Table of contents
Volume 398 Number 6723 pp91-174
Opinion
Cultural divides, forty years on p91
A famous lecture given in 1959 still resonates. Although time has eroded many of the cultural fissures that it addressed, current debates about biotechnology highlight continuing problems of mutual incomprehension.
doi:10.1038/18060
News
Biologists make plea to NIH to invest in supercomputer centre p93
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/18062
Catalonia offers $16m innovation grants p93
Xavier Bosch
doi:10.1038/18065
Mixed funding fortunes for UK research universities p94
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/18067
US Nobel winners back stem-cell research p94
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/18069
Japan's transplant law 'is too stringent'... p95
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/18071
... but the pill may be legalized at last p95
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/18074
Russia protests at US science sanctions p96
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/18076
Los Alamos secrets 'were leaked to China' p96
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/18079
Top physics labs 'must bury the hatchet' p97
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/18081
The search for missing mass finds funds for UK researchers p97
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/18084
Food scientist in GMO row defends 'premature' warning p98
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/18086
US State Department gets cold feet about cold fusion p98
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/18089
£150m tax break for research in UK budget p98
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/18091
Africa splits over bar to patents on plants p99
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/18093
Call for research and education to tackle 'environmental injustice' p99
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/18096
Correspondence
It's time to 'out' the selfish researchers p102
Noel C. Harris
doi:10.1038/18100
PMs and policemen are getting younger p102
M. de L. Brooke
doi:10.1038/18102
News and Views
Moving protein heads for breakdown p103
Martin Scheffner
doi:10.1038/18105
Quantum engineering: Probing magnetism in the well p104
S. D. Bader
doi:10.1038/18108
Carbon cycling: The mysterious missing sink p105
David W. Schindler
doi:10.1038/18111
Materials science: Asymmetry the easy way p107
Samuel P. Gido
doi:10.1038/18114
Genome structure: Retroshuffling the genomic deck p108
Jef D. Boeke and Oxana K. Pickeral
doi:10.1038/18118
100 and 50 years ago p109
doi:10.1038/18122
Holocene climate: Restless carbon pools p111
Philippe Ciais
doi:10.1038/18124
See also: News and Views by Schindler
Animal behaviour: Mothers of invention p111
John Whitfield
doi:10.1038/18126
Daedalus: Negative friction p112
David Jones
doi:10.1038/18129
Scientific Correspondence
Light-emitting suckers in an octopus p113
Sönke Johnsen, Elisabeth J. Balser and Edith A. Widder
doi:10.1038/18131
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Visualization of Bloch waves and domain walls p114
M. Torres, J. P. Adrados and F. R. Montero de Espinosa
doi:10.1038/18135
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Genetic flexibility of plant chloroplasts p115
Jürg E. Frey
doi:10.1038/18139
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Are vent shrimps blinded by science? p116
Peter J. Herring, Edward Gaten and Peter M. J. Shelton
doi:10.1038/18142
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Book Reviews
Bursting a south-sea bubble p117
Melvin Konner reviews The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research by Derek Freeman
doi:10.1038/18145
The shape of infinity p118
doi:10.1038/18148
Unstable door to the future of computing p118
John Preskill
doi:10.1038/18151
Tides in our time p119
Paul Melchior reviews Tides: A Scientific History by David Edgar Cartwright
doi:10.1038/18153
PGOMLDADLDCD p120
Alexander Masters reviews My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös by Bruce Schechter
doi:10.1038/18156
Article
Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO2 trapped in ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica p121
A. Indermühle, T. F. Stocker, F. Joos, H. Fischer, H. J. Smith, M. Wahlen, B. Deck, D. Mastroianni, J. Tschumi, T. Blunier, R. Meyer and B. Stauffer
doi:10.1038/18158
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See also: News and Views by Schindler
Letters to Nature
An outburst of relativistic particles from the soft 
-ray repeater SGR1900+14 p127
D. A. Frail, S. R. Kulkarni and J. S. Bloom
doi:10.1038/18163
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Rotation rates of Kuiper-belt objects from their light curves p129
W. Romanishin and S. C. Tegler
doi:10.1038/18168
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Quantum-well states in copper thin films p132
R. K. Kawakami, E. Rotenberg, Hyuk J. Choi, Ernesto J. Escorcia-Aparicio, M. O. Bowen, J. H. Wolfe, E. Arenholz, Z. D. Zhang, N. V. Smith and Z. Q. Qiu
doi:10.1038/18178
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See also: News and Views by Bader
Enhancement of surface self-diffusion of platinum atoms by adsorbed hydrogen p134
S. Horch, H. T. Lorensen, S. Helveg, E. Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, K. W. Jacobsen, J. K. Nørskov and F. Besenbacher
doi:10.1038/18185
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Non-centrosymmetric superlattices in block copolymer blends p137
Thorsten Goldacker, Volker Abetz, Reimund Stadler, Igor Erukhimovich and Ludwik Leibler
doi:10.1038/18191
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See also: News and Views by Gido
Unblocking of the Nares Strait by Greenland and Ellesmere ice-sheet retreat 10,000 years ago p139
Marek Zreda, John England, Fred Phillips, David Elmore and Pankaj Sharma
doi:10.1038/18197
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The role of hydraulic fractures and intermediate-depth earthquakes in generating subduction-zone magmatism p142
J. Huw Davies
doi:10.1038/18202
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Nitrogen deposition makes a minor contribution to carbon sequestration in temperate forests p145
Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Bridget A. Emmett, Per Gundersen, O. Janne Kjønaas, Chris J. Koopmans, Patrick Schleppi, Albert Tietema and Richard F. Wright
doi:10.1038/18205
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See also: News and Views by Schindler
The mahogany protein is a receptor involved in suppression of obesity p148
Deborah L. Nagle, Sonja H. McGrail, James Vitale, Elizabeth A. Woolf, Barry J. Dussault, Jr, Lisa DiRocco, Lisa Holmgren, Jill Montagno, Peer Bork, Dennis Huszar, Victoria Fairchild-Huntress, Pei Ge, John Keilty, Chris Ebeling, Linda Baldini, Julie Gilchrist, Paul Burn, George A. Carlson and Karen J. Moore
doi:10.1038/18210
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The mouse mahogany locus encodes a transmembrane form of human attractin p152
Teresa M. Gunn, Kimberly A. Miller, Lin He, Richard W. Hyman, Ronald W. Davis, Arezou Azarani, Stuart F. Schlossman, Jonathan S. Duke-Cohan and Gregory S. Barsh
doi:10.1038/18217
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A protective role for protease-activated receptors in the airways p156
T. M. Cocks, B. Fong, J. M. Chow, G. P. Anderson, A. G. Frauman, R. G. Goldie, P. J. Henry, M. J. Carr, J. R. Hamilton and J. D. Moffatt
doi:10.1038/18223
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Degradation of the cyclin-dependent-kinase inhibitor p27Kip1 is instigated by Jab1 p160
Kiichiro Tomoda, Yukiko Kubota and Jun-ya Kato
doi:10.1038/18230
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See also: News and Views by Scheffner
CBP-independent activation of CREM and CREB by the LIM-only protein ACT p165
Gian Maria Fimia, Dario De Cesare and Paolo Sassone-Corsi
doi:10.1038/18237
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New on the Market
Cell death and the maiden p171
Apoptosis is a hot topic. A recent AltaVista search for 'apoptosis' yielded 78,924 hits — and Lara Croft rated only 55,251. In this trawl through recent new products in cell biology, apoptosis beats Lara again, this time by 30 to 1.5.
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doi:10.1038/18244