Table of contents
Volume 412 Number 6849 pp3-840
Naturejobs
ProspectsInorganic identity crisis p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35091301
Careers and Recruitment
Inorganic chemists get cooking p4
The research boom in biology is helping to reshape classical chemistry disciplines, providing fresh challenges for inorganic chemists, says Steve Bunk.
Steve Bunk
doi:10.1038/35091284
Chemists set to gain in Japan p7
Renewed investment into fields such as nanotechnology should improve job prospects for inorganic chemists in Japan, says Robert Triendl.
Robert Triendl
doi:10.1038/35091294
UK chemistry gets coordinated p8
Inorganic chemists face a range of possible career options when they qualify. But catalysis and biomimetics look to be reasonable bets in Britain, says Alok Jha.
Alok Jha
doi:10.1038/35091297
Opinion
Declaration of financial interests p751
Introducing a new policy for authors of research papers in Nature and Nature journals.
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/35090688
News
Stem-cell giveaway proposed as confusion reigns over cell count p753
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35090690
Partners turn to court over stem-cell rights p753
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35090694
Riders on the storm provoke studies of Atlantic dust p754
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35090696
Japan banks on tissue store for successful drugs p754
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/35090698
German centre set to improve brain's image p755
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35090701
Ecologists plot to turn the tide for shrinking lake p756
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/35090704
Code-breakers reveal results as threat of legal action is lifted p756
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35090707
Staff suggest cure for Smithsonian woes p757
Josette Chen
doi:10.1038/35090710
Flickering light raises possibility of changing 'constant' p757
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35090713
news feature
The battlefields of Britain p760
With its farm-scale trials of genetically modified crops, Britain has taken ecological studies of farming practices into new territory. But the trials are the focus of intense controversy. Trisha Gura spoke to the scientists involved.
Trisha Gura
doi:10.1038/35090645
The positron probe p764
Beams of antimatter are providing some of the most detailed images yet of defects in semiconductors. Philip Ball reports.
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/35090655
Correspondence
How commercialization puts a blight on research p765
Good science stems from people with ideas, not from corporations or strategic teams.
Graeme Laver, Arno Müllbacher and Paul Waring
doi:10.1038/35090720
Biotechnology gets big backing in Australia p765
Sandy Radke
doi:10.1038/35090722
Book Reviews
Galapagos or bust p767
A historical view of a busy scientific thoroughfare.
Joe Cain reviews Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands by Edward Larson
doi:10.1038/35090608
Dispelling a myth p768
Mary-Lou Pardue reviews The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort
doi:10.1038/35090614
Born in difficult times p769
Giorgio G. C. Palumbo reviews Per Una Storia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (2 vols)
doi:10.1038/35090617
Mathematical philately p769
doi:10.1038/35090621
Beauty and the beast p770
doi:10.1038/35090624
words
Yes, but what's it for? p771
The current state of language can make it difficult to discuss evolution in an accurate way.
Steve Blinkhorn
doi:10.1038/35090659
News and Views
Fast track to fusion energy p775
Nuclear fusion could solve the world's energy problems, but its potential remains untapped. Can a new way to ignite a tiny ball of high-density fuel make the dream come true?
Michael H. Key
doi:10.1038/35090666
Neurobiology: The many faces of adaptation p776
Sensory neurons constantly adapt to the changing environment. It seems they can do this surprisingly quickly, and without losing their absolute frame of reference.
Pamela Reinagel
doi:10.1038/35090669
Earth science: Journey beneath southern Africa p777
Seismic analyses of the lithosphere, undertaken as part of the Kaapvaal project, provide an unprecedented view of cratons — the earliest parts of continental landmasses.
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
doi:10.1038/35090672
100 and 50 years ago p777
doi:10.1038/35090675
Developmental biology: Clocks and Hox p780
Segmentation is a key feature of many animals. New molecular studies add to our understanding of how vertebrate segments form and how this process is linked to the genes that make each segment unique.
Clifford J. Tabin and Randy L. Johnson
doi:10.1038/35090677
Planetary science: Gases make a rare appearance p781
The unexpected discovery of noble gases within silicate pockets in a primitive meteorite is hard to explain. Could they have been captured from the solar wind streaming from the young Sun?
Typhoon Lee
doi:10.1038/35090680
Optics: Armed for light sensing p783
Roy Sambles
Daedalus: Neutrinos in orbit p784
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35090686
Brief Communications
Export of organic carbon from peat soils p785
Warmer conditions may be to blame for the exodus of peatland carbon to the oceans.
C. Freeman, C. D. Evans, D. T. Monteith, B. Reynolds and N. Fenner
doi:10.1038/35090628
Resource availability: Ancient homes for hard-up hermit crabs p785
David K. A. Barnes
doi:10.1038/35090632
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correction: Early visual experience and face processing p786
doi:10.1038/35090636
Article
Efficiency and ambiguity in an adaptive neural code p787
Adrienne L. Fairhall, Geoffrey D. Lewen, William Bialek and Robert R. de Ruyter van Steveninck
doi:10.1038/35090500
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (344K)
See also: News and Views by Reinagel
Letters to Nature
Discovery of three lead-rich stars p793
S. Van Eck, S. Goriely, A. Jorissen and B. Plez
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Noble-gas-rich chondrules in an enstatite meteorite p795
Ryuji Okazaki, Nobuo Takaoka, Keisuke Nagao, Minoru Sekiya and Tomoki Nakamura
doi:10.1038/35090520
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See also: News and Views by Lee
Fast heating of ultrahigh-density plasma as a step towards laser fusion ignition p798
R. Kodama, P. A. Norreys, K. Mima, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, H. Fujita, Y. Kitagawa, K. Krushelnick, T. Miyakoshi, N. Miyanaga, T. Norimatsu, S. J. Rose, T. Shozaki, K. Shigemori, A. Sunahara, M. Tampo, K. A. Tanaka, Y. Toyama, T. Yamanaka and M. Zepf
doi:10.1038/35090525
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See also: News and Views by Key
Formation of ordered ice nanotubes inside carbon nanotubes p802
Kenichiro Koga, G. T. Gao, Hideki Tanaka and X. C. Zeng
doi:10.1038/35090532
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Efficient silicon light-emitting diodes p805
Martin A. Green, Jianhua Zhao, Aihua Wang, Peter J. Reece and Michael Gal
doi:10.1038/35090539
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Intensified deep Pacific inflow and ventilation in Pleistocene glacial times p809
Ian R. Hall, I. Nicholas McCave, Nicholas J. Shackleton, Graham P. Weedon and Sara E. Harris
doi:10.1038/35090552
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Tectonic contraction across Los Angeles after removal of groundwater pumping effects p812
Gerald W. Bawden, Wayne Thatcher, Ross S. Stein, Ken W. Hudnut and Gilles Peltzer
doi:10.1038/35090558
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Evidence of intra-specific competition for food in a pelagic seabird p816
S. Lewis, T. N. Sherratt, K. C. Hamer and S. Wanless
doi:10.1038/35090566
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Calcitic microlenses as part of the photoreceptor system in brittlestars p819
Joanna Aizenberg, Alexei Tkachenko, Steve Weiner, Lia Addadi and Gordon Hendler
doi:10.1038/35090573
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See also: News and Views by Sambles
Delineation of prognostic biomarkers in prostate cancer p822
Saravana M. Dhanasekaran, Terrence R. Barrette, Debashis Ghosh, Rajal Shah, Sooryanarayana Varambally, Kotoku Kurachi, Kenneth J. Pienta, Mark A. Rubin and Arul M. Chinnaiyan
doi:10.1038/35090585
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Haematopoietic cell-specific CDM family protein DOCK2 is essential for lymphocyte migration p826
Yoshinori Fukui, Osamu Hashimoto, Terukazu Sanui, Takamasa Oono, Hironori Koga, Masaaki Abe, Ayumi Inayoshi, Mayuko Noda, Masahiro Oike, Toshikazu Shirai and Takehiko Sasazuki
doi:10.1038/35090591
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The core of the motor domain determines the direction of myosin movement p831
Kazuaki Homma, Misako Yoshimura, Junya Saito, Reiko Ikebe and Mitsuo Ikebe
doi:10.1038/35090597
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Catalysis by hen egg-white lysozyme proceeds via a covalent intermediate p835
David J. Vocadlo, Gideon J. Davies, Roger Laine and Stephen G. Withers
doi:10.1038/35090602
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New on the Market
Try the soft option p839
Familiar software packages get an upgrade, and novelties get an airing.
doi:10.1038/35090638
