Table of contents
Volume 412 Number 6846 pp3-568
Naturejobs
ProspectsStem-cell seduction p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35091263
movers
doi:10.1038/35091258
Opinion
How not to make friends p463
The United States has rejected an attempt to give teeth to the Biological Weapons Convention, complaining that the protocol is too weak. If so, this is largely because of US demands. No wonder America's allies feel betrayed.
doi:10.1038/35087705
Time for orbiting lab to find true purpose p463
The International Space Station's current plight provides another chance to subject its research portfolio to rigorous review.
doi:10.1038/35087707
News
Nuclear physicists red-faced over elementary mistake p465
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35087709
Tough decisions loom as funding crisis hits space-station research p465
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/35087711
Johns Hopkins embroiled in fresh misconduct allegations p466
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/35087715
Pressure grows over US blood ban p467
Sally Goodman
doi:10.1038/35087718
Review blames BSE outbreak on calf feed p467
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35087720
Hopes of biotech interest spur Latvian population genetics p468
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35087723
Physicist claims gagging over missile defence system p468
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35087726
Weizmann finance chief embezzled $5 million p469
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/35087729
Public library set to turn publisher as boycott looms p469
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/35087732
news feature
When the going gets tough ... p472
Britain's epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease gave the government's chief scientific adviser, David King, a baptism of fire. He has emerged with his political standing enhanced, says David Adam.
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35087668
Measuring the immeasurable p474
When chemists developed techniques to peer into the heart of chemical reactions, they opened up a new world for study. Yudhijit Bhattacharjee finds out how, a decade later, the early promise has been realized.
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
doi:10.1038/35087741
Correspondence
Vets asked valuable questions about foot-and-mouth measures p477
Opposition was to a rigid policy, not to epidemiologists.
R. G. Eddy
doi:10.1038/35087748
Always a role for debate between disciplines p477
J. M. Scudamore
doi:10.1038/35087750
Beneficiaries should pay p477
Henry Nathan
doi:10.1038/35087752
Commentary
Research doesn't denigrate humanity p479
Being human is more than simply having the right molecular composition.
doi:10.1038/35087673
Book Reviews
Ecology goes macro p481
Taking a bird's-eye view reveals the hidden order of ecosystems.
Pablo A. Marquet reviews Pattern and Process in Macroecology by Kevin J. Gaston and Tim M. Blackburn
doi:10.1038/35087636
The art of botany p482
doi:10.1038/35087639
What you see ... p482
Daniel L. Adams and Jonathan C. Horton review Visual Disturbances following Gunshot Wounds of the Cortical Visual Area by Tatsuji Inouye
doi:10.1038/35087642
Supersymmetrical physics p483
Hans Peter Nilles reviews The Quantum Theory of Fields: Volume III. Supersymmetry by Steven Weinberg
doi:10.1038/35087645
New in paperback p484
doi:10.1038/35087647
words
At cross purposes p485
How do we cope with scientific terms that have two different definitions?
David M. Wilkinson
doi:10.1038/35087676
News and Views
Flexible electronic futures p489
Microelectronic devices incorporating organic materials could find a host of applications. That prospect inches nearer with the development of a strategy for growing thin films of the organic semiconductor pentacene.
Robert J. Hamers
doi:10.1038/35087682
Demography: Uncertain population forecasts p490
Traditional population forecasts made by statistical agencies do not quantify uncertainty. But demographers and statisticians have developed methods to calculate probabilistic forecasts.
Nico Keilman
doi:10.1038/35087685
Nanotechnology: Boning up on biology p491
Attempts to tailor nanometre-scale objects to mimic and interact with natural materials raise the question of how to predict the biological response to these tiny creations.
T. Andrew Taton
doi:10.1038/35087687
100 and 50 years ago p492
doi:10.1038/35087690
Gene regulation: Cycling silence p493
The cell-division cycle involves careful timing: cell-cycle genes must be switched on only when needed. The retinoblastoma protein controls one set of these genes, and one way it does this is most unusual.
Leonie Ringrose and Renato Paro
doi:10.1038/35087692
Superconductivity: Is kinky conventional? p494
An explanation for superconductivity in high-temperature, or 'unconventional', materials remains elusive. New experiments may indicate a surprising similarity to their low-temperature counterparts.
Philip B. Allen
doi:10.1038/35087696
Daedalus: Emotional education p495
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35087699
Obituary: Viktor Hamburger (1900–2001) p496
Jean M. Lauder and Ronald Oppenheim
doi:10.1038/35087701
Brief Communications
Fossil molar from a Madagascan marsupial p497
The discovery of a tiny tooth from the Late Cretaceous period has sizeable implications.
David W. Krause
doi:10.1038/35087649
Maternal investment: Sex differences in avian yolk hormone levels p498
Marion Petrie, Hubert Schwabl, Nanna Brande-Lavridsen and Terry Burke
doi:10.1038/35087652
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Maternal investment: Sex differences in avian yolk hormone levels p498
Emma J. A. Cunningham and Andrew F. Russell
doi:10.1038/35087655
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Ecology: Global amphibian population declines p499
Ross A. Alford, Philip M. Dixon and Joseph H. K. Pechmann
doi:10.1038/35087658
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Ecology: Global amphibian population declines p500
Jeff. E. Houlahan, C. Scott Findlay, Andrea H. Meyer, Sergius L. Kuzmin and Benedikt R. Schmidt
doi:10.1038/35087661
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Review
The Earth's mantle p501
George R. Helffrich and Bernard J. Wood
doi:10.1038/35087500
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Letters to Nature
Ground-based observation of emission lines from the corona of a red-dwarf star p508
J. H. M. M. Schmitt and R. Wichmann
doi:10.1038/35087513
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Evidence for ubiquitous strong electron–phonon coupling in high-temperature superconductors p510
A. Lanzara, P. V. Bogdanov, X. J. Zhou, S. A. Kellar, D. L. Feng, E. D. Lu, T. Yoshida, H. Eisaki, A. Fujimori, K. Kishio, J.-I. Shimoyama, T. Noda, S. Uchida, Z. Hussain and Z.-X. Shen
doi:10.1038/35087518
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See also: News and Views by Allen
Fragile-to-strong transition and polyamorphism in the energy landscape of liquid silica p514
Ivan Saika-Voivod, Peter H. Poole and Francesco Sciortino
doi:10.1038/35087524
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Growth dynamics of pentacene thin films p517
Frank-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, M. C. Reuter and R. M. Tromp
doi:10.1038/35087532
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See also: News and Views by Hamers
Ionic conductivity in crystalline polymer electrolytes p520
Zlatka Gadjourova, Yuri G. Andreev, David P. Tunstall and Peter G. Bruce
doi:10.1038/35087538
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Covariation of carbon dioxide and temperature from the Vostok ice core after deuterium-excess correction p523
Kurt M. Cuffey and Françoise Vimeux
doi:10.1038/35087544
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Chemical interaction of Fe and Al2O3 as a source of heterogeneity at the Earth's core–mantle boundary p527
L. Dubrovinsky, H. Annersten, N. Dubrovinskaia, F. Westman, H. Harryson, O. Fabrichnaya and S. Carlson
doi:10.1038/35087559
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The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar p530
Kristina Curry Rogers and Catherine A. Forster
doi:10.1038/35087566
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Neanderthal cranial ontogeny and its implications for late hominid diversity p534
Marcia S. Ponce de León and Christoph P. E. Zollikofer
doi:10.1038/35087573
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Habitat structure and population persistence in an experimental community p538
Stephen P. Ellner, Edward McCauley, Bruce E. Kendall, Cheryl J. Briggs, Parveiz R. Hosseini, Simon N. Wood, Arne Janssen, Maurice W. Sabelis, Peter Turchin, Roger M. Nisbet and William W. Murdoch
doi:10.1038/35087580
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The end of world population growth p543
Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov
doi:10.1038/35087589
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See also: News and Views by Keilman
Retrospective and prospective coding for predicted reward in the sensory thalamus p546
Yutaka Komura, Ryoi Tamura, Teruko Uwano, Hisao Nishijo, Kimitaka Kaga and Taketoshi Ono
doi:10.1038/35087595
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Practising orientation identification improves orientation coding in V1 neurons p549
Aniek Schoups, Rufin Vogels, Ning Qian and Guy Orban
doi:10.1038/35087601
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Regulation of DNA replication fork progression through damaged DNA by the Mec1/Rad53 checkpoint p553
José Antonio Tercero and John F. X. Diffley
doi:10.1038/35087607
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The DNA replication checkpoint response stabilizes stalled replication forks p557
Massimo Lopes, Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino, Achille Pellicioli, Giordano Liberi, Paolo Plevani, Marco Muzi-Falconi, Carol S. Newlon and Marco Foiani
doi:10.1038/35087613
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Rb targets histone H3 methylation and HP1 to promoters p561
Soren J. Nielsen, Robert Schneider, Uta-Maria Bauer, Andrew J. Bannister, Ashby Morrison, Donal O'Carroll, Ron Firestein, Michael Cleary, Thomas Jenuwein, Rafael E. Herrera and Tony Kouzarides
doi:10.1038/35087620
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See also: News and Views by Ringrose & Paro
correction: Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome p565
and International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium
doi:10.1038/35087627
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erratum: The homeobox gene lim-6 is required for distinct chemosensory representations in C. elegans p566
Jonathan T. Pierce-Shimomura, Serge Faumont, Michelle R. Gaston, Bret J. Pearson and Shawn R. Lockery
doi:10.1038/35087630
erratum: The zebrafish Nodal signal Squint functions as a morphogen p566
Yu Chen and Alexander F. Schier
doi:10.1038/35087633
New on the Market
From cameras to Twisters p567
An eclectic haul — the latest from lab equipment manufacturers.
doi:10.1038/35087663