Table of contents
Volume 390 Number 6658 pp319-426
Opinion
Can these agencies jell? p319
The plan to merge Japan's Science and Technology Agency with the education ministry is fraught with pitfalls but offers some opportunities.
doi:10.1038/36917
Nuclear debate required p319
It is time for France's National Assembly to flex atrophied nuclear muscles.
doi:10.1038/36919
News
Closure of primate lab angers both researchers and critics p321
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/36921
Gingrich urges doubling of health funds p321
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/36924
Nuclear debate splits open in France ... p322
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/36926
... as new waste body is proposed for the UK p322
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36929
Australia plays hard to get p323
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/36931
Canada's line dents its green image p323
David Spurgeon and Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36933
Indian PM under fire on Edinburgh deal p323
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36935
Wirth hands over leadership of US delegation p323
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/36937
Ethical terms set for breast cancer test p324
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/36940
NSF hires expert to tackle 'millennium bug' p324
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/36942
Lift spending cap or lose Mars mission, ESA panel warns p325
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/36944
NASA told to make greater use of 'cheaper' private data p325
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/36946
'Better adherence vital in AIDS therapies' p326
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/36949
Sub-Saharan Africa hit hardest by epidemic p326
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/36951
Japan to merge science with education p327
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/36954
Australia annuls Roche's native Taq patent p327
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/36957
Correction
Correction: Australia told that universities need greater competition p328
doi:10.1038/36961
Correspondence
Problems of nomenclature p329
Barry J. Whyte
doi:10.1038/36963
Not playing the game p329
César Nombela
doi:10.1038/36965
Art and science p330
Dahlia W. Zaidel
doi:10.1038/36967
A different perspective p331
P. B. Soul
doi:10.1038/36969
Saving British science p331
J. H. Mulvey
doi:10.1038/36971
Soddy's economics undervalued p331
Violet MacDermot
doi:10.1038/36973
Commentary
Zen and the art of climate maintenance p332
doi:10.1038/36975
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News and Views
A cancer therapy resistant to resistance p335
Robert S. Kerbel
doi:10.1038/36978
Polymer synthesis: For the living there is hope p336
David A. Tirrell
doi:10.1038/36981
100 and 50 years ago p337
doi:10.1038/36984
Magnetoreception: Homing in on vertebrates p339
Joseph L. Kirschvink
doi:10.1038/36986
From Mesmer to animal magnetism p340
Joseph L. Kirschvink
doi:10.1038/36991
Extraterrestrial impacts: The big splash p340
Jan Smit
doi:10.1038/36993
Evolutionary genetics: Unravelling gene interactions p343
Sarah P. Otto
doi:10.1038/36996
Materials science: Silicon self-analysis p344
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/36999
Muscle contraction: Myosin trapped but not tamed p345
Clive R. Bagshaw
doi:10.1038/37002
Cosmology: The case of the missing ellipticals p346
Guinevere Kauffmann
doi:10.1038/37005
Erratum: Galaxies take the distance record p347
doi:10.1038/37008
Daedalus: Shrinking or swelling? p347
David Jones
doi:10.1038/37010
Art and Science
Stubbs' seeing p348
The English painter George Stubbs, best known for his pictures of horses, was recognized in his own lifetime for the anatomical exactitude of his work. His reputation led him into the debates about creation and extinction.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/37012
Scientific Correspondence
Melanocortin receptors in leptin effects p349
Randy J. Seeley, Keith A. Yagaloff, Stewart L. Fisher, Paul Burn, Todd E. Thiele, Gertjan van Dijk, Denis G. Baskin and Michael W. Schwartz
doi:10.1038/37016
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Transcriptional squelching re-examined p349
S. Natesan, V. M. Rivera, E. Molinari and M. Gilman
doi:10.1038/37019
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Immunosuppressive effects of apoptotic cells p350
Reinhard E. Voll, Martin Herrmann, Edith A. Roth, Christian Stach, Joachim R. Kalden and Irute Girkontaite
doi:10.1038/37022
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Why parent birds play favourites p351
Scott Forbes, Suzanne Thornton, Barb Glassey, Margaret Forbes and Neil J. Buckley
doi:10.1038/37025
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Correction: A Tree-ring datingthe 1700 Cascadia earthquake p352
doi:10.1038/37029
Book Reviews
Watching the sex detective p353
Lesley A. Hall
doi:10.1038/37031
Dogma or debate? p354
George Klein
doi:10.1038/37034
Rat pack p354
doi:10.1038/37036
New in paperback p355
doi:10.1038/37039
Painting by numbers p356
Samuel Y. Edgerton
doi:10.1038/37041
Articles
Geological record and reconstruction of the late Pliocene impact of the Eltanin asteroid in the Southern Ocean p357
R. Gersonde, F. T. Kyte, U. Bleil, B Diekmann, J. A. Flores, K. Gohl, G. Grahl, R. Hagen, G. Kuhn, F. J. Sierro, D. Völker, A Abelmann and J. A. Bostwick
doi:10.1038/37044
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The complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic, sulphate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus p364
Hans-Peter Klenk, Rebecca A. Clayton, Jean-Francois Tomb, Owen White, Karen E. Nelson, Karen A. Ketchum, Robert J. Dodson, Michelle Gwinn, Erin K. Hickey, Jeremy D. Peterson, Delwood L. Richardson, Anthony R. Kerlavage, David E. Graham, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Robert D. Fleischmann, John Quackenbush, Norman H. Lee, Granger G. Sutton, Steven Gill, Ewen F. Kirkness, Brian A. Dougherty, Keith McKenney, Mark D. Adams, Brendan Loftus, Scott Peterson, Claudia I. Reich, Leslie K. McNeil, Jonathan H. Badger, Anna Glodek, Lixin Zhou, Ross Overbeek, Jeannine D. Gocayne, Janice F. Weidman, Lisa McDonald, Teresa Utterback, Matthew D. Cotton, Tracy Spriggs, Patricia Artiach, Brian P. Kaine, Sean M. Sykes, Paul W. Sadow, Kurt P. D'Andrea, Cheryl Bowman, Claire Fujii, Stacey A. Garland, Tanya M. Mason, Gary J. Olsen, Claire M. Fraser, Hamilton O. Smith, Carl R. Woese and J. Craig Venter
doi:10.1038/37052
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Structure and function of the vertebrate magnetic sense p371
Michael M. Walker, Carol E. Diebel, Cordula V. Haugh, Patricia M. Pankhurst, John C. Montgomery and Colin R. Green
doi:10.1038/37057
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Letters to Nature
Formation of elliptical galaxies at moderate redshifts p377
Stephen E. Zepf
doi:10.1038/37065
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Layering of a liquid metal in contact with a hard wall p379
Willem Jan Huisman, Joost F. Peters, Michel J. Zwanenburg, Steven A. de Vries, Trevor E. Derry, Douglas Abernathy and J. Friso van der Veen
doi:10.1038/37069
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Superconductivity at 10–17 K in compressed sulphur p382
Viktor V. Struzhkin, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao and Yuri A. Timofeev
doi:10.1038/37074
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Controlling the size, structure and orientation of semiconductor nanocrystals using metastable phase recrystallization p384
J. D. Budai, C. W. White, S. P. Withrow, M. F. Chisholm, J. Zhu and R. A. Zuhr
doi:10.1038/37079
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Facile synthesis of block copolypeptides of defined architecture p386
Timothy J. Deming
doi:10.1038/37084
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Interrelated influence of iron, light and cell size on marine phytoplankton growth p389
William G. Sunda and Susan A. Huntsman
doi:10.1038/37093
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Anisotropic upper-mantle stratigraphy and architecture of the Slave craton p392
M. G. Bostock
doi:10.1038/37102
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Test of synergistic interactions among deleterious mutations in bacteria p395
Santiago F. Elena and Richard E. Lenski
doi:10.1038/37108
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Antisaccade performance predicted by neuronal activity in the supplementary eye field p398
Madeleine Schlag-Rey, Nelly Amador, Henry Sanchez and John Schlag
doi:10.1038/37114
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Nicotine activates and desensitizes midbrain dopamine neurons p401
Volodymyr I. Pidoplichko, Mariella DeBiasi, John T. Williams and John A. Dani
doi:10.1038/37120
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Antiangiogenic therapy of experimental cancer does not induce acquired drug resistance p404
Thomas Boehm, Judah Folkman, Timothy Browder and Michael S. O'Reilly
doi:10.1038/37126
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A plastid organelle as a drug target in apicomplexan parasites p407
Maria E. Fichera and David S. Roos
doi:10.1038/37132
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Interaction of Wnt and a Frizzled homologue triggers G-protein-linked phosphatidylinositol signalling p410
Diane C. Slusarski, Victor G. Corces and Randall T. Moon
doi:10.1038/37138
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Synergistic anti-apoptotic activity between Bcl-2 and SMN implicated in spinal muscular atrophy p413
Hiromi Iwahashi, Yutaka Eguchi, Noriko Yasuhara, Toshiaki Hanafusa, Yuji Matsuzawa and Yoshihide Tsujimoto
doi:10.1038/37144
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Molecular identification of a volume-regulated chloride channel p417
Dayue Duan, Cathy Winter, Suzanne Cowley, Joseph R. Hume and Burton Horowitz
doi:10.1038/37151
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Mobility of photosynthetic complexes in thylakoid membranes p421
Conrad W. Mullineaux, Mark J. Tobin and Gareth R. Jones
doi:10.1038/37157
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Correspondence
NMR structure of a receptor-bound G-protein peptide p424
Edward A. Dratz, Julie E. Furstenau, Christophe G. Lambert, Dennis L. Thireault, Helen Rarick, Theresa Schepers, Sergei Pakhlevaniants and Heidi E. Hamm
doi:10.1038/37165
DNA antisense therapy for asthma in an animal model p424
Jonathan W. Nyce and W. James Metzger
doi:10.1038/37167
New on the Market
Nucleic acid testing p425
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
doi:10.1038/37169
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