Table of contents
Volume 405 Number 6783 pp103-258
Opinion
Avoid Wacky (Genome) Races p103
As the final polish is given to two versions of the human genome sequence, tensions between the competing camps are inevitably high. But excited banter could be damaging to both if it gets out of hand.
doi:10.1038/35012272
A global solution to global problems? p103
Time will judge a body being set up this week to address the scientific aspects of topics of international concern.
doi:10.1038/35012274
News
South Africa turns to research in the hope of settling AIDS policy... p105
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/35012276
...as editor defends publishing key AZT paper p105
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/35012280
French research minister targets IT and biotech p106
Heather McCabe
doi:10.1038/35012282
German Greens go cold on nuclear fusion p107
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35012285
Canada's plans for neutrons stall p107
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35012288
US reforms rules for telling public about GM food p108
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35012291
Italian genomics boost retained p108
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35012293
Israel debates raising commitment to CERN p109
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/35012296
Troubled US fusion project receives cash injection p110
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/35012299
Medical tests cost Lawrence Berkeley $2.2 million p110
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/35012301
Australia improves its AIMS p110
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/35012303
News Feature
Souped-up search engines p112
For scientists, finding the information they want on the World-Wide Web is a hit-and-miss affair. But, as Declan Butler reports, more sophisticated and specialized search technologies are promising to change all that.
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/35012148
The web is a bow tie p113
doi:10.1038/35012155
The sweet XML of success p114
doi:10.1038/35012158
Never trust a human p115
doi:10.1038/35012160
Correspondence
We urgently need more data to improve the lives of laboratory animals p116
Enrico Alleva and Augusto Vitale
doi:10.1038/35012163
Planck family paid a high price for opposing Hitler p116
William Steinsmith
doi:10.1038/35012165
How to make diplomats scientifically literate p116
Peter Cohen
doi:10.1038/35012167
Commentary
Science's neglected legacy p117
Large, sophisticated databases cannot be left to chance and improvisation.
doi:10.1038/35012169
Book Reviews
Battle of the bones p121
A feud between two palaeontologists sheds light on late-Victorian journalism.
Kevin Padian reviews The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age by David Rains Wallace
doi:10.1038/35012114
The bones of modern America p121
doi:10.1038/35012116
An ignoble lineage p122
Leo Kinlen reviews Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy by Mel Greaves
doi:10.1038/35012119
A sermon on the mounts p123
Chris Paola reviews Sedimentology and Sedimentary Basins: From Turbulence to Tectonics by Mike Leeder
doi:10.1038/35012122
New journals p123
doi:10.1038/35012309
On the scent of the sixth sense p124
Michael Stoddart reviews Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell by Lyall Watson
doi:10.1038/35012124
A whiff of the past p124
doi:10.1038/35012126
Millennium Essay
Horse power p125
The millennium of the horse began with a whimper, but went out with a bang.
Vaclav Smil
doi:10.1038/35012175
Futures
Disextinction, Inc. p127
For his biology project, Jason decided to resurrect the passenger pigeon.
Kathryn Cramer
doi:10.1038/35012178
News and Views
Green chemistry: Designed to dissolve p129
Many solvents are unpleasant but essential industrial chemicals. Supercritical carbon dioxide would be a viable 'green' alternative but its use has been restricted by its limited solvent power. This is about to change.
Walter Leitner
doi:10.1038/35012181
Hearing: Tuning in with motor proteins p130
Matthew Holley
doi:10.1038/35012185
100 and 50 years ago p131
doi:10.1038/35012188
Cosmology: The dark side of distortion p133
Max Tegmark
doi:10.1038/35012190
Plant pathology: The rise of the hybrid fungi p134
Clive Brasier
doi:10.1038/35012193
Statistical mechanics: Exploring phase space p135
Michael F. Shlesinger
doi:10.1038/35012197
Gene expression: Mutant weed breaks silence p137
Susan Tweedie and Adrian Bird
doi:10.1038/35012200
Daedalus: Moving pictures p138
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35012203
Errata p138
doi:10.1038/35012269
Brief Communications
Lie detection and language comprehension p139
People who can't understand words are better at picking up lies about emotions.
Nancy L. Etcoff, Paul Ekman, John J. Magee and Mark G. Frank
doi:10.1038/35012129
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Growth factors: Formation of endothelial cell networks p139
Gabriel Helmlinger, Mitsuhiro Endo, Napoleone Ferrara, Lynn Hlatky and Rakesh K. Jain
doi:10.1038/35012132
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (265K) | Supplementary information
Pollution: Chernobyl's legacy in food and water p141
J. T. Smith, R. N. J. Comans, N. A. Beresford, S. M. Wright, B. J. Howard and W. C. Camplin
doi:10.1038/35012139
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (84K)
Articles
Detection of weak gravitational lensing distortions of distant galaxies by cosmic dark matter at large scales p143
David M. Wittman, J. Anthony Tyson, David Kirkman, Ian Dell'Antonio and Gary Bernstein
doi:10.1038/35012001
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (225K)
See also: News and Views by Tegmark
Prestin is the motor protein of cochlear outer hair cells p149
Jing Zheng, Weixing Shen, David Z. Z. He, Kevin B. Long, Laird D. Madison and Peter Dallos
doi:10.1038/35012009
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (459K)
See also: News and Views by Holley
Letters to Nature
Cosmic 
-ray background from structure formation in the intergalactic medium p156
Abraham Loeb and Eli Waxman
doi:10.1038/35012018
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Proximate humid and dry regions in Jupiter's atmosphere indicate complex local meteorology p158
M. Roos-Serote, A. R. Vasavada, L. Kamp, P. Drossart, P. Irwin, C. Nixon and R. W. Carlson
doi:10.1038/35012023
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Closing the spin gap in the Kondo insulator Ce3Bi4Pt3 at high magnetic fields p160
Marcelo Jaime, Roman Movshovich, Gregory R. Stewart, Ward P. Beyermann, Mariano Gomez Berisso, Michael F. Hundley, Paul C. Canfield and John L. Sarrao
doi:10.1038/35012027
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Relaxation in polymer electrolytes on the nanosecond timescale p163
Guomin Mao, Ricardo Fernandez Perea, W. Spencer Howells, David L. Price and Marie-Louise Saboungi
doi:10.1038/35012032
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Non-fluorous polymers with very high solubility in supercritical CO 2 down to low pressures p165
Traian Sarbu, Thomas Styranec and Eric J. Beckman
doi:10.1038/35012040
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (136K)
See also: News and Views by Leitner
Resolving the 'opal paradox' in the Southern Ocean p168
Philippe Pondaven, Olivier Ragueneau, Paul Tréguer, Anne Hauvespre, Laurent Dezileau and Jean Louis Reyss
doi:10.1038/35012046
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Constraints on the composition of the Earth's core from ab initio calculations p172
D. Alfè, M. J. Gillan and G. D. Price
doi:10.1038/35012056
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Detection and classification of atmospheric methane oxidizing bacteria in soil p175
Ian D. Bull, Nisha R. Parekh, Grahame H. Hall, Philip Ineson and Richard P. Evershed
doi:10.1038/35012061
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Infectious parthenogenesis p178
M. E. Huigens, R. F. Luck, R. H. G. Klaassen, M. F. P. M. Maas, M. J. T. N. Timmermans and R. Stouthamer
doi:10.1038/35012066
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Rewarding effects of opiates are absent in mice lacking the receptor for substance P p180
Patricia Murtra, Anne M. Sheasby, Stephen P. Hunt and Carmen De Felipe
doi:10.1038/35012069
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (135K) | Supplementary information
Vanilloid receptor-1 is essential for inflammatory thermal hyperalgesia p183
John B. Davis, Julie Gray, Martin J. Gunthorpe, Jonathan P. Hatcher, Phil T. Davey, Philip Overend, Mark H. Harries, Judi Latcham, Colin Clapham, Kirsty Atkinson, Stephen A. Hughes, Kim Rance, Evelyn Grau, Alex J. Harper, Perdita L. Pugh, Derek C. Rogers, Sharon Bingham, Andrew Randall and Steven A. Sheardown
doi:10.1038/35012076
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (305K) | Supplementary information
Glutamatergic synapses on oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the hippocampus p187
Dwight E. Bergles, J. David B. Roberts, Peter Somogyi and Craig E. Jahr
doi:10.1038/35012083
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Fringe forms a complex with Notch p191
Bong-Gun Ju, Sangyun Jeong, Eunkyung Bae, Seogang Hyun, Sean B. Carroll, Jeongbin Yim and Jaeseob Kim
doi:10.1038/35012090
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ATF-2 has intrinsic histone acetyltransferase activity which is modulated by phosphorylation p195
Hiroaki Kawasaki, Lou Schiltz, Robert Chiu, Keiichi Itakura, Kazunari Taira, Yoshihiro Nakatani and Kazunari K. Yokoyama
doi:10.1038/35012097
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B and C floral organ identity functions require SEPALLATA MADS-box genes p200
Soraya Pelaz, Gary S. Ditta, Elvira Baumann, Ellen Wisman and Martin F. Yanofsky
doi:10.1038/35012103
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Disruption of the plant gene MOM releases transcriptional silencing of methylated genes p203
Paolo Amedeo, Yoshiki Habu, Karin Afsar, Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid and Jerzy Paszkowski
doi:10.1038/35012108
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (767K)
See also: News and Views by Tweedie & Bird
Insight
forewordNature Insight Biodiversity p207
doi:10.1038/35012215
overview
Causes, consequences and ethics of biodiversity p208
David Tilman
doi:10.1038/35012217
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review article
Getting the measure of biodiversity p212
Andy Purvis and Andy Hector
doi:10.1038/35012221
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (546K)
Global patterns in biodiversity p220
Kevin J. Gaston
doi:10.1038/35012228
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (359K)
The diversity–stability debate p228
Kevin Shear McCann
doi:10.1038/35012234
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (316K)
Consequences of changing biodiversity p234
F. Stuart Chapin III, Erika S. Zavaleta, Valerie T. Eviner, Rosamond L. Naylor, Peter M. Vitousek, Heather L. Reynolds, David U. Hooper, Sandra Lavorel, Osvaldo E. Sala, Sarah E. Hobbie, Michelle C. Mack and Sandra Díaz
doi:10.1038/35012241
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (513K)
Systematic conservation planning p243
C. R. Margules and R. L. Pressey
doi:10.1038/35012251
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (759K)
corporate support
Investing in Conservation Solutions p254
Peter Seligmann and Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
doi:10.1038/35012261
Integrating Science and Conservation p254
Gordon Moore and Edward O. Wilson
doi:10.1038/35012263
Conservation International and Biodiversity Conservation p254
Russell A. Mittermeier
doi:10.1038/35012266
New on the Market
Making the most of DNA p255
Aids to DNA synthesis,repair, amplification and the rest.
doi:10.1038/35012142
Careers and Recruitment
Are mega-mergers good medicine for the pharmaceutical industry? p257
Joining forces creates quick savings. But can vast organizations promote the kind of innovative research they need? Diane Gershon finds out.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/35012205
What are you worth to your employer? p258
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/35012208
Partners resolve their differences and unite at the second attempt p258
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/35012210
