Table of contents
Volume 415 Number 6874 pp3-942
Naturejobs
ProspectsAwards for endeavour p3
doi:10.1038/nj6874-03a
Special Report
Putting politics back into science p4
Several programmes are giving scientists a taste of politics — and aiding a transition into policy careers. Eugene Russo conducts a briefing.
Eugene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj6874-04a
Opinion
Thoughts on (dis)credits p819
A Commentary by Peter Lawrence on page 835 condemns the hogging of credit by "big names". Reactions and anecdotes from editors and from external advisers in response to this article speak for themselves.
doi:10.1038/415819a
News
Biologists apprehensive over US moves to censor information flow p821
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/415821a
Bush plan deepens divide over Kyoto Protocol p821
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/415821b
Protein chemists favour automatic answers p822
David Adam
doi:10.1038/415822a
Japan set to endorse Kyoto Protocol as Bush flies in p822
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/415822b
DFG head supports stronger sanctions for scientific fraud p823
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/415823a
Live lung tissue enlisted in fight against tuberculosis p823
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/415823b
Earth-science centre targets core questions p824
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/415824a
Canada unveils science strategy p824
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/415824b
Blast-off approaches for eagle-eyed orbiter p825
Sally Goodman
doi:10.1038/415825a
Reduced funding feeds Danish scientists' resentment p825
David Adam
doi:10.1038/415825b
news feature
Life in the deep freeze p828
Unknown ecosystems and untapped records of the Earth's past may lie hidden in the lonely waters of Antarctica's Lake Vostok. But the lake's millions of years of isolation may be about to end, as Helen Gavaghan reveals.
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/415828a
Canada: Northern poles of excellence p831
Canada has redrawn its landscape for science funding in an attempt to compete with the world's best — and reverse the brain drain to the United States. Josette Chen reports.
Josette Chen
doi:10.1038/415831a
Correspondence
Excitement over X-ray lasers is excessive p833
Structural biology is a rich field in which existing techniques are providing many advances.
Richard Henderson
doi:10.1038/415833a
Sklyarov: big business vs academic freedom p833
Jacob Corn
doi:10.1038/415833b
More light on pioneers of electrochemistry p833
Hubert P. Yockey
doi:10.1038/415833c
Commentary
Rank injustice p835
The misallocation of credit is endemic in science.
doi:10.1038/415835a
Book Reviews
Harvard's metamorphosis p837
Insight into the battles that raged as a centre of excellence was forged.
Paul Doty reviews Making Harvard Modern: the Rise of America's University by Morton Keller and Phyllis Keller
doi:10.1038/415837a
Taking the SADness out of winter p838
Josephine Arendt reviews Seasonal Affective Disorder: Practice and Research
doi:10.1038/415838a
A knotty problem of nomenclature p839
Peter L. Forey reviews The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy by Marc Ereshefsky
doi:10.1038/415839a
Natural maths p839
doi:10.1038/415839b
News and Views
Parasites: No more free lunch p843
Parasites generally depend on their hosts to supply the molecules needed for life. One parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, has retained the ability to make some of the building blocks of DNA, but this could be its downfall.
L. David Sibley
doi:10.1038/415843a
Microscopy: Extra dimension with X-rays p844
Materials science has benefited from X-ray imaging at the micrometre scale, but imaging has been restricted to two dimensions. A clever modification takes us into the third dimension.
G. S. Cargill, III
doi:10.1038/415844a
Genome sequencing: Brouhaha over the other yeast p845
The sequencing of the fission-yeast genome allows researchers to compare it with that of its cousin, budding yeast, and to identify genes that may distinguish eukaryotes (such as yeast) from prokaryotes (such as bacteria).
Jonathan A. Eisen
doi:10.1038/nature725
Marine archaeology: Acid attack p847
Jim Gillon
doi:10.1038/415847a
Evolutionary biology: How insects lose their limbs p848
Evolution has produced marvellous variety in the arthropods, and in their various appendages. The evolutionary processes are themselves proving highly diverse.
Mike Levine
doi:10.1038/415848a
Daedalus: The cliff of stability p849
David Jones
doi:10.1038/415849a
Obituary: Max Perutz (1914–2002) p851
Hugh E. Huxley
doi:10.1038/415851a
feature
Science of nuclear warheads p853
Little has been published about nuclear warhead science. Here we set out elements of the programme that will underpin future assessments of the safety and performance of Britain's warheads in compliance with treaty obligations.
Keith O'Nions, Robin Pitman and Clive Marsh
doi:10.1038/415853a
Brief Communications
Cell biology: A cat cloned by nuclear transplantation p859
This kitten's coat-coloration pattern is not a carbon copy of its genome donor's.
Taeyoung Shin, Duane Kraemer, Jane Pryor, Ling Liu, James Rugila, Lisa Howe, Sandra Buck, Keith Murphy, Leslie Lyons and Mark Westhusin
doi:10.1038/nature723
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Physics: Oxygen drips upwards from superconductors p860
D. Wood, V. Greener and D. P. Hampshire
doi:10.1038/415860a
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Solar System: Self-shielding in the solar nebula p860
Robert N. Clayton
doi:10.1038/415860b
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Atmosphere science: Clean air slots amid atmospheric pollution p861
Peter V. Hobbs
doi:10.1038/415861a
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Climate change (Communication arising): Terrestrial export of organic carbon p861
L. J. Tranvik and M. Jansson
doi:10.1038/415861b
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Climate change (Communication arising): Terrestrial export of organic carbon p862
C. D. Evans, C. Freeman, D. T. Monteith, B. Reynolds and N. Fenner
doi:10.1038/415862a
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Review
The role of the thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change p863
Peter U. Clark, Nicklas G. Pisias, Thomas F. Stocker and Andrew J. Weaver
doi:10.1038/415863a
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (498K)
Article
The genome sequence of Schizosaccharomycespombe p871
V. Wood, R. Gwilliam, M.-A. Rajandream, M. Lyne, R. Lyne, A. Stewart, J. Sgouros, N. Peat, J. Hayles, S. Baker, D. Basham, S. Bowman, K. Brooks, D. Brown, S. Brown, T. Chillingworth, C. Churcher, M. Collins, R. Connor, A. Cronin, P. Davis, T. Feltwell, A. Fraser, S. Gentles, A. Goble, N. Hamlin, D. Harris, J. Hidalgo, G. Hodgson, S. Holroyd, T. Hornsby, S. Howarth, E. J. Huckle, S. Hunt, K. Jagels, K. James, L. Jones, M. Jones, S. Leather, S. McDonald, J. McLean, P. Mooney, S. Moule, K. Mungall, L. Murphy, D. Niblett, C. Odell, K. Oliver, S. O'Neil, D. Pearson, M. A. Quail, E. Rabbinowitsch, K. Rutherford, S. Rutter, D. Saunders, K. Seeger, S. Sharp, J. Skelton, M. Simmonds, R. Squares, S. Squares, K. Stevens, K. Taylor, R. G. Taylor, A. Tivey, S. Walsh, T. Warren, S. Whitehead, J. Woodward, G. Volckaert, R. Aert, J. Robben, B. Grymonprez, I. Weltjens, E. Vanstreels, M. Rieger, M. Schäfer, S. Müller-Auer, C. Gabel, M. Fuchs, C. Fritzc, E. Holzer, D. Moestl, H. Hilbert, K. Borzym, I. Langer, A. Beck, H. Lehrach, R. Reinhardt, T. M. Pohl, P. Eger, W. Zimmermann, H. Wedler, R. Wambutt, B. Purnelle, A. Goffeau, E. Cadieu, S. Dréano, S. Gloux, V. Lelaure, S. Mottier, F. Galibert, S. J. Aves, Z. Xiang, C. Hunt, K. Moore, S. M. Hurst, M. Lucas, M. Rochet, C. Gaillardin, V. A. Tallada, A. Garzon, G. Thode, R. R. Daga, L. Cruzado, J. Jimenez, M. Sánchez, F. del Rey, J. Benito, A. Domínguez, J. L. Revuelta, S. Moreno, J. Armstrong, S. L. Forsburg, L. Cerrutti, T. Lowe, W. R. McCombie, I. Paulsen, J. Potashkin, G. V. Shpakovski, D. Ussery, B. G. Barrell and P. Nurse
doi:10.1038/nature724
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (279K)
See also: News and Views by Eisen
Letters to Nature
Diverse supernova sources of pre-solar material inferred from molybdenum isotopes in meteorites p881
Qingzhu Yin, Stein B. Jacobsen and Katsuyuki Yamashita
doi:10.1038/415881a
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Ultra-broadband semiconductor laser p883
Claire Gmachl, Deborah L. Sivco, Raffaele Colombelli, Federico Capasso and Alfred Y. Cho
doi:10.1038/415883a
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Three-dimensional X-ray structural microscopy with submicrometre resolution p887
B. C. Larson, Wenge Yang, G. E. Ice, J. D. Budai and J. Z. Tischler
doi:10.1038/415887a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (229K)
See also: News and Views by Cargill
Chiral recognition in dimerization of adsorbed cysteine observed by scanning tunnelling microscopy p891
Angelika Kühnle, Trolle R. Linderoth, Bjørk Hammer and Flemming Besenbacher
doi:10.1038/415891a
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Deterioration of the seventeenth-century warship Vasa by internal formation of sulphuric acid p893
Magnus Sandström, Farideh Jalilehvand, Ingmar Persson, Ulrik Gelius, Patrick Frank and Ingrid Hall-Roth
doi:10.1038/415893a
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See also: News and Views by Gillon
Transient dynamics of vulcanian explosions and column collapse p897
A. B. Clarke, B. Voight, A. Neri and G. Macedonio
doi:10.1038/415897a
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Global environmental controls of diversity in large herbivores p901
Han Olff, Mark E. Ritchie and Herbert H. T. Prins
doi:10.1038/415901a
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Climate change and the resurgence of malaria in the East African highlands p905
Simon I. Hay, Jonathan Cox, David J. Rogers, Sarah E. Randolph, David I. Stern, G. Dennis Shanks, Monica F. Myers and Robert W. Snow
doi:10.1038/415905a
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (547K) | Supplementary information
Evolution of a transcriptional repression domain in an insect Hox protein p910
Ron Galant and Sean B. Carroll
doi:10.1038/nature717
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See also: News and Views by Levine
Hox protein mutation and macroevolution of the insect body plan p914
Matthew Ronshaugen, Nadine McGinnis and William McGinnis
doi:10.1038/nature716
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See also: News and Views by Levine
Numerical representation for action in the parietal cortex of the monkey p918
Hiromasa Sawamura, Keisetsu Shima and Jun Tanji
doi:10.1038/415918a
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BH3-only Bcl-2 family member Bim is required for apoptosis of autoreactive thymocytes p922
Philippe Bouillet, Jared F. Purton, Dale I. Godfrey, Li-Chen Zhang, Leigh Coultas, Hamsa Puthalakath, Marc Pellegrini, Suzanne Cory, Jerry M. Adams and Andreas Strasser
doi:10.1038/415922a
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De novo pyrimidine biosynthesis is required for virulence of Toxoplasma gondii p926
Barbara A. Fox and David J. Bzik
doi:10.1038/415926a
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See also: News and Views by Sibley
A Rad26–Def1 complex coordinates repair and RNA pol II proteolysis in response to DNA damage p929
Elies C. Woudstra, Chris Gilbert, Jane Fellows, Lars Jansen, Jaap Brouwer, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Paul Tempst and Jesper Q. Svejstrup
doi:10.1038/415929a
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Structural basis for acidic-cluster-dileucine sorting-signal recognition by VHS domains p933
Saurav Misra, Rosa Puertollano, Yukio Kato, Juan S. Bonifacino and James H. Hurley
doi:10.1038/415933a
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Structural basis for recognition of acidic-cluster dileucine sequence by GGA1 p937
Tomoo Shiba, Hiroyuki Takatsu, Terukazu Nogi, Naohiro Matsugaki, Masato Kawasaki, Noriyuki Igarashi, Mamoru Suzuki, Ryuichi Kato, Thomas Earnest, Kazuhisa Nakayama and Soichi Wakatsuki
doi:10.1038/415937a
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doi:10.1038/415942a
