Opinion

Germans engage with physics p813

In an attempt to reverse a declining interest in scientific careers and to remind the public that their work is interesting, German researchers have succeeded in enhancing the accessibility of physics. Others should benefit from their example.

doi:10.1038/35022708

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Stem cells democracy p813

Procrastination indicates an inappropriate lack of faith in political processes.

doi:10.1038/35022710

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News

UK government backs change in law over stem-cell research... p815

David Dickson & Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35022712

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... but Germany remains unmoved p815

Quirin Schiermeier

doi:10.1038/35022715

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Green Bank dish may be last of the giants p816

Colin Macilwain

doi:10.1038/35022718

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US regulation threat over business links... p817

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35022721

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...as government seeks more ethics training p817

Paul Smaglik

doi:10.1038/35022724

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US and Vietnam plan joint dioxin research p818

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35022727

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Biodiversity cash aimed at hotspots p818

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/35022730

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Iceland's doctors rebuffed in health data row p819

Alison Abbott

doi:10.1038/35022732

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Astronomers reveal the secrets of the name game p819

Steve Nadis

doi:10.1038/35022735

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News in brief p821

doi:10.1038/35022738

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News Feature

Databasing the brain p822

Progress in neuroscience might be faster if researchers shared their results in a network of databases. But the technical challenges are huge, and reaching a consensus on what to archive won't be easy, says Marina Chicurel.

Marina Chicurel

doi:10.1038/35022659

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Correspondence

Industry benefits from the public funding of intellectual curiosity p826

Paul Schimmel

doi:10.1038/35022741

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When Brazilians achieve, it's against all the odds p826

Tomas A. Prolla

doi:10.1038/35022743

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Book Reviews

The gift of Lepidoptera p827

A literary giant and also a great butterfly systematist.

James Mallet reviews Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings edited by Brian Boyd & Robert Michael Pyle

doi:10.1038/35022630

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The bondage of symmetry broken p828

David Blow reviews In Our Own Image: Personal Symmetry in Discovery by István Hargittai & Magdolna Hargittai

doi:10.1038/35022634

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Expanding horizons p829

Francesco Bertola reviews The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos by Mario Livio

doi:10.1038/35022637

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Science in culture p830

Martin Kemp reviews

doi:10.1038/35022640

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Millennium Essay

The man who knew doses p831

John Gaddum did much to define what it means to be a pharmacologist.

Rod Flower

doi:10.1038/35022668

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Futures

Words, words, words p833

Kissing a biotechnological blarney stone

Elisabeth Malartre

doi:10.1038/35022671

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News and Views

Cell biology: Vesicle fiesta at the synapse p835

Communication between nerve cells is what makes our brains work. Several new studies offer us a close-up view of the chemical signals controlling these cellular conversations.

Gary Matthews

doi:10.1038/35022674

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Chemistry: Another noble gas conquered p836

Gernot Frenking

doi:10.1038/35022678

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Astronomy: Lights go on all over Europe p837

doi:10.1038/35022681

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100 and 50 years ago p837

doi:10.1038/35022684

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Motor proteins: Directing direction p839

R. A. Cross

doi:10.1038/35022686

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Quantum Hall effect: Composite fermions pair up p840

Nick Bonesteel

doi:10.1038/35022689

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Behavioural ecology: Eat me! p840

John Whitfield

doi:10.1038/35022691

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Neurobiology: Frazzled precision guides axons p841

Roman J. Giger & Alex L. Kolodkin

doi:10.1038/35022694

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Daedalus: Tension in miniature p843

David Jones

doi:10.1038/35022697

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Obituary: Elsie Widdowson (1906–2000) p844

Margaret Ashwell

doi:10.1038/35022699

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Brief Communications

Navigation in a small world p845

It is easier to find short chains between points in some networks than others.

Jon M. Kleinberg

doi:10.1038/35022643

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Ecology: Nonlinearity and the Moran effect p846

Bernd Blasius & Lewi Stone

doi:10.1038/35022646

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reply: Nonlinearity and the Moran effect p847

B. T. Grenfell, B. F. Finkenstädt, K. Wilson, T. N. Coulson & M.J. Crawley|

doi:10.1038/35022649

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Physiology: An actively controlled heart valve p847

Craig E. Franklin & Michael Axelsson

doi:10.1038/35022652

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erratum: A triclosan-resistant bacterial enzyme p848

Richard J. Heath & Charles O. Rock

doi:10.1038/35022656

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Articles

Transport, capture and exocytosis of single synaptic vesicles at active zones p849

D. Zenisek, J. A. Steyer & W. Almers

doi:10.1038/35022500

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Structural and biochemical basis of apoptotic activation by Smac/DIABLO p855

Jijie Chai, Chunying Du, Jia-Wei Wu, Saw Kyin, Xiaodong Wang & Yigong Shi

doi:10.1038/35022514

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Letters to Nature

Cooper instability of composite fermions p863

Vito W. Scarola, Kwon Park & J. K. Jain

doi:10.1038/35022524

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Nitride semiconductors free of electrostatic fields for efficient white light-emitting diodes p865

P. Waltereit, O. Brandt, A. Trampert, H. T. Grahn, J. Menniger, M. Ramsteiner, M. Reiche & K. H. Ploog

doi:10.1038/35022529

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Liquid crystal phase transitions in suspensions of polydisperse plate-like particles p868

Felix M. van der Kooij, Katerina Kassapidou & Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker

doi:10.1038/35022535

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Multiscale modelling of plastic flow localization in irradiated materials p871

Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, Hussein M. Zbib, Tariq A. Khraishi, Brian D. Wirth, Max Victoria & Maria Jose Caturla

doi:10.1038/35022544

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A stable argon compound p874

Leonid Khriachtchev, Mika Pettersson, Nino Runeberg, Jan Lundell & Markku Räsänen

doi:10.1038/35022551

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Changes in Greenland ice sheet elevation attributed primarily to snow accumulation variability p877

J. R. McConnell, R. J. Arthern, E. Mosley-Thompson, C. H. Davis, R. C. Bales, R. Thomas, J. F. Burkhart & J. D. Kyne

doi:10.1038/35022555

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Evidence for iron, copper and zinc complexation as multinuclear sulphide clusters in oxic rivers p879

Tim F. Rozan, Michael E. Lassman, Douglas P. Ridge & George W. Luther, III

doi:10.1038/35022561

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Collapse and recovery of marine fishes p882

Jeffrey A. Hutchings

doi:10.1038/35022565

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The Drosophila Netrin receptor Frazzled guides axons by controlling Netrin distribution p886

Masaki Hiramoto, Yasushi Hiromi, Edward Giniger & Yoshiki Hotta

doi:10.1038/35022571

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Intracellular calcium dependence of transmitter release rates at a fast central synapse p889

Ralf Schneggenburger & Erwin Neher

doi:10.1038/35022702

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SLAM (CDw150) is a cellular receptor for measles virus p893

Hironobu Tatsuo, Nobuyuki Ono, Kotaro Tanaka & Yusuke Yanagi

doi:10.1038/35022579

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Colorectal carcinomas in mice lacking the catalytic subunit of PI(3)K p897

Takehiko Sasaki, Junko Irie-Sasaki, Yasuo Horie, Kurt Bachmaier, Jimmie E. Fata, Martin Li, Akira Suzuki, Dennis Bouchard, Alexandra Ho, Mark Redston, Steven Gallinger, Rama Khokha, Tak W. Mak, Phillip T. Hawkins, Len Stephens, Stephen W. Scherer, Ming Tsao & Josef M. Penninger

doi:10.1038/35022585

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Accumulation of autophagic vacuoles and cardiomyopathy in LAMP-2-deficient mice p902

Yoshitaka Tanaka, Gundula Guhde, Anke Suter, Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen, Dieter Hartmann, Renate Lüllmann-Rauch, Paul M. L. Janssen, Judith Blanz, Kurt von Figura & Paul Saftig

doi:10.1038/35022595

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Primary LAMP-2 deficiency causes X-linked vacuolar cardiomyopathy and myopathy (Danon disease) p906

Ichizo Nishino, Jin Fu, Kurenai Tanji, Takeshi Yamada, Sadatomo Shimojo, Tateo Koori, Marina Mora, Jack E. Riggs, Shin J. Oh, Yasutoshi Koga, Carolyn M. Sue, Ayaka Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Murakami, Sara Shanske, Edward Byrne, Eduardo Bonilla, Ikuya Nonaka, Salvatore DiMauro & Michio Hirano

doi:10.1038/35022604

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JOINTLESS is a MADS-box gene controlling tomato flower abscission zone development p910

Long Mao, Dilara Begum, Huey-wen Chuang, Muhammad A. Budiman, Eugene J. Szymkowiak, Erin E. Irish & Rod A. Wing

doi:10.1038/35022611

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A mutant of the motor protein kinesin that moves in both directions on microtubules p913

Sharyn A. Endow & Hideo Higuchi

doi:10.1038/35022617

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A deeply knotted protein structure and how it might fold p916

William R. Taylor

doi:10.1038/35022623

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