Table of contents
Volume 402 Number 6764 pp843-898
In this issue (23 December 1999)
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Opinion
Combating the exploiters of creationism p843
Creationism's resurgence and its exploitation by politicians pose challenges to scientists that cannot be ignored. More resolute activism is required if a decent scientific education is not to be denied to some young Americans.
doi:10.1038/47145
An ill-judged cut p843
A large reduction in German support for agricultural research in the developing world sets a bad example.
doi:10.1038/47147
News
Dissection banned in Israeli schools p845
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/47149
Concern as Germany cuts funds to agricultural research centres p845
Quirin Schiermeier, Rex Dalton & Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/47151
NSF under fire in survey of customer satisfaction p846
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/47154
Japan to bring in mandatory tests for GM foods p846
Yoriko Uozum
doi:10.1038/47156
Scientists rally to defend schools against creationists p847
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/47159
Geophysics union entices biologists with new section p847
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/47162
Green light for neutrino beam to pass below the Alps p847
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/47164
Spain's universities split over merits of performance table p848
Xavier Bosch
doi:10.1038/47167
Middle East synchrotron crosses first funding hurdle p849
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/47170
Top BSE official forced to step down in UK p849
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/47173
Correspondence
Latecomers welcome? p852
David Davies
doi:10.1038/47177
Threat to research in Spanish universities p852
José A. Vázquez-Boland
doi:10.1038/47179
Patent law changes spell problems and opportunities p852
James J. Murphy
doi:10.1038/47181
Book Reviews
Seeing both the woods and the trees p853
A novel approach to classifying biodiversity may aid attempts at conversation.
Stuart L. Pimm reviews Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment by Taylor H. Ricketts
doi:10.1038/47183
The renaissance of the plant p853
doi:10.1038/47185
Italian art's bequest to science p854
Pietro Corsi reviews La Ragione e il Metodo. Immagini della Scienza Nell'Arte Italiana dal XVI al XIX secolo [Reason and Method. Images of Science in Italian Art From the 16th to the 19th Centuries]
doi:10.1038/47188
The human body revealed p854
doi:10.1038/47190
News and Views
Visual Perception: Reflections on colour constancy p855
A study of colour perception shows that, when assigning colour to objects, the seeing brain takes into account subtle reflections of light between the surfaces in a scene.
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
doi:10.1038/47194
Photography: Making every photon count p856
Richard Hailstone
doi:10.1038/47198
Neural networks: Evolutionary checkers p857
Igor Aleksander
doi:10.1038/47201
Ergonomics: Suffering for one's science p857
John Whitfield
doi:10.1038/47204
100 and 50 years ago p859
doi:10.1038/47207
Diabetes: Insulin resistance and obesity p860
Michael W. Schwartz & Steven E. Kahn
doi:10.1038/47209
Antarctica: Vast snow dunes frozen in time p860
Sarah Tomlin
doi:10.1038/47212
Daedalus: The art of slow change p861
David Jones
doi:10.1038/47215
Brief Communications
A funerary feast fit for King Midas p863
A royal banquet has been reconstructed from residues in pots found inside the tomb.
Patrick E. McGovern, Donald L. Glusker, Robert A. Moreau, Alberto Nuñez, Curt W. Beck, Elizabeth Simpson, Eric D. Butrym, Lawrence J. Exner & Edith C. Stout
doi:10.1038/47217
Game theory: Losing strategies can win by Parrondo's paradox p864
Gregory P. Harmer & Derek Abbott
doi:10.1038/47220
Letters to Nature
Enhanced yield of photoinduced electrons in doped silver halide crystals p865
Jacqueline Belloni, Mona Treguer, Hynd Remita & René De Keyzer
doi:10.1038/47223
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Periodic mesoporous organosilicas with organic groups inside the channel walls p867
Tewodros Asefa, Mark J. MacLachlan, Neil Coombs & Geoffrey A. Ozin
doi:10.1038/47229
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (283K) | Supplementary information
Seismic anisotropy of the Earth's inner core resulting from flow induced by Maxwell stresses p871
Shun-ichiro Karato
doi:10.1038/47235
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Ultraviolet colour variation influences blue tit sex ratios p874
Ben C. Sheldon, Staffan Andersson, Simon C. Griffith, Jonas Örnborg & Joanna Sendecka
doi:10.1038/47239
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Perception of three-dimensional shape influences colour perception through mutual illumination p877
M. G. Bloj, D. Kersten & A. C. Hurlbert
doi:10.1038/47245
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (112K)
Dominant negative mutations in human PPAR
associated with severe insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus and hypertension p880
I. Barroso, M. Gurnell, V. E. F. Crowley, M. Agostini, J. W. Schwabe, M. A. Soos, G. LI Maslen, T. D. M. Williams, H. Lewis, A. J. Schafer, V. K. K. Chatterjee & S. O'Rahilly
doi:10.1038/47254
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (228K)
EGF receptor transactivation by G-protein-coupled receptors requires metalloproteinase cleavage of proHB-EGF p884
Norbert Prenzel, Esther Zwick, Henrik Daub, Michael Leserer, Reimar Abraham, Christian Wallasch & Axel Ullrich
doi:10.1038/47260
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (297K)
p53 inhibition by the LANA protein of KSHV protects against cell death p889
Jacques Friborg, Jr, Wing-pui Kong, Michael O. Hottiger & Gary J. Nabel
doi:10.1038/47266
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Structure of a transiently phosphorylated switch in bacterial signal transduction p894
Dorothee Kern, Brian F. Volkman, Peter Luginbühl, Michael J. Nohaile, Sydney Kustu & David E. Wemmer
doi:10.1038/47273
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erratum: A Chinese triconodont mammal and mosaic evolution of the mammalian skeleton p898
Ji Qiang, Luo Zhexi & Ji Shu-an
doi:10.1038/47280
erratum: Small-bandgap endohedral metallofullerenes in high yield and purity p898
S. Stevenson, G. Rice, T. Glass, K. Harich, F. Cromer, M. R. Jordan, J. Craft, E. Hadju, R. Bible, M. M. Olmstead, K. Maitra, A. J. Fisher, A. L. Balch & H. C. Dorn
doi:10.1038/47282
erratum: Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomerase is an Sm small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle p898
Anita G. Seto, Arthur J. Zaug, Suzanne G. Sobel, Sandra L. Wolin & Thomas R. Cech
doi:10.1038/47284
erratum: Human urotensin-II is a potent vasoconstrictor and agonist for the orphan receptor GPR14 p898
Robert S. Ames, Henry M. Sarau, Johathan K. Chambers, Robert N. Willette, Nambi V. Aiyar, Anne M. Romanic, Calvert S. Louden, James J. Foley, Charles F. Sauermelch, Robert W. Coatney, Zhaohui Ao, Jyoti Disa, Stephen D. Holmes , Jeffrey M. Stadel , John D. Martin, Wu-Schyong Liu, George I. Glover, Shelagh Wilson, Dean E. McNulty, Catherine E. Ellis, Nabil A. Elshourbagy, Usman Shabon, John J. Trill, Douglas W. P. Hay, Eliot H. Ohlstein, Derk J. Bergsma & Stephen A. Douglas
doi:10.1038/47286
