Opinion

Rewriting the rules for a post-Cold War world p291

Next year's World Conference on Science is a unique chance to reassess the dynamics of international scientific cooperation and address the challenges it currently faces. This opportunity must not be squandered.

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News

Personal computers spur drive to keep control over copyright p293

Rex Dalton

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Germany restores funds to grant agencies p293

Quirin Schiermeier

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Framework deal boosts life sciences... p294

Alison Abbott

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...but nuclear work and fusion research lose out p294

Alison Abbott

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Radical changes urged in UK curriculum p295

Ehsan Masood

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'Soft option' for women gets sharp riposte p295

Ehsan Masood

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NSF board is urged to act more openly... p296

Colin Macilwain

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...as head seeks to spread the word on grants p296

Colin Macilwain

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French supplies law threatens research p297

Eric Glover

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Human genome declaration looks set for United Nations approval p297

Declan Butler

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South African official quits ministry post p298

Michael Cherry

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Budget cuts mean tough times ahead for Brazilian researchers p298

Ricardo Bonalume Neto

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'Science summit' sets ambitious agenda p299

David Dickson

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Indian anger at promotion 'caste system' p299

K. S. Jayaraman

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News in Brief p300

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Briefings

Back on track: the rebirth of human genetics in China p303

Concern about the growing interest of foreign companies and research institutes in China's wealth of genetic resources has helped the country's geneticists to cement political support for their own research efforts. In the process of doing so, the country appears to have successfully cast off the anti-Mendelian beliefs of its early communist era.

David Dickson

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Mining a rich seam of genetic diversity p304

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A crash course in ethical behaviour p306

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Correspondence

Growing pains of a genomics industry p307

G. Matthew Huang

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Combat climate change by reducing fertility p307

Stuart R. Gaffin & Brian C. O'Neill

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Radical reform needed to aid junior scientists p307

Gerard Vassiliou

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News and Views

Cryptic clues revealed p309

Andrew Cossins

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100 and 50 years ago p310

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Eruption dynamics:  Rumbling geysers (and volcanoes) p311

Bruce R. Julian

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Electron microscopy:  Do not adjust your set p311

Sarah Tomlin

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Neuropharmacology:  Cheap date p313

Caroline J. Small & Stephen R. Bloom

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Ecology:  Nutrient consequences of salmon spread p314

Peter D. Moore

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Palaeomagnetism:  Ancient inclinations p315

Jean-Pierre Valet & Yves Gallet

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Muscle:  Support for the lever arm p317

A. F. Huxley

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Daedalus:  Fat is a feminist issue p318

David Jones

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Science and Image

Graphic gropings p319

When a flash of inspiration strikes an inventor or a scientist pondering a theory, they scramble for a scrap of paper on which to capture the thought. When these jottings are drawings they become a form of graphic art.

Martin Kemp

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Scientific Correspondence

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? p321

Douglas W. Yu & Glenn H. Shepard, Jr

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A developmental model for thalidomide defects p322

Clifford J. Tabin

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Mistakes not necessary for Müllerian mimicry p323

Michael P. Speed

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Encapsulated C₆₀ in carbon nanotubes p323

Brian W. Smith, Marc Monthioux & David E. Luzzi

doi:10.1038/24521

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How does xenon produce anaesthesia? p324

N. P. Franks, R. Dickinson, S. L. M. de Sousa, A. C. Hall & W. R. Lieb

doi:10.1038/24525

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Book Reviews

When is a dog a DOG? p325

Jerry Fodor reviews Similarity and Symbols in Human Thinking edited by Steven A. Sloman & Lance J. Rips

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Masks of madness p326

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When maps cost lives p327

Janet Browne reviews Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming

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To party, or don the anorak? p328

Jim Bennett reviews Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History by E. G. Richards and The Calendar: The 5000-Year Struggle To Align the Clock and the Heavens — and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days by David E . Duncan

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Review

The relationship between liquid, supercooled and glassy water p329

Osamu Mishima & H. Eugene Stanley

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Article

Hsp90 as a capacitor for morphological evolution p336

Suzanne L. Rutherford & Susan Lindquist

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Letters to Nature

Protostellar jets irradiated by massive stars p343

Bo Reipurth, John Bally, Robert A. Fesen & David Devine

doi:10.1038/24562

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Spin domains in ground-state Bose–Einstein condensates p345

J. Stenger, S. Inouye, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, H.-J. Miesner, A. P. Chikkatur & W. Ketterle

doi:10.1038/24567

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Observation of smectic and moving-Bragg-glass phases in flowing vortex lattices p348

F. Pardo, F. de la Cruz, P. L. Gammel, E. Bucher & D. J. Bishop

doi:10.1038/24581

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A multiwavelength semiconductor laser p350

Alessandro Tredicucci, Claire Gmachl, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, Albert L. Hutchinson & Alfred Y. Cho

doi:10.1038/24585

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Delaminated zeolite precursors as selective acidic catalysts p353

A. Corma, V. Fornes, S. B. Pergher, Th. L. M. Maesen & J. G. Buglass

doi:10.1038/24592

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Spontaneous movement of ions through calcite at standard temperature and pressure p356

S. L. S. Stipp, J. Konnerup-Madsen, K. Franzreb, A. Kulik & H. J. Mathieu

doi:10.1038/24597

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Large variations in vent fluid CO₂/³He ratios signal rapid changes in magma chemistry at Loihi seamount, Hawaii p359

D. R. Hilton, G. M. McMurtry & F. Goff

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Neuronal synchrony does not represent texture segregation p362

Victor A. F. Lamme & Henk Spekreijse

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Ethanol consumption and resistance are inversely related to neuropeptide Y levels p366

Todd E. Thiele, Donald J. Marsh, Linda Ste. Marie, Ilene L. Bernstein & Richard D. Palmiter

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Control of neural crest cell fate by the Wnt signalling pathway p370

Richard I. Dorsky, Randall T. Moon & David W. Raible

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Proto-oncogene PML controls genes devoted to MHC class I antigen presentation p373

Pan Zheng, Yong Guo, Qingtian Niu, David E. Levy, Jacqueline A. Dyck, Shengli Lu, Lori A. Sheiman & Yang Liu

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Interdomain communication regulating ligand binding by PPAR- p377

Dalei Shao, Shamina M. Rangwala, Shannon T. Bailey, Samuel L. Krakow, Mauricio J. Reginato & Mitchell A. Lazar

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Swing of the lever arm of a myosin motor at the isomerization and phosphate-release steps p380

Yoshikazu Suzuki, Takuo Yasunaga, Reiko Ohkura, Takeyuki Wakabayashi & Kazuo Sutoh

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Elastic bending and active tilting of myosin heads during muscle contraction p383

Ian Dobbie, Marco Linari, Gabriella Piazzesi, Massimo Reconditi, Natalia Koubassova, Michael A. Ferenczi, Vincenzo Lombardi & Malcolm Irving

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New pathway to polyketides in plants p387

Stefan Eckermann, Gudrun Schröder, Jürgen Schmidt, Dieter Strack, Ru A. Edrada, Yrjö Helariutta, Paula Elomaa, Mika Kotilainen, Ilkka Kilpeläinen, Peter Proksch, Teemu H. Teeri & Joachim Schröder

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erratum:  Crystal structure of the complex of the cyclin D-dependent kinase Cdk6 bound to the cell-cycle inhibitor p19^INK4d p390

Deborah H. Brotherton, Venugopal Dhanaraj, Scott Wick, Leonardo Brizuela, Peter J. Domaille, Elena Volyanik, Xu Xu, Emilio Parisini, Brian O. Smith, Sharon J. Archer, Manuel Serrano, Stephen L. Brenner, Tom L. Blundell & Ernest D. Laue

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retraction:  Identification and role of adenylyl cyclase in auxin signalling in higher plants p390

Takanari Ichikawa, Yoshihito Suzuki, Inge Czaja, Carla Schommer, Angela Lenick, Jeff Schell & Richard Walden

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New on the Market

Molecular synthesis and amplification p391

New products covered here include a cDNA selection kit, dye-polymerase and high-efficiency polymerase formulations, separation systems for DNA synthesis, single-tube PCR and RT-PCR amplification systems.
These compiled by Brendan Horton from information provided by the manufacturers. For more details, fill in the reader service card bound inside the journal.

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