Table of contents
Volume 392 Number 6672 pp109-210
Opinion
Opportunity for depth in Chinese eugenics debate p109
A meeting in Beijing should provide a welcome opportunity to move forward in debates about the ethics and science of eugenics. Western scientists and their hosts should make the most of it.
doi:10.1038/32222
Gleam in Korean gloom p109
South Korea's president has taken a bold first step by strengthening the science ministry, but problems abound.
doi:10.1038/32224
News
Ice on the Moon boosts hopes for future lunar missions p111
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/32226
Fraud claim puts German rules to test p111
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/32229
Insult thwarted 1934 bid to raise profile of Indian science p112
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/32231
Korean science ministry gets promised upgrade... p112
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/32233
...as overstretched universities face bankruptcy p112
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/32236
French clone provides support for Dolly p113
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/32238
Congressman launches plagiarism inquiry p113
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/32241
Prospects brighten for France's Soleil synchrotron facility p114
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/32243
NERC in the dock over ocean research centre p114
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/32245
French astronomers to rank facilities p115
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/32249
Observatory vows to keep telescope schedule p115
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/32252
NIH's way of setting priorities endorsed p116
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/32254
Australia reviews medical research funding p116
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/32256
Bid to block Yellowstone enzymes deal p117
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/32259
Plan for $100m boost to Israeli biotech comes under threat p117
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/32262
Correspondence
Funding and research performance p119
H. F. Moed, M. Luwel, J. A. Houben and E. Spruyt
doi:10.1038/32266
A different view p119
Richard C. Alkire, (Vice Chancellor for Research), Richard K. Koehn, (Vice President for Research), Steven E. Koonin, (Vice President and Provost), Charles Kruger, (Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Policy) and Robert J. Zimmer, (Associate Provost for Research and Education)
doi:10.1038/32268
New Zealand reforms weighed in the balance p120
Maurice Williamson, (Minister of Research, Science and Technology)
doi:10.1038/32270
Change comes all too slowly in Albania p122
Betim Muco
doi:10.1038/32272
Addiction, the tobacco industry and Nature p122
Mark Griffiths
doi:10.1038/32274
Commentary
Who should fund basic technology? p123
The US government sometimes funds research in private companies. But there has been disagreement about the type of research that should receive public money. A consensus may be beginning to emerge.
doi:10.1038/32276
News and Views
Tailor-made condensates p125
Keith Burnett
doi:10.1038/32279
Human pheromones: Communication through body odour p126
Aron Weller
doi:10.1038/32283
Condensed matter: One substance, two liquids? p127
Pablo G. Debenedetti
doi:10.1038/32286
Cardiac development: Transcription and the broken heart p129
Garry P. Nolan
doi:10.1038/32290
Biophysics: A cold break for photoreceptors p131
Lars-Oliver Essen and Dieter Oesterhelt
doi:10.1038/32294
Planetary science: Crater row p131
John VanDecar
doi:10.1038/32298
Meteoritics: Diamonds in the dust p133
Karen Southwell
doi:10.1038/32301
100 and 50 years ago p134
doi:10.1038/32304
Superconductors: Opening the gap p134
Piers Coleman
doi:10.1038/32306
Membrane sorting: Endosome marker is fat not fiction p135
Sandra L. Schmid and Pieter R. Cullis
doi:10.1038/32309
Daedalus: Breathable water p136
David Jones
doi:10.1038/32312
Art and Science
Ernst's ego p137
Max Ernst delved into his childhood experiences to find images for his art that would both explore Freudian psychology and mock those who put unquestioning faith in scientific rationality.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/32314
Scientific Correspondence
GroE is vital for cell-wall synthesis p139
Neil McLennan and Millicent Masters
doi:10.1038/32317
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Fluid 'rope trick' investigated p140
L. Mahadevan, William S. Ryu and Aravinthan D.T. Samuel
doi:10.1038/32321
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Alzheimer's peptide kills cells of retina in vivo p140
L. S. Jen, A. J. Hart, A. Jen, J. B. Relvas, S. M. Gentleman, L. J. Garey and A. J. Patel
doi:10.1038/32327
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Are retrotransposons long-term hitchhikers? p141
William D. Burke, Harmit S. Malik, Warren C. Lathe, III and Thomas H. Eickbush
doi:10.1038/32330
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Book Reviews
Twin paradoxes of the space age p143
Alex Roland reviews Countdown: A History of Spaceflight by T. A. Heppenheimer and Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford and Something New Under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age by Helen Gavaghan and Space and the American Imagination by Howard E. McCurdy
doi:10.1038/32333
Site reading p145
Nicholas J. Saunders reviews Monte Verde — A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile, Vol. 2: The Archaeological Context and Interpretation by Tom D. Dillehay
doi:10.1038/32337
Of tombs and temples p145
doi:10.1038/32339
The trouble with sex p146
Melissa Hines
doi:10.1038/32342
New in paperback p146
doi:10.1038/32344
Corrections p146
doi:10.1038/32346
Progress
Lattice effects in magnetoresistive manganese perovskites p147
A. J. Millis
doi:10.1038/32348
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Article
Observation of Feshbach resonances in a Bose–Einstein condensate p151
S. Inouye, M. R. Andrews, J. Stenger, H.-J. Miesner, D. M. Stamper-Kurn and W. Ketterle
doi:10.1038/32354
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See also: News and Views by Burnett
Letters to Nature
The Sun's shape and brightness p155
J. R. Kuhn, R. I. Bush, X. Scheick and P. Scherrer
doi:10.1038/32361
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Destruction of the Fermi surface in underdoped high-Tc superconductors p157
M. R. Norman, H. Ding, M. Randeria, J. C. Campuzano, T. Yokoya, T. Takeuchi, T. Takahashi, T. Mochiku, K. Kadowaki, P. Guptasarma and D. G. Hinks
doi:10.1038/32366
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See also: News and Views by Coleman
A nanometre-scale mechanical electrometer p160
A. N. Cleland and M. L. Roukes
doi:10.1038/32373
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Discovery of a useful thin-film dielectric using a composition-spread approach p162
R. B. van Dover, L. F. Schneemeyer and R. M. Fleming
doi:10.1038/32381
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Decompression-induced melting of ice IV and the liquid–liquid transition in water p164
Osamu Mishima and H. Eugene Stanley
doi:10.1038/32386
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See also: News and Views by Debenedetti
Direct measurement of tropospheric ozone distributions from space p168
Rosemary Munro, Richard Siddans, William J. Reburn and Brian J. Kerridge
doi:10.1038/32392
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Evidence for a late Triassic multiple impact event on Earth p171
John G. Spray, Simon P. Kelley and David B. Rowley
doi:10.1038/32397
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See also: News and Views by VanDecar
Fission-track ages of stone tools and fossils on the east Indonesian island of Flores p173
M. J. Morwood, P. B. O'Sullivan, F. Aziz and A. Raza
doi:10.1038/32401
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Regulation of ovulation by human pheromones p177
Kathleen Stern and Martha K. McClintock
doi:10.1038/32408
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Motor role of human inferior parietal lobe revealed in unilateral neglect patients p179
Jason B. Mattingley, Masud Husain, Chris Rorden, Christopher Kennard and Jon Driver
doi:10.1038/32413
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Role of the NF-ATc transcription factor in morphogenesis of cardiac valves and septum p182
José Luis de la Pompa, Luika A. Timmerman, Hiroaki Takimoto, Hiroki Yoshida, Andrew J. Elia, Enrique Samper, Julia Potter, Andrew Wakeham, Luc Marengere, B. Lowell Langille, Gerald R. Crabtree and Tak W. Mak
doi:10.1038/32419
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See also: News and Views by Nolan
The transcription factor NF-ATc is essential for cardiac valve formation p186
Ann M. Ranger, Michael J. Grusby, Martin R. Hodge, Ellen M. Gravallese, Fabienne Charles de la Brousse, Tim Hoey, Craig Mickanin, H. Scott Baldwin and Laurie H. Glimcher
doi:10.1038/32426
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See also: News and Views by Nolan
A causal role for E-cadherin in the transition from adenoma to carcinoma p190
Anne-Karina Perl, Petra Wilgenbus, Ulf Dahl, Henrik Semb and Gerhard Christofori
doi:10.1038/32433
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A lipid associated with the antiphospholipid syndrome regulates endosome structure and function p193
Toshihide Kobayashi, Espen Stang, Karen S. Fang, Philippe de Moerloose, Robert G. Parton and Jean Gruenberg
doi:10.1038/32440
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See also: News and Views by Schmid & Cullis
Translocation of calmodulin to the nucleus supports CREB phosphorylation in hippocampal neurons p198
Karl Deisseroth, E. Kevin Heist and Richard W. Tsien
doi:10.1038/32448
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The hyperthermophile chromosomal protein Sac7d sharply kinks DNA p202
Howard Robinson, Yi-Gui Gao, Bradford S. McCrary, Stephen P. Edmondson, John W. Shriver and Andrew H.-J. Wang
doi:10.1038/32455
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Structure at 0.85 Å resolution of an early protein photocycle intermediate p206
Ulrich K. Genick, S. Michael Soltis, Peter Kuhn, Ilona L. Canestrelli and Elizabeth D. Getzoff
doi:10.1038/32462
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See also: News and Views by Essen & Oesterhelt
Erratum: Protein memory through altered folding mediated by intramolecular chaperones p210
U. P. Shinde, J. J. Liu and M. Inouye
doi:10.1038/32469
Erratum: G-protein-coupled receptor of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus is a viral oncogene and angiogenesis activator p210
Carlos Bais, Bianca Santomasso, Omar Coso, Leandros Arvanitakis, Elizabeth Geras Raaka, J. Silvio Gutkind , Adam S. Asch, Ethel Cesarman, Marvin C. Gershengorn and Enrique A. Mesri
doi:10.1038/32472
Correction: A GPI-linked protein that interacts with Ret to form a candidate neurturin receptor p210
Robert D. Klein, Daniel Sherman, Wei-Hsien Ho, Donna Stone, Gregory L. Bennett , Barbara Moffat, Richard Vandlen, Laura Simmons, Qimin Gu, Jo-Anne Hongo, Brigitte Devaux , Kris Poulsen, Mark Armanini, Chika Nozaki, Naoya Asai, Audrey Goddard, Heidi Phillips , Chris E. Henderson , Masahide Takahashi and Arnon Rosenthal
doi:10.1038/32474
