Table of contents
Volume 401 Number 6751 pp309-410
Opinion
A timely boost to research on carbon sequestration p309
Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is as important as controlling emissions. Basic and applied research need to be pursued in the face of political obstacles.
doi:10.1038/43718
Reclusion to be discouraged p309
A survey has revealed that many Japanese researchers are disconnected from the outside world. Their institutions can help.
doi:10.1038/43720
News
Gene estimate rises as US and UK discuss freedom of access p311
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/43722
Putting a price on research reading p311
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/43725
Bombing of embassy bolsters support for science in China... p312
Tian Xuewen
doi:10.1038/43727
... as government sets sights on an 'innovation economy' p312
Tian Xuewen
doi:10.1038/43729
Japan boosts proteomics and cell biology... p313
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/43732
... while France gives more power to the centre p313
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/43735
US Senate restores proposed cut in science budgets p314
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/43738
Survey finds deep insularity among Japanese scientists p314
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/43740
Celebratory pictures from Subaru p314
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/43742
US warms to carbon sequestration research p315
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/43745
German museums face cuts p315
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/43748
US university finds use for Air Force research reactor p316
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/43751
UK universities look to enterprise p316
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/43754
News Analysis
Portugal's science plots its future p317
Research in Portugal has grown apace over the past decade, and the government is reviewing its achievements, problems and prospects.
Xavier Bosch
doi:10.1038/43756
Correspondence
Taxonomists are an endangered species in Europe p321
Bart Buyck
doi:10.1038/43762
Don't leave the biology out of bioinformatics p321
Peter Campbell
doi:10.1038/43764
Courage could win back confidence in science p321
Susan Daenke
doi:10.1038/43766
Sprucing up one's impact factor p321
J. Gowrishankar and P. Divakar
doi:10.1038/43768
No dirty tricks in merger ballot p322
Elaine Gansz Bobo
doi:10.1038/43770
Call a halt to strong-arm tactics over GM crops p322
Manfred Philipp
doi:10.1038/43772
Commentary
Balancing the Earth's accounts p323
Governments could safeguard the world's biodiversity with a small fraction of the money they spend on environmentally harmful subsidies.
doi:10.1038/43774
Book Reviews
Up the river without a paddle? p325
The theory that polio-vaccine researchers are responsible for AIDS is leaky.
John P. Moore reviews The River: A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and AIDS by Edward Hooper
doi:10.1038/43778
And some big steps for science p326
Jack O. Burns reviews Exploring the Moon: The Apollo Expeditions by David M. Harland
doi:10.1038/43781
Taking the horror out of shocks p327
Hugh Freeman reviews Electroshock: Restoring the Mind by Max Fink
doi:10.1038/43784
Border control at the frontiers of science p328
N. David Mermin reviews Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line by Thomas F. Gieryn
doi:10.1038/43787
New in paperback p328
doi:10.1038/43789
Millennium Essay
From horsehair to lightning rods p329
Analogy is a powerful tool in Benjamin Franklin's natural philosophy.
J.L. Heilbron
doi:10.1038/43791
News and Views
The devil is in the distance p331
An apparent discrepancy between two different distance measurements to a faraway galaxy may lead to a revised value for the age of the Universe.
Bohdan Paczynski
doi:10.1038/43794
Biophysics: Fungus punches its way in p332
Nicholas P. Money
doi:10.1038/43797
100 and 50 years ago p332
doi:10.1038/43799
High-temperature superconductivity: Electrons pair themselves p333
Joe Orenstein
doi:10.1038/43801
Genetics: Engineering a broken heart p335
Peter J. Scambler
doi:10.1038/43804
Climatology: Extremes in the Indian Ocean p337
David Anderson
doi:10.1038/43807
Signal transduction: Mating, channels and kidney cysts p339
Scott W. Emmons and Stefan Somlo
doi:10.1038/43810
Daedalus: Fertile competition p340
David Jones
doi:10.1038/43813
Brief Communications
Discovery of tetraploidy in a mammal p341
The red viscacha rat is unaffected by having double the usual number of chromosomes.
Milton H. Gallardo, J. W. Bickham, R. L. Honeycutt, R. A. Ojeda and N. Köhler
doi:10.1038/43815
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Psychophysics: Putting plaids in perspective p342
Barton L. Anderson
doi:10.1038/43819
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reply: Psychophysics: Putting plaids in perspective p342
Bart Farell
doi:10.1038/43822
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Nutrition: Effect of vegetables on bone metabolism p343
Roman C. Mühlbauer and Feng Li
doi:10.1038/43824
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Genetic recombination: Intron size and natural selection p344
Antonio Bernardo Carvalho and Andrew G. Clark
doi:10.1038/43827
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Article
Casein kinase I transduces Wnt signals p345
John M. Peters, Renée M. McKay, James P. McKay and Jonathan M. Graff
doi:10.1038/43830
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Letters to Nature
A distance to the galaxy NGC4258 from observations of Cepheid variable stars p351
Eyal Maoz, Jeffrey A. Newman, Laura Ferrarese, Peter B. Stetson, Stephen E. Zepf, Marc Davis, Wendy L. Freedman and Barry F. Madore
doi:10.1038/43838
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See also: News and Views by Paczynski
Coupling strength of charge carriers to spin fluctuations in high-temperature superconductors p354
J. P. Carbotte, E. Schachinger and D. N. Basov
doi:10.1038/43843
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See also: Letter by Carbotte et al.
Coupled ocean–atmosphere dynamics in the Indian Ocean during 1997–98 p356
Peter J. Webster, Andrew M. Moore, Johannes P. Loschnigg and Robert R. Leben
doi:10.1038/43848
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See also: News and Views by Anderson
A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean p360
N. H. Saji, B. N. Goswami, P. N. Vinayachandran and T. Yamagata
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See also: News and Views by Anderson
Tribosphenic mammal from the North American Early Cretaceous p363
Richard L. Cifelli
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Oldest playable musical instruments found at Jiahu early Neolithic site in China p366
Juzhong Zhang, Garman Harbottle, Changsui Wang and Zhaochen Kong
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Incorporating rules for responding into evolutionary games p368
John M. McNamara, Catherine E. Gasson and Alasdair I Houston
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The liprin protein SYD-2 regulates the differentiation of presynaptic termini in C. elegans p371
Mei Zhen and Yishi Jin
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Familial dementia caused by polymerization of mutant neuroserpin p376
Richard L. Davis, Antony E. Shrimpton, Peter D. Holohan, Charles Bradshaw, David Feiglin, George H. Collins, Peter Sonderegger, Jochen Kinter, Lyn Marie Becker, Felicitas Lacbawan, Donna Krasnewich, Maximilian Muenke, Daniel A. Lawrence, Mark S. Yerby, Cheng-Mei Shaw, Bibek Gooptu, Peter R. Elliott, John T. Finch, Robin W. Carrell and David A. Lomas
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Congenital heart disease in mice deficient for the DiGeorge syndrome region p379
Elizabeth A. Lindsay, Annalisa Botta, Vesna Jurecic, Sandra Carattini-Rivera, Yin-Chai Cheah, Howard M. Rosenblatt, Allan Bradley and Antonio Baldini
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See also: News and Views by Scambler
Polycystin-L is a calcium-regulated cation channel permeable to calcium ions p383
Xing-Zhen Chen, Peter M. Vassilev, Nuria Basora, Ji-Bin Peng, Hideki Nomura, Yoav Segal, Edward M. Brown, Stephen T. Reeders, Matthias A. Hediger and Jing Zhou
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See also: News and Views by Emmons & Somlo
A polycystic kidney-disease gene homologue required for male mating behaviour in C. elegans p386
Maureen M. Barr and Paul W. Sternberg
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Dystrophin expression in the mdx mouse restored by stem cell transplantation p390
Emanuela Gussoni, Yuko Soneoka, Corinne D. Strickland, Elizabeth A. Buzney, Mohamed K. Khan, Alan F. Flint, Louis M. Kunkel and Richard C. Mulligan
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Evidence that a free-running oscillator drives G1 events in the budding yeast cell cycle p394
Steven B. Haase and Steven I. Reed
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Mammalian XRCC2 promotes the repair of DNA double-strand breaks by homologous recombination p397
Roger D. Johnson, Nan Liu and Maria Jasin
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Interpreting the folding kinetics of helical proteins p400
Yaoqi Zhou and Martin Karplus
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Binding of double-strand breaks in DNA by human Rad52 protein p403
Eric Van Dyck, Alicja Z. Stasiak, Andrzej Stasiak and Stephen C. West
errata Selective inhibition of cocaine-seeking behaviour by a partial dopamine D3 receptor agonist p403
Maria Pilla, Sylvie Perachon, François Sautel, Fabrice Garrido, André Mann, Camille G. Wermuth, Jean-Charles Schwartz, Barry J. Everitt and Pierre Sokoloff
New on the Market
E-commerce is a gas p405
Meet Noggin, and get some wheels for your glassware.
Careers and Recruitment
How head-hunters track down the winners for science's top jobs p407
The star performers are not just head-hunted, they can write their own job descriptions. But how can a scientist reach this enviable position?
Alison Goddard
Keeping in touch with research p410
Brendan Horton
