Table of contents
Volume 397 Number 6719 pp455-544
Opinion
Ill-advised 'freedom' of scientific information p455
The sharing of data by researchers ought to be encouraged. But a compulsion to release raw data and notes in current US openness laws is the wrong way to achieve it, as is a proposed amendment.
doi:10.1038/17149
Planetary persistence p455
Debate about labels can be both powerful and pointless.
doi:10.1038/17151
News
Europe bids to pull US patent law into line with first-to-file system p457
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/17153
German call to invest more in technology p457
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/17156
DoE budget scramble as closure plan axed p458
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/17158
UK panel formed to rebuild trust in government science advice p458
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/17161
Scientists fight for right to withhold data p459
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/17163
SOIREE aims to iron out atmospheric puzzle p459
Philip Newton
doi:10.1038/17166
Roche and Promega back in court for Taq p460
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/17169
US sanctions hurt basic research in India p460
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/17171
German science fights animal rights bill p461
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/17174
Japanese university approves genetic tests on in vitro embryos p461
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/17177
Everglades plan flawed, claim ecologists p462
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/17179
Chandra slips, space shuttle runs a risk p462
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/17182
French ministry in climbdown over reform p463
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/17184
British universities face review to increase accountability p463
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/17186
Correspondence
Pressure to publish stifles young talent p467
Michael J. Larkin
doi:10.1038/17191
Language bias discredits the peer-review system p467
Antonio J. Herrera
doi:10.1038/17194
German job security leads to stagnation ... p467
Eberhard Passarge
doi:10.1038/17196
... and reduces students' chances of publishing p468
Andreas Herde
doi:10.1038/17198
Frémiet's phantasms p468
Eric Buffetaut
doi:10.1038/17200
Commentary
Physics takes the biscuit p469
doi:10.1038/17203
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News and Views
A transformed view of cyclosporine p471
Gary J. Nabel
doi:10.1038/17207
Particle physics: The undemocratic proton p472
David J. Miller
doi:10.1038/17211
Colour vision: A patchwork of cones p473
Heinz Wässle
doi:10.1038/17216
Oceanography: Bacteria and silica cycling p475
Victor Smetacek
doi:10.1038/17219
Active galactic nuclei: Unstable by design p476
Aneta Siemiginowska and Martin Elvis
doi:10.1038/17223
100 and 50 years ago p479
doi:10.1038/17227
Cell adhesion: New way to activate caspases p479
Erkki Ruoslahti and John Reed
doi:10.1038/17229
Photochemistry: Electronic motion in DNA p480
Mark Ratner
doi:10.1038/17232
Daedalus: Cell squeezing p481
David Jones
doi:10.1038/17235
Obituary: Jean Leray (1906-98) p482
Ivar Ekeland
doi:10.1038/17237
Scientific Correspondence
Making make-up in Ancient Egypt p483
P. Walter, P. Martinetto, G. Tsoucaris, R. Brniaux, M. A. Lefebvre, G. Richard, J. Talabot and E. Dooryhee
doi:10.1038/17240
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Josephson effect and a 
-state in superfluid 3He p484
Olivier Avenel, Yury Mukharsky and Eric Varoquaux
doi:10.1038/17244
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Reply: Josephson effect and a -state in superfluid 3He p485
S. Backhaus, R. W. Simmonds, A. Loshak, J. C. Davis and R. E. Packard
doi:10.1038/17251
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How and why a parasitic nematode jumps p485
James F. Campbell and Harry K. Kaya
doi:10.1038/17254
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Non-fertile sperm delay female remating p486
Penny A. Cook and Nina Wedell
doi:10.1038/17257
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Book Reviews
The fashions and foibles of science p487
Peter A. Lawrence
doi:10.1038/17260
Darwinizing psychology p488
Andrew Whiten reviews The Evolution of Mind edited by Denise Dellarosa Cummins and Colen Allen
doi:10.1038/17263
Getting a head p488
doi:10.1038/17265
Earth's internally generated motions p489
Paul G. Richards
doi:10.1038/17268
New in paperback p489
doi:10.1038/17271
Science in culture p490
Graham Farmelo
doi:10.1038/17273
Review
Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development p491
O. A. Chadwick, L. A. Derry, P. M. Vitousek, B. J. Huebert and L. O. Hedin
doi:10.1038/17276
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Letters to Nature
Scaling and criticality in a stochastic multi-agent model of a financial market p498
Thomas Lux and Michele Marchesi
doi:10.1038/17290
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (376K) | Supplementary information
A single-photon turnstile device p500
J. Kim, O. Benson, H. Kan and Y. Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/17295
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Modulated phases and proton centring in ice observed by X-ray diffraction up to 170 GPa p503
Paul Loubeyre, René LeToullec, Elodie Wolanin, Michel Hanfland and Daniel Hausermann
doi:10.1038/17300
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Circularly polarized light generated by photoexcitation of luminophores in glassy liquid-crystal films p506
S. H. Chen, D. Katsis, A. W. Schmid, J. C. Mastrangelo, T. Tsutsui and T. N. Blanton
doi:10.1038/17343
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Accelerated dissolution of diatom silica by marine bacterial assemblages p508
Kay D. Bidle and Farooq Azam
doi:10.1038/17351
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Cool surface waters of the subtropical North Pacific Ocean during the last glacial p512
Kyung E. Lee and Niall C. Slowey
doi:10.1038/17357
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Holocene periodicity in North Atlantic climate and deep-ocean flow south of Iceland p515
Giancarlo G. Bianchi and I. Nicholas McCave
doi:10.1038/17362
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Auditory distance perception in rooms p517
Adelbert W. Bronkhorst and Tammo Houtgast
doi:10.1038/17374
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The arrangement of the three cone classes in the living human eye p520
Austin Roorda and David R. Williams
doi:10.1038/17383
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Asymmetric Notch activation specifies photoreceptors R3 and R4 and planar polarity in the Drosophila eye p523
Manolis Fanto and Marek Mlodzik
doi:10.1038/17389
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Frizzled regulation of Notch signalling polarizes cell fate in the Drosophila eye p526
Michael T. D. Cooper and Sarah J. Bray
doi:10.1038/17395
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Cyclosporine induces cancer progression by a cell-autonomous mechanism p530
Minoru Hojo, Takashi Morimoto, Mary Maluccio, Tomohiko Asano, Kengo Morimoto, Milagros Lagman, Toshikazu Shimbo and Manikkam Suthanthiran
doi:10.1038/17401
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RGD peptides induce apoptosis by direct caspase-3 activation p534
Christopher D. Buckley, Darrell Pilling, Nick V. Henriquez, Greg Parsonage, Katy Threlfall, Dagmar Scheel-Toellner, David L. Simmons, Arne N. Akbar, Janet M. Lord and Mike Salmon
doi:10.1038/17409
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New on the Market
Proteins and peptides p541
Made-to-order proteins, a system to seek out RNA-protein interactions, new kit for enzyme kinetics and PCR-grade proteinase-K are among this selection of recent products.
doi:10.1038/17416
Careers and Recruitment
Expanding Canada's knowledge base p543
Canada needs scientists from almost all disciplines to fuel its economy. In the past, the country's attractiveness to job-seekers has been overshadowed by that of the United States, but things are changing.
Potter Wickware
doi:10.1038/17418
