Opinion

China's 'eugenics' law still disturbing despite relabelling p707

As hoped, international discussions in Beijing on controversial family planning legislation have been productive. But China's law still gives grounds for worry.

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News

Salk Institute investigated after claims of inhumane research p709

Rex Dalton

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India set to allow patents for products p709

K. S. Jayaraman

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Japanese R&D spending defies recession p710

Asako Saegusa

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Massive jobs shake-up as China reorganizes science academy p710

David Swinbanks and Richard Nathan

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Congress grabs eugenics common ground p711

David Dickson

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Italy frees research council from 'baroni' p712

Alison Abbott

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Boost to Canadian science infrastructure p712

David Spurgeon

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NASA's Mars plans revitalized by Europe p713

Tony Reichhardt

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Ethical protection for subjects 'could stifle psychiatric research' p713

Meredith Wadman

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News in Brief p714

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Correspondence

Serbia's universities come under attack p715

Petar Grujic

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Transgene risk is not too low to be tested p715

Brian V. Ford-Lloyd

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News and Views

Timing is everything in a game of two hemispheres p717

James W. C. White and Eric J. Steig

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V (D)J recombination:  Ragtime jumping p718

Ronald Plasterk

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Archaeology:  Neanderthals emancipated p719

Paul G. Bahn

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Locomotion:  Just skip it p721

Claire T. Farley

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Semiconductors:  Defective sculpture p722

Karen Southwell

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Geology:  Early uplift in Tibet? p723

William Ruddiman

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100 and 50 years ago p725

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Neurobiology:  Making smooth moves p725

Terrence J. Sejnowski

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Pollination:  Sunbird surprise for syndromes p726

Jeff Ollerton

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Daedalus:  Defossilization p727

David Jones

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Obituary:  James Lighthill (1924-98) p728

Keith Moffatt

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Science and Image

Cartesian contrivances p729

If matter fills the Universe, making everything happen by its interactions, what does it all look like? René Descartes may have been over-mechanistic in his view, but his efforts to visualize the invisible created striking images.

Martin Kemp

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Scientific Correspondence

Pollen transfer on birds' tongues p731

Anton Pauw

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A proxy index of ENSO teleconnections p732

M. N. Evans, R. G. Fairbanks and J. L. Rubenstone

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Trifling variation in truffles p734

G. Bertault, M. Raymond, A. Berthomieu, G. Callot and D. Fernandez

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Book Reviews

Enigma variations on the nuclear stage p735

Michael Berry reviews Copenhagen A play by Michael Frayn

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Myths that won't die p735

Roslynn Haynes reviews Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture by Jon Turney

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Getting to grips with the solid Earth p736

Jon Bull reviews Principles of Geophysics by Norman H. Sleep and Kazuya Fujita and Fundamentals of Geophysics by William Lowrie

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Defining moment p737

Peter Brimblecombe reviews The Environment Dictionary by David D. Kemp and Longman Dictionary of Environmental Science by Eleanor Lawrence, Andrew R. W. Jackson and Julie M. Jackson

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Shark truths and some great white lies p737

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In retrospect chosen by Gordon L. Herries Davies p738

Gordon L. Herries Davies reviews Principles of Physical Geology by Arthur Holmes

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Articles

Asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate change during the last glacial period p739

T. Blunier, J. Chappellaz, J. Schwander, A. Dällenbach, B. Stauffer, T. F. Stocker, D. Raynaud, J. Jouzel, H. B. Clausen, C. U. Hammer and S. J. Johnsen

doi:10.1038/29447

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See also: News and Views by White & Steig

Transposition mediated by RAG1 and RAG2 and its implications for the evolution of the immune system p744

Alka Agrawal, Quinn M. Eastman and David G. Schatz

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See also: News and Views by Plasterk

Letters to Nature

Tidal disruption of the Magellanic Clouds by the Milky Way p752

M. E. Putman, B. K. Gibson, L. Staveley-Smith, G. Banks, D. G. Barnes, R. Bhatal, M. J. Disney, R. D. Ekers, K. C. Freeman, R. F. Haynes, P. Henning, H. Jerjen, V. Kilborn, B. Koribalski, P. Knezek, D. F. Malin, J. R. Mould, T. Oosterloo, R. M. Price, S. D. Ryder, E. M. Sadler, I. Stewart, F. Stootman, R. A. Vaile, R. L. Webster and A. E. Wright

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Inevitability of a magnetic field in the Sun's radiative interior p755

D. O. Gough and M. E. McIntyre

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Archetypal energy landscapes p758

David J. Wales, Mark A. Miller and Tiffany R. Walsh

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Electron–electron correlations in carbon nanotubes p761

Sander J. Tans, Michel H. Devoret, Remco J. A. Groeneveld and Cees Dekker

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Pairwise selection of guests in a cylindrical molecular capsule of nanometre dimensions p764

Thomas Heinz, Dmitry M. Rudkevich and Julius Rebek, Jr

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A million-year record of fire in sub-Saharan Africa p767

M. I. Bird and J. A. Cali

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Diachronous uplift of the Tibetan plateau starting 40 Myr ago p769

Sun-Lin Chung, Ching-Hua Lo, Tung-Yi Lee, Yuquan Zhang, Yingwen Xie, Xianhua Li, Kuo-Lung Wang and Pei-Ling Wang

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See also: News and Views by Ruddiman

Evolutionary transition from stretch to hearing organs in ancient grasshoppers p773

Moira J. van Staaden and Heiner Römer

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A proposed path by which genes common to mammalian X and Y chromosomes evolve to become X inactivated p776

Karin Jegalian and David C. Page

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Signal-dependent noise determines motor planning p780

Christopher M. Harris and Daniel M. Wolpert

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Cortical feedback improves discrimination between figure and background by V1, V2 and V3 neurons p784

J. M. Hupé, A. C. James, B. R. Payne, S. G. Lomber, P. Girard and J. Bullier

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Stress and glucocorticoids impair retrieval of long-term spatial memory p787

Dominique J.-F. de Quervain, Benno Roozendaal and James L. McGaugh

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The stomach is a source of leptin p790

André Bado, Sandrine Levasseur, Samir Attoub, Stéphanie Kermorgant, Jean-Pierre Laigneau, Marie-Noëlle Bortoluzzi, Laurent Moizo, Thérèse Lehy, Michèle Guerre-Millo, Yannick Le Marchand-Brustel and Miguel. J. M. Lewin

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Epsin is an EH-domain-binding protein implicated in clathrin-mediated endocytosis p793

Hong Chen, Silvia Fre, Vladimir I. Slepnev, Maria Rosaria Capua, Kohji Takei, Margaret H. Butler, Pier Paolo Di Fiore and Pietro De Camilli

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GPI-anchored proteins are organized in submicron domains at the cell surface p798

Rajat Varma and Satyajit Mayor

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Microdomains of GPI-anchored proteins in living cells revealed by crosslinking p802

Tim Friedrichson and Teymuras V. Kurzchalia

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Structure of a cephalosporin synthase p805

Karin Valegård, Anke C. Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Matthew D. Lloyd, Takane Hara, S. Ramaswamy, Anastassis Perrakis, Andy Thompson, Hwei-Jen Lee, Jack E. Baldwin, Christopher J. Schofield, Janos Hajdu and Inger Andersson

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Erratum:  Millennial-scale climate instability during the early Pleistocene epoch p809

M. E. Raymo, K. Ganley, S. Carter, D. W. Oppo and J. McManus

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New on the Market

Peptide and protein paraphernalia p811

The equipment and reagents in this week's selection of new products are biased towards protein preparation and handling. Melanie II, profiBlot II and NMR X-Plor feature.
These notes are compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers. For more details, fill in the order service card bound inside the journal

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