Table of contents
Volume 393 Number 6687 pp717-818
Opinion
Strength in unity p717
Adapting to reunification has been a painful process for much of the scientific community in the former East Germany. But the city of Magdeburg has shown how a successful outcome can be achieved.
doi:10.1038/31527
Science advice in an uncertain world p717
Despite pressures to the contrary, debate on the scientific dimension of policy decisions must take place openly.
doi:10.1038/31529
News
Journal prices lead libraries to back less costly initiatives p719
Laura Garwin
doi:10.1038/31531
'Insider' gets energy secretary nomination p719
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/31533
UK research set for international scrutiny p720
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/31536
Plea for plurality on advice to ministers p720
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/31538
Defence sanctions open doors for India's private companies p721
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/31541
Russian miners add weight to protests by scientists p721
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/31543
Sweden must close centres or leave CERN, says
council p722
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/31546
Congress remains upbeat on public genome
efforts p722
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/31548
Patent office struggles to handle backlog p722
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/31550
CNRS reform will boost strategic advice p723
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/31552
Ozone recovery will be long-term affair p723
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/31554
Attack on Japan's engineering education p724
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/31557
South Africa's truth commission reveals bioweapons plot p724
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/31559
News Analysis
New voices displace east/west tensions p725
The east German city of Magdeburg, long known for its neuroscience research, went through a difficult period in the years after the Berlin Wall came down. But its scientific efforts received a boost last week with the opening of the Centre for Neuroscience Innovation and Technology.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/31562
Correspondence
US scientists rally behind funding bill p727
Martha Sloan, (Chair), Arthur Jaffe, (President), Paul Walter, (President) and Andrew M. Sessler, (President)
doi:10.1038/31568
Combinatorial chemistry in the hunt for medicines p727
A. Ganesan
doi:10.1038/31570
Call for change in Brazil p727
Eurico C. de Oliveira
doi:10.1038/31572
Scientists at the sharp end in a disaster zone p728
Willy Aspinall, Peter Francis, Lloyd Lynch, Richard Robertson, Keith Rowley, Steve Sparks, Simon Young and David Sanderson
doi:10.1038/31574
News and Views
When is a bird not a bird? p729
Kevin Padian
doi:10.1038/31576
Fullerenes: C60's smallest cousin p730
James R. Heath
doi:10.1038/31579
Bioluminescence: Dolphins glow with the flow p731
Peter J. Herring
doi:10.1038/31582
Oceanography: Pumping iron makes thinner diatoms p733
Ed Boyle
doi:10.1038/31585
Evolutionary biology: Genitally does it p734
Darryl T. Gwynne
doi:10.1038/31587
Chemical kinetics: Smaller, faster chemistry p735
Klavs Jensen
doi:10.1038/31590
Developmental biology: SMAD proteins and mammalian anatomy p737
Rik Derynck
doi:10.1038/31593
Signal transduction: Actin, cofilin and cognition p739
Jody Rosenblatt and Timothy J. Mitchison
doi:10.1038/31597
100 and 50 years ago p739
doi:10.1038/31600
Daedalus: Muffled furnace p740
David Jones
doi:10.1038/31602
News and Views Feature
The end of the old model Universe p741
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/31604
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (449K)
Science and Image
Hooke's housefly p745
The invention of the microscope opened up a new world of scientific discovery. It also presented perceptual and philosophical challenges — which were brought into sharp focus by the seminal work of Robert Hooke.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/31608
Scientific Correspondence
Deadly relic of the Great War p747
Caroline Redmond, Martin J. Pearce, Richard J. Manchee and Bjorn P. Berdal
doi:10.1038/31612
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Cnidarian homeoboxes and the zootype p748
Daniel E. Martínez, Diane Bridge, Liria M. Masuda-Nakagawa and Paulyn Cartwright
doi:10.1038/31616
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Making water levitate p749
Yasuhiro Ikezoe, Noriyuki Hirota, Jun Nakagawa and Koichi Kitazawa
doi:10.1038/31619
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Nicotine metabolism defect reduces smoking p750
Michael L. Pianezza, Edward M. Sellers and Rachel F. Tyndale
doi:10.1038/31623
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Book Reviews
History under the microscope p751
Arthur Middleton reviews Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia edited by Robert Bud and Deborah Jean Warner
doi:10.1038/31626
Darwin's fixed course p752
Mark Pagel reviews Evolution: Society, Science and the Universe edited by A. C. Fabian
doi:10.1038/31630
Face value p752
doi:10.1038/31632
Article
Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern China p753
Ji Qiang, Philip J. Currie, Mark A. Norell and Ji Shu-An
doi:10.1038/31635
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,572K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Padian
Letters to Nature
Tests of quantum gravity from observations of 
-ray bursts p763
G. Amelino-Camelia, John Ellis, N. E. Mavromatos, D. V. Nanopoulos and Subir Sarkar
doi:10.1038/31647
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Global warming on Triton p765
J. L. Elliot, H. B. Hammel, L. H. Wasserman, O. G. Franz, S. W. McDonald, M. J. Person, C. B. Olkin, E. W. Dunham, J. R. Spencer, J. A. Stansberry, M. W. Buie, J. M. Pasachoff, B. A. Babcock and T. H. McConnochie
doi:10.1038/31651
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Superconductivity in oxygen p767
K. Shimizu, K. Suhara, M. Ikumo, M. I. Eremets and K. Amaya
doi:10.1038/31656
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Glass fibres of pure and erbium- or neodymium-doped yttria–alumina compositions p769
J. K. Richard Weber, John J. Felten, Benjamin Cho and Paul C. Nordine
doi:10.1038/31662
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C36, a new carbon solid p771
C. Piskoti, J. Yarger and A. Zettl
doi:10.1038/31668
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See also: News and Views by Heath
Influence of iron availability on nutrient consumption ratio of diatoms in oceanic waters p774
Shigenobu Takeda
doi:10.1038/31674
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See also: News and Views by Boyle
Oxygen isotope evidence for slab-derived fluids in the sub-arc mantle p777
John M. Eiler, Brent McInnes, John W. Valley, Colin M. Graham and Edward M. Stolper
doi:10.1038/31679
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Skull of a Jurassic ankylosaur (Dinosauria) p782
Kenneth Carpenter, Clifford Miles and Karen Cloward
doi:10.1038/31684
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Comparative evidence for the evolution of genitalia by sexual selection p784
Göran Arnqvist
doi:10.1038/31689
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (217K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Gwynne
Smad2 role in mesoderm formation, left–right patterning and craniofacial development p786
Masatoshi Nomura and En Li
doi:10.1038/31693
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See also: News and Views by Derynck
Activation of human aortic smooth-muscle cells is inhibited by PPAR
but not by PPAR activators p790
Bart Staels, Wolfgang Koenig, Aïda Habib, Régine Merval, Marilyne Lebret, Inés Pineda Torra, Philippe Delerive, Abdessamad Fadel, Giulia Chinetti, Jean-Charles Fruchart, Jamila Najib, Jacques Maclouf and Alain Tedgui
doi:10.1038/31701
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Modulation of AMPA receptor unitary conductance by synaptic activity p793
Tim A. Benke, Andreas Lüthi, John T. R. Isaac and Graham L. Collingridge
doi:10.1038/31709
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IgD can largely substitute for loss of IgM function in B cells p797
Claudia Lutz, Birgit Ledermann, Marie H. Kosco-Vilbois, Adrian F. Ochsenbein, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Georges Köhler and Frank Brombacher
doi:10.1038/31716
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Evidence for the shikimate pathway in apicomplexan parasites p801
Fiona Roberts, Craig W. Roberts, Jennifer J. Johnson, Dennis E. Kyle, Tino Krell, John R. Coggins, Graham H. Coombs, Wilbur K. Milhous, Saul Tzipori, David J. P. Ferguson, Debopam Chakrabarti and Rima McLeod
doi:10.1038/31723
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Regulation of actin dynamics through phosphorylation of cofilin by LIM-kinase p805
Silvia Arber, Freda A. Barbayannis, Hartwig Hanser, Corinna Schneider, Clement A. Stanyon, Ora Bernard and Pico Caroni
doi:10.1038/31729
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See also: News and Views by Rosenblatt & Mitchison
Cofilin phosphorylation by LIM-kinase 1 and its role in Rac-mediated actin reorganization p809
Neng Yang, Osamu Higuchi, Kazumasa Ohashi, Kyoko Nagata, Atsushi Wada, Kenji Kangawa, Eisuke Nishida and Kensaku Mizuno
doi:10.1038/31735
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See also: News and Views by Rosenblatt & Mitchison
Structure of a heparin-linked biologically active dimer of fibroblast growth factor p812
Anna D. DiGabriele, Irit Lax, Denise I. Chen, Carl M. Svahn, Michael Jaye, Joseph Schlessinger and Wayne A. Hendrickson
doi:10.1038/31741
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New on the Market
Gene research products p818
Tools for genetic research covered in this feature include a hand-held laboratory 'assistant', high-grade nucleotides for PCR, a probe for murine telomeres, a catalogue for antisense oligonucleotides and new gel loading pipette tips.
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