Table of contents
Volume 412 Number 6848 pp3-750
Naturejobs
ProspectsMixed fortunes in France p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35091282
movers
doi:10.1038/35091277
Opinion
E-optimism on a tide of red ink p663
Telecommunications and semiconductor companies are suffering from a precipitous downturn. But researchers can be sure that a healthy, handy electronic future is on the way.
doi:10.1038/35089185
News
Bush compromise raises doubts over stem-cell resilience p665
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35089187
Biologists officially welcome plan p665
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35089190
Nutritionists question study of organic food p666
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35089192
Wellcome Trust sets out fresh misconduct standards p667
Erica Klarreich
doi:10.1038/35089196
Academies called to task over human cloning débâcle p667
Laura Bonetta
doi:10.1038/35089199
Nigeria takes the initiative in African science p668
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35089202
Feminized fish encourage Japan to test pollution links p668
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35089205
Animal data jeopardized by life behind bars p669
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35089208
Chemistry journal reacts to dispute p669
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35089212
news feature
To boldly go p672
The nineteenth century scientists who studied the oceans were explorers, not hypothesis testers. Mark Schrope finds that modern-day oceanographers want to revive this pioneering spirit.
Mark Schrope
doi:10.1038/35089218
The best supporting actors p674
Glial cells were long thought to play a peripheral role in the theatre of the brain. But some neuroscientists now believe that they are intimately involved in the way the brain processes information. Bas Kast charts the cells' move into the limelight.
Bas Kast
doi:10.1038/35089223
Correspondence
Organic movement reveals a shift in the social position of science p677
Since BSE, the public is less inclined to trust experts.
Annette Mørkeberg and John R. Porter
doi:10.1038/35089231
Politics defeats science at environment agency p677
Henry I. Miller
doi:10.1038/35089233
Cooperation among labs is appreciated p677
Judah Folkman
doi:10.1038/35089235
Book Reviews
A quintessential pluralist p679
The life of a scientist, wartime strategist and adviser to government.
John Maddox reviews Solly Zuckerman: A Scientist out of the Ordinary by John Peyton
doi:10.1038/35089112
Signing on the genetic line p680
Ruth Chadwick reviews Your Genetic Destiny: Know Your Genes, Secure Your Health, Save Your Life by Aubrey Milunsky and Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions about Genetics by Lori B. Andrews
doi:10.1038/35089115
Physics for non-physicists p681
Peter Landsberg reviews Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws by John C. Taylor
doi:10.1038/35089119
Wonders of the shallows p681
doi:10.1038/35089121
For reference p681
doi:10.1038/35089124
The genetic complexity of life p682
Brian Charlesworth reviews The Misunderstood Gene by Michel Morange (translated by Matthew Cobb)
doi:10.1038/35089126
New in paperback p682
doi:10.1038/35089128
words
Stranger than fiction p683
The tale of the epic voyage made to establish the metric system is an intriguing and exciting one.
Julyan Cartwright
doi:10.1038/35089149
News and Views
Quantum ripples in chaos p687
The differences between quantum and classical chaos show up on the smallest of scales. Although tiny, these differences have implications for our understanding of quantum mechanics.
Andreas Albrecht
doi:10.1038/35089156
Aerodynamics: Flight of the robofly p688
Qualitative studies of airflow over insect wings have long been possible, thanks to the use of smoke trails. With a new robotic fly, flow and force can be analysed quantitatively, so theories of insect flight can be tested.
George V. Lauder
doi:10.1038/35089159
Quantum physics: Cooperation includes all atoms p689
Atom statistics is a fundamental property of all particles that dictates how they behave in certain situations. But behaviour previously attributed to atom statistics is equally likely to arise from cooperative effects.
Juha Javanainen
doi:10.1038/35089163
Neurobiology: Stem cells on the brain p690
Stem cells have great potential for treating a variety of diseases and seem to hit the headlines almost every week. An extremely pure population of brain stem cells has now been obtained from adult mice.
Robert Cassidy and Jonas Frisén
doi:10.1038/35089165
Earth science: Gas hydrates and deglaciations p691
Long ago, Earth experienced a series of especially severe glaciations. A new explanation for deposits laid down at the end of these events centres on the large-scale release of methane from solid gas hydrates.
Stein B. Jacobsen
doi:10.1038/35089168
100 and 50 years ago p692
doi:10.1038/35089171
Neuroscience: Dynamic categories p693
Neuroscientists often study brain function by presenting a stimulus many times and averaging the neural response. A trick for finding brain activity in single trials might reveal how animals mentally categorize information.
Michael P. Kilgard
doi:10.1038/35089173
Planetary science: A new model Moon p694
The most sophisticated simulations yet of the Moon's birth show that it could have been created from an impact of a large body with a fully formed, rather than half-formed, Earth.
Jay Melosh
doi:10.1038/35089176
Daedalus: Blood and iron p695
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35089179
Obituary: Donald J. Cram (1919–2001) p696
M. Frederick Hawthorne
doi:10.1038/35089181
Brief Communications
Finer features for functional microdevices p697
Micromachines can be created with higher resolution using two-photon absorption.
Satoshi Kawata, Hong-Bo Sun, Tomokazu Tanaka and Kenji Takada
doi:10.1038/35089130
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Sex determination: Viviparous lizard selects sex of embryos p698
Kylie A. Robert and Michael B. Thompson
doi:10.1038/35089135
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Ancient chronology: Astronomical orientation of the pyramids p699
Dennis Rawlins and Keith Pickering
doi:10.1038/35089138
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (79K)
Ancient chronology: Astronomical orientation of the pyramids p699
Kate Spence
doi:10.1038/35089140
Review
Structural mimicry in bacterial virulence p701
C. Erec Stebbins and Jorge E. Galán
doi:10.1038/35089000
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (328K)
Letters to Nature
Deficiency of molecular hydrogen in the disk of 
Pictoris p706
A. Lecavelier des Etangs, A. Vidal-Madjar, A. Roberge, P. D. Feldman, M. Deleuil, M. André, W. P. Blair, J.-C. Bouret, J.-M. Désert, R. Ferlet, S. Friedman, G. Hébrard, M. Lemoine and H. W. Moos
doi:10.1038/35089006
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (174K)
Origin of the Moon in a giant impact near the end of the Earth's formation p708
Robin M. Canup and Erik Asphaug
doi:10.1038/35089010
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (297K)
See also: News and Views by Melosh
Sub-Planck structure in phase space and its relevance for quantum decoherence p712
Wojciech Hubert Zurek
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (361K)
See also: News and Views by Albrecht
Crystalline ion beams p717
T. Schätz, U. Schramm and D. Habs
doi:10.1038/35089045
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (236K)
A titanosilicate molecular sieve with adjustable pores for size-selective adsorption of molecules p720
Steven M. Kuznicki, Valerie A. Bell, Sankar Nair, Hugh W. Hillhouse, Richard M. Jacubinas, Carola M. Braunbarth, Brian H. Toby and Michael Tsapatsis
doi:10.1038/35089052
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (361K) | Supplementary information
The timing of the last deglaciation in North Atlantic climate records p724
Claire Waelbroeck, Jean-Claude Duplessy, Elisabeth Michel, Laurent Labeyrie, Didier Paillard and Josette Duprat
doi:10.1038/35089060
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (271K) | Supplementary information
Direct observation of a submarine volcanic eruption from a sea-floor instrument caught in a lava flow p727
Christopher G. Fox, William W. Chadwick, Jr and Robert W. Embley
doi:10.1038/35089066
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (561K)
Spanwise flow and the attachment of the leading-edge vortex on insect wings p729
James M. Birch and Michael H. Dickinson
doi:10.1038/35089071
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (395K)
See also: News and Views by Lauder
Change in pattern of ongoing cortical activity with auditory category learning p733
F. W. Ohl, H. Scheich and W. J. Freeman
doi:10.1038/35089076
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (350K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Kilgard
Purification of a pluripotent neural stem cell from the adult mouse brain p736
Rodney L. Rietze, Helen Valcanis, Gordon F. Brooker, Tim Thomas, Anne K. Voss and Perry F. Bartlett
doi:10.1038/35089085
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (345K)
See also: News and Views by Cassidy & Frisén
Antibodies inhibit prion propagation and clear cell cultures of prion infectivity p739
David Peretz, R. Anthony Williamson, Kiotoshi Kaneko, Julie Vergara, Estelle Leclerc, Gerold Schmitt-Ulms, Ingrid R. Mehlhorn, Giuseppe Legname, Mark R. Wormald, Pauline M. Rudd, Raymond A. Dwek, Dennis R. Burton and Stanley B. Prusiner
doi:10.1038/35089090
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (291K) | Supplementary information
Iron deficiency induces the formation of an antenna ring around trimeric photosystem I in cyanobacteria p743
Thomas S. Bibby, Jon Nield and James Barber
doi:10.1038/35089098
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (273K)
A giant chlorophyll–protein complex induced by iron deficiency in cyanobacteria p745
E. J. Boekema, A. Hifney, A. E. Yakushevska, M. Piotrowski, W. Keegstra, S. Berry, K.-P. Michel, E. K. Pistorius and J. Kruip
doi:10.1038/35089104
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erratum: Elevated c-myc expression facilitates the replication of SV40 DNA in human lymphoma cells p748
Marie Classon, Marie Henriksson, Janos Sümegi, George Klein and Marie-Louise Hammarskjöld
doi:10.1038/35089110
New on the Market
Peptides and proteins p749
Assay kits, centrifuges and other protein-friendly paraphernalia.
doi:10.1038/35089143
