Opinion

'Gene-foods': the alternative to a moratorium p605

Three developments could help reduce public concern about genetically modified crops: broader criteria to assess their social and environmental impact, an over-arching monitoring body, and greater transparency.

doi:10.1038/29130

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News

Radioastronomers hammer out an agreement on mobile phones p607

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/29132

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Industrialist to head UK research councils p607

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/29135

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Science returns to Einstein's rural retreat p608

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/29138

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Crop trials speed up as eco-warriors strike p608

Ehsan Masood and Katherine Akingbade

doi:10.1038/29141

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Dilemma for journals over tobacco cash p609

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/29143

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Researchers accused of wanting to rob the poor to give to NIH p609

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/29146

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Visa wrangle brings crisis in science jobs p610

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/29148

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Geneticists told to debate with politicians p610

David Dickson

doi:10.1038/29150

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News Analysis

Fermilab faces up to uncertain future p611

John Peoples will retire next year as director of Fermilab, leaving it in solid shape. But with CERN expected to usurp its position at the forefront of high-energy physics, and doubts about government investment, his replacement must find a way of ensuring a secure future for the US lab.

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/29152

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News in Brief p612

doi:10.1038/29155

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Correspondence

French reforms should go further p613

Klaus Scherrer

doi:10.1038/29157

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Deceptive appearance p613

Werner Burkart

doi:10.1038/29159

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East Germans succeed p613

Ritchie Brown

doi:10.1038/29161

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News and Views

Falling satellites, rising temperatures? p615

Dian J. Gaffen

doi:10.1038/29163

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Cancer:  Awakening angels p616

David Lane

doi:10.1038/29166

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Plasma physics:  Surfing the wake p617

Robert Bingham

doi:10.1038/29170

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Signal transduction:  Marked for nuclear export? p619

Nullin Divecha

doi:10.1038/29174

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Ecology and statistics:  Nonlinear sheep in a noisy world p620

Nils Chr. Stenseth and Kung-Sik Chan

doi:10.1038/29177

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100 and 50 years ago p623

doi:10.1038/29182

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Thermodynamics:  Cool sounds p623

Peter T. Landsberg

doi:10.1038/29184

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Immunology:  Burnet's unhappy hybrid p624

Klaus Rajewsky

doi:10.1038/29187

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Daedalus:  Bubble power p625

David Jones

doi:10.1038/29190

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Obituary:  Colin Patterson (1933-98) p626

Gareth Nelson

doi:10.1038/29192

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Science and Image

Attractive attractors p627

It can be easier to understand mathematical procedures when we can see them in, seemingly, three dimensions. Even though we cannot really see all the dimensions in which these attractors exist, they are satisfying to the eye.

Martin Kemp

doi:10.1038/29195

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Scientific Correspondence

Cretaceous plesiosaurs ate ammonites p629

Tamaki Sato and Kazushige Tanabe

doi:10.1038/29199

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Connexin mutations in deafness p630

Thomas W. White, Michael R. Deans, David P. Kelsell and David L. Paul

doi:10.1038/29202

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Very long carbon nanotubes p631

Z. W. Pan, S. S. Xie, B. H. Chang, C. Y. Wang, L. Lu, W. Liu, W. Y. Zhou, W. Z. Li and L. X. Qian

doi:10.1038/29206

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Switch from specialized to generalized pollination p632

W. Scott Armbruster and Bruce G. Baldwin

doi:10.1038/29210

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Book Reviews

The 'great secret' of chemistry's past p633

D. M. Knight reviews The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Chemical Quest by Lawrence Principe

doi:10.1038/29213

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Eclipsed no more p634

Ziauddin Sardar reviews Osmanli Astronomi Literaturu Tarihi (History of Astronomy Literature during the Ottoman Period) edited by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

doi:10.1038/29216

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Dogged by controversy p635

John Galloway reviews The Brown Dog Affair by Peter Mason and Lethal Laws: Animal Testing, Human Health, and Environmental Policy by Alix Fano

doi:10.1038/29220

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Grub's up! p636

Helen Phillips reviews The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook by David George Gordon

doi:10.1038/29223

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Articles

Chaotic topography, mantle flow and mantle migration in the Australian–Antarctic discordance p637

David M. Christie, Brian P. West, Douglas G. Pyle and Barry B. Hanan

doi:10.1038/29226

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Crystal structure of the spliceosomal U2B"–U2A' protein complex bound to a fragment of U2 small nuclear RNA p645

Stephen R. Price, Philip R. Evans and Kiyoshi Nagai

doi:10.1038/29234

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Letters to Nature

Reconciling the spectrum of Sagittarius A^* with a two-temperature plasma model p651

Rohan Mahadevan

doi:10.1038/29241

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Long-lived giant cells detected at the surface of the Sun p653

J. G. Beck, T. L. Duvall, Jr and P. H. Scherrer

doi:10.1038/29245

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Visualization of hydrogen migration in solids using switchable mirrors p656

F. J. A. den Broeder, S. J. van der Molen, M. Kremers, J. N. Huiberts, D. G. Nagengast, A. T. M. van Gogh, W. H. Huisman, N. J. Koeman, B. Dam, J. H. Rector, S. Plota, M. Haaksma, R. M. N. Hanzen, R. M. Jungblut, P. A. Duine and R. Griessen

doi:10.1038/29250

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Evidence for laser action driven by electrochemiluminescence p659

Tsutomu Horiuchi, Osamu Niwa and Noriyuki Hatakenaka

doi:10.1038/29260

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Effects of orbital decay on satellite-derived lower-tropospheric temperature trends p661

Frank J. Wentz and Matthias Schabel

doi:10.1038/29267

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Isotopic evidence for a solar argon component in the Earth's mantle p664

R. O. Pepin

doi:10.1038/29272

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Evolution of an active sea-floor massive sulphide deposit p668

C.-F. You and M. J. Bickle

doi:10.1038/29279

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The gain of three mitochondrial introns identifies liverworts as the earliest land plants p671

Yin-Long Qiu, Yangrae Cho, J. Colin Cox and Jeffrey D. Palmer

doi:10.1038/29286

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Noise and determinism in synchronized sheep dynamics p674

B. T. Grenfell, K. Wilson, B. F. Finkenstädt, T. N. Coulson, S. Murray, S. D. Albon, J. M. Pemberton, T. H. Clutton-Brock and M. J. Crawley

doi:10.1038/29291

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Cortical area MT and the perception of stereoscopic depth p677

Gregory C. DeAngelis, Bruce G. Cumming and William T. Newsome

doi:10.1038/29299

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Maintenance of late-phase LTP is accompanied by PKA-dependent increase in AMPA receptor synthesis p680

Asha Nayak, Devon J. Zastrow, Ronald Lickteig, Nancy R. Zahniser and Michael D. Browning

doi:10.1038/29305

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Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors mediate long-term potentiation in interneurons in the amygdala p683

Nishith K. Mahanty and Pankaj Sah

doi:10.1038/29312

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Pore stoichiometry of a voltage-gated chloride channel p687

Christoph Fahlke, Thomas H. Rhodes, Reshma R. Desai and Alfred L. George, Jr

doi:10.1038/29319

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A dual thrombin receptor system for platelet activation p690

Mark L. Kahn, Yao-Wu Zheng, Wei Huang, Violeta Bigornia, Dewan Zeng, Stephen Moff, Robert V. Farese, Jr, Carmen Tam and Shaun R. Coughlin

doi:10.1038/29325

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A mutation in succinate dehydrogenase cytochrome b causes oxidative stress and ageing in nematodes p694

Naoaki Ishii, Michihiko Fujii, Philip S. Hartman, Michio Tsuda, Kayo Yasuda, Nanami Senoo-Matsuda, Sumino Yanase, Dai Ayusawa and Kenshi Suzuki

doi:10.1038/29331

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Protein kinase C regulates the nuclear localization of diacylglycerol kinase- p697

Matthew K. Topham, Michaeline Bunting, Guy A. Zimmerman, Thomas M. McIntyre, Perry J. Blackshear and Stephen M. Prescott

doi:10.1038/29337

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See also: News and Views by Divecha

DNA-dependent protein kinase acts upstream of p53 in response to DNA damage p700

Richard A. Woo, Kevin G. McLure, Susan P. Lees-Miller, Derrick E. Rancourt and Patrick W. K. Lee

doi:10.1038/29343

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New on the Market

The software side of chemistry p705

Leading off with two chemical reaction stations, this roundup focuses mainly on software, including packages for chemometrics, the design of experiments, data acquisition and analysis, spectroscopy and remote Internet control.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.

doi:10.1038/29350

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