Table of contents
Volume 411 Number 6833 pp1-116
Opinion
Make the most of palaeodata p1
Studies of past global change from sediments and ice cores have revealed a rich diversity of gradual and rapid perturbations. But more should be done to make the data usable by the research community as a whole.
doi:10.1038/35075206
Learning to speak and write p1
More needs to be done to turn young scientists into comprehensible professionals and citizens.
doi:10.1038/35075208
News
Study says authors are averse to declaring conflicts of interest p3
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35075210
Bills threaten total US ban on human cloning p3
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/35075213
News
Pasteur turns to biotech firms in bid to revitalize research p4
Sally Goodman
doi:10.1038/35075216
Congress hints at brighter outlook for physical science p4
Irwin Goodwin
doi:10.1038/35075219
Dispute over digital music muzzles academic p5
Corie Lok
doi:10.1038/35075221
Electronic ink for current issues p5
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/35075225
Funding crisis could spell the end for millimetre telescope p6
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35075227
Professors facing power cuts in German university reforms p6
Marco Jäger and Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35075230
Researchers strike back in animal-rights row p7
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35075234
Fungus fingered as dogwood disappears from forests p7
Mark Schrope
doi:10.1038/35075237
news feature
On the trail of the neutrino p10
Huge arrays of detectors now have these ghostly particles in their sights — but will what they see lead physicists to rethink the standard model? Dan Falk investigates.
Dan Falk
doi:10.1038/35075157
The youth team p13
Undergraduates are not only writing scientific papers — they're reviewing them, editing them and posting them online. Josette Chen examines a scientific publishing phenomenon.
Josette Chen
doi:10.1038/35075162
Correspondence
Who will fill the gap by making nucleic synthesizers now? p15
David M. J. Lilley, Michael Gait and Fritz Eckstein
doi:10.1038/35075244
Outbreak needs lab tests and clinical diagnosis p15
Hugh M. Pirie
doi:10.1038/35075246
Fossil hunters in dispute over Ethiopian sites p15
Horst Seidler
doi:10.1038/35075248
Commentary
What is 'dangerous' climate change? p17
To combat global warming, we must first assess just how likely it is to occur.
doi:10.1038/35075167
Book Reviews
Volcanic irony p21
Hard lessons from the dark side of volcanology.
William I. Rose reviews Surviving Galeras by Stanley Williams and Fen Montaigne and No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado del Ruiz by Victoria Bruce
doi:10.1038/35075127
Too faint a flavour? p22
Peter Waterman reviews Flavour and Fragrance Chemistry
doi:10.1038/35075130
Who guards the guardians? p23
Nicholas Zarimpas, Jean Pascal Zanders and Zdzislaw Lachowski review The Verification Yearbook 2000
doi:10.1038/35075132
Science in culture p24
Philip Ball reviews
doi:10.1038/35075135
words
Newton in Japan p25
Translators of scientific texts add their own, cultural interpretations.
Scott L. Montgomery
doi:10.1038/35075172
News and Views
Wiping out dirty displays p29
The manufacture of liquid crystal displays still involves a surprisingly low-tech and messy process: rubbing polymer films with a velvet cloth. A twenty-year search for a cleaner alternative may finally be over.
Jos van Haaren
doi:10.1038/35075178
Protein interactions: Unspinning the web p30
A large-scale study of the protein network in yeast cells demonstrates the merit of taking an integrated approach to cellular dynamics, and shows the value of databases.
Jeff Hasty and James J. Collins
doi:10.1038/35075182
Astronomy: A new twist on neutron stars p31
Theory suggests that neutron stars should be born rotating rapidly, but in reality they spin more slowly. New calculations suggest that they may be slowed by the emission of exotic gravity waves.
Chris Fryer and Stan Woosley
doi:10.1038/35075184
Cell biology: Asymmetry in action p33
Amanda Tromans
doi:10.1038/35075187
Evolutionary biology: Hybrid costs avoided p34
The offspring of a mating between two different species are often infertile, or almost so. But it seems that some birds can avoid this apparent cost of hybridization.
Dennis Hasselquist
doi:10.1038/35075190
Neurobiology: Dopamine receptors get a boost p35
A protein that controls the growth and survival of neurons is now shown to have another task: boosting the expression of a molecule that allows neurons to respond to the neurotransmitter dopamine.
Francis J. White
doi:10.1038/35075193
100 and 50 years ago p35
doi:10.1038/35075196
Earth science: Hard-cored continents p38
Each continent contains pockets of ancient crust that appear to have been unaffected by tectonic forces since they formed billions of years ago. Why? There's now a fresh twist on the usual explanation.
Andrew A. Nyblade
doi:10.1038/35075198
Fundamental physics: Resistance of a perfect wire p39
Intuition tells us that a wire without defects should have zero resistance. But in the real world all conductors, however perfect, have some resistance. A new study confirms that electrical contacts are the problem.
Albert M. Chang
doi:10.1038/35075201
Daedalus: Scroll-reading p40
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35075204
Brief Communications
Lethality and centrality in protein networks p41
The most highly connected proteins in the cell are the most important for its survival.
H. Jeong, S. P. Mason, A.-L. Barabási and Z. N. Oltvai
doi:10.1038/35075138
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See also: News and Views by Hasty & Collins
Cell culture: Progenitor cells from human brain after death p42
Theo D. Palmer, Philip H. Schwartz, Philippe Taupin, Brian Kaspar, Stuart A. Stein and Fred H. Gage
doi:10.1038/35075141
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Boundary effects: Refraction of a particle beam p43
Patric Muggli, Seung Lee, Thomas Katsouleas, Ralph Assmann, Franz-Joseph Decker, Mark J. Hogan, Richard Iverson, Pantaleo Raimondi, Robert H. Siemann, Dieter Walz, Brent Blue, Christopher E. Clayton, Evan Dodd, Ricardo A. Fonseca, Roy Hemker, Chandrashekhar Joshi, Kenneth A. Marsh, Warren B. Mori and Shoquin Wang
doi:10.1038/35075144
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Protein function: Chaperonin turned insect toxin p44
Naofumi Yoshida, Kenji Oeda, Eijiro Watanabe, Toshiyuki Mikami, Yoshikazu Fukita, Keiichiro Nishimura, Koichiro Komai and Kazuhiko Matsuda
doi:10.1038/35075148
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Article
Hybridization and adaptive mate choice in flycatchers p45
Thor Veen, Thomas Borge, Simon C. Griffith, Glenn-Peter Saetre, Stanislav Bures, Lars Gustafsson and Ben C. Sheldon
doi:10.1038/35075000
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (227K)
See also: News and Views by Hasselquist
Letters to Nature
Four-terminal resistance of a ballistic quantum wire p51
R. de Picciotto, H. L. Stormer, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin and K. W. West
doi:10.1038/35075009
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See also: News and Views by Chang
Superconductivity in the non-oxide perovskite MgCNi3 p54
T. He, Q. Huang, A. P. Ramirez, Y. Wang, K. A. Regan, N. Rogado, M. A. Hayward, M. K. Haas, J. S. Slusky, K. Inumara, H. W. Zandbergen, N. P. Ong and R. J. Cava
doi:10.1038/35075014
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Atomic-beam alignment of inorganic materials for liquid-crystal displays p56
P. Chaudhari, James Lacey, James Doyle, Eileen Galligan, Shui-Chi Alan Lien, Alesandro Callegari, Gareth Hougham, Norton D. Lang, Paul S. Andry, Richard John, Kei-Hsuing Yang, Minhua Lu, Chen Cai, James Speidell, Sampath Purushothaman, John Ritsko, Mahesh Samant, Joachim Stöhr, Yoshiki Nakagawa, Yoshimine Katoh, Yukito Saitoh, Kazumi Sakai, Hiroyuki Satoh, Shuichi Odahara, Hiroki Nakano, Johji Nakagaki and Yasuhiko Shiota
doi:10.1038/35075021
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See also: News and Views by van Haaren
Size-dependent control of the binding of biotinylated proteins to streptavidin using a polymer shield p59
Zhongli Ding, Robin B. Fong, Cynthia J. Long, Patrick S. Stayton and Allan S. Hoffman
doi:10.1038/35075028
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Evolution of Asian monsoons and phased uplift of the Himalaya–Tibetan plateau since Late Miocene times p62
An Zhisheng, John E. Kutzbach, Warren L. Prell and Stephen C. Porter
doi:10.1038/35075035
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Phosphorus limitation of nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in the central Atlantic Ocean p66
Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy, Adam B. Kustka, Christopher J. Gobler, David A. Hutchins, Min Yang, Kamazima Lwiza, James Burns, Douglas G. Capone, John A. Raven and Edward J. Carpenter
doi:10.1038/35075041
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Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States p69
Cin-Ty Lee, Qingzhu Yin, Roberta L. Rudnick and Stein B. Jacobsen
doi:10.1038/35075048
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See also: News and Views by Nyblade
Consistent patterns and the idiosyncratic effects of biodiversity in marine ecosystems p73
Mark C. Emmerson, Martin Solan, Chas Emes, David M. Paterson and Dave Raffaelli
doi:10.1038/35075055
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Larval dispersal potential of the tubeworm Riftiapachyptila at deep-sea hydrothermal vents p77
Adam G. Marsh, Lauren S. Mullineaux, Craig M. Young and Donal T. Manahan
doi:10.1038/35075063
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Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex p80
Valentin Dragoi, Casto Rivadulla and Mriganka Sur
doi:10.1038/35075070
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BDNF controls dopamine D3 receptor expression and triggers behavioural sensitization p86
Olivier Guillin, Jorge Diaz, Patrick Carroll, Nathalie Griffon, Jean-Charles Schwartz and Pierre Sokoloff
doi:10.1038/35075076
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See also: News and Views by White
Membrane protein diffusion sets the speed of rod phototransduction p90
P. D. Calvert, V. I. Govardovskii, N. Krasnoperova, R. E. Anderson, J. Lem and C. L. Makino
doi:10.1038/35075083
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Translational repression determines a neuronal potential in Drosophila asymmetric cell division p94
Masataka Okabe, Takao Imai, Mitsuhiko Kurusu, Yasushi Hiromi and Hideyuki Okano
doi:10.1038/35075094
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Exploitation of syndecan-1 shedding by Pseudomonas aeruginosa enhances virulence p98
Pyong Woo Park, Gerald B. Pier, Michael T. Hinkes and Merton Bernfield
doi:10.1038/35075100
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Initiation of a G2/M checkpoint after ultraviolet radiation requires p38 kinase p102
Dmitry V. Bulavin, Yuichiro Higashimoto, Ian J. Popoff, William A. Gaarde, Venkatesha Basrur, Olga Potapova, Ettore Appella and Albert J. Fornace, Jr
doi:10.1038/35075107
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Microarrays of cells expressing defined cDNAs p107
Junaid Ziauddin and David M. Sabatini
doi:10.1038/35075114
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An aminoacyl tRNA synthetase whose sequence fits into neither of the two known classes p110
Carme Fàbrega, Mark A. Farrow, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, Valérie de Crécy-Lagard, Angel R. Ortiz and Paul Schimmel
doi:10.1038/35075121
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New on the Market
Developments in analysis p115
New instrumentation ranges from rugged to portable
doi:10.1038/35075152