Opinion

Better news — perhaps — on global warming p487

Evidence is emerging that carbon emissions may have started to fall, in advance of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. If so, containing global warming may turn out to be less painful than has sometimes been supposed.

doi:10.1038/22820

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Yes, minister, but ... p487

Britain's BSE inquiry is providing a valuable lesson in the relationship between science and public policy.

doi:10.1038/22822

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News

France to collaborate with UK p489

David Dickson and Natasha Loder

doi:10.1038/22824

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Wallace rescued from a grave injustice p489

Natasha Loder

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Congress talks tough on funds for NASA and basic research p490

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/22829

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BSE advisers admit giving up a purely scientific role p490

Natasha Loder

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UN call for action to clear up space junk p490

Eva von Schaper

doi:10.1038/22833

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Asia backs E-Biomed 'with peer review' p491

Asako Saegusa

doi:10.1038/22835

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Varmus speculates on a possible reorganization of the NIH p491

Carina Dennis

doi:10.1038/22837

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NSF urged to raise environmental efforts ... p492

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/22840

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... as panel backs the return of the 'green GDP' p492

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/22843

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Charity cools on stem cells after boycott by Catholics p493

Meredith Wadman

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Russian Antarctic base falls prey to budget cuts p493

Carl Levitin

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US plans giant effort on protein structure p494

Meredith Wadman

doi:10.1038/22850

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Emissions fall despite economic growth p494

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/22853

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Africa seeks laws on GM food exports ... p495

Ehsan Masood

doi:10.1038/22855

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...as Brazilian scientists protest at GM ban p495

Ricardo Bonalume Neto

doi:10.1038/22857

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News in Brief p496

doi:10.1038/22860

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Correspondence

More haste, less science? p498

Bradford A. Hawkins

doi:10.1038/22862

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Tale of an intrepid duo unearthed p498

Cynthia Reavell

doi:10.1038/22865

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Commentary

How to restore public trust in science p499

The relationship between the scientific community and the general public has never been worse in living memory. The commercialization of research is largely responsible, but scientists can still act on the problem.

doi:10.1038/22867

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News and Views

Bollworms, genes and ecologists p501

M. J. Crawley

doi:10.1038/22869

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Palaeoecology A breath of fresh air p503

D. E. Canfield

doi:10.1038/22872

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Quantum optics: Energy transfer under control p505

William L. Barnes and Piers Andrew

doi:10.1038/22875

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100 and 50 years ago p505

doi:10.1038/22878

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Malaria A blueprint of 'bad air' p506

Mats Wahlgren and Maria Teresa Bejarano

doi:10.1038/22880

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Engineering Shark skin and other solutions p507

Philip Ball

doi:10.1038/22883

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Earth's productivity Ghosts of biospheres past p509

Joe Berry

doi:10.1038/22886

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Conservation biology Top dogs maintain diversity p510

Bernt-Erik Sæther

doi:10.1038/22889

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Oceanography: An ultimate limiting nutrient p511

J. R. Toggweiler

doi:10.1038/22892

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Materials science: Superdiffusion in solid helium p512

Robert W. Cahn

doi:10.1038/22894

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erratum:  Clues to galaxy formation p513

doi:10.1038/22897

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erratum:  Speciation without isolation p513

doi:10.1038/22899

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Daedalus:  The insect plane p513

David Jones

doi:10.1038/22901

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Obituary J. John Sepkoski Jr (1948-99) p514

Derek E. G. Briggs

doi:10.1038/22903

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Millennium Essay

The tale of the great cuckoo egg p515

The idea that viruses might cause tumours inadvertently led to the discovery of cellular growth genes that can promote cancer formation — but usually in the absence of viruses. This success rapidly outgrew the original idea.

George Klein

doi:10.1038/22906

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Scientific Correspondence

Haem detoxification by an insect p517

Marcus F. Oliveira, José R. Silva, Marílvia Dansa-Petretski, Wanderley de Souza, Ulysses Lins, Cláudia M. S. Braga, Hatisaburo Masuda and Pedro L. Oliveira

doi:10.1038/22910

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'Raise the stakes' evolves into a defector p518

Timothy Killingback and Michael Doebeli

doi:10.1038/22913

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reply 'Raise the stakes' evolves into a defector p518

Thomas N. Sherratt and Gilbert Roberts

doi:10.1038/22917

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Development time and resistance to Bt crops p519

Yong-Biao Liu, Bruce E. Tabashnik, Timothy J. Dennehy, Amanda L. Patin and Alan C. Bartlett

doi:10.1038/22919

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How was the Sdic gene fixed? p519

Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth

doi:10.1038/22922

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reply: How was the Sdic gene fixed? p520

Dmitry I. Nurminsky and Daniel L. Hartl

doi:10.1038/22924

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Book Reviews

An epidemiology of the invention virus p521

Crispin Tickell reviews The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich And Some Are So Poor by David Landes

doi:10.1038/22927

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Have arch, will travel p521

doi:10.1038/22929

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From a particular to a global perspective p522

David Schimel reviews The Terrestrial Biosphere and Global Change: Implications for Natural and Managed Ecosystems edited by Brian H. Walker,, Will Steffen,, Josep Canadell and John S. I. Ingram

doi:10.1038/22932

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A tale of two fronts p523

Huw C. Davies reviews Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather by Marc Monmonier and More on the atmosphereThe Stratosphere: Phenomena, History, and RelevanceKarin G. Labitzke and Harry Van Loon

doi:10.1038/22934

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Science in culture p524

Martin Kemp reviews Lucid looking
David Hockney's drawings using the camera lucidaMartin Kemp

doi:10.1038/22937

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Articles

The relative influences of nitrogen and phosphorus on oceanic primary production p525

Toby Tyrrell

doi:10.1038/22941

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The complete nucleotide sequence of chromosome 3 of Plasmodium falciparum p532

S. Bowman, D. Lawson, D. Basham, D Brown, T. Chillingworth, C. M. Churcher, A. Craig, R. M. Davies, K. Devlin, T. Feltwell, S. Gentles, R. Gwilliam, N. Hamlin, D. Harris, S. Holroyd, T. Hornsby, P. Horrocks, K. Jagels, B. Jassal, S. Kyes, J. McLean, S. Moule, K. Mungall, L. Murphy, K. Oliver, M. A. Quail, M.-A. Rajandream, S. Rutter, J. Skelton, R. Squares, S. Squares, J. E. Sulston, S. Whitehead, J. R. Woodward, C. Newbold and B. G. Barrell

doi:10.1038/22964

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Letters to Nature

A geometric distance to the galaxy NGC4258 from orbital motions in a nuclear gas disk p539

J. R. Herrnstein, J. M. Moran, L. J. Greenhill, P. J. Diamond, M. Inoue, N. Nakai, M. Miyoshi, C. Henkel and A. Riess

doi:10.1038/22972

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Identification of atomic-like electronic states in indium arsenide nanocrystal quantum dots p542

Uri Banin, YunWei Cao, David Katz and Oded Millo

doi:10.1038/22979

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Surface impact ionization of polar-molecule clusters through pickup of alkali atoms p544

C. R. Gebhardt, H. Schröder and K.-L. Kompa

doi:10.1038/22984

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Triple-isotope composition of atmospheric oxygen as a tracer of biosphere productivity p547

Boaz Luz, Eugeni Barkan, Michael L. Bender, Mark H. Thiemens and Kristie A. Boering

doi:10.1038/22987

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Relative influences of atmospheric chemistry and transport on Arctic ozone trends p551

M. P. Chipperfield and R. L. Jones

doi:10.1038/22999

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2-Methylhopanoids as biomarkers for cyanobacterial oxygenic photosynthesis p554

Roger E. Summons, Linda L. Jahnke, Janet M. Hope and Graham A. Logan

doi:10.1038/23005

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Spatial scaling laws yield a synthetic theory of biodiversity p557

Mark E. Ritchie and Han Olff

doi:10.1038/23010

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A mesoscale approach to extinction risk in fragmented habitats p560

Renato Casagrandi and Marino Gatto

doi:10.1038/23020

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Mesopredator release and avifaunal extinctions in a fragmented system p563

Kevin R. Crooks and Michael E. Soulé

doi:10.1038/23028

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Linking a genetic defect to its cellular phenotype in a cardiac arrhythmia p566

Colleen E. Clancy and Yoram Rudy

doi:10.1038/23034

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Developmental and activity- dependent regulation of kainate receptors at thalamocortical synapses p569

Fleur L. Kidd and John T. R. Isaac

doi:10.1038/23040

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Oligopeptide-repeat expansions modulate 'protein-only' inheritance in yeast p573

Jia-Jia Liu and Susan Lindquist

doi:10.1038/23048

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Skeletal muscle hypertrophy is mediated by a Ca²⁺-dependent calcineurin signalling pathway p576

Christopher Semsarian, Ming-Jie Wu, Yue-Kun Ju, Tadeusz Marciniec, Thomas Yeoh, David G. Allen, Richard P. Harvey and Robert M. Graham

doi:10.1038/23054

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IGF-1 induces skeletal myocyte hypertrophy through calcineurin in association with GATA-2 and NF-ATc1 p581

Antonio Musarò, Karl J. A. McCullagh, Francisco J. Naya, Eric N. Olson and Nadia Rosenthal

doi:10.1038/23060

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Inner-arm dynein c of Chlamydomonas flagella is a single-headed processive motor p586

Hitoshi Sakakibara, Hiroaki Kojima, Yukako Sakai, Eisaku Katayama and Kazuhiro Oiwa

doi:10.1038/23066

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Myosin-V is a processive actin-based motor p590

Amit D. Mehta, Ronald S. Rock, Matthias Rief, James A. Spudich, Mark S. Mooseker and Richard E. Cheney

doi:10.1038/23072

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New on the Market

The two cultures p595

Cell and tissue culture are the focus in this week's New on the Market, including serum-free media and see-through culture plates.
Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

doi:10.1038/23078

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