Table of contents
Volume 395 Number 6697 pp1-100
Opinion
Advisers between a rock and a hard place p1
The possibility that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) may have spread to sheep is causing concern to scientific advisory committees in Europe. More research is urgently required, but so too is more openness.
doi:10.1038/25554
News
Japan's science agency seeks extra billions, despite recession p3
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/25556
Peregrine leads flight from endangered list p3
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/25559
NSF director backs environment studies p4
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/25562
US drive to speed trials for rare disorders p4
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/25565
Call for UK genetics food watchdog p5
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/25568
China brings in regulations to put a stop to 'genetic piracy' p5
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/25570
News Analysis
Doubts over ability to monitor risks of BSE spread to sheep p6
Has 'mad cow disease' — BSE — infected sheep in the United Kingdom? Scientific advisers to the UK government and the European Commission are calling for research to assess the risks to be stepped up.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/25573
Urgent need for faster diagnostic test p7
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/25576
Correspondence
Too intelligent for our own good p9
Alan Longhurst and Ken Caldeira
doi:10.1038/25581
Religious belief doesn't weaken scientific mind p9
Raul Camba
doi:10.1038/25583
Make space for levity p9
Dan Nagle
doi:10.1038/25585
Citation heaven p9
Brian Dean
doi:10.1038/25587
News and Views
Vocal gymnastics and the bird brain p11
Franz Goller
doi:10.1038/25589
Quantum mechanics: Where the weirdness comes from p12
Peter Knight
doi:10.1038/25592
Cancer: Has the smart bomb been defused? p13
Steven P. Linke
doi:10.1038/25595
High-energy astrophysics: Cosmic rays without end p15
Michael Hillas
doi:10.1038/25598
100 and 50 years ago p16
doi:10.1038/25601
Evolutionary biology: Debatable homologies p17
Diethard Tautz
doi:10.1038/25604
Celestial mechanics: Orbits of all sorts p19
Donald G. Saari
doi:10.1038/25607
Neurobiology: Columns, slabs and pinwheels p20
Nigel W. Daw
doi:10.1038/25610
Meteors: Things that go bump in the night sky p20
Stephen Battersby
doi:10.1038/25613
RNA processing: A tale of two tails p21
David Bentley
doi:10.1038/25616
Daedalus: Zero-tolerance policing p22
David Jones
doi:10.1038/25620
Science and Image
Heezen's highlands p23
People who chart the ocean floor draw up landscapes no one has seen, using machines that send out sound waves and invisible rays. Turning sound into shape, their achievement is a map we can see and understand.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/25622
Scientific Correspondence
Promiscuity in transgenic plants p25
Joy Bergelson, Colin B. Purrington and Gale Wichmann
doi:10.1038/25626
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Resistance to the herbicide glyphosate p25
Stanley Robert and Ute Baumann
doi:10.1038/25628
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Turning off follicular dendritic cells p26
Fabienne Mackay and Jeffrey L. Browning
doi:10.1038/25630
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Nerve agents degraded by enzymatic foams p27
Keith E. LeJeune, James R. Wild and Alan J. Russell
doi:10.1038/25634
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Nematode phylogeny and embryology p28
D. A. Voronov, Yu. V. Panchin and S. E. Spiridonov
doi:10.1038/25637
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Book Reviews
Sir Oran Haut-ton finds his voice p29
Robert Seyfarth
doi:10.1038/25639
Sex and politics in the furred world p29
doi:10.1038/25641
Trials and errors p30
Jon Turney
doi:10.1038/25644
A cold fish among the trilobites p31
Richard Fortey
doi:10.1038/25648
Animal analysts who know their plays p32
Marc Mangel
doi:10.1038/25651
Articles
Origin of quantum-mechanical complementarity probed by a 'which-way' experiment in an atom interferometer p33
S. Dürr, T. Nonn and G. Rempe
doi:10.1038/25653
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (265K)
See also: News and Views by Knight
A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses p37
Li I. Zhang, Huizhong W. Tao, Christine E. Holt, William A. Harris and Mu-ming Poo
doi:10.1038/25665
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (319K)
Letters to Nature
Constraints on the Hubble constant from observations of the brightest red-giant stars in a Virgo-cluster galaxy p45
William E. Harris, Patrick R. Durrell, Michael J. Pierce and Jeff Secker
doi:10.1038/25673
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A Cepheid distance to the Fornax cluster and the local expansion rate of the Universe p47
Barry F. Madore, Wendy L. Freedman, N. Silbermann, Paul Harding, John Huchra, Jeremy R. Mould, John A. Graham, Laura Ferrarese, Brad K. Gibson, Mingsheng Han, John G. Hoessel, Shaun M. Hughes, Garth D. Illingworth, Randy Phelps, Shoko Sakai and Peter Stetson
doi:10.1038/25678
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Most smooth closed space curves contain approximate solutions of the n-body problem p51
Gregory Buck
doi:10.1038/25684
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See also: News and Views by Saari
Strong exciton–photon coupling in an organic semiconductor microcavity p53
D. G. Lidzey, D. D. C. Bradley, M. S. Skolnick, T. Virgili, S. Walker and D. M. Whittaker
doi:10.1038/25692
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A transient liquid-like phase in the displacement cascades of zircon, hafnon and thorite p56
A. Meldrum, S. J. Zinkle, L. A. Boatner and R. C. Ewing
doi:10.1038/25698
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Contribution of hurricanes to local and global estimates of air–sea exchange of CO2 p58
Nicholas R. Bates, Anthony H. Knap and Anthony F. Michaels
doi:10.1038/25703
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Seismic evidence for a lower-mantle origin of the Iceland plume p62
Yang Shen, Sean C. Solomon, Ingi Th. Bjarnason and Cecily J. Wolfe
doi:10.1038/25714
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Microbiological evidence for Fe(III) reduction
on early Earth p65
Madeline Vargas, Kazem Kashefi, Elizabeth L. Blunt-Harris and Derek R. Lovley
doi:10.1038/25720
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The role of nonlinear dynamics of the syrinx in the vocalizations of a songbird p67
Michale S. Fee, Boris Shraiman, Bijan Pesaran and Partha P. Mitra
doi:10.1038/25725
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See also: News and Views by Goller
When temporal terms belie conceptual order p71
Thomas F. Münte, Kolja Schiltz and Marta Kutas
doi:10.1038/25731
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Spontaneous pinwheel annihilation during visual development p73
F. Wolf and T. Geisel
doi:10.1038/25736
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See also: News and Views by Bentley
lin-14 regulates the timing of synaptic remodelling in Caenorhabditis elegans p78
Steven J. Hallam and Yishi Jin
doi:10.1038/25757
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Three-dimensional segregation of supramolecular activation clusters in T cells p82
Colin R. F. Monks, Benjamin A. Freiberg, Hannah Kupfer, Noah Sciaky and Abraham Kupfer
doi:10.1038/25764
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Yeast G1 cyclins are unstable in G1 phase p86
Brandt L. Schneider, E. Elizabeth Patton, Stefan Lanker, Michael D. Mendenhall, Curt Wittenberg, Bruce Futcher and Mike Tyers
doi:10.1038/25774
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DNA hypomethylation leads to elevated mutation rates p89
Richard Z. Chen, Ulf Pettersson, Caroline Beard, Laurie Jackson-Grusby and Rudolf Jaenisch
doi:10.1038/25779
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RNA polymerase II is an essential mRNA polyadenylation factor p93
Yutaka Hirose and James L. Manley
doi:10.1038/25786
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New on the Market
Equipment for field and lab p97
Accessories and refinements presented here include a blood pressure computer for small animals, a spectrophotometric pipette, pH measuring instruments, topographic map software and a clinical chemistry system.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
doi:10.1038/25792
