Table of contents
Volume 396 Number 6710 pp393-496
Opinion
When payment by results is a sensible approach p393
A proposal that senior German academics be paid on the basis of job performance has raised a storm of protest. But that should not obscure the value of this — and other — proposals for university reform.
doi:10.1038/24663
Will we see their like again? p393
Departing directors at the top US physics laboratories leave a discipline in search of inspired leadership.
doi:10.1038/24665
News
Iceland poised to sell exclusive rights to national health data p395
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/24667
Germany's rectors call for pay by results p396
Tilmann Kiessling
doi:10.1038/24670
Software fix for Galileo may salvage data p396
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/24673
Indian farmers burn transgenic cotton crop in field trial p397
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/24675
Moscow scientists reject funding deal and plan more protests p397
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/24677
Richter quits as director of Stanford accelerator lab p397
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/24679
Anger over French synchrotron decision p398
Eric Glover
doi:10.1038/24682
Reprieve on the cards for reform to Italian research council p398
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/24685
Rescued satellite to get more managers p399
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/24687
Uruguay responds to scientists' protest p399
Andrea Kauffmann-Zeh
doi:10.1038/24690
Research heads seek European platform p400
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/24692
Australia's basic research faces shake-up p400
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/24695
Japan split over US aid for spy satellites p401
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/24697
Exploring the mind in the Millennium Dome p401
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/24699
Correspondence
Whistle-blower's charter on the way p404
Laurie Smith
doi:10.1038/24705
It will take more than notebooks to stop fraud p404
Kimon Angelides and James V. Pianelli
doi:10.1038/24707
Time to bury misleading myth about careers p404
Mark H. Paalman
doi:10.1038/24709
News and Views
An oblique view of climate p405
Bruce G. Bills
doi:10.1038/24711
Developmental biology: Attractive genetics p406
Ken Howard
doi:10.1038/24714
Particle physics: Time's broken arrow p407
Ken Peach
doi:10.1038/24717
Population biology: The voles of Hokkaido p409
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/24720
Transcription: A lesson in sharing? p410
Patrick A. Grant and Jerry L. Workman
doi:10.1038/24723
Zoology: A saola poses for the camera p410
John Whitfield
doi:10.1038/24726
100 and 50 years ago p411
doi:10.1038/24729
Solar system: Circular problems p413
Douglas P. Hamilton
doi:10.1038/24731
Excitatory synapses: Is bigger better? p414
Robert C. Malenka and Roger A. Nicoll
doi:10.1038/24734
Ocean chemistry: Iron and brimstone p414
Philip Newton
doi:10.1038/24736
Optics: A photonic crystal fibre p415
Pauline Rigby
doi:10.1038/24739
Signal transduction: New exchange, new target p416
Julian Downward
doi:10.1038/24743
Erratum: Strategies for cutting carbon p417
doi:10.1038/24746
Daedalus: Watch this space p417
David Jones
doi:10.1038/24748
Obituary: Jürgen Aschoff (1913-98) p418
Serge Daan and Eberhard Gwinner
doi:10.1038/24750
Science and Image
Julesz's joyfulness p419
British 'natural magicians' of the nineteenth century could turn two flat images into one three-dimensional form. Later, Bela Julesz believed his stereograms showed how the brain turns images from two eyes into one reality.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/24753
Scientific Correspondence
Marine incursion into South America p421
Nathan R. Lovejoy, Eldredge Bermingham and Andrew P. Martin
doi:10.1038/24757
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Protease helps yeast find mating partners p422
Naama Barkai, Mark D. Rose and Ned S. Wingreen
doi:10.1038/24760
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Robust dinosaur phylogeny? p423
Mark Wilkinson, Paul Upchurch, Paul M. Barrett, David J. Gower and Michael J. Benton
doi:10.1038/24763
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Moving ahead through differential visual latency p424
Gopathy Purushothaman, Saumil S. Patel, Harold E. Bedell and Haluk Ogmen
doi:10.1038/24766
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Book Reviews
Assimilating shocks to the system p425
Patricia Fara
doi:10.1038/24769
Charting the stormy seas of AI p426
Harry Collins
doi:10.1038/24772
Heisenberg revisited p427
Mark Walker reviews Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A study in German Culture by Paul Lawrence Rose
doi:10.1038/24775
The science of patterns? p428
Jeremy Gray reviews The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible by Keith Devlin
doi:10.1038/24778
New in paperback p428
doi:10.1038/24781
Progress
The vertebrate track record p429
Martin G. Lockley
doi:10.1038/24783
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Article
Enhanced long-term potentiation and impaired learning in mice with mutant postsynaptic density-95 protein p433
Martine Migaud, Paul Charlesworth, Maureen Dempster, Lorna C. Webster, Ayako M. Watabe, Michael Makhinson, Yong He, Mark F. Ramsay, Richard G. M. Morris, John H. Morrison, Thomas J. O'Dell and Seth G. N. Grant
doi:10.1038/24790
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See also: News and Views by Malenka & Nicoll
Letters to Nature
Counter-streaming gas flows in solar prominences as evidence for vertical magnetic fields p440
J. B. Zirker, O. Engvold and S. F. Martin
doi:10.1038/24798
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Temperature-induced magnetization reversal in a YVO3 single crystal p441
Y. Ren, T. T. M. Palstra, D. I. Khomskii, E. Pellegrin, A. A. Nugroho, A. A. Menovsky and G. A. Sawatzky
doi:10.1038/24802
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Spontaneous ordering of bimodal ensembles of nanoscopic gold clusters p444
C. J. Kiely, J. Fink, M. Brust, D. Bethell and D. J. Schiffrin
doi:10.1038/24808
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Selective amplification by auto- and cross-catalysis in a replicating peptide system p447
Shao Yao, Indraneel Ghosh, Reena Zutshi and Jean Chmielewski
doi:10.1038/24814
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A new model for Proterozoic ocean chemistry p450
D. E. Canfield
doi:10.1038/24839
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See also: News and Views by Newton
Low-latitude glaciation and rapid changes in the Earth's obliquity explained by obliquity–oblateness feedback p453
Darren M. Williams, James F. Kasting and Lawrence A. Frakes
doi:10.1038/24845
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See also: News and Views by Bills
Asymmetric sea-floor spreading caused by ridge–plume interactions p455
R. Dietmar Müller, Walter R. Roest and Jean-Yves Royer
doi:10.1038/24850
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Implications of Deltatheridium specimens for early marsupial history p459
Guillermo W. Rougier, John R. Wible and Michael J. Novacek
doi:10.1038/24856
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A role of Ultrabithorax in morphological differences between Drosophila species p463
David L. Stern
doi:10.1038/24863
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HMG-CoA reductase guides migrating primordial germ cells p466
Mark Van Doren, Heather Tarczy Broihier, Lisa A. Moore and Ruth Lehmann
doi:10.1038/24871
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See also: News and Views by Howard
Gain control of NMDA-receptor currents by intracellular sodium p469
Xian-Min Yu and Michael W. Salter
doi:10.1038/24877
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Epac is a Rap1 guanine-nucleotide-exchange factor directly activated by cyclic AMP p474
Johan de Rooij, Fried J. T. Zwartkruis, Mark H. G. Verheijen, Robbert H. Cool, Sebastian M. B. Nijman, Alfred Wittinghofer and Johannes L. Bos
doi:10.1038/24884
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See also: News and Views by Downward
Functional interaction between InsP3 receptors and store-operated Htrp3 channels p478
Kirill Kiselyov, Xin Xu, Galina Mozhayeva, Tuan Kuo, Isaac Pessah, Gregory Mignery, Xi Zhu, Lutz Birnbaumer# and Shmuel Muallem
doi:10.1038/24890
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The receptor Msn5 exports the phosphorylated transcription factor Pho4 out of the nucleus p482
Arie Kaffman, Nicole Miller Rank, Elizabeth M. O'Neill, Linda S. Huang and Erin K. O'Shea
doi:10.1038/24898
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Crystal structure of the ligand-binding domain of the receptor tyrosine kinase EphB2 p486
Juha-Pekka Himanen, Mark Henkemeyer and Dimitar B. Nikolov
doi:10.1038/24904
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Erratum: Smad3 and Smad4 cooperate with c-Jun/c-Fos to mediate TFG-
-induced transcription p491
Ying Zhang, Xin-Hua Feng and Rik Derynck
doi:10.1038/24911
Careers and Recruitment
Geoscientists are not just rock stars p493
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/24915
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Encouraging education and outreach initiatives p493
doi:10.1038/24918
Problem solving for the whole Earth p493
Potter Wickware
doi:10.1038/24920
A risk proposition p494
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/24922
Water and welfare: hydrology options p496
Potter Wickware
doi:10.1038/24925
