Opinion

Playing dirty with the China card p445

Science, the US weapons laboratories, and a hard-working immigrant group are all losers in Washington's game of pinning blame for an alleged security leak at Los Alamos.

doi:10.1038/18917

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Millennial mindsets p445

Parody can be a powerful weapon — provided it is recognized as such.

doi:10.1038/18919

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News

US societies fear clamp-down on visits by foreign scientists p447

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/18921

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Pay awards split Indian research world p447

K. S. Jayaraman

doi:10.1038/18924

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Japanese researcher faces US charges over data p448

Asako Saegusa

doi:10.1038/18926

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Ethical failures block Los Angeles research p448

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/18928

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Primate study may yield new CJD clues ... p449

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/18930

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... as researchers fume over blocked research p449

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/18933

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Anger at NZ plan to target social goals in research p450

Peter Pockley

doi:10.1038/18935

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Brazilian scientists team up for cancer genome project p450

Ricardo Bonalume Neto

doi:10.1038/18938

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Biometrics group counters privacy fears p451

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/18940

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Hand and eye security systems in growing use p451

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/18943

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Russia to focus science on high-tech goals p452

Carl Levitin

doi:10.1038/18945

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US spallation project 'running into trouble' p452

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/18948

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'FLAT Earthers' in battle with creationism p453

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/18950

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News in Brief p454

doi:10.1038/18953

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Correspondence

Search for a quick getaway from Mars p455

Steven D. Howe

doi:10.1038/18955

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Sartorial simplicity is knot what it seems p455

David B. McDonald

doi:10.1038/18957

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Grant agencies must be seen to be fair p455

Stefano Parodi

doi:10.1038/18959

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Commentary

Revealing the hidden costs of research p457

How should universities account for the money they receive from governments? The answer is not as simple as it may at first appear. There are valuable lessons that other countries can learn from the US experience.

doi:10.1038/18961

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News and Views

Micro-printing with crystal inks p461

Lia Addadi and Steve Weiner

doi:10.1038/18966

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Neurobiology: Slit, the midline repellent p462

W. A. Harris and C. E. Holt

doi:10.1038/18970

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Motor proteins: Another step ahead for myosin p463

Malcolm Irving and Yale E. Goldman

doi:10.1038/18973

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Astronomy: A dusty revolution p463

Sarah Tomlin

doi:10.1038/18976

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Alzheimer's disease: In search of -secretase p466

John Hardy and Alain Israël

doi:10.1038/18979

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Supercooled water: Going strong or falling apart? p467

Srikanth Sastry

doi:10.1038/18982

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100 and 50 years ago p469

doi:10.1038/18987

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Cell biology: Boa constrictor or rattlesnake? p470

Tom Kirchhausen

doi:10.1038/18989

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Daedalus: New eyes p471

David Jones

doi:10.1038/18992

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Obituary: Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-99) p472

Albert Ghiorso

doi:10.1038/18994

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Scientific Correspondence

Exposing the human nude phenotype p473

Jorge Frank, Claudio Pignata, Andrei A. Panteleyev, David M. Prowse, Howard Baden, Lorin Weiner, Lucia Gaetaniello, Wasim Ahmad, Nicola Pozzi, Peter B. Cserhalmi-Friedman, Vincent M. Aita, Hendrik Uyttendaele, Derek Gordon, Jurg Ott, Janice L. Brissette and Angela M. Christiano

doi:10.1038/18997

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Putting nuclear-test monitoring to the test p474

A. Douglas, D. Bowers, P. D. Marshall, J. B. Young, D. Porter and N. J. Wallis

doi:10.1038/19000

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Seeing movement in the dark p475

Karl R. Gegenfurtner, Helmut Mayser and Lindsay T. Sharpe

doi:10.1038/19004

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Sexual propagation by sponge fragments p476

Manuel Maldonado and María J. Uriz

doi:10.1038/19007

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Book Reviews

Bantu banter and African roots p477

Jared Diamond reviews An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400 by Christopher Ehret

doi:10.1038/19010

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For Charlie and Nick p478

Bruce Mazlish reviews The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do by Harry Collins and Martin Kusch

doi:10.1038/19014

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Reasons to be miserable p479

Hugh Freeman reviews The Nature of Grief: The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss by John Archer

doi:10.1038/19016

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A model subject p480

David Rind reviews Global Energy and Water Cycles edited by K. A. Browning and R. J. Gurney

doi:10.1038/19019

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Science in culture p480

John Polkinghorne reviews Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Adventures of a Curious Character)

doi:10.1038/19021

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Article

Impairment of dynamin's GAP domain stimulates receptor-mediated endocytosis p481

Sanja Sever, Amy B. Muhlberg and Sandra L. Schmid

doi:10.1038/19024

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Letters to Nature

A dusty pinwheel nebula around the massive star WR104 p487

Peter G. Tuthill, John D. Monnier and William C. Danchi

doi:10.1038/19033

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Nuclear fusion from explosions of femtosecond laser-heated deuterium clusters p489

T. Ditmire, J. Zweiback, V. P. Yanovsky, T. E. Cowan, G. Hays and K. B. Wharton

doi:10.1038/19037

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Thermodynamic determination of fragility in liquids and a fragile-to-strong liquid transition in water p492

Kaori Ito, Cornelius T. Moynihan and C. Austen Angell

doi:10.1038/19042

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Control of crystal nucleation by patterned self-assembled monolayers p495

Joanna Aizenberg, Andrew J. Black and George M. Whitesides

doi:10.1038/19047

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Complete asymmetric induction of supramolecular chirality in a hydrogen-bonded assembly p498

Leonard J. Prins, Jurriaan Huskens, Feike de Jong, Peter Timmerman and David N. Reinhoudt

doi:10.1038/19053

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Variability of inorganic and organic phosphorus turnover rates in the coastal ocean p502

Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson and Ken O. Buesseler

doi:10.1038/19061

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Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire p505

Daniel C. Nepstad, Adalberto Verssimo, Ane Alencar, Carlos Nobre, Eirivelthon Lima, Paul Lefebvre, Peter Schlesinger, Christopher Potter, Paulo Moutinho, Elsa Mendoza, Mark Cochrane and Vanessa Brooks

doi:10.1038/19066

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An amniote-like skeleton from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland p508

R. L. Paton, T. R. Smithson and J. A. Clack

doi:10.1038/19071

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Two transmembrane aspartates in presenilin-1 required for presenilin endoproteolysis and -secretase activity p513

Michael S. Wolfe, Weiming Xia, Beth L. Ostaszewski, Thekla S. Diehl, W. Taylor Kimberly and Dennis J. Selkoe

doi:10.1038/19077

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A presenilin-1-dependent -secretase-like protease mediates release of Notch intracellular domain p518

Bart De Strooper, Wim Annaert, Philippe Cupers, Paul Saftig, Katleen Craessaerts, Jeffrey S. Mumm, Eric H. Schroeter, Vincent Schrijvers, Michael S. Wolfe, William J. Ray, Alison Goate and Raphael Kopan

doi:10.1038/19083

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Presenilin is required for activity and nuclear access of Notch in Drosophila p522

Gary Struhl and Iva Greenwald

doi:10.1038/19091

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Neurogenic phenotypes and altered Notch processing in Drosophila Presenilin mutants p525

Yihong Ye, Nina Lukinova and Mark E. Fortini

doi:10.1038/19096

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The motor protein myosin-I produces its working stroke in two steps p530

Claudia Veigel, Lynne M. Coluccio, James D. Jontes, John C. Sparrow, Ronald A. Milligan and Justin E. Molloy

doi:10.1038/19104

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Structural basis for self-association and receptor recognition of human TRAF2 p533

Young Chul Park, Vicki Burkitt, Anthony R. Villa, Liang Tong and Hao Wu

doi:10.1038/19110

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New on the Market

Check your equipment p539

This week's selection of lab equipment and services, recently introduced, repackaged or improved, includes Platinum that's blue and bulbous, and a product called RNase AWAY, no prizes for guessing what it does.
Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

doi:10.1038/19117

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