Table of contents
Volume 413 Number 6856 pp3-654
Naturejobs
prospectsCalifornia, home of laureates p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35098193
Special Report
Physics graduates in industry p4
Across America, universities are now expanding their courses to prepare physics graduates for careers in industry, says Steve Bunk.
Steve Bunk
doi:10.1038/35098195
Opinion
'Big science' and public trust p551
Viewing the budget crisis enveloping Europe's leading particle-accelerator lab, politicians may conclude that high-energy physicists cannot be trusted to manage billions of dollars of public money. This perception must be reversed — and fast.
doi:10.1038/35098198
Bangladesh's poisoned wells p551
Scientists and government officials bear collective responsibility for an unfolding tragedy.
doi:10.1038/35098200
News
Trio united by division as cell cycle clinches centenary Nobel p553
Bernd Pulverer
doi:10.1038/35098202
Cool atoms make physics prize matter p554
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/35098205
Ig Nobels raise a welcome smile p554
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/35098208
Illicit GM cotton sparks corporate fury p555
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/35098210
US lays out bare bones of fossil protection package p555
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35098213
Bangladeshis to sue over arsenic poisoning p556
Tom Clarke
doi:10.1038/35098216
Spain's postdoc plan takes off p556
Xavier Bosch
doi:10.1038/35098219
CERN management faulted over sudden budget crisis p557
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35098222
Ireland weighs up options to buy into European research p557
Erica Klarreich
doi:10.1038/35098226
news feature
Eyes on the prize p560
The Nobels mark their centenary this week. Their prestige is unquestioned, but does the way in which winners are selected reflect the way science is done in the twenty-first century? Trisha Gura investigates.
Trisha Gura
doi:10.1038/35098232
Correspondence
Public trust requires disclosure of potential conflicts of interest p565
Evidence that funding relationships can distort objectivity is growing — but money isn't the only source of bias.
Steven Gurney and Jennifer Sass
doi:10.1038/35098242
Declaring interests in the fight for good science p565
Vanessa Spedding
doi:10.1038/35098244
Financial interests are not the only bias factor p565
Gio Batta Gori
doi:10.1038/35098246
Exciting future planned for birthplace of genetics p565
Kim Nasmyth and Dieter Schweizer
doi:10.1038/35098248
Debate over language's link with intelligence p565
Elizabeth Bates, Helen Tager-Flusberg, Stefano Vicari and Virginia Volterra
doi:10.1038/35098250
Concerns highlight need to make faster decisions p566
Regis Kelly
doi:10.1038/35098252
Sound basis for research p566
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr
doi:10.1038/35098254
Book Reviews
Echoes from the dreamtime p567
Analysing hunter-gatherer societies past, present and might-have-been.
Robert L. Bettinger reviews Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets by Lewis R. Binford
doi:10.1038/35098127
Lost to the world p568
doi:10.1038/35098130
Biographical biology p568
Claus Wedekind reviews Darwin & Co.: Eine Geschichte der Biologie in Portraits (in German)
doi:10.1038/35098133
Benefactors of mankind p569
Alison Abbott reviews The Nobel Prize: The First 100 Years and Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize
doi:10.1038/35098138
Yes, I remember it well ... p571
Larry R. Squire reviews The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers by Daniel L. Schacter
doi:10.1038/35098141
Legacy of the Incas p571
doi:10.1038/35098144
A physical view of the cytoskeleton p572
Edwin Taylor reviews Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton by Jonathon Howard
doi:10.1038/35098147
words
Science's fiction p573
Scientists deal with the facts. But they wouldn't get anywhere without dreaming up stories first.
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond
doi:10.1038/35098186
News and Views
Semiconductors are cool p577
In the 1950s there were hopes that semiconductor thermocouples would replace mechanical refrigerators, just as semiconductor transistors supplanted vacuum tubes. New materials may bring that goal a bit closer.
Cronin B. Vining
doi:10.1038/35098159
Global change: Matter of time on the prairie p578
In some ecosystems at least, extrapolating from the short-term effects of global warming will give a misleading impression of the reaction over longer periods of time.
Lindsey Rustad
doi:10.1038/35098162
Ion channels: Swimming with sperm p579
Mice become infertile if they lack the gene encoding a newly discovered sperm-specific ion channel. Sperm are produced in normal quantities, but have trouble moving.
David L. Garbers
doi:10.1038/35098164
100 and 50 years ago p581
doi:10.1038/35098167
Materials science: Melting from within p582
For many years there has been uncertainty about the processes that trigger melting in solids. A new simulation manages to tie several threads together.
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/35098169
Gene expression: The odd coupling p583
Gene expression requires several complex biochemical reactions to be carried out precisely. These reactions must also be coordinated, and molecular biologists now have a better handle on how that happens.
R. Andrew Keys and Michael R. Green
doi:10.1038/35098172
Nanotechnology: Molecules join the assembly line p585
Making patterns from molecular building blocks sounds like child's play, but has been surprisingly difficult to do. A new approach to assembling molecules into patterns may ultimately lead to molecule-based devices.
Paul S. Weiss
doi:10.1038/35098175
Cloud physics: Inside history on droplets p586
Upper-tropospheric clouds contain ice particles, most of which result from the freezing of liquid droplets. That freezing, it emerges, is far more complicated than had been thought.
Marcia Baker
doi:10.1038/35098178
Daedalus: Even more light p587
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35098181
Obituary: Edward T. Hall (1924–2001) p588
Stuart A. Young
doi:10.1038/35098183
Brief Communications
Psychology: Reward value of attractiveness and gaze p589
Making eye contact enhances the appeal of a pleasing face, irrespective of gender.
Knut K. W. Kampe, Chris D. Frith, Raymond J. Dolan and Uta Frith
doi:10.1038/35098149
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Oxyphotobacteria: Antenna ring around photosystem I p590
T. S. Bibby, J. Nield, F. Partensky and J. Barber
doi:10.1038/35098153
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (104K)
Review
Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems p591
Marten Scheffer, Steve Carpenter, Jonathan A. Foley, Carl Folke and Brian Walker
doi:10.1038/35098000
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (181K)
Articles
Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit p597
Rama Venkatasubramanian, Edward Siivola, Thomas Colpitts and Brooks O'Quinn
doi:10.1038/35098012
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (354K)
See also: News and Views by Vining
A sperm ion channel required for sperm motility and male fertility p603
Dejian Ren, Betsy Navarro, Gloria Perez, Alexander C. Jackson, Shyuefang Hsu, Qing Shi, Jonathan L. Tilly and David E. Clapham
doi:10.1038/35098027
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (558K)
See also: News and Views by Garbers
Letters to Nature
Tunable quantum tunnelling of magnetic domain walls p610
J. Brooke, T. F. Rosenbaum and G. Aeppli
doi:10.1038/35098037
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Coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in URhGe p613
Dai Aoki, Andrew Huxley, Eric Ressouche, Daniel Braithwaite, Jacques Flouquet, Jean-Pascal Brison, Elsa Lhotel and Carley Paulsen
doi:10.1038/35098048
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Atomic-scale imaging of insulating diamond through resonant electron injection p616
Kirill Bobrov, Andrew J. Mayne and Gérald Dujardin
doi:10.1038/35098053
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (275K)
Selective assembly on a surface of supramolecular aggregates with controlled size and shape p619
Takashi Yokoyama, Shiyoshi Yokoyama, Toshiya Kamikado, Yoshishige Okuno and Shinro Mashiko
doi:10.1038/35098059
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (273K)
See also: News and Views by Weiss
Acclimatization of soil respiration to warming in a tall grass prairie p622
Yiqi Luo, Shiqiang Wan, Dafeng Hui and Linda L. Wallace
doi:10.1038/35098065
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (207K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Rustad
The earliest known fully quadrupedal sirenian p625
D. P. Domning
doi:10.1038/35098072
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A general model for ontogenetic growth p628
Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown and Brian J. Enquist
doi:10.1038/35098076
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (196K) | Supplementary information
Hyperpolarization-activated channels HCN1 and HCN4 mediate responses to sour stimuli p631
David R. Stevens, Reinhard Seifert, Bernd Bufe, Frank Müller, Elisabeth Kremmer, Renate Gauss, Wolfgang Meyerhof, U. Benjamin Kaupp and Bernd Lindemann
doi:10.1038/35098087
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Consequences of a biological invasion reveal the importance of mutualism for plant communities p635
Caroline E. Christian
doi:10.1038/35098093
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In situ class switching and differentiation to IgA-producing cells in the gut lamina propria p639
Sidonia Fagarasan, Kazuo Kinoshita, Masamichi Muramatsu, Koichi Ikuta and Tasuku Honjo
doi:10.1038/35098100
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Pre-mRNA splicing and mRNA export linked by direct interactions between UAP56 and Aly p644
Ming-Juan Luo, Zhaolan Zhou, Keith Magni, Claudine Christoforides, Juri Rappsilber, Matthias Mann and Robin Reed
doi:10.1038/35098106
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (203K)
See also: News and Views by Keys & Green
Splicing factor Sub2p is required for nuclear mRNA export through its interaction with Yra1p p648
Katja Strä
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Ed Hurt
doi:10.1038/35098113
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (252K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Keys & Green
correction: A mouse knock-in model exposes sequential proteolytic pathways that regulate p27Kip1 in G1 and S phase p652
Nisar P. Malek, Holly Sundberg, Seth McGrew, Keiko Nakayama, Themis R. Kyriakides and James M. Roberts
doi:10.1038/35098121
correction: CREB regulates hepatic gluconeogenesis through the coactivator PGC-1 p652
Stephan Herzig, Fanxin Long, Ulupi S. Jhala, Susan Hedrick, Rebecca Quinn, Anton Bauer, Dorothea Rudolph, Gunther Schutz, Cliff Yoon, Pere Puigserver, Bruce Spiegelman and Marc Montminy
doi:10.1038/35098123
erratum: A titanosilicate molecular sieve with adjustable pores for size-selective adsorption of molecules p652
Steven M. Kuznicki, Valerie A. Bell, Sankar Nair, Hugh W. Hillhouse, Richard M. Jacubinas, Carola M. Braunbarth, Brian H. Toby and Michael Tsapatsis
doi:10.1038/35098125
New on the Market
Shopping for gels p653
Electrophoresis equipment, software, buffers and the rest.
doi:10.1038/35098156