Table of contents
Volume 394 Number 6692 pp403-507
Opinion
Dutch cuts ahead p403
The new government of the Netherlands should reverse rather than exacerbate its declining support for basic science — a message reinforced by the OECD.
doi:10.1038/28680
A word in your ear p403
As the conference season approaches, it is time to reflect on the negative effects of ill-prepared presentations.
doi:10.1038/28682
News
Dutch universities and research laboratories set for major cuts p405
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/28684
Hubble homes in on the birth of bright stars p405
doi:10.1038/28686
China and Taiwan edge a shade closer p406
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/28689
New Zealand government backtracks on funding promises p406
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/28691
Ministers block disposal of oil rigs at sea p407
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/28694
Meeting agrees cuts to radioactive emissions p407
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/28697
Cloned mice fail to rekindle ethics debate p408
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/28699
Japanese fear that new publicity rules could hinder their research p408
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/28702
Mother bears could help save giant panda p409
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/28704
Patent clash looming over cloning techniques? p409
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/28706
Alarm in US over database antipiracy bill p410
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/28709
Telescopes track down lost spacecraft p410
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/28712
News Analysis
A physicist joins the race for Congress p411
There are only three scientists in Congress, but Rush Holt, former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, believes he can become the fourth. He comfortably won the primary to become the Democrat nominee in New Jersey's twelfth district.
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/28714
Correspondence
Japan to the fore in biodiversity initiative p413
Junko Shimura
doi:10.1038/28719
Extrasensory statistics p413
Dean Radin and I. J. Good
doi:10.1038/28721
Tough time for taxonomy p413
Marcel Jaspars
doi:10.1038/28723
Commentary
How to simplify the plutonium problem p415
The global stockpile of separated plutonium is expensive and hazardous to reprocess, vulnerable to terrorist threat and disposal is costly. But there are apparently simple ways to reduce this problem.
doi:10.1038/28725
News and Views
A sense for landmines p417
Anthony W. Czarnik
doi:10.1038/28728
Ecology: A declining amphibian conundrum p418
Tim Halliday
doi:10.1038/28732
Superconductivity: Strain yourself p419
Ivan K. Schuller
doi:10.1038/28735
Immunology: The original sin of killer T cells p421
Andrew J. McMichael
doi:10.1038/28738
Palaeoclimatology: The ends of an era p422
Christopher Charles
doi:10.1038/28741
Marine biology: Sex and the single copepod p423
Rory Howlett
doi:10.1038/28743
Ecology: Polarized flight p425
Alison Mitchell
doi:10.1038/28747
100 and 50 years ago p426
doi:10.1038/28750
Vesicular transport: Sticky fingers grab a lipid p426
Claudia Wiedemann and Shamshad Cockcroft
doi:10.1038/28752
Drug delivery: A lesson from secretory granules p427
Ronald A. Siegel
doi:10.1038/28756
Daedalus: A chance of justice p428
David Jones
doi:10.1038/28758
Science and Image
Kroto and charisma p429
A vision of a dome led to the naming of buckminsterfullerene. This carbon cluster has become an icon for chemistry, thanks to the media-friendly appeal it shares with co-discoverer Sir Harry Kroto.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/28760
Scientific Correspondence
Ploughing up the wood-wide web? p431
T. Helgason, T. J. Daniell, R. Husband, A. H. Fitter and J. P. W. Young
doi:10.1038/28764
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FYVE fingers bind PtdIns(3)P p432
Jean-Michel Gaullier, Anne Simonsen, Antonello D'Arrigo, Bjørn Bremnes, Harald Stenmark and Rein Aasland
doi:10.1038/28767
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (297K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Wiedemann & Cockcroft
A functional PtdIns(3)P-binding motif p433
Varsha Patki, Deirdre C. Lawe, Silvia Corvera, Joseph V. Virbasius and Anil Chawla
doi:10.1038/28771
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See also: News and Views by Wiedemann & Cockcroft
Does practice shape the brain? p434
Pat Monaghan, Neil B. Metcalfe and Graeme D. Ruxton
doi:10.1038/28775
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Film Review
Rocky horror picture shows p435
Kevin Zahnle reviews Deep Impact and Armageddon
doi:10.1038/28777
Book Reviews
The weeds in Fibonacci's garden p436
Dennis Bray
doi:10.1038/28781
Bouffi à la girafe p437
Philippe Janvier
doi:10.1038/28785
The is and the ought p437
Brian Martin
doi:10.1038/28788
The FAQs of astronomy p438
Jay M. Pasachoff
doi:10.1038/28790
Review
Gaia and natural selection p439
Timothy M. Lenton
doi:10.1038/28792
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (320K)
Letters to Nature
An extraordinary cluster of massive stars near the centre of the Milky Way p448
E. Serabyn, D. Shupe and D. F. Figer
doi:10.1038/28799
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Self-organized growth of nanostructure arrays on strain-relief patterns p451
Harald Brune, Marcella Giovannini, Karsten Bromann and Klaus Kern
doi:10.1038/28804
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Doubling the critical temperature of La1.9Sr0.1CuO4 using epitaxial strain p453
J.-P. Locquet, J. Perret, J. Fompeyrine, E. Mächler, J. W. Seo and G. Van Tendeloo
doi:10.1038/28810
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See also: News and Views by Schuller
Nanocomposite polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries p456
F. Croce, G. B. Appetecchi, L. Persi and B. Scrosati
doi:10.1038/28818
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A synthetic mimic of the secretory granule for drug delivery p459
Patrick F. Kiser, Glynn Wilson and David Needham
doi:10.1038/28822
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See also: News and Views by Siegel
Budgetary and biogeochemical implications of N2O isotope signatures in the Arabian Sea p462
S. W. A. Naqvi, T. Yoshinari, D. A. Jayakumar, M. A. Altabet, P. V. Narvekar, A. H. Devol, J. A. Brandes and L. A. Codispoti
doi:10.1038/28828
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Orbital modulation of the Earth's magnetic field intensity p464
J. E. T. Channell, D. A. Hodell, J. McManus and B. Lehman
doi:10.1038/28833
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Energy and trace-gas fluxes across a soil pH boundary in the Arctic p469
D. A. Walker, N. A. Auerbach, J. G. Bockheim, F. S. Chapin, III, W. Eugster, J. Y. King, J. P. McFadden, G. J. Michaelson, F. E. Nelson, W. C. Oechel, C. L. Ping, W. S. Reeburg, S. Regli, N. I. Shiklomanov and G. L. Vourlitis
doi:10.1038/28839
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Complementarity and the use of indicator groups for reserve selection in Uganda p472
Peter C. Howard, Paolo Viskanic, Tim R. B. Davenport, Fred W. Kigenyi, Michael Baltzer, Chris J. Dickinson, Jeremiah S. Lwanga, Roger A. Matthews and Andrew Balmford
doi:10.1038/28843
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Membrane potential synchrony of simultaneously recorded striatal spiny neurons in vivo p475
Edward A. Stern, Dieter Jaeger and Charles J. Wilson
doi:10.1038/28848
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Glutamate locally activates dendritic outputs of thalamic interneurons p478
Charles L. Cox, Qiang Zhou and S. Murray Sherman
doi:10.1038/28855
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Original antigenic sin impairs cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses to viruses bearing variant epitopes p482
Paul Klenerman and Rolf M. Zinkernagel
doi:10.1038/28860
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See also: News and Views by McMichael
Role of HIF-1
in hypoxia-mediated apoptosis, cell proliferation and tumour angiogenesis p485
Peter Carmeliet, Yuval Dor, Jean-Marc Herbert, Dai Fukumura, Koen Brusselmans, Mieke Dewerchin, Michal Neeman, Françoise Bono, Rinat Abramovitch, Patrick Maxwell, Cameron J. Koch, Peter Ratcliffe, Lieve Moons, Rakesh K. Jain, Désiré Collen and Eli Keshet
doi:10.1038/28867
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Role of citron kinase as a target of the small GTPase Rho in cytokinesis p491
Pascal Madaule, Masatoshi Eda, Naoki Watanabe, Kazuko Fujisawa, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Haruhiko Bito, Toshimasa Ishizaki and Shuh Narumiya
doi:10.1038/28873
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EEA1 links PI(3)K function to Rab5 regulation of endosome fusion p494
Anne Simonsen, Roger Lippe, Savvas Christoforidis, Jean-Michel Gaullier, Andreas Brech, Judy Callaghan, Ban-Hock Toh, Carol Murphy, Marino Zerial and Harald Stenmark
doi:10.1038/28879
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See also: News and Views by Wiedemann & Cockcroft
Transcriptional activators direct histone acetyltransferase complexes to nucleosomes p498
Rhea T. Utley, Keiko Ikeda, Patrick A. Grant, Jacques Côté, David J. Steger, Anton Eberharter, Sam John and Jerry L. Workman
doi:10.1038/28886
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Structure of the metal-ion-activated diphtheria toxin repressor/ tox operator complex p502
André White, Xiaochun Ding, Johanna C. vanderSpek, John R. Murphy and Dagmar Ringe
doi:10.1038/28893
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New on the Market
A light at the end of the tube p507
This assortment of products includes laser beam attenuators, motorized steppers and translators, laser confocal microscopy systems, beam analysers, as well as infrared and diode laser bars and systems.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
doi:10.1038/28900
