Opinion

Budget blues for US science p633

President Bill Clinton's budget request for research falls short of the expectations of the scientific community, which have recently risen to unrealistic levels.

doi:10.1038/17632

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What's up, postdoc? p633

A survey of junior researchers in Europe shows a moderately satisfactory situation, but room for improvement.

doi:10.1038/17634

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News

Debts and salaries tempt British graduates away from research p635

Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/17636

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Former Pasteur head defends politicians p635

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/17639

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US groups sue over approval of Bt crops ... p636

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/17641

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Spain makes transgenic crop producers pay into insurance fund p636

Xavier Bosch

doi:10.1038/17644

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... as UK press reports come under fire p637

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/17646

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Britain reassures critics on risk research p637

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/17649

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Japan on target to double science spend ... p638

Asako Saegusa

doi:10.1038/17651

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... while Canada's budget boosts innovation p638

David Spurgeon

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Congress may block stem-cell research p639

Meredith Wadman

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Co-discoverer of evidence for quarks killed in diving accident p639

Steve Nadis

doi:10.1038/17657

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News Analysis

Europe's young researchers seek proper rewards p640

More than two thirds of Europe's young scientists say they are not given full credit for their research achievements. A survey commissioned jointly by Nature and the European Science Foundation reveals the countries with the best — and the worst — postdoc working conditions.

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/17660

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News in Brief p642

doi:10.1038/17665

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Correspondence

Trials and tribulations of PhD students p644

Sudhanshu Dole

doi:10.1038/17668

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How hunger keeps the population down p644

Hermann Bondi

doi:10.1038/17670

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Revolutionary ideas come round again p644

Douglas B. Kell

doi:10.1038/17672

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Patent attorneys pay their way p644

Joseph T. Leone

doi:10.1038/17674

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Commentary

Who benefits from climate forecasts? p645

The effective and equitable dissemination of climate forecasts is as important and challenging as their accuracy. During El Niño 1997-98, Peruvian fisheries showed the need to understand forecast use and all parties' interests.

doi:10.1038/17676

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News and Views

Driving parents cuckoo p647

Douglas W. Mock

doi:10.1038/17679

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Condensed-matter physics:  A nanotube laboratory p648

David H. Cobden

doi:10.1038/17682

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Development:  Hox proteins reach out round DNA p649

Matthew P. Scott

doi:10.1038/17685

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Bioenergetics:  One price to run, swim or fly? p651

R. McNeill Alexander

doi:10.1038/17687

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100 and 50 years ago p652

doi:10.1038/17691

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Neurobiology:  Sorting out the neuron p653

Peter J. Hollenbeck and Gordon Ruthel

doi:10.1038/17693

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RNA splicing:  Running rings around RNA p655

Angus I. Lamond

doi:10.1038/17697

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Materials science:  Measures of crystal vacancies p656

Robert W. Cahn

doi:10.1038/17701

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Climate change:  The question of significance p657

A. Barrie Pittock

doi:10.1038/17704

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Daedalus:  Pinpoint therapy p658

David Jones

doi:10.1038/17707

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Scientific Correspondence

Growing season extended in Europe p659

Annette Menzel and Peter Fabian

doi:10.1038/17709

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Breathing through skin in a newborn mammal p660

J. P. Mortola, P. B. Frappell and P. A. Woolley

doi:10.1038/17713

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Formation of ice XII at different conditions p660

Michael Koza, Helmut Schober, Albert Tölle, Franz Fujara and Thomas Hansen

doi:10.1038/17717

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The bio-logic of facial geometry p661

David A. Meyer and Melanie W Quong

doi:10.1038/17720

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Reply:  The bio-logic of facial geometry p662

D. I. Perrett and I. Penton-Voak

doi:10.1038/17723

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Erratum:  Lizards took express train to Polynesia p662

doi:10.1038/17725

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Erratum:  Josephson effect and a -state in superfluid ³He p662

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Book Reviews

Exit Homo sapiens, stage left p663

John L. Casti

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Affecting climate in a second-best world p664

Paul Ekins reviews Human Choice and Climate Change, vols 1-4 edited by Steve Rayner and Elizabeth L. Malone

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Diversity in danger p664

doi:10.1038/17734

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Happy accidents? p664

Mark Pagel reviews The Pattern of Evolution by Niles Eldredge

doi:10.1038/17737

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Species without frontiers p665

Harold A. Mooney reviews Life out of Bounds: Bioinvasion in a Borderless World by Chris Bright

doi:10.1038/17740

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Ritual meanings lost in a vegetable stew p666

Roy Vickery reviews Plants of Life, Plants of Death by Frederick J. Simoons

doi:10.1038/17743

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Article

Signals of need in parent–offspring communication and their exploitation by the common cuckoo p667

R. M. Kilner, D. G. Noble and N. B. Davies

doi:10.1038/17746

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Letters to Nature

Aharonov–Bohm oscillations in carbon nanotubes p673

Adrian Bachtold, Christoph Strunk, Jean-Paul Salvetat, Jean-Marc Bonard, Laszló Forró, Thomas Nussbaumer and Christian Schönenberger

doi:10.1038/17755

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Spontaneous chaotic granular mixing p675

Troy Shinbrot, Albert Alexander and Fernando J. Muzzio

doi:10.1038/17760

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Self-organized growth of alloy superlattices p678

P. Venezuela, J. Tersoff, J. A. Floro, E. Chason, D. M. Follstaedt, Feng Liu and M. G. Lagally

doi:10.1038/17767

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Non-aqueous supramolecular assembly of mesostructured metal germanium sulphides from (Ge₄S₁₀)^4- clusters p681

Mark J. MacLachlan, Neil Coombs and Geoffrey A. Ozin

doi:10.1038/17776

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124,000-year periodicity in terrestrial vegetation change during the late Pliocene epoch p685

K. J. Willis, A. Kleczkowski and S. J. Crowhurst

doi:10.1038/17783

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Relative impacts of human-induced climate change and natural climate variability p688

Mike Hulme, Elaine M. Barrow, Nigel W. Arnell, Paula A. Harrison, Timothy C. Johns and Thomas E. Downing

doi:10.1038/17789

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The origin of spinifex texture in komatiites p691

Mark Shore and Anthony D. Fowler

doi:10.1038/17794

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A ferric-chelate reductase for iron uptake from soils p694

Nigel J. Robinson, Catherine M. Procter, Erin L. Connolly and Mary Lou Guerinot

doi:10.1038/17800

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A diffusion barrier maintains distribution of membrane proteins in polarized neurons p698

Bettina Winckler, Paul Forscher and Ira Mellman

doi:10.1038/17806

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Development of peripheral lymphoid organs and natural killer cells depends on the helix–loop–helix inhibitor Id2 p702

Yoshifumi Yokota, Ahmed Mansouri, Seiichi Mori, Seiichi Sugawara, Satoko Adachi, Shin-Ichi Nishikawa and Peter Gruss

doi:10.1038/17812

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The head inducer Cerberus is a multifunctional antagonist of Nodal, BMP and Wnt signals p707

Stefano Piccolo, Eric Agius, Luc Leyns, Subha Bhattacharyya, Horst Grunz, Tewis Bouwmeester and E. M. De Robertis

doi:10.1038/17820

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Inhibition of transforming growth factor-/SMAD signalling by the interferon-/STAT pathway p710

Luis Ulloa, Jacqueline Doody and Joan Massagué

doi:10.1038/17826

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Structure of a DNA-bound Ultrabithorax–Extradenticle homeodomain complex p714

Jonathan M. Passner, Hyung Don Ryoo, Leyi Shen, Richard S. Mann and Aneel K. Aggarwal

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Erratum:  Structural basis for activation of the titin kinase domain during myofibrillogenesis p719

Olga Mayans, Peter F. M. van der Ven, Matthias Wilm, Alexander Mues, Paul Young, Dieter O. Fürst, Matthias Wilmanns and Mathias Gautel

doi:10.1038/17835

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Correction:  Genomic-sequence comparison of two unrelated isolates of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori p719

Richard A. Alm, Lo-See L. Ling, Donald T. Moir, Benjamin L. King, Eric D. Brown, Peter C. Doig, Douglas R. Smith, Brian Noonan, Braydon C. Guild, Boudewijn L. deJonge, Gilles Carmel, Peter J. Tummino, Anthony Caruso, Maria Uria-Nickelsen, Debra M. Mills, Cameron Ives, Rene Gibson, David Merberg, Scott D. Mills, Qin Jiang, Diane E. Taylor, Gerald F. Vovis and Trevor J. Trust

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New on the Market

Combinatorial harvesters p721

New offerings from 15 manufacturers claim to make combinatorial chemistry easier, quicker, cleaner, cheaper — or perhaps unnecessary.
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doi:10.1038/17840

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