Table of contents
Volume 393 Number 6684 pp397-498
Opinion
Dangers of publication by press conference p397
Last week's announcement of an unpublished observation of a possible extra-solar planet raises questions about the wisdom of NASA. The agency's need for visible success could undermine public confidence.
doi:10.1038/30786
Hardening the 'soft' sciences p397
Environmental sciences are not the only disciplines that would benefit from quantitative stiffening.
doi:10.1038/30788
News
'Rough draft' of human genome wins researchers' backing p399
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/30790
Very Large Telescope reveals first images p399
doi:10.1038/30792
Australian advisory body's first target is to reduce land salinity p400
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/30795
UK seeks physicists for environmental research p400
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/30797
Pakistan weighs up impact of sanctions... p401
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/30799
...as India sees decline in cooperative work p401
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/30802
Plea for female academics in Germany p402
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/30804
Authors slow to retract 'fraudulent' papers p402
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/30807
NASA moves to speed up grants process p403
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/30809
South Africa gives green light to telescope p403
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/30811
Storm in Japan over sale of zoo monkeys for research p404
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/30814
Lawsuit demands labels for modified foods p404
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/30817
France seeks the return of the roving scholar p404
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/30819
Swiss transgenic vote hangs in balance p405
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/30821
Italian and US backers improve prospects for cheap trip to Mars p405
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/30824
Correspondence
How big breweries failed the taste test p407
Victor E. Buckwold and Ricardo Amils
doi:10.1038/30829
Bullying of PhDs p407
doi:10.1038/30831
Summing up a wizard at maths ... warts and all p407
Marc J. Seifer
doi:10.1038/30833
News and Views
It's a small world p409
James J. Collins and Carson C. Chow
doi:10.1038/30835
Marine ecology: Microbial microdiversity p410
Jed A. Fuhrman and Lisa Campbell
doi:10.1038/30839
Mathematics: The big match p411
Ivar Ekeland
doi:10.1038/30842
Immunology: Licence to kill p413
Antonio Lanzavecchia
doi:10.1038/30845
Volcanoes: How did the summer go? p415
David M. Pyle
doi:10.1038/30848
100 and 50 years ago p415
doi:10.1038/30853
Neurobiology: A new image for fear and emotion p417
Steven E. Hyman
doi:10.1038/30855
Planetary science: Making and braking asteroids p418
Alan W. Harris
doi:10.1038/30857
Desert ecology: Life in the upper crust p419
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/30861
Daedalus: Plane and fancy p420
David Jones
doi:10.1038/30865
Science and Image
Vesalius's veracity p421
The sixteenth-century anatomist Vesalius debunked many of the doctrines of the Greek physician Galen. Vesalius chose his illustrations carefully to act as powerful tools in proving the accuracy of his scientific observations.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/30867
Scientific Correspondence
Dragon fish see using chlorophyll p423
R. H. Douglas, J. C. Partridge, K. Dulai, D. Hunt, C. W. Mullineaux, A. Y. Tauber and P. H. Hynninen
doi:10.1038/30871
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Vision and attention: the role of training p424
Jochen Braun
doi:10.1038/30875
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Reply: Vision and attention: the role of training p425
Julian S. Joseph, Marvin M. Chun and Ken Nakayama
doi:10.1038/30878
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Marine phosphorus is selectively remineralized p426
Lauren Lisa Clark, Ellery D. Ingall and Ronald Benner
doi:10.1038/30881
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Book Reviews
American pie and food for thought p427
Anne Murcott reviews We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans by Donna R. Gabaccia
doi:10.1038/30885
Needing treatment like a hole in the head p428
Hugh Freeman reviews Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine by Jack D. Pressman
doi:10.1038/30889
Genera obscura p429
Peter J. Bowler reviews The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination by Harriet Ritvo
doi:10.1038/30892
Learning to live with lasers p430
J. Christopher Whitehead reviews Lasers: Harnessing the Atom's Light by James P. Harbison and Robert E. Nahory
doi:10.1038/30895
New in paperback p430
doi:10.1038/30898
Article
A new surface electron-emission mechanism in diamond cathodes p431
M. W. Geis, N. N. Efremow, K. E. Krohn, J. C. Twichell, T. M. Lyszczarz, R. Kalish, J. A. Greer and M. D. Tabat
doi:10.1038/30900
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (276K)
Letters to Nature
Disruption of kilometre-sized asteroids by energetic collisions p437
E. Asphaug, S. J. Ostro, R. S. Hudson, D. J. Scheeres and W. Benz
doi:10.1038/30911
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See also: News and Views by Harris
Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks p440
Duncan J. Watts and Steven H. Strogatz
doi:10.1038/30918
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See also: News and Views by Collins & Chow
Size-controlled percolation pathways for electrical conduction in porous silicon p443
B. Hamilton, J. Jacobs, D. A. Hill, R. F. Pettifer, D. Teehan and L. T. Canham
doi:10.1038/30924
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Colloid crystal self-organization and dynamics at the air/water interface p445
H. Hollis Wickman and Julius N. Korley
doi:10.1038/30930
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Continuing decline in the growth rate of the atmospheric methane burden p447
E. J. Dlugokencky, K. A. Masarie, P. M. Lang and P. P. Tans
doi:10.1038/30934
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Influence of volcanic eruptions on Northern Hemisphere summer temperature over the past 600 years p450
K. R. Briffa, P. D. Jones, F. H. Schweingruber and T. J. Osborn
doi:10.1038/30943
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (419K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Pyle
Global influence of the AD 1600 eruption of Huaynaputina, Peru p455
Shanaka L. de Silva and Gregory A. Zielinski
doi:10.1038/30948
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See also: News and Views by Pyle
A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea p458
Ernesto Abbate, Andrea Albianelli, Augusto Azzaroli, Marco Benvenuti, Berhane Tesfamariam, Piero Bruni, Nicola Cipriani, Ronald J. Clarke, Giovanni Ficcarelli, Roberto Macchiarelli, Giovanni Napoleone, Mauro Papini, Lorenzo Rook, Mario Sagri, Tewelde Medhin Tecle, Danilo Torre and Igor Villa
doi:10.1038/30954
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Selective foraging behaviour of basking sharks on zooplankton in a small-scale front p460
David W. Sims and Victoria A. Quayle
doi:10.1038/30959
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Physiology and molecular phylogeny of coexisting Prochlorococcus ecotypes p464
Lisa R. Moore, Gabrielle Rocap and Sallie W. Chisholm
doi:10.1038/30965
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See also: News and Views by Fuhrman & Campbell
Conscious and unconscious emotional learning in the human amygdala p467
J. S. Morris, A. Öhman and R. J. Dolan
doi:10.1038/30976
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See also: News and Views by Hyman
The human amygdala in social judgment p470
Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel and Antonio R. Damasio
doi:10.1038/30982
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See also: News and Views by Hyman
A conditioned dendritic cell can be a temporal bridge between a CD4+ T-helper and a T-killer cell p474
John Paul Ridge, Francesca Di Rosa and Polly Matzinger
doi:10.1038/30989
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See also: News and Views by Lanzavecchia
Help for cytotoxic-T-cell responses is mediated by CD40 signalling p478
Sally R. M. Bennett, Francis R. Carbone, Freda Karamalis, Richard A. Flavell, Jacques F. A. P. Miller and William R. Heath
doi:10.1038/30996
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See also: News and Views by Lanzavecchia
T-cell help for cytotoxic T lymphocytes is mediated by CD40–CD40L interactions p480
Stephen P. Schoenberger, Rene E. M. Toes, Ellen I. H. van der Voort, Rienk Offringa and Cornelis J. M. Melief
doi:10.1038/31002
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See also: News and Views by Lanzavecchia
Role of Mxi1 in ageing organ systems and the regulation of normal and neoplastic growth p483
Nicole Schreiber-Agus, Yong Meng, Tin Hoang, Harry Hou, Jr, Ken Chen, Roger Greenberg, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Han-Woong Lee and Ronald A. DePinho
doi:10.1038/31008
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A cytokinesis checkpoint requiring the yeast homologue of an APC-binding protein p487
Li Muhua, Neil R. Adames, Michael D. Murphy, Colleen R. Shields and John A. Cooper
doi:10.1038/31014
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Careers and Recruitment
Investigating the alternatives p493
Helen Phillips
doi:10.1038/31021
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Legal recourse p494
Potter Wickware
doi:10.1038/31025
Reinventing yourself p495
Robert Goriss
doi:10.1038/31030
Taking your skills all the way to the bank p496
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/31032
The write stuff p496
Helen Phillips
doi:10.1038/31035
Scientists have a head start in IT p497
James Porteous
doi:10.1038/31038
Banking on biotech p498
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/31040
