Table of contents
Volume 393 Number 6680 pp1-95
Opinion
Think of a number and double it p1
Even with the US federal budget in surplus, the scientific community needs to present a more sophisticated argument than merely demanding an across-the-board doubling of research funding for government agencies.
doi:10.1038/29825
Challenges ahead p1
The success of Britain's Technology Foresight exercise is no grounds for complacency about its successor.
doi:10.1038/29827
News
US seeks fair deal for biologists on synchrotron source access p3
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/29829
Russian reshuffle places Bulgak at helm p3
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/29832
Animal deaths turn shuttle into 'necrolab' p4
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/29834
US plan to double spend comes under fire as 'unrealistic exercise' p4
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/29837
Merger plans worry Japan's industrialists p5
Richard Nathan
doi:10.1038/29839
Economy lifeline viewed as mixed blessing p5
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/29841
Scientists go down a mine to observe the Sun's neutrinos p6
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/29843
Space researchers were not spying, says India's Supreme Court p6
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/29846
Bid to give legal protection to laboratory mice in US p6
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/29848
Foresight study blazes trail in Germany p7
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/29850
Utah university finally drops out of cold-fusion patent chase p7
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/29852
News Analysis
UK eyes social goals for next Foresight p8
Scientists met industry to discuss the technology of the future under the previous government — and it worked. The Labour government is launching a second phase, reflecting lessons learnt and its own social concerns.
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/29855
The changing culture of British science p8
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/29858
Correspondence
It's Jakob's disease, not Creutzfeldt's p11
Friedrich Katscher
doi:10.1038/29862
Patents paved the way p11
Arnold Kramish
doi:10.1038/29864
Training undervalued p11
Alexander Olek
doi:10.1038/29866
News and Views
The burst, the burster and its lair p13
Ralph Wijers
doi:10.1038/29868
Membrane fusion: SNAREs line up in new environment p14
Reinhard Jahn and Phyllis I. Hanson
doi:10.1038/29871
Nanotechnology: Carbon-based electronics p15
Paul L. McEuen
doi:10.1038/29874
Conservation biology: What killed the monk seals? p17
John Harwood
doi:10.1038/29877
Bacterial chemotaxis: United we sense ... p18
N. Barkai and S. Leibler
doi:10.1038/29881
100 and 50 years ago p19
doi:10.1038/29884
Zeolites: Organic groups cling to the pores p21
Edward J. Creyghton
doi:10.1038/29886
Hybrid genetics: Transposons unbound p22
Margaret G. Kidwell and Damon R. Lisch
doi:10.1038/29889
Ecology: The forest fragment classic p23
Stuart L. Pimm
doi:10.1038/29892
Daedalus: Gravity waving to us p24
David Jones
doi:10.1038/29895
Science and Image
Noticing Nature p25
Over almost 130 years, this journal's appearance has evolved along with changes in design fashions and in the way scientists present their results. The first in a series exploring how science uses visual images.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/29897
Scientific Correspondence
Zebra mussels invade Lake Erie muds p27
Paul Arthur Berkman, Melissa A. Haltuch, Emily Tichich, David W. Garton, Gregory W. Kennedy, John E. Gannon, Scudder D. Mackey, Jonathan A. Fuller and Dale L. Liebenthal
doi:10.1038/29902
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Did algal toxins cause monk seal mortality? p28
Mauro Hernández, Ian Robinson, Alex Aguilar, Luis Mariano González, Luis Felipe López-Jurado, María Isabel Reyero, Emiliano Cacho, José Franco, Victoria López-Rodas and Eduardo Costas
doi:10.1038/29906
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See also: News and Views by Harwood
ATP synthase's second stalk comes into focus p29
Stephan Wilkens and Roderick A. Capaldi
doi:10.1038/29908
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Book Reviews
All aboard the biotech express p31
Sheldon Krimsky reviews The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World by Jeremy Rifkin
doi:10.1038/29911
Ornithological opus p31
doi:10.1038/29913
Living with dinosaurs p32
José Luis Sanz, Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno and Francisco J. Poyato-Ariza review The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution by Sankar Chatterjee and The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds by Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe and Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight by Pat Shipman
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Fishing for solutions p33
doi:10.1038/29918
Farming forecast p33
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/29921
Stress points p34
Stuart Sutherland reviews A Mood Apart: A Thinker's Guide to Emotion and its Disorders by Peter C. Whybrow
doi:10.1038/29923
New Journals p34
doi:10.1038/29925
Article
Identification of a host galaxy at redshift z = 3.42
for the 
-ray burst of 14 December 1997 p35
S. R. Kulkarni, S. G. Djorgovski, A. N. Ramaprakash, R. Goodrich, J. S. Bloom, K. L. Adelberger, T. Kundic, L. Lubin,, D. A. Frail, F. Frontera, M. Feroci, L. Nicastro, A. J. Barth, M. Davis, A. V. Filippenko and J. Newman
doi:10.1038/29927
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,616K)
See also: News and Views by Wijers
Letters to Nature
Optical afterglow of the -ray burst of 14 December 1997 p41
J. P. Halpern, J. R. Thorstensen, D. J. Helfand and E. Costa
doi:10.1038/29935
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (316K)
See also: News and Views by Wijers
The energetic afterglow of the -ray burst of 14 December 1997 p43
A. N. Ramaprakash, S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Frail, C. Koresko, M. Kuchner, R. Goodrich, G. Neugebauer, T. Murphy, S. Eikenberry, J. S. Bloom, S. G. Djorgovski, E. Waxman, F. Frontera, M. Feroci and L. Nicastro
doi:10.1038/29941
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (329K)
See also: News and Views by Wijers
Solid hydrogen at 342 GPa: no evidence for an alkali metal p46
Chandrabhas Narayana, Huan Luo, Jon Orloff and Arthur L. Ruoff
doi:10.1038/29949
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Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube p49
Sander J. Tans, Alwin R. M. Verschueren and Cees Dekker
doi:10.1038/29954
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See also: News and Views by McEuen
Organic-functionalized molecular sieves as shape-selective catalysts p52
Christopher W. Jones, Katsuyuki Tsuji and Mark E. Davis
doi:10.1038/29959
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (246K) | Supplementary information
Correlation between Arabian Sea and Greenland climate oscillations of the past 110,000 years p54
Hartmut Schulz,, Ulrich von Rad,, Helmut Erlenkeuser, and Ulrich von Rad,
doi:10.1038/31750
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Re–Os isotope evidence for the composition, formation and age of the lower continental crust p58
A. E. Saal, R. L. Rudnick, G. E. Ravizza and S. R. Hart
doi:10.1038/29966
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New specimens and confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis p62
Meave G. Leakey, Craig S. Feibel, Ian McDougall, Carol Ward and Alan Walker
doi:10.1038/29972
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Probing motivational state during agonistic encounters in animals p66
R. W. Elwood, K. E. Wood, M. B. Gallagher and J. T. A. Dick
doi:10.1038/29980
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Undermethylation associated with retroelement activation and chromosome remodelling in an interspecific mammalian hybrid p68
Rachel J. Waugh O'Neill, Michael J. O'Neill and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
doi:10.1038/29985
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See also: News and Views by Kidwell & Lisch
Hypothalamic CART is a new anorectic peptide regulated by leptin p72
Peter Kristensen, Martin E. Judge, Lars Thim, Ulla Ribel, Kennet N. Christjansen, Birgitte S. Wulff, Jes T. Clausen, Per B. Jensen, Ole D. Madsen, Niels Vrang, Philip J. Larsen and Sven Hastrup
doi:10.1038/29993
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Dramatic decreases in brain reward function during nicotine withdrawal p76
Mark P. Epping-Jordan, Shelly S. Watkins, George F. Koob and Athina Markou
doi:10.1038/30001
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Salmonella typhi uses CFTR to enter intestinal epithelial cells p79
Gerald B. Pier, Martha Grout, Tanweer Zaidi, Gloria Meluleni, Simone S. Mueschenborn, George Banting, Rosemary Ratcliff, Martin J. Evans and William H. Colledge
doi:10.1038/30006
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Requirement of ErbB2 for signalling by interleukin-6 in prostate carcinoma cells p83
Yun Qiu, Lakshmeswari Ravi and Hsing-Jien Kung
doi:10.1038/30012
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Receptor clustering as a cellular mechanism to control sensitivity p85
Dennis Bray, Matthew D. Levin and Carl J. Morton-Firth
doi:10.1038/30018
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See also: News and Views by Barkai & Leibler
Chromatin remodelling by the glucocorticoid receptor requires the BRG1 complex p88
Christy J. Fryer and Trevor K. Archer
doi:10.1038/30032
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Catalysis of homologous DNA pairing by yeast Rad51 and Rad54 proteins p91
Galina Petukhova, Sabrina Stratton and Patrick Sung
doi:10.1038/30037
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New on the Market
Mastering the molecular domain p95
Molecular biologists converge on Washington, DC for the annual American Society for Biology and Molecular Biology meeting, May 17-21. On exhibition will be tools for PCR, purification, sequencing, and bibliographic support.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
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