Table of contents
Volume 415 Number 6875 pp3-1058
Naturejobs
ProspectsMoney worries p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6875-03a
POSTDOCS
At last, a chance for postdocs to learn how to teach p5
Karen Kreeger
doi:10.1038/nj6875-05a
movers
Biotechnology, Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Genomics p99
doi:10.1038/nj6875-99a
Opinion
A blast from the past p943
NASA is right to invest heavily in nuclear propulsion to speed the progress of future missions to the outer planets. But it may pay to complete our initial exploration of the Solar System the old-fashioned way.
doi:10.1038/415943a
Burdened by expectation p943
Japan is asking too much of its latest flagship initiative in the biological sciences.
doi:10.1038/415943b
News
Nuclear-weapons design plan raises fresh proliferation fears p945
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/415945a
Foreign researchers turn their backs on Germany p945
Quirin Schiermeier and Regina Wegner
doi:10.1038/415945b
Power vacuum expands as CDC director resigns p946
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/415946a
Minimum standards set out for gene-expression data p946
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/415946b
Reef under threat from 'bleaching' outbreak p947
Carina Dennis
doi:10.1038/415947a
Alleged flaws in gene-transfer paper spark row over genetically modified maize p948
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/415948a
Academy proposes tighter crop monitoring p948
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/415948b
Poor nations seek new biodiversity deal p949
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/415949a
Cutbacks cost jobs at agricultural institute p949
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/415949b
news feature
Japanese science: Rebirth and regeneration p952
Japan's Center for Developmental Biology aims to become a world leader in regenerative medicine. It also wants to break with a system blamed for stifling the creativity of young researchers. David Cyranoski reports.
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/415952a
Oceanography: Voyage of the argonauts p954
A global network of sea-going floats is set to transform our understanding of the world's oceans. As the data start to roll in, researchers are lining up the problems they hope to solve. Rex Dalton reports.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/415954a
Cryptozoology: Locking horns p956
Rival zoologists are sparring over some twisted horns from an Asian cow-like creature. Are the specimens the reality behind a Cambodian myth, or clever fakes by local artisans? John Whitfield sifts the evidence.
John Whitfield
doi:10.1038/415956a
Correspondence
Why impact factors don't work for taxonomy p957
Its long-term relevance, few specialists and lack of core journals put it outside ISI criteria.
Frank-Thorsten Krell
doi:10.1038/415957a
Physics gets physical p957
John Ellis
doi:10.1038/415957b
Book Reviews
Triumph of the naturalist p959
A unique data set from a natural laboratory of evolution.
Stephen Pruett-Jones reviews The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography by Ernst Mayr and Jared Diamond
doi:10.1038/415959a
Sustaining tropical agriculture p960
Calestous Juma reviews Exploring Agrodiversity by Harold Brookfield and Securing the Harvest: Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops by J. DeVries and G. Toenniessen
doi:10.1038/415960a
Science in culture p961
Richard Taylor reviews
doi:10.1038/415961a
concepts
Human spermatozoa: The future of sex p963
R. John Aitken and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
doi:10.1038/415963a
News and Views
Planetary science: Magnetic moments at Jupiter p965
The coming together of two spacecraft near Jupiter provided a unique opportunity to investigate the giant planet's magnetic field — and the results, collected in this issue, are stunning.
Thomas W. Hill
doi:10.1038/415965a
Nuclear transplantation: A monoclonal mouse? p967
One potential use of nuclear-transplantation — cloning — technology is to generate genetically matched tissues for treating adult patients. But there's a debate about whether mature adult cells are a good source of nuclei.
Janet Rossant
doi:10.1038/415967a
High-energy physics: The mass question p969
Do the elementary particles known as neutrinos have mass? Yes, according to recent experiments. But how much? A surprising — and controversial — result suggests that the answer is not what we thought.
Edward Witten
doi:10.1038/415969a
100 and 50 years ago p969
doi:10.1038/415969b
Biomechanics: Walking with tyrannosaurs p971
Tyrannosaurus terrorized the Earth — at least in the Hollywood version of history. But an estimate of the muscle volume in its hind legs suggests that the mighty giant could only walk, not run.
Andrew A. Biewener
doi:10.1038/415971a
Earth science: Slip-sliding away p973
The side of an oceanic volcano, one of the Hawaiian islands, has been caught sliding towards the sea. The distance concerned was only a few centimetres. But it could be an indicator of a huge landslip to come.
Steven N. Ward
doi:10.1038/415973a
Daedalus: Support for neutrons p974
David Jones
doi:10.1038/415974a
Brief Communications
Chemical communication: Mellifluous matures to malodorous in musth p975
Mood-altering secretions by excited male elephants smooth out social interactions.
L. E. L. Rasmussen, H. S. Riddle and V. Krishnamurthy
doi:10.1038/415975a
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Geomorphology (Communication arising): Age of long sediment cores from Lake Baikal p976
Alexander A. Prokopenko, Eugene B. Karabanov and Douglas F. Williams
doi:10.1038/415976a
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Geomorphology (Communication arising): Age of long sediment cores from Lake Baikal p976
Kenji Kashiwaya, Shinya Ochiai, Hideo Sakai and Takayoshi Kawai
doi:10.1038/415976b
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Article
MAP kinase signalling cascade in Arabidopsis innate immunity p977
Tsuneaki Asai, Guillaume Tena, Joulia Plotnikova, Matthew R. Willmann, Wan-Ling Chiu, Lourdes Gomez-Gomez, Thomas Boller, Frederick M. Ausubel and Jen Sheen
doi:10.1038/415977a
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Letters to Nature
Control of Jupiter's radio emission and aurorae by the solar wind p985
D. A. Gurnett, W. S. Kurth, G. B. Hospodarsky, A. M. Persoon, P. Zarka, A. Lecacheux, S. J. Bolton, M. D. Desch, W. M. Farrell, M. L. Kaiser, H.-P. Ladreiter, H. O. Rucker, P. Galopeau, P. Louarn, D. T. Young, W. R. Pryor and M. K. Dougherty
doi:10.1038/415985a
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See also: News and Views by Hill
Ultra-relativistic electrons in Jupiter's radiation belts p987
S. J. Bolton, M. Janssen, R. Thorne, S. Levin, M. Klein, S. Gulkis, T. Bastian, R. Sault, C. Elachi, M. Hofstadter, A. Bunker, G. Dulk, E. Gudim, G. Hamilton, W. T. K. Johnson, Y. Leblanc, O. Liepack, R. McLeod, J. Roller, L. Roth and R. West
doi:10.1038/415987a
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See also: News and Views by Hill
The dusk flank of Jupiter's magnetosphere p991
W. S. Kurth, D. A. Gurnett, G. B. Hospodarsky, W. M. Farrell, A. Roux, M. K. Dougherty, S. P. Joy, M. G. Kivelson, R. J. Walker, F. J. Crary and C. J. Alexander
doi:10.1038/415991a
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See also: News and Views by Hill
A nebula of gases from Io surrounding Jupiter p994
Stamatios M. Krimigis, Donald G. Mitchell, Douglas C. Hamilton, Jannis Dandouras, Thomas P. Armstrong, Scott J. Bolton, Andrew F. Cheng, George Gloeckler, K. C. Hsieh, Edwin P. Keath, Norbert Krupp, Andreas Lagg, Louis J. Lanzerotti, Stefano Livi, Barry H. Mauk, Richard W. McEntire, Edmond C. Roelof, Berend Wilken and Donald J. Williams
doi:10.1038/415994a
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See also: News and Views by Hill
Ultraviolet emissions from the magnetic footprints of Io, Ganymede and Europa on Jupiter p997
J. T. Clarke, J. Ajello, G. Ballester, L. Ben Jaffel, J. Connerney, J.-C. Gérard, G. R. Gladstone, D. Grodent, W. Pryor, J. Trauger and J. H. Waite, Jr
doi:10.1038/415997a
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See also: News and Views by Hill
A pulsating auroral X-ray hot spot on Jupiter p1000
G. R. Gladstone, J. H. Waite, Jr, D. Grodent, W. S. Lewis, F. J. Crary, R. F. Elsner, M. C. Weisskopf, T. Majeed, J.-M. Jahn, A. Bhardwaj, J. T. Clarke, D. T. Young, M. K. Dougherty, S. A. Espinosa and T. E. Cravens
doi:10.1038/4151000a
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See also: News and Views by Hill
Transient aurora on Jupiter from injections of magnetospheric electrons p1003
B. H. Mauk, J. T. Clarke, D. Grodent, J. H. Waite, Jr, C. P. Paranicas and D. J. Williams
doi:10.1038/4151003a
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Bandgap modulation of carbon nanotubes by encapsulated metallofullerenes p1005
Jhinhwan Lee, H. Kim, S.-J. Kahng, G. Kim, Y.-W. Son, J. Ihm, H. Kato, Z. W. Wang, T. Okazaki, H. Shinohara and Young Kuk
doi:10.1038/4151005a
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Factors determining crystal–liquid coexistence under shear p1008
Scott Butler and Peter Harrowell
doi:10.1038/4151008a
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High mixing rates in the abyssal Southern Ocean p1011
Karen J. Heywood, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato and David P. Stevens
doi:10.1038/4151011a
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Sudden aseismic fault slip on the south flank of Kilauea volcano p1014
Peter Cervelli, Paul Segall, Kaj Johnson, Michael Lisowski and Asta Miklius
doi:10.1038/4151014a
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See also: News and Views by Ward
Tyrannosaurus was not a fast runner p1018
John R. Hutchinson and Mariano Garcia
doi:10.1038/4151018a
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See also: News and Views by Biewener
Adaptive protein evolution in Drosophila p1022
Nick G. C. Smith and Adam Eyre-Walker
doi:10.1038/4151022a
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Testing the neutral theory of molecular evolution with genomic data from Drosophila p1024
Justin C. Fay, Gerald J. Wyckoff and Chung-I Wu
doi:10.1038/4151024a
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Brain potential and functional MRI evidence for how to handle two languages with one brain p1026
Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Michael Rotte, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Tömme Nösselt and Thomas F. Münte
doi:10.1038/4151026a
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Functional neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus p1030
Henriette van Praag, Alejandro F. Schinder, Brian R. Christie, Nicolas Toni, Theo D. Palmer and Fred H. Gage
doi:10.1038/4151030a
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Monoclonal mice generated by nuclear transfer from mature B and T donor cells p1035
Konrad Hochedlinger and Rudolf Jaenisch
doi:10.1038/nature718
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See also: News and Views by Rossant
MEC-2 regulates C. elegans DEG/ENaC channels needed for mechanosensation p1039
Miriam B. Goodman, Glen G. Ernstrom, Dattananda S. Chelur, Robert O'Hagan, C. Andrea Yao and Martin Chalfie
doi:10.1038/4151039a
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Characterization of a common precursor population for dendritic cells p1043
Gloria Martínez del Hoyo, Pilar Martín, Héctor Hernández Vargas, Sara Ruiz, Cristina Fernández Arias and Carlos Ardavín
doi:10.1038/4151043a
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A blue-light-activated adenylyl cyclase mediates photoavoidance in Euglena gracilis p1047
Mineo Iseki, Shigeru Matsunaga, Akio Murakami, Kaoru Ohno, Kiyoshi Shiga, Kazuichi Yoshida, Michizo Sugai, Tetsuo Takahashi, Terumitsu Hori and Masakatsu Watanabe
doi:10.1038/4151047a
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Structure and dynamics of KH domains from FBP bound to single-stranded DNA p1051
Demetrios T. Braddock, John M. Louis, James L. Baber, David Levens and G. Marius Clore
doi:10.1038/4151051a
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correction: Transmission potential of smallpox in contemporary populations p1056
Raymond Gani and Steve Leach
doi:10.1038/4151056a
New on the Market
Getting into the swing of things p1057
Focusing on centrifuges and general lab equipment.
doi:10.1038/4151057a