Table of contents
Volume 394 Number 6688 pp1-102
Opinion
Academy development signals a gradual leap forward p1
China's scientists are highly valued but poorly paid, and great in number but small in productivity. A new initiative by the Chinese Academy of Sciences should improve matters.
doi:10.1038/27710
Environment agency needs more tact p1
The goodwill that greeted the appointment of UNEP's new executive director is in danger of evaporating.
doi:10.1038/27712
News
Japan reacts uneasily to nuclear plan for meeting carbon cuts p3
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/27714
'Ignition not vital' in scaled-down fusion reactor p3
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/27717
UNEP rebuffed in search for a wider role p4
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/27719
French panel calls for closer monitoring of genetic modification p4
Eric Glover
doi:10.1038/27722
Senators back bill to double R & D funds over 12 years p5
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/27724
NASA loses touch with solar observatory in space p5
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/27726
Space agency to work closely with EU p5
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/27729
New doubts over rock-dating techniques p6
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/27731
German institute 'correct' to fire technician p6
Alison Abbot
doi:10.1038/27734
China plans major shake-up of academy p7
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/27736
Australia builds on biological successes with a broad new centre p7
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/27739
Organic farmer takes gene battle to court p8
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/27742
Correspondence
Let's share the excitement of science p10
Edward J. Weiler, (Scientific Director)
doi:10.1038/27748
Biotech battlelines p10
Othmar Käppeli and Lillian Auberson
doi:10.1038/27750
News and Views
A conduit to the core p11
Richard W. Carlson
doi:10.1038/27752
Vertebrate palaeontology: Evolutionary cut and paste p12
Neil Shubin
doi:10.1038/27755
Particle physics: The Standard Model transcended p13
Frank Wilczek
doi:10.1038/27758
SO(10) marshals the particles p15
Frank Wilczek
doi:10.1038/27761
Developmental biology: Boning up on Hedgehog's movements p16
Philip W. Ingham
doi:10.1038/27764
Extragalactic astronomy: Intergalactic pollution p17
J. Michael Shull
doi:10.1038/27767
Synaptic transmission: The two faces of glutamate p19
Jean-Philippe Pin
doi:10.1038/27771
100 and 50 years ago p20
doi:10.1038/27774
Geophysics: Ice on the fast track p21
Charles R. Bentley
doi:10.1038/27776
Superconductivity: The ghost of magnetism p22
Zachary Fisk and David Pines
doi:10.1038/27779
Signal transduction: What goes up must come down p23
David R. H. Evans and Brian A. Hemmings
doi:10.1038/27782
Correction: Single electrons in silicon drops p24
doi:10.1038/27786
Daedalus: Extruded tubing p24
David Jones
doi:10.1038/27788
Science and Image
Röntgen's rays p25
When X-rays were discovered in the last century they swiftly captured the popular imagination, giving rise to a new art form, saucy poetry and circus sideshows alongside their serious roles in science and medicine.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/27790
Scientific Correspondence
Novel retinal photoreceptors p27
Bobby G. Soni, Alisdair R. Philp, Russell G. Foster and Barry E. Knox
doi:10.1038/27794
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Do flame retardants threaten ocean life? p28
Jacob de Boer, Peter G. Wester, Hans J. C. Klamer, Wilma E. Lewis and Jan P. Boon
doi:10.1038/27798
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Density of states reflects diameter in nanotubes p29
C. T. White and J. W. Mintmire
doi:10.1038/27801
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A more reliable design for biodiversity study? p30
David A. Wardle
doi:10.1038/27812
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Reply: A more reliable design for biodiversity study? p30
Shahid Naeem and Shibin Li
doi:10.1038/27815
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Book Reviews
Selling science against the odds p31
Graham Farmelo reviews Science in Public: Communication, Culture and Credibility by Jane Gregory and Steve Miller and Communicating Research by A. J. Meadows
doi:10.1038/27817
Taking the long view p31
doi:10.1038/27819
Tripped up by timekeeping p32
Kristen Lippincott reviews Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time — From Sundials to Atomic Clocks by Jo Ellen Barnett
doi:10.1038/27822
Truth and consequences p33
Gisli H. Gudjonsson reviews A Tremor in the Blood: Uses and Abuses of the Lie Detector, 2nd edition by David T. Lykken
doi:10.1038/27826
Digging up history's skeletons p34
Ruth Richardson reviews Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training by Robert L. Blakely and Judith M. Harrington
doi:10.1038/27829
Progress
G-protein diseases furnish a model for the turn-on switch p35
Taroh Iiri, Zvi Farfel and Henry R. Bourne
doi:10.1038/27831
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (386K)
Article
Magnetically mediated superconductivity in heavy fermion compounds p39
N. D. Mathur, F. M. Grosche, S. R. Julian, I. R. Walker, D. M. Freye, R. K. W. Haselwimmer and G. G. Lonzarich
doi:10.1038/27838
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (278K)
See also: News and Views by Fisk & Pines
Letters to Nature
Heavy-element enrichment in low-density regions of the intergalactic medium p44
Lennox L. Cowie and Antoinette Songaila
doi:10.1038/27845
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See also: News and Views by Shull
Quantum error correction for communication with linear optics p47
Samuel L. Braunstein
doi:10.1038/27850
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Nanofabrication of solid- state Fresnel lenses for electron optics p49
Y. Ito, A. L. Bleloch and L. M. Brown
doi:10.1038/27863
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Covalently functionalized nanotubes as nanometre- sized probes in chemistry and biology p52
Stanislaus S. Wong, Ernesto Joselevich, Adam T. Woolley, Chin Li Cheung and Charles M. Lieber
doi:10.1038/27873
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The balance of plankton respiration and photosynthesis in the open oceans p55
P. J. le B. Williams
doi:10.1038/27878
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Influence of subglacial geology on the onset of a West Antarctic ice stream from aerogeophysical observations p58
R. E. Bell, D. D. Blankenship, C. A. Finn, D. L. Morse, T. A. Scambos, J. M. Brozena and S. M. Hodge
doi:10.1038/27883
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See also: News and Views by Bentley
Influence of subglacial geology on the position of a West Antarctic ice stream from seismic observations p62
S. Anandakrishnan, D. D. Blankenship, R. B. Alley and P. L. Stoffa
doi:10.1038/27889
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See also: News and Views by Bentley
A new Early Carboniferous tetrapod with a mélange of crown-group characters p66
Jennifer A. Clack
doi:10.1038/27895
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (674K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Shubin
Adaptive radiation in a heterogeneous environment p69
Paul B. Rainey and Michael Travisano
doi:10.1038/27900
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Temporal gating of neural signals during performance of a visual discrimination task p72
Eyal Seidemann, Ehud Zohary and William T. Newsome
doi:10.1038/27906
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Seeing only the right half of the forest but cutting down all the trees? p75
Fabrizio Doricchi and Chiara Incoccia
doi:10.1038/27913
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Glutamate mediates an inhibitory postsynaptic potential in dopamine neurons p78
C. D. Fiorillo and J. T. Williams
doi:10.1038/27919
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See also: News and Views by Pin
Wingless and Notch regulate cell-cycle arrest in the developing Drosophila wing p82
Laura A. Johnston and Bruce A. Edgar
doi:10.1038/27925
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Tout-velu is a Drosophila homologue of the putative tumour suppressor EXT-1 and is needed for Hh diffusion p85
Yohanns Bellaiche, Inge The and Norbert Perrimon
doi:10.1038/27932
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See also: News and Views by Ingham
A dimeric 14-3-3 protein is an essential cofactor for Raf kinase activity p88
Guri Tzivion, Zhijun Luo and Joseph Avruch
doi:10.1038/27938
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The oncoprotein Evi-1 represses TGF-
signalling by inhibiting Smad3 p92
Mineo Kurokawa, Kinuko Mitani, Kenji Irie, Tomohiro Matsuyama, Tokiharu Takahashi, Shigeru Chiba, Yoshio Yazaki, Kunihiro Matsumoto and Hisamaru Hirai
doi:10.1038/27945
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DNA binding and cleavage by the nuclear intron-encoded homing endonuclease I-PpoI p96
Karen E. Flick, Melissa S. Jurica, Raymond J. Monnat, Jr and Barry L. Stoddard
doi:10.1038/27952
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Corrections: Emergence of symbiosis in peptide self-replication through a hypercyclic network p101
David H. Lee, Kay Severin, Yohei Yokobayashi and M. Reza Ghadiri
doi:10.1038/27961
Corrections: The complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic, sulphate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus p101
Hans-Peter Klenk, Rebecca A. Clayton, Jean-Francois Tomb, Owen White, Karen E. Nelson, Karen A. Ketchum, Robert J. Dodson, Michelle Gwinn, Erin K. Hickey, Jeremy D. Peterson, Delwood L. Richardson, Anthony R. Kerlavage, David E. Graham, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Robert D. Fleischmann, John Quackenbush, Norman H. Lee, Granger G. Sutton, Steven Gill, Ewen F. Kirkness, Brian A. Dougherty, Keith McKenney, Mark D. Adams, Brendan Loftus, Scott Peterson, Claudia I. Reich, Leslie K. McNeil, Jonathan H. Badger, Anna Glodek, Lixin Zhou, Ross Overbeek, Jeannine D. Gocayne, Janice F. Weidman, Lisa McDonald, Teresa Utterback, Matthew D. Cotton, Tracy Spriggs, Patricia Artiach, Brian P. Kaine, Sean M. Sykes, Paul W. Sadow, Kurt P. D'Andrea, Cheryl Bowman, Claire Fujii, Stacey A. Garland, Tanya M. Mason, Gary J. Olsen, Claire M. Fraser, Hamilton O. Smith, Carl R. Woese and J. Craig Venter
doi:10.1038/27963
New on the Market
Refining your image acquisition p102
Kicking off with electron and atomic force microscopy, this section is rounded out by systems for light microscopy that include laser scanning fluorescence, improved automation, imaging software and other accessories.
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doi:10.1038/27965
