Table of contents
Volume 396 Number 6708 pp199-290
Opinion
Maintaining a global vision p199
The rules on sharing large-scale facilities are under pressure. Neither politicians nor scientists should ignore the role of self-interest. But respect must, where possible, still be maintained for universal values.
doi:10.1038/24208
Pie in the sky p199
Ageing astronauts should be more honest about their motivations for wishing to return to space.
doi:10.1038/24210
News
US researchers push network of massive spectrometers p201
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/24212
Climate conference agrees action plan p201
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/24215
Interdisciplinary research 'being stifled' p202
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/24217
NSF boss champions need for teamworking p202
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/24219
NIH promises funds to help biologists to use beamlines p203
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/24222
European reactor accepts US demands on fuel shift p203
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/24224
Berlin university shakes off radical past... p204
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/24227
... and hopes for the gift of a new home p204
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/24229
Economic package will boost R&D infrastructure p205
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/24232
Private deal puts Japanese researcher in hot water p205
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/24235
Cannabis laws 'threaten validity of trials' p206
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/24237
India and Pakistan face more US sanctions p206
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/24240
News Analysis
Tight deadlines and data gaps fan fight on pesticide safety p207
Farmers and chemical manufacturers are bracing themselves for a bitter fight with environmentalists in the coming months over new pesticide regulations. Both sides claim that science is on their side.
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/24242
Correspondence
Clear need to act on global warming p210
Susan Hassol
doi:10.1038/24247
Region-based citation bias in science p210
Gianmarco Paris, Giulio De Leo, Paolo Menozzi and Marino Gatto
doi:10.1038/24249
Subtle error on sea floor p210
Richard N. Hey
doi:10.1038/24252
News and Views
The greening of the green revolution p211
David Tilman
doi:10.1038/24254
Earth science: Prospecting for hotspot roots p212
Cecily J. Wolfe
doi:10.1038/24258
Vascular biology: Old-timer makes a comeback p213
Paul M. Vanhoutte
doi:10.1038/24261
100 and 50 years ago p216
doi:10.1038/24265
Biogeography: Competition exposed by knight? p216
Peter R. Grant
doi:10.1038/24267
Photonics: An atomic dimmer switch p217
Philip H. Bucksbaum
doi:10.1038/24269
Developmental neurobiology: First class way to develop a brain p219
Jonathan Howard and Ian Thompson
doi:10.1038/24274
Photosynthesis: A crystal clear view p221
Andreas Engel
doi:10.1038/24278
Atmospheric chemistry: Shipping forecast is partly cloudy p222
Magdalena Helmer
doi:10.1038/24282
Daedalus: Fossil knowledge p222
David Jones
doi:10.1038/24285
Science and Image
Merian's metamorphoses p223
Nurtured from an early age in the art of still-life painting and naturalistic illustration, the courageous seventeenth-century artist Maria Sibylla Merian allied her vision and her skills to convey the complex life-cycles of insects.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/24287
Scientific Correspondence
Clostridium used in mediaeval dyeing p225
A. Nikki Padden, Vivian M. Dillon, Philip John, John Edmonds, M. David Collins and Nerea Alvarez
doi:10.1038/24290
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Scale of mast-seeding and tree-ring growth p225
Walter D. Koenig and Johannes M. H. Knops
doi:10.1038/24293
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Niche adaptation in ocean cyanobacteria p226
Michael J. Ferris and Brian Palenik
doi:10.1038/24297
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Why people gesture when they speak p228
Jana M. Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow
doi:10.1038/24300
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Book Reviews
Careers down the tubes p229
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent reviews The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry, 1789-1914 edited by David Knight and Helge Kragh
doi:10.1038/24303
As the pigeon flies p230
Nicola S. Clayton reviews Spatial Representation in Animals edited by Sue Healy
doi:10.1038/24306
Chips off the old block p231
John Robb reviews Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age by Richard Rudgley
doi:10.1038/24309
Happy endings? p232
John Galloway reviews Last Rights: The Struggle over the Right to Die by Sue Woodman
doi:10.1038/24312
Shaping the Earth p232
doi:10.1038/24314
Progress
The optical counterparts of 
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Bernard J. McNamara and Thomas E. Harrison
doi:10.1038/24317
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Letters to Nature
A meteorite from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary p237
Frank T. Kyte
doi:10.1038/24322
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Coherent quantum control of two-photon transitions by a femtosecond laser pulse p239
Doron Meshulach and Yaron Silberberg
doi:10.1038/24329
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See also: News and Views by Bucksbaum
Observation of a square flux-line lattice in the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 p242
T. M. Riseman, P. G. Kealey, E. M. Forgan, A. P. Mackenzie, L. M. Galvin, A. W. Tyler, S. L. Lee, C. Ager, D. McK. Paul, C. M. Aegerter, R. Cubitt, Z. Q. Mao, T. Akima and Y. Maeno
doi:10.1038/24335
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Surface-promoted replication and exponential amplification of DNA analogues p245
A. Luther, R. Brandsch and G. von Kiedrowski
doi:10.1038/24343
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Iron acquisition by photosynthetic marine phytoplankton from ingested bacteria p248
R. Maranger, D. F. Bird and N. M. Price
doi:10.1038/24352
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Seismic evidence that the source of the Iceland hotspot lies at the core–mantle boundary p251
D. V. Helmberger, L. Wen and X. Ding
doi:10.1038/24357
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See also: News and Views by Wolfe
Seismic evidence for small-scale dynamics in the lowermost mantle at the root of the Hawaiian hotspot p255
Sara A. Russell, Thorne Lay and Edward J. Garnero
doi:10.1038/24364
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See also: News and Views by Wolfe
Sauropod dinosaur embryos from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia p258
Luis M. Chiappe, Rodolfo A. Coria, Lowell Dingus, Frankie Jackson, Anusuya Chinsamy and Marilyn Fox
doi:10.1038/24370
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Legume-based cropping systems have reduced carbon and nitrogen losses p262
L. E. Drinkwater, P. Wagoner and M. Sarrantonio
doi:10.1038/24376
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See also: News and Views by Tilman
Motion integration in a thalamic visual nucleus p265
Lotfi Merabet, Alex Desautels, Karine Minville and Christian Casanova
doi:10.1038/24382
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K+ is an endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor in rat arteries p269
G. Edwards, K. A. Dora, M. J. Gardener, C. J. Garland and A. H. Weston
doi:10.1038/24388
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See also: News and Views by Vanhoutte
Fringe is essential for mirror symmetry and morphogenesis in the Drosophila eye p272
Kyung-Ok Cho and Kwang-Wook Choi
doi:10.1038/24394
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A dorsal/ventral boundary established by Notch controls growth and polarity in the Drosophila eye p276
María Domínguez and Jose F. de Celis
doi:10.1038/24402
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Energy transduction in the F1 motor of ATP synthase p279
Hongyun Wang and George Oster
doi:10.1038/24409
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Three-dimensional structure of the plant photosystem II reaction centre at 8 Å resolution p283
Kyong-Hi Rhee, Edward P. Morris, James Barber and Werner Kühlbrandt
doi:10.1038/24421
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See also: News and Views by Engel
New on the Market
Immunology answers p287
New products that use antibodies and help to study of the immune system include a consolidated staining system, an integrated microplate imaging system and software for microscopic image analysis of enzyme-linked immunospots.
compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers.
doi:10.1038/24429
