, Sylvie Polak-Charcon, Juri Kopolovic, Ezra Vadai, Lea Eisenbach & Adi Kimchi
doi:10.1038/36599
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Herpes viral cyclin/Cdk6 complexes evade inhibition by CDK inhibitor proteins p184
Charles Swanton, David J. Mann, Bernhard Fleckenstein, Frank Neipel, Gordon Peters & Nic Jones
doi:10.1038/36606
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Osmotic stress activates phosphatidylinositol-3,5-bisphosphate synthesis p187
Stephen K. Dove, Frank T. Cooke, Michael R. Douglas, Lee G. Sayers, Peter J. Parker & Robert H. Michell
doi:10.1038/36613
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A new pathway for synthesis of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate p192
Lucia E. Rameh, Kimberley F. Tolias, Brian C. Duckworth & Lewis C. Cantley
doi:10.1038/36621
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Folding dynamics and mechanism of 
-hairpin formation p196
Victor Muñoz, Peggy A. Thompson, James Hofrichter & William A. Eaton
doi:10.1038/36626
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Correction: K+channel regulation of signal propagation in dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons p199
Dax A. Hoffman, Jeffrey C. Magee, Costa M. Colbert & Daniel Johnston
doi:10.1038/36632
Careers and Recruitment
Passion and prejudice in research p201
In every country examined, there are far fewer women in senior positions in science than the number who begin a career in research — and those who do achieve success are paid less than their male colleagues. Irrespective of gender, the distribution of grants for scientific research is grossly skewed in favour of the few at the expense of the many. And members of some ethnic minority groups tend not even to begin careers in research. Why are these discriminatory practices tolerated, and what (if anything) is being done to change this state of affairs?
Scot Stevenson
doi:10.1038/36634
Remaining at the bottom of the UK league p201
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/36637
Along the leaky pipeline p202
Potter Wickware
doi:10.1038/36639
Waiting for a head count p202
Scot Stevenson
doi:10.1038/36641
In defence of small science p203
Frederick Sachs
doi:10.1038/36643
"Invasion of dragons" needed p203
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/36645
Equality not taken for granted p204
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/36647
Careers and recruitment in Nature p204
doi:10.1038/36649
