Table of contents
Volume 409 Number 6819 pp439-544
Opinion
Lessons from Huntingdon p439
The virtual destruction of an animal-testing company by activists and terrorists has highlighted again the power of fundamentalist minorities. Industry and government have failed to respond adequately to the public challenge.
doi:10.1038/35054189
News
Italians drop beef as first cow tests positive p441
Sergio Pistoi
doi:10.1038/35054191
Agencies face uphill battle to keep United States free of BSE p441
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/35054193
Students fuzzy about the future p442
Mark Schrope
doi:10.1038/35054196
Public have right to see data from all gene trials, says FDA p442
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35054199
Animal-rights protests raise calls for UK government move p443
Georgina Kenyon
doi:10.1038/35054201
Max Planck Society broke pledge to ask Jews back after war p443
Vera Bettenworth and Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35054204
Health and energy chiefs sail through Senate p444
Matthew Davis and Irwin Goodwin
doi:10.1038/35054207
Canadian minister keeps researchers guessing p444
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/35054210
Stem-cell research to start in Britain p445
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/35054213
Assessment ups the ante on climate change p445
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35054215
Demand for physicists on the rise p445
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35054218
news feature
Bringing supernovae down to Earth p448
Nuclear physicists, accelerator physicists and astrophysicists are planning a journey into uncharted territory — studying the nuclear processes that occur when massive stars explode. Alexander Hellemans reports.
Alexander Hellemans
doi:10.1038/35054225
The brain in Spain p451
The legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the brilliant Spanish neuroscientist, is to be preserved in a new museum. But the fight to recover his lost works goes on, say Xavier Bosch and Alison Abbott.
Xavier Bosch and Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35054232
Correspondence
European researchers encourage improvement in lab animal welfare p452
Bert van Zutphen
doi:10.1038/35054235
Users must help to keep public databases correct p452
Francis Ouellette
doi:10.1038/35054237
The long-term answer: fight fire with research p452
Thomas J. Mills and Ariel E. Lugo
doi:10.1038/35054239
Book Reviews
Memoirs of a reluctant cult figure p453
A sceptic about conventional wisdom and a seeker of unity in nature.
Crispin Tickell reviews Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist
doi:10.1038/35054114
Floral tributes for a treasure reclaimed p454
Ryan J. Huxtable reviews A Garden for Eternity: The Codex Liechtenstein by H. Walter Lack
doi:10.1038/35054117
New in paperback p455
doi:10.1038/35054120
From chemistry to cordon bleu p455
Etienne Guyon reviews The Science of Cooking by Peter Barham
doi:10.1038/35054122
Science in culture p456
Martin Kemp reviews
doi:10.1038/35054125
Words
The suspense of strangeness p457
Science supplies poetry with a register of words outside common usage.
Maurice Riordan
doi:10.1038/35054146
News and Views
Stopping light in its tracks p461
Using lasers and ultracold atoms, physicists have found a way to stop and start a pulse of light. This magic trick may one day be used to store data in a quantum computer.
Eric A. Cornell
doi:10.1038/35054152
Extrasolar planets: Giant giants or dwarf dwarfs? p462
An object at least 17 times the size of Jupiter, discovered orbiting a Sun-like star, has astronomers scratching their heads. Is it a giant planet or a failed star?
Alan P. Boss
doi:10.1038/35054155
Microbiology: Gastrogenomics p463
The genome of an Escherichia coli strain that is emerging as a severe threat to human health has been sequenced. Comparing it with that of a harmless strain suggests why some forms of this bacterium cause disease.
Jonathan A. Eisen
doi:10.1038/35054158
100 and 50 Years ago p465
doi:10.1038/35054161
Carbon cycle: The age of river carbon p466
The organic carbon that runs into the oceans from rivers could be hundreds or thousands of years old. If so, aspects of our understanding of the global carbon cycle will have to change.
Wolfgang Ludwig
doi:10.1038/35054163
Biomechanics: Walking on other planets p467
Alberto E. Minetti
doi:10.1038/35054166
Neurobiology: Activity at the active zone p467
Lesley Anson
doi:10.1038/35054169
Plant biology: Floral quartets p469
Günter Thei
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Heinz Saedler
doi:10.1038/35054172
Quantum physics: Watching an atom tunnel p471
Physicists have managed to watch individual hydrogen atoms move on metal surfaces at very low temperatures — in defiance of classical physics.
Ali Yazdani
doi:10.1038/35054175
Neurobiology: A new code for axons p472
Guy Tear
doi:10.1038/35054178
Developmental biology: Sperm and mammalian polarity p473
Roger A. Pedersen
doi:10.1038/35054182
Correction p474
doi:10.1038/35054187
Brief Communications
Watching fights raises fish hormone levels p475
Cichlid fish wrestling for dominance induce an androgen surge in male spectators.
Rui F. Oliveira, Marco Lopes, Luis A. Carneiro and Adelino V. M. Canário
doi:10.1038/35054128
Semiconductor devices: Light-emitting diodes as chemical sensors p476
Albena Ivanisevic, Jeng-Ya Yeh, Luke Mawst, Thomas F. Kuech and Arthur B. Ellis
doi:10.1038/35054131
Public health: Screening slaughtered cattle for BSE p476
J. P. Deslys, E. Comoy, S. Hawkins, S. Simon, H. Schimmel, G. Wells, J. Grassi and J. Moynagh
doi:10.1038/35054134
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Genome evolution: Gene capture in archaeal chromosomes p478
Qunxin She, Xu Peng, Wolfram Zillig and Roger A. Garrett
doi:10.1038/35054138
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Article
The architecture of active zone material at the frog's neuromuscular junction p479
Mark L. Harlow, David Ress, Arne Stoschek, Robert M. Marshall and Uel J. McMahan
doi:10.1038/35054000
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See also: News and Views by Anson
Letters to Nature
Dynamos in asymptotic-giant-branch stars as the origin of magnetic fields shaping planetary nebulae p485
Eric G. Blackman, Adam Frank, J. Andrew Markiel, John H. Thomas and Hugh M. Van Horn
doi:10.1038/35054008
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Geochemical evidence for magmatic water within Mars from pyroxenes in the Shergotty meteorite p487
Harry Y. McSween, Jr, Timothy L. Grove, Rachel C. F. Lentz, Jesse C. Dann, Astrid H. Holzheid, Lee R. Riciputi and Jeffrey G. Ryan
doi:10.1038/35054011
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Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses p490
Chien Liu, Zachary Dutton, Cyrus H. Behroozi and Lene Vestergaard Hau
doi:10.1038/35054017
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See also: News and Views by Cornell
Formation cross-sections of singlet and triplet excitons in 
-conjugated
polymers p494
M. Wohlgenannt, Kunj Tandon, S. Mazumdar, S. Ramasesha and Z. V. Vardeny
doi:10.1038/35054025
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Riverine export of aged terrestrial organic matter to the North Atlantic Ocean p497
Peter A. Raymond and James E. Bauer
doi:10.1038/35054034
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See also: News and Views by Ludwig
Geochemical evidence for the melting of subducting oceanic lithosphere at plate edges p500
G. M. Yogodzinski, J. M. Lees, T. G. Churikova, F. Dorendorf, G. Wöerner and O. N. Volynets
doi:10.1038/35054039
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A bizarre predatory dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar p504
Scott D. Sampson, Matthew T. Carrano and Catherine A. Forster
doi:10.1038/35054046
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Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean p507
Markus B. Karner, Edward F. DeLong and David M. Karl
doi:10.1038/35054051
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Testing Hamilton's rule with competition between relatives p510
Stuart A. West, Martyn G. Murray, Carlos A. Machado, Ashleigh S. Griffin and Edward Allen Herre
doi:10.1038/35054057
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Reduced antinociception and plasma extravasation in mice lacking a neuropeptide Y receptor p513
Philippe Naveilhan, Hessameh Hassani, Guilherme Lucas, Karin Hygge Blakeman, Jing-Xia Hao, Xiao-Jun Xu, Zsuzsanna Wiesenfeld-Hallin, Peter Thorén and Patrik Ernfors
doi:10.1038/35054063
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Role for sperm in spatial patterning of the early mouse embryo p517
Karolina Piotrowska and Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
doi:10.1038/35054069
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See also: News and Views by Pedersen
Adherens junctions inhibit asymmetric division in the Drosophila epithelium p522
Bingwei Lu, Fabrice Roegiers, Lily Y. Jan and Yuh Nung Jan
doi:10.1038/35054077
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Complexes of MADS-box proteins are sufficient to convert leaves into floral organs p525
Takashi Honma and Koji Goto
doi:10.1038/35054083
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See also: News and Views by Theien & Saedler
Genome sequence of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 p529
Nicole T. Perna, Guy Plunkett, III, Valerie Burland, Bob Mau, Jeremy D. Glasner, Debra J. Rose, George F. Mayhew, Peter S. Evans, Jason Gregor, Heather A. Kirkpatrick, György Pósfai, Jeremiah Hackett, Sara Klink, Adam Boutin, Ying Shao, Leslie Miller, Erik J. Grotbeck, N. Wayne Davis, Alex Lim, Eileen T. Dimalanta, Konstantinos D. Potamousis, Jennifer Apodaca, Thomas S. Anantharaman, Jieyi Lin, Galex Yen, David C. Schwartz, Rodney A. Welch and Frederick R. Blattner
doi:10.1038/35054089
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See also: News and Views by Eisen
Genomic binding sites of the yeast cell-cycle transcription factors SBF and MBF p533
Vishwanath R. Iyer, Christine E. Horak, Charles S. Scafe, David Botstein, Michael Snyder and Patrick O. Brown
doi:10.1038/35054095
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Arrangement of RNA and proteins in the spliceosomal U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle p539
Holger Stark, Prakash Dube, Reinhard Lührmann and Berthold Kastner
doi:10.1038/35054102
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Article
addendum: A one-hit model of cell death in inherited neuronal degenerations p542
G. Clarke, R. A. Collins, B. R. Leavitt, D. F. Andrews, M. R. Hayden, C. J. Lumsden and R. R. McInnes
doi:10.1038/35054107
Letters to Nature
correction: Kainate receptors are involved in synaptic plasticity p542
Zuner A. Bortolotto, Vernon R. J. Clarke, Caroline M. Delany, Michael C. Parry, Ilse Smolders, Michel Vignes, Ken H. Ho, Peter Miu, Bradford T. Brinton , Robert Fantaske, Ann Ogden, Mary Gates, Paul L. Ornstein, David Lodge, David Bleakman and Graham L. Collingridge
doi:10.1038/35054109
correction: Error and attack tolerance of complex networks p542
Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong and Albert-László Barabasi
doi:10.1038/35054111
New on the Market
From bioreactors to HPLC p543
A new take on the Dewar flask and DNA analysis columns.
doi:10.1038/35054141