Opinion

Post-Kyoto agendas p647

The Kyoto meeting on climate change was a small triumph for the international community and a benchmark in the process of consensus. But much bigger challenges lie ahead, for scientists and politicians alike.

doi:10.1038/37682

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World wide wastrels? p647

The Internet has aggravated a problem with youthful interest, but also provides a solution.

doi:10.1038/37684

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News

Kyoto agreement creates new agenda for climate research p649

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/37686

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Battling for science takes its toll on UN climate panel stalwarts p649

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/37689

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Faith, hope and tact needed for US ratification p650

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/37691

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Minister's near miss at the final curtain p650

Asako Saegusa

doi:10.1038/37693

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National Institutes of Health sets up its own bioethics panel p651

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/37696

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Energy labs urged to boost supercomputing capability p651

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/37698

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New Zealand imports technology foresight p651

Peter Pockley

doi:10.1038/37700

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Researcher sues over 'fraud' sanction p652

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/37703

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Germany proposes guidelines for good practice p652

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/37705

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Japan's research spending rises again p653

Robert Triendl

doi:10.1038/37707

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Inquiry looks into Indian cancer deaths p653

K. S. Jayaraman

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News in Brief p654

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Correspondence

Time for change in Portuguese science p656

Adelino V. M. Canario

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Quid pro quo p656

John A. Davis

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News and Views

Plant cyclic AMP comes in from the cold p657

Anthony J. Trewavas

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Animal domestication:  Remedies for windy camels p658

Adrian M. Lister

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Quantum chromodynamics:  Colour takes the field p659

Frank Wilczek

doi:10.1038/37726

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100 and 50 years ago p659

N. W. Pirie

doi:10.1038/37729

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Photonics:  Frozen light p661

Sajeev John

doi:10.1038/37731

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Spongiform encephalopathies:  B lymphocytes and neuroinvasion p662

Paul Brown

doi:10.1038/37733

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Daedalus:  Music with everything p663

David Jones

doi:10.1038/37735

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Art and Science

Palissy's philosophical pots p665

The Huguenot Bernard Palissy is known for decorated grottoes and dishes. But he also helped to lead the way towards the use of empirical methods in science and the debunking of mystic medieval metaphysics.

Martin Kemp

doi:10.1038/37737

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Scientific Correspondence

Archaeological frankincense p667

R. P. Evershed, P. F. van Bergen, T. M. Peakman, E. C. Leigh-Firbank, M. C. Horton, D. Edwards, M. Biddle, B. Kjølbye-Biddle and P. A. Rowley-Conwy

doi:10.1038/37741

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How pine cones open p668

Colin Dawson, Julian F. V. Vincent and Anne-Marie Rocca

doi:10.1038/37745

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Book Reviews

Managing clinical uncertainty p669

John Harley Warner reviews The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990 by Harry M. Marks

doi:10.1038/37750

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Molecular thriller p670

Maxine Clarke reviews Principal Investigation by B. B. Jordan

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Turning back the tide of destruction in the world's forests p670

doi:10.1038/37755

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Letters to Nature

Localization of light in a disordered medium p671

Diederik S. Wiersma, Paolo Bartolini, Ad Lagendijk and Roberto Righini

doi:10.1038/37757

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Microscopic patterning of orientated mesoscopic silica through guided growth p674

M. Trau, N. Yao, E. Kim, Y. Xia, G. M. Whitesides and I. A. Aksay

doi:10.1038/37764

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A resonance in the Earth's obliquity and precession overthe past 20 Myr drivenbymantle convection p676

Alessandro M. Forte and Jerry X. Mitrovica

doi:10.1038/37769

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Regeneration of adult axons in white matter tracts of the central nervous system p680

Stephen J. A. Davies, Michael T. Fitch, Stacey P. Memberg, Alison K. Hall, Geoffrey Raisman and Jerry Silver

doi:10.1038/37776

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The cellular prion protein binds copper in vivo p684

David R. Brown, Kefeng Qin, Jochen W. Herms, Axel Madlung, Jean Manson, Robert Strome, Paul E. Fraser, Theo Kruck, Alex von Bohlen, Walter Schulz-Schaeffer, Armin Giese, David Westaway and Hans Kretzschmar

doi:10.1038/37783

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A crucial role for B cells in neuroinvasive scrapie p687

Michael A. Klein, Rico Frigg, Eckhard Flechsig, Alex J. Raeber, Ulrich Kalinke, Horst Bluethmann, Frank Bootz, Marc Suter, Rolf M. Zinkernagel and Adriano Aguzzi

doi:10.1038/37789

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Neuregulin- induces expression of an NMDA-receptor subunit p691

Miwako Ozaki, Michael Sasner, Ryoji Yano, Hsieng S. Lu and Andres Buonanno

doi:10.1038/37795

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Cyclic-nucleotide-gated channels mediate synaptic feedback by nitric oxide p694

Alexei Savchenko, Steven Barnes and Richard H. Kramer

doi:10.1038/37803

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Identification and role of adenylyl cyclase in auxin signalling in higher plants p698

Takanari Ichikawa, Yoshihito Suzuki, Inge Czaja, Carla Schommer, Angela LeBnick, Jeff Schell and Richard Walden

doi:10.1038/37810

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