Table of contents
Volume 393 Number 6681 pp97-192
Opinion
Problems with media gatekeepers p97
It is easy to point fingers at science writers and scientists when newspaper accounts of research throw patients and stock markets into unjustified frenzy. But editors, too, share responsibility.
doi:10.1038/30045
Mirage of égalité persists p97
Conservative resistance to the reform of higher education is alive and kicking in France.
doi:10.1038/30047
News
UN agency chief seeks advice from environment groups p99
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/30049
Climate change centre signs up big firms p99
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/30052
Performance monitoring is 'last straw' for overworked NSF staff p100
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/30054
Company aims to beat NIH human genome efforts p101
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/30057
Australia's research budget to remain flat for three years p101
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/30060
France urged to open up élite education ... p102
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/30062
... but university reform ideas meet resistance p102
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/30065
German chemicals giant to focus on life sciences p103
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/30067
Internet research centre takes Intel inside China p103
Richard Nathan
doi:10.1038/30070
Cancer 'cure' article stirs up hot debate p104
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/30072
Reporter backs away from lucrative book deal p104
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/30075
EPA laboratories are 'still struggling' with change three years on p105
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/30077
Correspondence
Italian defeatism unwarranted p107
Monica Zoppè
doi:10.1038/30082
Funding needed for creative science p107
Bertrand Le Douarin
doi:10.1038/30084
New concepts of publication p107
John Helly
doi:10.1038/30086
Out of order p107
Roy C. Anderson
doi:10.1038/30088
Commentary
The fraud of Abderhalden's enzymes p109
doi:10.1038/30090
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News and Views
Real and realistic quantum computers p113
David P. DiVincenzo
doi:10.1038/30094
Gene expression: Transcription sans TBP p114
Lynne M. Apone and Michael R. Green
doi:10.1038/30097
100 and 50 years ago p117
doi:10.1038/30100
Planet formation: Grainy pictures of new worlds p117
Vincent Mannings
doi:10.1038/30102
Drug addiction: Cocaine and the serotonin saga p118
Francis J. White
doi:10.1038/30105
Neutron stars: How pulsars get their spins p121
Adam Burrows
doi:10.1038/30108
Entomology: Beauty and the beetle p121
Alison Mitchell
doi:10.1038/30111
Daedalus: Deceptive appearances p122
David Jones
doi:10.1038/30114
Science and Image
Kepler's cosmos p123
Copernicus's system of the Universe was revolutionary but his method of representing it on paper was anything but. It was left to Kepler to apply Renaissance techniques of spatial visualization to make the theory come alive.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/30116
Scientific Correspondence
Imprinted gene in postnatal growth role p125
Jean-Michel Itier, Günter L. Tremp, Jean-François Léonard, Marie-Christine Multon, Gwénaëlle Ret, Fabien Schweighoffer, Bruno Tocqué, Marie-Thérèse Bluet-Pajot, Valérie Cormier and François Dautry
doi:10.1038/30120
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Miocene/Pliocene shift: one step or several? p126
Meike Köhler, Salvador Moyà-Solà and Jordi Agusti
doi:10.1038/30124
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Reply: Miocene/Pliocene shift: one step or several? p127
Thure E. Cerling, John M. Harris, Bruce J. MacFadden, Jay Quade, Meave G. Leakey, Vera Eisenmann and James R. Ehleringer
doi:10.1038/30127
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Life-support system benefits from noise p127
B. Suki, A. M. Alencar, M. K. Sujeer, K. R. Lutchen, J. J. Collins, J. S. Andrade, Jr, E. P. Ingenito, S. Zapperi and H. E. Stanley
doi:10.1038/30130
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Correction p128
doi:10.1038/30133
Book Reviews
Raising a glass to ale p129
John Postgate
doi:10.1038/30135
Concise cosmology p130
George Ellis
doi:10.1038/30138
Publishing constellations p130
doi:10.1038/30140
Sex and sensibility p131
David H. Skuse
doi:10.1038/30143
Insides out p131
doi:10.1038/30145
Students' dilemma p132
David S. Latchman
doi:10.1038/30148
At a glance p132
Cesare Chiosi
doi:10.1038/30150
At a glance p132
Michael O. Hengartner
doi:10.1038/30152
New Journals p132
doi:10.1038/30154
Article
A silicon-based nuclear spin quantum computer p133
B. E. Kane
doi:10.1038/30156
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (296K)
See also: News and Views by DiVincenzo
Letters to Nature
Birth kicks as the origin of pulsar rotation p139
H. Spruit and E. S. Phinney
doi:10.1038/30168
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See also: News and Views by Burrows
Astrometric signatures of giant-planet formation p141
Alan P. Boss
doi:10.1038/30177
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Experimental realization of a quantum algorithm p143
Isaac L. Chuang, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen, Xinlan Zhou, Debbie W. Leung and Seth Lloyd
doi:10.1038/30181
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See also: News and Views by DiVincenzo
Spontaneous formation of ordered structures in thin films of metals supported on an elastomeric polymer p146
Ned Bowden, Scott Brittain, Anthony G. Evans, John W. Hutchinson and George M. Whitesides
doi:10.1038/30193
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Polymer gels with engineered environmentally responsive surface patterns p149
Zhibing Hu, Yuanye Chen, Changjie Wang, Yindong Zheng and Yong Li
doi:10.1038/30205
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Host–guest encapsulation of materials by assembled virus protein cages p152
Trevor Douglas and Mark Young
doi:10.1038/30211
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Possible triggering of Heinrich events by ice-load-induced earthquakes p155
A. G. Hunt and P. E. Malin
doi:10.1038/30218
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Sphenoid shortening and the evolution of modern human cranial shape p158
Daniel E. Lieberman
doi:10.1038/30227
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Gene transfer to the nucleus and the evolution of chloroplasts p162
William Martin, Bettina Stoebe, Vadim Goremykin, Sabine Hansmann, Masami Hasegawa and Klaus V. Kowallik
doi:10.1038/30234
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Regulation of leaf initiation by the terminal ear 1 gene of maize p166
Bruce Veit, Steven P. Briggs, Robert J. Schmidt, Martin F. Yanofsky and Sarah Hake
doi:10.1038/30239
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Neonatal lesions of the medial temporal lobe disrupt prefrontal cortical regulation of striatal dopamine p169
Richard C. Saunders, Bhaskar S. Kolachana, Jocelyne Bachevalier and Daniel R. Weinberger
doi:10.1038/30245
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Control of spatial orientation in a mollusc p172
Tatiana G. Deliagina, Yuri I. Arshavsky and Grigori N. Orlovsky
doi:10.1038/30251
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Increased vulnerability to cocaine in mice lacking the serotonin-1B receptor p175
Beatriz A. Rocha, Kimberly Scearce-Levie, José J. Lucas, Noboru Hiroi, Nathalie Castanon, John C. Crabbe, Eric J. Nestler and René Hen
doi:10.1038/30259
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See also: News and Views by White
Frizzled signalling controls orientation of asymmetric sense organ precursor cell divisions in Drosophila p178
Michel Gho and François Schweisguth
doi:10.1038/30265
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The molecular elasticity of the extracellular matrix protein tenascin p181
Andres F. Oberhauser, Piotr E. Marszalek, Harold P. Erickson and Julio M. Fernandez
doi:10.1038/30270
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Regulation of adenovirus alternative RNA splicing by dephosphorylation of SR proteins p185
Arvydas Kanopka, Oliver Mühlemann, Svend Petersen-Mahrt, Camilla Estmer, Christina Öhrmalm and Göran Akusjärvi
doi:10.1038/30277
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Function of TAFII-containing complex without TBP in transcription by RNA polymerase II p187
Elzbieta Wieczorek, Marjorie Brand, Xavier Jacq and László Tora
doi:10.1038/30283
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See also: News and Views by Apone & Green
Correction: Structure of the 
tubulin dimer by electron crystallography p191
Eva Nogales, Sharon G. Wolf and Kenneth H. Downing
doi:10.1038/30288
Correction: Spatial and temporal organization during cardiac fibrillation p191
Richard A. Gray, Arkady M. Pertsov and José Jalife
doi:10.1038/30290
New on the Market
Managing microbes p192
doi:10.1038/30292
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