Table of contents
Volume 400 Number 6746 pp697-800
Opinion
The difference between science and dogma p697
Scientists and science teachers can draw useful lessons from the Kansas Board of Education's efforts to expel Charles Darwin from the state's schools.
doi:10.1038/23307
No time to hide p697
Britain is right to reject shrouding field trials of genetically modified crops in secrecy.
doi:10.1038/23309
News
Annotation competition spurs Drosophila sequencing efforts p699
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/23311
EPA science 'overburdened by Congress' p700
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/23314
Clinton gets the message on biomass energy p700
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/23316
Kansas kicks evolution out the classroom p701
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/23319
Cray sale threatens to send researchers shopping elsewhere p701
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/23322
Research to benefit from cheaper Landsat images p702
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/23324
Monsanto rapped for misleading press advertisements p702
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/23327
Japanese university plan under fire again p703
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/23329
Australia plans research reforms but without extra funding p703
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/23331
Correspondence
Bureaucrats pose threat to museums p707
Michael A. Mares
doi:10.1038/23337
What price 'prestige' in publishing? p707
Alexander A. Berezin
doi:10.1038/23339
Icelanders opt out of genetic database p707
Pétur Hauksson
doi:10.1038/23341
Corals resist extinction by global warming p708
A. J. (Tom) van Loon
doi:10.1038/23343
'Snowball Earth' theory still stands p708
Paul F. Hoffman
doi:10.1038/23345
Visit heaven and hell ahead of schedule p708
Jorge Mira-Pérez
doi:10.1038/23347
News and Views
Neptune's misbehaving rings p709
Mark R. Showalter
doi:10.1038/23349
100 and 50 years ago p710
doi:10.1038/23352
Phytochromes: Tripping the light fantastic p710
Harry Smith
doi:10.1038/23354
Atmospheric chemistry: Sulphur emissions from ships p713
Barry J. Huebert
doi:10.1038/23357
Cell biology: Mast-cell heparin demystified p714
James L. Zehnder and Stephen J. Galli
doi:10.1038/23360
Condensed-matter physics: Real metals, 2D or not 2D? p715
Michelle Y. Simmons and Alex R. Hamilton
doi:10.1038/23363
Fluid dynamics: Lights, camera, drip p715
Sarah Tomlin
doi:10.1038/23365
Marine biology: No hibernation for basking sharks p717
Daniel Weihs
doi:10.1038/23368
Neurobiology: Cognition by a mini brain p718
Randolf Menzel and Martin Giurfa
doi:10.1038/23371
Daedalus: Superficial complexity p719
David Jones
doi:10.1038/23374
Obituary: Rolf Landauer (1927-99) p720
Rolf Landauer: Head and heart of the physics of information
Seth Lloyd
doi:10.1038/23376
Millennium Essay
Rules of the game of doing science p721
Scientific good practice — disinterested, communal, universal — is not 'blobby' idealism, but a social framework to which researchers must conform if they are to prosper. Now, this contract with society is up for renegotiation.
John Ziman
doi:10.1038/23379
Scientific Correspondence
Chemokine control of HIV-1 infection p723
Mario Mellado, José Miguel Rodríguez-Frade, Antonio J. Vila-Coro, Ana Martín de Ana and Carlos Martínez-A.
doi:10.1038/23382
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Climate variability and crop yields in Europe p724
John R. Porter and Mikhail A. Semenov
doi:10.1038/23385
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reply Climate variability and crop yields in Europe p724
Mike Hulme, Paula Harrison and Nigel Arnell
doi:10.1038/23388
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A movement-sensitive area in auditory cortex p724
Frank Baumgart, Birgit Gaschler-Markefski, Marty G. Woldorff, Hans-Jochen Heinze and Henning Scheich
doi:10.1038/23390
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Striped rabbits in Southeast Asia p726
Alison K. Surridge, Robert J. Timmins, Godfrey M. Hewitt and Diana J. Bell
doi:10.1038/23393
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Book Reviews
A brilliant dissection of the brain p727
Semir Zeki
doi:10.1038/23397
The problem with an evolutionary answer p728
R. C. Lewontin
doi:10.1038/23400
The future of the doctor's drug culture p729
Ann Dally
doi:10.1038/23403
New in paperback p730
doi:10.1038/23406
Surfing the history of space p730
Owen Gingerich
doi:10.1038/23408
Letters to Nature
Images of Neptune's ring arcs obtained by a ground-based telescope p731
B. Sicardy, F. Roddier, C. Roddier, E. Perozzi, J. E. Graves, O. Guyon and M. J. Northcott
doi:10.1038/23410
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See also: News and Views by Showalter
Stability of Neptune's ring arcs in question p733
Christophe Dumas, Richard J. Terrile, Bradford A. Smith, Glenn Schneider and E. E. Becklin
doi:10.1038/23414
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See also: News and Views by Zehnder & Galli
Linking insulator-to-metal transitions at zero and finite magnetic fields p735
Y. Hanein, N. Nenadovic, D. Shahar, Hadas Shtrikman, J. Yoon, C. C. Li and D. C. Tsui
doi:10.1038/23419
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See also: News and Views by Simmons & Hamilton
Observation of short-range critical wetting p737
D. Ross, D. Bonn and J. Meunier
doi:10.1038/23425
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Rapid environmental changes in southern Europe during the last glacial period p740
Judy R. M. Allen, Ute Brandt, Achim Brauer, Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, Brian Huntley, Jörg Keller, Michael Kraml, Andreas Mackensen, Jens Mingram, Jörg F. W. Negendank, Norbert R. Nowaczyk, Hedi Oberhänsli, William A. Watts, Sabine Wulf and Bernd Zolitschka
doi:10.1038/23432
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Effects of ship emissions on sulphur cycling and radiative climate forcing over the ocean p743
Kevin Capaldo, James J. Corbett, Prasad Kasibhatla, Paul Fischbeck and Spyros N. Pandis
doi:10.1038/23438
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See also: News and Views by Huebert
A pipiscid-like fossil from the Lower Cambrian of south China p746
D. Shu, S. Conway Morris, X-L. Zhang, L. Chen, Y. Li and J. Han
doi:10.1038/23445
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Environmental controls on the geographic distribution of zooplankton diversity p749
Scott Rutherford, Steven D'Hondt and Warren Prell
doi:10.1038/23449
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Context generalization in Drosophila visual learning requires the mushroom bodies p753
Li Liu, Reinhard Wolf, Roman Ernst and Martin Heisenberg
doi:10.1038/23456
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See also: News and Views by Menzel & Giurfa
Synaptic function modulated by changes in the ratio of synaptotagmin I and IV p757
J. Troy Littleton, Thomas L. Serano, Gerald M. Rubin, Barry Ganetzky and Edwin R. Chapman
doi:10.1038/23462
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Interaction of glutamic-acid-rich proteins with the cGMP signalling pathway in rod photoreceptors p761
Heinz G. Körschen, Michael Beyermann, Frank Müller, Martin Heck, Marius Vantler, Karl-Wilhelm Koch, Roland Kellner, Uwe Wolfrum, Christian Bode, Klaus Peter Hofmann and U. Benjamin Kaupp
doi:10.1038/23468
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Increased affiliative response to vasopressin in mice expressing the V1a receptor from a monogamous vole p766
Larry J. Young, Roger Nilsen, Katrina G. Waymire, Grant R. MacGregor and Thomas R. Insel
doi:10.1038/23475
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Heparin is essential for the storage of specific granule proteases in mast cells p769
Donald E. Humphries, Guang W. Wong, Daniel S. Friend, Michael F. Gurish, Wen-Tao Qiu, Chifu Huang, Arlene H. Sharpe and Richard L. Stevens
doi:10.1038/23481
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See also: News and Views by Zehnder & Galli
Abnormal mast cells in mice deficient in a heparin-synthesizing enzyme p773
Erik Forsberg, Gunnar Pejler, Maria Ringvall, Carolina Lunderius, Bianca Tomasini-Johansson, Marion Kusche-Gullberg, Inger Eriksson, Johan Ledin, Lars Hellman and Lena Kjellén
doi:10.1038/23488
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See also: News and Views by Zehnder & Galli
The chemokine receptor CCR4 in vascular recognition by cutaneous but not intestinal memory T cells p776
J. J. Campbell, G. Haraldsen, J. Pan, J. Rottman, S. Qin, P. Ponath, D. P. Andrew, R. Warnke, N. Ruffing, N. Kassam, L. Wu and E. C. Butcher
doi:10.1038/23495
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Binding of phytochrome B to its nuclear signalling partner PIF3 is reversibly induced by light p781
Min Ni, James M. Tepperman and Peter H. Quail
doi:10.1038/23500
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Nucleosome mobilization catalysed by the yeast SWI/SNF complex p784
Iestyn Whitehouse, Andrew Flaus, Bradley R. Cairns, Malcolm F. White, Jerry L. Workman and Tom Owen-Hughes
doi:10.1038/23506
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Four-helical-bundle structure of the cytoplasmic domain of a serine chemotaxis receptor p787
Kyeong Kyu Kim, Hisao Yokota and Sung-Hou Kim
doi:10.1038/23512
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erratum: p73 is regulated by tyrosine kinase c-Abl in the apoptotic response to DNA damage p792
Zhi-Min Yuan, Hisashi Shioya, Takatoshi Ishiko, Xiangao Sun, Jijie Gu, YinYin Huang, Hua Lu, Surender Kharbanda, Ralph Weichselbaum and Donald Kufe
doi:10.1038/23520
erratum: Regulation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide production by the protein kinase Akt p792
David Fulton, Jean-Philippe Gratton, Timothy J. McCabe, Jason Fontana, Yasushi Fujio, Kenneth Walsh, Thomas F. Franke, Andreas Papapetropoulos and William C. Sessa
doi:10.1038/23523
New on the Market
Chromatography aids p793
Detecting, warming, cooling, packing, monitoring, pressurizing and scaling-up are among the things that can be done to, with or from chromatography columns in this selection — and, the manufacturers will hope, buying.
doi:10.1038/23526
Careers and Recruitment
Green chemistry puts down roots p797
Industry is discovering that 'green' approaches to chemical processes are not only beneficial to the environment but can boost profits too. It's fertile ground for collaboration between academic and industrial scientists.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/23528
Data explosion fuels search for drugs p799
Potter Wickware
doi:10.1038/23532
