Opinion

A cautionary guide to university rankings p801

Shifts in this year's college rankings from US News & World Report ttell us a little about quality and a lot about the essentially arbitrary nature of the exercise.

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Scandal at the Exploratory p801

A heap of public money may be misdirected unless the developers of a new science centre see sense.

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News

Wellcome Trust loses battle to expand its genome campus p803

Natasha Loder

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Shoddy buildings cost lives in Turkish quake p803

Quirin Schiermeier

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UK centre 'drops science for sensation' p804

Heather McCabe

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A million volunteers join the online search for extraterrestrial life p804

Tony Reichhardt

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Leadership wrangle forces Salk Institute restructuring p805

Rex Dalton

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Canadian report urges universities to make research earn its keep p805

David Spurgeon

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California initiative to probe transgenics in large animals p806

Rex Dalton

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University confronts new rival across Lake Tahoe p806

Rex Dalton

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News Analysis

Astronomy adapts to sharpen up its image p807

By correcting for atmospheric distortion, adaptive optics — despite some birth pains — gives telescopes a far clearer view of the Universe.

Tony Reichhardt

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News in Brief p808

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Correspondence

Kansas makes a monkey of itself p810

Paul M. Grant

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Global emissions could soon start rising again p810

Michael Jefferson

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Alois Alzheimer and the amyloid debate p810

John N. Davis, II and Jane C. Chisholm

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News and Views

Mechanics of the ribosome p811

Roger Garrett

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Astronomy:  Life beyond the pulsar death valley p812

Alex Wolszczan

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Cognitive neuroscience:  How do you pay attention? p813

Jeremy M. Wolfe

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Biological oceanography:  Complex lessons of iron uptake p815

Richard J. Geider

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Heart disease:  Good cholesterol news p816

James Scott

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100 and 50 years ago p817

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Cosmology:  Shedding light on dark matter p819

Daniel E. Holz

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Signal transduction:  Rhapsody in G proteins p820

Johannes L. Bos and Fried J. T. Zwartkruis

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Daedalus:  Sharp snow p821

David Jones

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Obituary:  Eladio Viñuela (1937-99) p822

Jesús Ávila and Federico Mayor, Jr

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millennium essay

Journey into space p823

Martin Kemp

doi:10.1038/23602

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Scientific Correspondence

Parasitoid behaviour and Bt plants p825

Tanja H. Schuler, Roel P. J. Potting, Ian Denholm and Guy M. Poppy

doi:10.1038/23605

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Prelude or requiem for the 'Mozart effect'? p826

Christopher F. Chabris

doi:10.1038/23608

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Prelude or requiem for the 'Mozart effect'? p827

Kenneth M. Steele, Simone Dalla Bella, Isabelle Peretz, Tracey Dunlop, Lloyd A. Dawe, G. Keith Humphrey, Roberta A. Shannon, Johnny L. Kirby, Jr and C. G. Olmstead

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reply:  Prelude or requiem for the 'Mozart effect'? p827

Frances H. Rauscher

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Ubiquitous dispersal of microbial species p828

Bland J. Finlay and Ken J. Clarke

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Book Reviews

The universal structure of babbling p829

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

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Thou shalt not mix religion and science p830

S. Nomanul Haq

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Dogged footsteps to a vanishing past p831

Andrew Berry

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Mainstreaming monsters p832

Harriet Ritvo

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Articles

Structure of a bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit at 5.5 Å resolution p833

William M. Clemons, Jr, Joanna L. C. May, Brian T. Wimberly, John P. McCutcheon, Malcolm S. Capel and V. Ramakrishnan

doi:10.1038/23631

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Placement of protein and RNA structures into a 5 Å-resolution map of the 50S ribosomal subunit p841

Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Malcolm Capel, Peter B. Moore and Thomas A. Steitz

doi:10.1038/23641

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Letters to Nature

A radio pulsar with an 8.5-second period that challenges emission models p848

M. D. Young, R. N. Manchester and S. Johnston

doi:10.1038/23650

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Measurement of gravitational acceleration by dropping atoms p849

Achim Peters, Keng Yeow Chung and Steven Chu

doi:10.1038/23655

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Thermally induced ultrasonic emission from porous silicon p853

H. Shinoda, T. Nakajima, K. Ueno and N. Koshida

doi:10.1038/23664

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Layered double hydroxides exchanged with tungstate as biomimetic catalysts for mild oxidative bromination p855

Bert Sels, Dirk De Vos, Mieke Buntinx, Frédéric Pierard, A. Kirsch-De Mesmaeker and Pierre Jacobs

doi:10.1038/23674

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Competition among marine phytoplankton for different chelated iron species p858

David A. Hutchins, Amy E. Witter, Alison Butler and George W. Luther, III

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Tracking the evolution of insecticide resistance in the mosquito Culex pipiens p861

Thomas Lenormand, Denis Bourguet, Thomas Guillemaud and Michel Raymond

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Illusory shifts in visual direction accompany adaptation of saccadic eye movements p864

Dan O. Bahcall and Eileen Kowler

doi:10.1038/23693

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Electrophysiological measurement of rapid shifts of attention during visual search p867

Geoffrey F. Woodman and Steven J. Luck

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Global and fine information coded by single neurons in the temporal visual cortex p869

Yasuko Sugase, Shigeru Yamane, Shoogo Ueno and Kenji Kawano

doi:10.1038/23703

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Caudal is the Hox gene that specifies the most posterior Drosophile segment p873

Eduardo Moreno and Ginés Morata

doi:10.1038/23709

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Notch signalling controls pancreatic cell differentiation p877

Åsa Apelqvist, Hao Li, Lukas Sommer, Paul Beatus, David J. Anderson, Tasuku Honjo, Martin Hrab de Angelis, Urban Lendahl and Helena Edlund

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A C. elegans Ror receptor tyrosine kinase regulates cell motility and asymmetric cell division p881

Wayne C. Forrester, Megan Dell, Elliot Perens and Gian Garriga

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Bid-deficient mice are resistant to Fas-induced hepatocellular apoptosis p886

Xiao-Ming Yin, Kun Wang, Atan Gross, Yongge Zhao, Sandra Zinkel, Barbara Klocke, Kevin A. Roth and Stanley J. Korsmeyer

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Activation of the ERK/MAPK pathway by an isoform of rap1GAP associated with G_i p891

Naoki Mochizuki, Yusuke Ohba, Etsuko Kiyokawa, Takeshi Kurata, Takeshi Murakami, Takefumi Ozaki, Akira Kitabatake, Kazuo Nagashima and Michiyuki Matsuda

doi:10.1038/23738

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See also: News and Views by Bos & Zwartkruis

Extracellular sodium regulates airway ciliary motility by inhibiting a P2X receptor p894

Weiyuan Ma, Alon Korngreen, Natalya Uzlaner, Zvi Priel and Shai D. Silberberg

doi:10.1038/23743

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A new pathway for polyketide synthesis in microorganisms p897

Nobutaka Funa, Yasuo Ohnishi, Isao Fujii, Masaaki Shibuya, Yutaka Ebizuka and Sueharu Horinouchi

doi:10.1038/23748

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New on the Market

Doing things to proteins and peptides p900

Proteins and peptides link the following offerings. A cocktail of inhibitors aids protein isolation, and a specific inhibitor of proteasome activity makes the organelle more conducive to functional studies.
Compiled in the Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

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