Table of contents
Volume 406 Number 6796 pp547-660
Opinion
Victory for political scientists p547
The reinstatement of evolution in the Kansas school curriculum is not only good news for science and for the students. It is a timely demonstration that researchers can and must act politically when their values are at stake.
doi:10.1038/35020707
Tobacco industry vs science p547
A report on the tobacco industry's activities against scientific assessment is powerful support for transparency.
doi:10.1038/35020709
News
United States backs soil strategy in fight against global warming p549
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35020711
Royalty-free rice arrives on the web p549
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/35020714
Spanish biomedical centres face funding uncertainty p550
Xavier Bosch
doi:10.1038/35020716
Strong sterling hits European researchers p551
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/35020719
Microsoft moguls back search for ET intelligence p551
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35020722
Kansas scientists help to oust creationists p552
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35020725
From cell phones to brain cells p552
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35020729
Internet is the new key for restructured film institute p553
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35020731
German scientists pledge to fight growing xenophobia p553
Quirin Schiermeier and Ute Gitschel
doi:10.1038/35020734
News Feature
Through the looking glass p556
Physicists are setting traps to catch antihydrogen, the simplest element in the mirror world of antimatter. Their results could challenge our picture of fundamental particles and forces, says Alexander Hellemans.
Alexander Hellemans
doi:10.1038/35020740
A mutant mouse menagerie p559
Geneticists are set to be the winners in a chemical lottery, as a mammoth range of randomly mutated mice promises them off-the-shelf tools for defining gene function. Alison Abbott investigates.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35020632
Correspondence
Hawaiian legal action can't save leatherbacks: tackle driftnets instead p560
John LaGrange
doi:10.1038/35020747
Wise fool left Hussars for career in science admin p560
Dmitry Zharkov
doi:10.1038/35020749
Environment regulations hinder biotech industry p560
Henry I. Miller
doi:10.1038/35020751
Book Reviews
Blessed with more than avoirdupois p561
Tales of the man who laid the foundations of modern genetics.
Andrew Berry reviews A Monk and Two Peas: The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics/The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel by Robin Marantz Henig
doi:10.1038/35020635
Venusian visitation p562
Don Fernie reviews June 8, 2004: Venus in Transit by Eli Maor
doi:10.1038/35020638
From trenches to couches p563
John Galloway reviews Trauma: A Genealogy by Ruth Leys
doi:10.1038/35020641
In the eye of the beholder p563
doi:10.1038/35020643
Paragon lost p564
Michael Baumann reviews Paradigms Regained: A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science by John L. Casti
doi:10.1038/35020646
Millennium Essay
Boundary disputes p565
The brain still resists researchers' attempts to divide it into neat parcels.
Jonathan C. Horton
Futures
An end to violence p567
"I should only make myself ridiculous in my own eyes if I clung to life."*
Roger Smith
News and Views
Bacteriorhodopsin — the movie p569
For 30 years and more, the mechanism of a microbial proton pump has been subject to increasingly sophisticated analysis. The full picture of how the pump operates is now emerging.
Werner Kühlbrandt
doi:10.1038/35020654
Quasicrystals: Electrons in a strange sea p570
Patricia A. Thiel and Jean Marie Dubois
doi:10.1038/35020657
100 and 50 years ago p571
doi:10.1038/35020660
Cancer: Benefits of bad telomeres p573
Douglas Hanahan
doi:10.1038/35020662
Oceanography: The giant diatom dump p574
Victor Smetacek
doi:10.1038/35020665
Cell biology: Making membranes in bacteria p575
Rosemary A. Stuart and Walter Neupert
doi:10.1038/35020668
Seafloor spreading: Portrait of a magma chamber p578
Robert S. Detrick
doi:10.1038/35020671
Chromatin regulation: Formatting genetic text p579
Renato Paro
doi:10.1038/35020675
Superconductivity: On the verge of magnetism p580
Piers Coleman
doi:10.1038/35020678
erratum: On the verge of magnetism p581
Satish K. Nair and Stephen K. Burley
doi:10.1038/35020681
Daedalus: Spinning and leaking p581
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35020683
Obituary: W. David Kingery (1926–2000) p582
Richard J. Brook
doi:10.1038/35020685
Brief Communications
Predicted vCJD mortality in Great Britain p583
Modelling the latest data puts a ceiling on the likely number of vCJD cases.
Azra C. Ghani, Neil M. Ferguson, Christl A. Donnelly and Roy M. Anderson
doi:10.1038/35020688
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Encephalopathies: Scrapie in Britain during the BSE years p584
Mike B. Gravenor, D. R. Cox, Linda J. Hoinville, Alies Hoek and Angela R. McLean
doi:10.1038/35020692
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Physiology: Exercise and reduced muscle mass in starlings p585
John P. Swaddle and Andrew A. Biewener
doi:10.1038/35020695
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (164K)
Materials: Peeling and sharpening multiwall nanotubes p586
John Cumings, Philip G. Collins and A. Zettl
doi:10.1038/35020698
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (147K)
Articles
Superconductivity on the border of itinerant-electron ferromagnetism in UGe2 p587
S. S. Saxena, P. Agarwal, K. Ahilan, F. M. Grosche, R. K. W. Haselwimmer, M. J. Steiner, E. Pugh, I. R. Walker, S. R. Julian, P. Monthoux, G. G. Lonzarich, A. Huxley, I. Sheikin, D. Braithwaite and J. Flouquet
doi:10.1038/35020500
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (318K)
See also: News and Views by Coleman
Regulation of chromatin structure by site-specific histone H3 methyltransferases p593
Stephen Rea, Frank Eisenhaber, Dónal O'Carroll, Brian D. Strahl, Zu-Wen Sun, Manfred Schmid, Susanne Opravil, Karl Mechtler, Chris P. Ponting, C. David Allis and Thomas Jenuwein
doi:10.1038/35020506
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (511K)
See also: News and Views by Paro
Letters to Nature
Evaporation in the young solar nebula as the origin of 'just-right' melting of chondrules p600
Bosmat A. Cohen, Roger H. Hewins and Yang Yu
doi:10.1038/35020514
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (168K)
Quasicrystalline valence bands in decagonal AlNiCo p602
Eli Rotenberg, W. Theis, K. Horn and P. Gille
doi:10.1038/35020519
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (281K)
See also: News and Views by Thiel & Dubois
A DNA-fuelled molecular machine made of DNA p605
Bernard Yurke, Andrew J. Turberfield, Allen P. Mills, Jr, Friedrich C. Simmel and Jennifer L. Neumann
doi:10.1038/35020524
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (172K) | Supplementary information
Influencing intramolecular motion with an alternating electric field p608
Veronica Bermudez, Nathalie Capron, Torsten Gase, Francesco G. Gatti, François Kajzar, David A. Leigh, Francesco Zerbetto and Songwei Zhang
doi:10.1038/35020531
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Water activity as the determinant for homogeneous ice nucleation in aqueous solutions p611
Thomas Koop, Beiping Luo, Athanasios Tsias and Thomas Peter
doi:10.1038/35020537
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Evidence from three-dimensional seismic reflectivity images for enhanced melt supply beneath mid-ocean -ridge discontinuities p614
G. M. Kent, S. C. Singh, A. J. Harding, M. C. Sinha, J. A. Orcutt, P. J. Barton, R. S. White, S. Bazin, R. W. Hobbs, C. H. Tong and J. W. Pye
doi:10.1038/35020543
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (906K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Detrick
Fine structure of bone in dinosaurs, birds and mammals p619
John M. Rensberger and Mahito Watabe
doi:10.1038/35020550
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (267K)
Unexpectedly similar rates of nucleotide substitution found in male and female hominids p622
Hacho B. Bohossian, Helen Skaletsky and David C. Page
doi:10.1038/35020557
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (136K)
Evolvability of an RNA virus is determined by its mutational neighbourhood p625
Christina L. Burch and Lin Chao
doi:10.1038/35020564
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (163K)
Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain p628
Erich D. Jarvis, Sidarta Ribeiro, Maria Luisa da Silva, Dora Ventura, Jacques Vielliard and Claudio V. Mello
doi:10.1038/35020570
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (437K)
NO is necessary and sufficient for egg activation at fertilization p633
Richard C. Kuo, Gregory T. Baxter, Stuart H. Thompson, Stephen A. Stricker, Chris Patton, Joseph Bonaventura and David Epel
doi:10.1038/35020577
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (284K) | Supplementary information
YidC mediates membrane protein insertion in bacteria p637
James C. Samuelson, Minyong Chen, Fenglei Jiang, Ines Möller, Martin Wiedmann, Andreas Kuhn, Gregory J. Phillips and Ross E. Dalbey
doi:10.1038/35020586
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (310K)
See also: News and Views by Stuart & Neupert
Telomere dysfunction promotes non-reciprocal translocations and epithelial cancers in mice p641
Steven E. Artandi, Sandy Chang, Shwu-Luan Lee, Scott Alson, Geoffrey J. Gottlieb, Lynda Chin and Ronald A. DePinho
doi:10.1038/35020592
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (438K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Hanahan
Helix deformation is coupled to vectorial proton transport in the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin p645
Antoine Royant, Karl Edman, Thomas Ursby, Eva Pebay-Peyroula, Ehud M. Landau and Richard Neutze
doi:10.1038/35020599
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (300K)
See also: News and Views by Kühlbrandt
Structural alterations for proton translocation in the M state of wild-type bacteriorhodopsin p649
Hans Jürgen Sass, Georg Büldt, Ralf Gessenich, Dominic Hehn, Dirk Neff, Ramona Schlesinger, Joel Berendzen and Pal Ormos
doi:10.1038/35020607
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (513K) | Supplementary information
Molecular mechanism of vectorial proton translocation by bacteriorhodopsin p653
Sriram Subramaniam and Richard Henderson
doi:10.1038/35020614
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New on the Market
Microarrays on the slide p659
New gadgets, including some of the latest in microarray technology.
doi:10.1038/35020701