Table of contents
Volume 401 Number 6754 pp623-726
Opinion
Financial flexibility the key to Germany's scientific prosperity p623
Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and despite a traumatic transition, science in east Germany is flourishing. Nationwide obstacles to progress require increased federal leverage for their removal.
doi:10.1038/44196
Caution: traditional knowledge p623
Principles of merit need to be spelt out in distinguishing valuable knowledge from myth.
doi:10.1038/44198
News
Medicine Nobel goes to pioneer of protein guidance mechanisms p625
Marie-Thérèse Heemels
doi:10.1038/44200
Dutch theoreticians win physics prize p626
Karl Ziemelis
doi:10.1038/44203
Split-second chemistry is rewarded p626
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/44206
Publishers agree on a 'seamless web' p626
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/44209
US State Department hires consultant to boost role of science p627
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/44211
Varmus announces decision to quit NIH for cancer centre p627
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/44213
Japan plans to join array project p627
Asako Saegusa and Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/44215
Aim for better business sense to bolster Russian science p628
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/44218
Anger at Israeli sex crimes DNA bank p628
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/44221
'Faked' rock-dating data charge dismissed... p629
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/44223
... and German garlic study under scrutiny p629
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/44225
Berkeley puts $500m into multidisciplinary approach to disease p630
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/44228
Joint institute set to boost Austria's genome research p630
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/44230
Institut Pasteur names Kourilsky as new director p630
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/44232
ICSU seeks to classify 'traditional knowledge' p631
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/44235
UK government not convinced by claims for flu drug p631
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/44238
Briefings
Tough measures bring a scarred science back to the world stage p635
Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, east German scientists are putting the pain of reunification behind them, as Alison Abbott reports.
doi:10.1038/44244
Max Planck Society's careful planning reaps benefits p637
doi:10.1038/44251
Rush rescue programme has achieved mixed results p638
doi:10.1038/44255
Correspondence
Conventional crops are the test of GM prejudice p640
Anthony Trewavas and C. J. Leaver
doi:10.1038/44258
Substantial equivalence is a useful tool p640
Peter Kearns and Paul Mayers
doi:10.1038/44260
No GM conspiracy p640
Derek Burke
doi:10.1038/44262
Putting transparency into ethical balance p641
Dai Rees
doi:10.1038/44264
Commentary
Do-it-yourself climate prediction p642
Anyone with a home PC could join climate modellers in their attempt to forecast how the Earth's climate will evolve in the next century.
doi:10.1038/44266
Book Reviews
Save Mozart for later p643
Neurobiology offers no evidence that infancy is a privileged time for learning.
Elizabeth Spelke reviews The Myth of the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and Lifelong Learning by John T. Bruer
doi:10.1038/44268
Oiling the wheels of controversy p644
R. John Parkes reviews The Deep Hot Biosphere by Thomas Gold
doi:10.1038/44271
Much ado about some thing p645
Ivor Grattan-Guinness reviews The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero by Robert Kaplan
doi:10.1038/44273
Zeroing in on process p645
doi:10.1038/44275
Science in culture p646
Martin Kemp reviews Design by digits
doi:10.1038/44278
Millennium Essay
Revolution in the ocean p647
Victor Hensen realized that in the sea the very small feed the very large.
Victor Smetacek
doi:10.1038/44281
News and Views
Hurricane heat engines p649
A hurricane's path is quite easy to forecast, but its intensity is not. A new model, which takes into account the interaction of the storm and ocean-surface temperature, gives remarkably accurate retrospective simulations.
H. E. Willoughby
doi:10.1038/44287
Neurobiology: Straight from the top p650
Earl K. Miller
doi:10.1038/44291
Quantum physics: Waves, particles and fullerenes p651
Alastair I. M. Rae
doi:10.1038/44294
Ecology: Power behind diversity's throne p653
Shahid Naeem
doi:10.1038/44297
100 and 50 years ago p654
doi:10.1038/44299
Astronomy: Super photon counters p654
John C. Mather
doi:10.1038/44301
Developmental biology: Controlling the cellular brakes p657
Peter Carmeliet
doi:10.1038/44304
Device physics: Memories are made of ... p658
Angus Kingon
doi:10.1038/44307
Immunology: Dual personality of memory T cells p659
Charles R. Mackay
doi:10.1038/44309
Daedalus: Go with the flow p660
David Jones
doi:10.1038/44312
Brief Communications
Familiarity breeds contempt in guppies p661
Male guppy fish increase their reproductive success by mating with unfamiliar females.
J. L. Kelley, J. A. Graves and A. E. Magurran
doi:10.1038/44314
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Apoptosis: Searching for FLASH domains p662
Eugene V. Koonin, L. Aravind, Kay Hofmann, Jurg Tschopp and Vishva M. Dixit
doi:10.1038/44317
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Reply: Searching for FLASH domains p662
Takaharu Kimura, Yuzuru Imai and Shin Yonehara
doi:10.1038/44320
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Materials: Transformation of diamond to graphite p663
Yury G. Gogotsi, Andreas Kailer and Klaus G. Nickel
doi:10.1038/44323
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Articles
Thermodynamic control of hurricane intensity p665
Kerry A. Emanuel
doi:10.1038/44326
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (513K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Willoughby
Id1 and Id3 are required for neurogenesis, angiogenesis and vascularization of tumour xenografts p670
David Lyden, Alison Z. Young, David Zagzag, Wei Yan, William Gerald, Richard O'Reilly, Bernhard L. Bader, Richard O. Hynes, Yuan Zhuang, Katia Manova and Robert Benezra
doi:10.1038/44334
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (809K)
See also: News and Views by Carmeliet
Letters to Nature
Bright rings around sunspots p678
M. P. Rast, P. A. Fox, H. Lin, B. W. Lites, R. W. Meisner and O. R. White
doi:10.1038/44343
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Wave–particle duality of C60 molecules p680
Markus Arndt, Olaf Nairz, Julian Vos-Andreae, Claudia Keller, Gerbrand van der Zouw and Anton Zeilinger
doi:10.1038/44348
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (405K)
See also: News and Views by Rae
Lanthanum-substituted bismuth titanate for use in non-volatile memories p682
B. H. Park, B. S. Kang, S. D. Bu, T. W. Noh, J. Lee and W. Jo
doi:10.1038/44352
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See also: News and Views by Kingon
Two-dimensional charge transport in self-organized, high-mobility conjugated polymers p685
H. Sirringhaus, P. J. Brown, R. H. Friend, M. M. Nielsen, K. Bechgaard, B. M. W. Langeveld-Voss, A. J. H. Spiering, R. A. J. Janssen, E. W. Meijer, P. Herwig and D. M. de Leeuw
doi:10.1038/44359
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Identifying magma–water interaction from the surface features of ash particles p688
Ralf Büttner, Pierfrancesco Dellino and Bernd Zimanowski
doi:10.1038/44364
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Determinants of biodiversity regulate compositional stability of communities p691
Mahesh Sankaran and S. J. McNaughton
doi:10.1038/44368
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See also: News and Views by Naeem
Symmetry in locomotor central pattern generators and animal gaits p693
Martin Golubitsky, Ian Stewart, Pietro-Luciano Buono and J. J. Collins
doi:10.1038/44416
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Probing the human stereoscopic system with reverse correlation p695
Peter Neri, Andrew J. Parker and Colin Blakemore
doi:10.1038/44409
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Top-down signal from prefrontal cortex in executive control of memory retrieval p699
Hyoe Tomita, Machiko Ohbayashi, Kiyoshi Nakahara, Isao Hasegawa and Yasushi Miyashita
doi:10.1038/44372
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See also: News and Views by Miller
L-type calcium channels and GSK-3 regulate the activity of NF-ATc4 in hippocampal neurons p703
Isabella A. Graef, Paul G. Mermelstein, Kryn Stankunas, Joel R. Neilson, Karl Deisseroth, Richard W. Tsien and Gerald R. Crabtree
doi:10.1038/44378
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Two subsets of memory T lymphocytes with distinct homing potentials and effector functions p708
Federica Sallusto, Danielle Lenig, Reinhold Förster, Martin Lipp and Antonio Lanzavecchia
doi:10.1038/44385
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See also: News and Views by Mackay
Atomic structure of the GCSF–receptor complex showing a new cytokine–receptor recognition scheme p713
Masaharu Aritomi, Naoki Kunishima, Tomoyuki Okamoto, Ryota Kuroki, Yoshimi Ota and Kosuke Morikawa
doi:10.1038/44394
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Structural evidence for dimerization-regulated activation of an integral membrane phospholipase p717
H. J. Snijder, I. Ubarretxena-Belandia, M. Blaauw, K. H. Kalk, H. M. Verheij, M. R. Egmond, N. Dekker and B. W. Dijkstra
doi:10.1038/44890
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (479K)
The reaction cycle of isopenicillin N synthase observed by X-ray diffraction p721
Nicolai I. Burzlaff, Peter J. Rutledge, Ian J. Clifton, Charles M. H. Hensgens, Michael Pickford, Robert M. Adlington, Peter L. Roach and Jack E. Baldwin
doi:10.1038/44400
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New on the Market
Genes amplified, detected, visualized p725
Clean PCR, automatic karyotyping, and other gene-linked matters.
doi:10.1038/44407
