Table of contents
Volume 392 Number 6678 pp741-846
Opinion
How not to run a scientifically successful country p741
Early next month, the population of Switzerland will start to vote on the abandonment of research using genetically modified animals and plants. Scientists have behaved commendably but to insufficient effect.
doi:10.1038/33738
News
Montserrat residents 'lost faith' in volcanologists' warnings p743
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/33740
Australian research centres escape axe p743
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/33743
Faster Internet system will overcome congestion p744
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/33745
Call for Europe-wide nuclear physics push p745
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/33748
French research agency to seek ruling on Holocaust sceptics p745
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/33750
Auto project has veered off track, says academy panel p746
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/33753
US universities under fire p746
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/33755
UK biotech flagship meets stormy waters p746
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/33758
Row erupts over child aggression study p747
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/33760
Rockets launch Spain's eye on the sky p747
doi:10.1038/33762
Police violence flares up at Russian education protest p748
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/33765
Heed public opinion, British geologists told p748
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/33767
Japan set to inject funds into endocrine disrupter research p748
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/33770
Data glitches delay observation satellite p749
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/33772
German sex killings prompt decision to create a DNA database p749
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/33775
Correspondence
Assessing risks of genetic engineering p751
Tom Crompton, John Barrett, Chris Gliddon, Julian Kinderlerer, George Tzotzos and Phil Gates
doi:10.1038/33780
Who flew first? p751
Ildeu de Castro Moreira
doi:10.1038/33782
Reaping the benefits of basic research p752
Frank Gannon, (Executive Director)
doi:10.1038/33784
Teaching research skills p752
Tianhan Xue
doi:10.1038/33786
Cancer controversy p752
Michael Pollak
doi:10.1038/33788
News and Views
Ending up with the right partner p753
Titia de Lange
doi:10.1038/33790
Planetary science: Comet leaves a trail in the air p754
Laura Garwin
doi:10.1038/33793
Biological sensors: Controlling the fly's gyroscopes p757
Roland Hengstenberg
doi:10.1038/33796
Climate change: The past as guide to the future p758
Gabriele Hegerl
doi:10.1038/33799
100 and 50 years ago p758
doi:10.1038/33801
Animal behaviour: The evolution of menopause p759
Paul W. Sherman
doi:10.1038/33805
Protein folding: Matching speed and locality p761
Hue Sun Chan
doi:10.1038/33808
Spongiform encephalopathies: The prion's perplexing persistence p763
Adriano Aguzzi and Charles Weissmann
doi:10.1038/33812
Daedalus: Penetrating gaze p764
David Jones
doi:10.1038/33815
Art and Science
Merz's maths p765
Mario Merz seeks to take art beyond the aesthetic and into the realms of experimentation. A favourite subject of his has been the mathematics of growing populations.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/33817
Scientific Correspondence
Creating corners in kitchen sinks p767
Clive Ellegaard, Adam Espe Hansen, Anders Haaning, Kim Hansen, Anders Marcussen, Tomas Bohr, Jonas Lundbek Hansen and Shinya Watanabe
doi:10.1038/33820
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Electron microscopy image enhanced p768
Maximilian Haider, Stephan Uhlemann, Eugen Schwan, Harald Rose, Bernd Kabius and Knut Urban
doi:10.1038/33823
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Point vortices exhibit asymmetric equilibria p769
Hassan Aref and Dmitri L. Vainchtein
doi:10.1038/33827
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Scrapie infectivity found in resistant species p770
Richard Race and Bruce Chesebro
doi:10.1038/33834
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See also: News and Views by Aguzzi & Weissmann
Book Reviews
Designer genes and legal briefs p771
John Cairns reviews Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World by Lee M. Silver
doi:10.1038/33837
Spin doctors p771
Ian Aitchison reviews Paul Dirac: The Man and his Work edited by Peter Goddard and The Story of Spin by Sin-itiroTomonaga and TakeshiOka
doi:10.1038/33840
Plant roots p773
Sandy Knapp reviews The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants: A Cladistic Study by Paul Kenrick and Peter R. Crane
doi:10.1038/33843
Colourful explanations p773
doi:10.1038/33845
Chat shows p774
Peter Atkins reviews Passionate Minds: The Inner World of Scientists by Lewis Wolpert and Alison Richards and A Glorious Accident: Understanding Our Place in the Cosmic Puzzle by Wim Kayzer
doi:10.1038/33848
New in paperback p774
doi:10.1038/33850
New Journals p774
doi:10.1038/33852
Progress
Asymmetric cell division p775
Yuh Nung Jan and Lily Yeh Jan
doi:10.1038/33854
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Article
Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries p779
Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes
doi:10.1038/33859
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (742K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Hegerl
Letters to Nature
Submillimetre images of dusty debris around nearby stars p788
Wayne S. Holland, Jane S. Greaves, B. Zuckerman, R. A. Webb, Chris McCarthy, Iain M. Coulson, D. M. Walther, William R. F. Dent, Walter K. Gear and Ian Robson
doi:10.1038/33874
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Shallow mixing in the solar photosphere inferred from revised beryllium abundances p791
Suchitra C. Balachandran and Roger A. Bell
doi:10.1038/33879
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Direct evidence for a half-metallic ferromagnet p794
J.-H. Park, E. Vescovo, H.-J. Kim, C. Kwon, R. Ramesh and T. Venkatesan
doi:10.1038/33883
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (259K)
A soft magnetic CoNiFe film with high saturation magnetic flux density and low coercivity p796
Tetsuya Osaka, Madoka Takai, Katsuyoshi Hayashi, Keishi Ohashi, Mikiko Saito and Kazuhiko Yamada
doi:10.1038/33888
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Biomimetic engineering of non-adhesive glycocalyx-like surfaces using oligosaccharide surfactant polymers p799
Nolan B. Holland, Yongxing Qiu, Mark Ruegsegger and Roger E. Marchant
doi:10.1038/33894
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Direct linking of microbial populations to specific biogeochemical processes by 13C-labelling of biomarkers p801
H. T. S. Boschker, S. C. Nold, P. Wellsbury, D. Bos, W. de Graaf, R. Pel, R. J. Parkes and T. E. Cappenberg
doi:10.1038/33900
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The viscosity of liquid iron at the physical conditions of the Earth's core p805
Gilles A. de Wijs,
Georg Kresse,
Lidunka Vo
adlo,
David Dobson,
Dario Alfè,
Michael J. Gillan
and
Geoffrey D. Price
doi:10.1038/33905
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Reproductive cessation in female mammals p807
Craig Packer, Marc Tatar and Anthony Collins
doi:10.1038/33910
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See also: News and Views by Sherman
Increased auditory cortical representation in musicians p811
Christo Pantev, Robert Oostenveld, Almut Engelien, Bernhard Ross, Larry E. Roberts and Manfried Hoke
doi:10.1038/33918
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Dynamic cortical activity in the human brain reveals motor equivalence p814
J. A. S. Kelso, A. Fuchs, R. Lancaster, T. Holroyd, D. Cheyne and H. Weinberg
doi:10.1038/33922
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Lipids are required for directional pollen-tube growth p818
Mieke Wolters-Arts, W. Mary Lush and Celestina Mariani
doi:10.1038/33929
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Dynamic activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase by Hsp90 p821
Guillermo García-Cardeña, Roger Fan, Vijay Shah, Raffaella Sorrentino, Giuseppe Cirino, Andreas Papapetropoulos and William C. Sessa
doi:10.1038/33934
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Defective meiosis in telomere-silencing mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe p825
Elaine R. Nimmo, Alison L. Pidoux, Paul E. Perry and Robin C. Allshire
doi:10.1038/33941
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (952K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by de Lange
Fission yeast Taz1 protein is required for meiotic telomere clustering and recombination p828
Julia Promisel Cooper, Yoshinori Watanabe and Paul Nurse
doi:10.1038/33947
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Transcriptional repression by UME6 involves deacetylation of lysine 5 of histone H4 by RPD3 p831
Stephen E. Rundlett, Andrew A. Carmen, Noriyuki Suka, Bryan M. Turner and Michael Grunstein
doi:10.1038/33952
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Structure of the calcium pump from sarcoplasmic reticulum at 8-Å resolution p835
Peijun Zhang, Chikashi Toyoshima, Koji Yonekura, N. Michael Green and David L. Stokes
doi:10.1038/33959
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Three-dimensional map of the plasma membrane H+-ATPase in the open conformation p840
Manfred Auer, Gene A. Scarborough and Werner Kühlbrandt
doi:10.1038/33967
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correction: The effect of sedimentary cover on the flexural strength of continental lithosphere p843
Luc L. Lavier and Michael S. Steckler
doi:10.1038/33974
correction: Requirement for IRF-1 in the microenvironment supporting development of natural killer cells p843
Kouetsu Ogasawara, Shigeaki Hida, Nazli Azimi, Yutaka Tagaya, Takeo Sato, Taeko Yokochi-Fukuda, Thomas A. Waldmann, Tadatsugu Taniguchi and Shinsuke Taki
doi:10.1038/33977
New on the Market
A column on chromatography p844
This edition offers information on affinity chromatography media, a wedge-shaped column, instrument control software, and a variety of hyphenated systems for separation and analysis.
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