Table of contents
Volume 416 Number 6876 pp1-107
Opinion
Supporting good citizenship? p1
With dialogue between science and society all the rage, it would seem sensible to start young. A scheme for school education means well, but will fizzle out without the required commitment from government.
doi:10.1038/416001a
How to encourage the right behaviour p1
The sharing of published data and research materials is a requirement of many journals. Can we ensure that it happens?
doi:10.1038/416001b
News
Britain banks on embryonic stem cells to gain competitive edge p3
David Adam
doi:10.1038/416003a
Call for cloning ban splits UN p3
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/416003b
News
White House sets three-point performance plan for science p4
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/416004a
Stem-cell reverse angers Australian biologists p4
Carina Dennis
doi:10.1038/416004b
Naturejobs
regionsNorth Carolina: Building the triangle p4
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6876-04a
News
Protests fail to block mountain-lion surveys p5
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/416005a
Citizenship gets a science angle p5
David Adam
doi:10.1038/416005b
Army HIV vaccine to undergo clinical trial as rival is halted p6
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/416006a
Congress seeks to keep Sea Grant in its current harbour p6
Virginia Gewin
doi:10.1038/416006b
Bubble fusion dispute reaches boiling point p7
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/416007a
news feature
Gravity measurement: Amazing grace p10
Two satellites that will chase one another around the globe are poised to map the Earth's gravitational field with unprecedented accuracy. Researchers are feeling the pull of the data, says David Adam.
David Adam
doi:10.1038/416010a
Neurobiology: Music, maestro, please! p12
Neuroscientists are starting to discover how our brains process music. This involves distinct neural circuits, but a mystery remains. Why are melody, harmony and rhythm so important to us? Alison Abbott tunes in.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/416012a
Correspondence
Curtain has fallen on hopes of legal bioprospecting p15
Local communities, too, could have benefited from better health care and conservation.
Joshua Rosenthal
doi:10.1038/416015a
Don't fight fire with fire p15
Rob Whelan
doi:10.1038/416015b
Book Reviews
The book of revelation p17
Discomfiting last words from an icon of evolutionary biology.
Olivia P. Judson reviews The Collected Papers of W. D. Hamilton: Narrow Roads of Gene Land. Volume 2: Evolution of Sex by W.D. Hamilton
doi:10.1038/416017a
A revolutionary way with weirdness p18
Seth Lloyd reviews Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang
doi:10.1038/416018a
Beautiful beetles p18
doi:10.1038/416018b
Notes on a cultural theme p19
David Juritz reviews Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture by William Benzon
doi:10.1038/416019a
News and Views
Biodiversity: Biodiversity equals instability? p23
An understanding of how ecosystems function is vital in guiding human use of natural resources. New work will fuel further debate over the knotty problem of how an ecosystem's diversity and stability are interlinked.
Shahid Naeem
doi:10.1038/416023a
Applied physics: Spin spotting p24
Being able to measure electronic spin is essential for future technologies such as 'spintronics'. The combination of two imaging methods for effective spin-detection has now been demonstrated.
Hari C. Manoharan
doi:10.1038/416024a
Neurobiology: A cool ion channel p27
Researchers are getting warm in their search for the details of cold detection. The discovery of a cold-sensitive ion channel will help dissect how the nervous system encodes and decodes the temperature spectrum.
Charles S. Zuker
doi:10.1038/416027a
100 and 50 years ago p27
doi:10.1038/416027b
Biogeochemistry: That's life? p28
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/416028a
Astronomy: How big stars are made p29
We know little about the formation of stars that are many times heavier than our Sun. A new model, which estimates how long massive stars take to form, could be tested with data from telescope arrays.
Susana Lizano
doi:10.1038/416029a
Cell biology: Ripping up the nuclear envelope p31
During cell division, the membranes that surround the nucleus must be dismantled to allow the DNA housed inside the nucleus to be partitioned into two daughter cells. New work shows how this happens.
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
doi:10.1038/416031a
Human evolution: Tangled genetic routes p32
It is generally accepted that early human evolution took place in Africa, with human populations spreading from there. Using genetics to trace events in more detail remains a challenging task.
Rebecca L. Cann
doi:10.1038/416032a
Daedalus: Solid cooling p33
David Jones
doi:10.1038/416033a
Obituary: Robert Hanbury Brown (1916–2002) p34
Bernard Lovell and Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/416034a
Brief Communications
Remote sensing: Searching for new islands in sea ice p35
Coastlines concealed in polar seas are now more accessible to cartography.
Johan J. Mohr and Rene Forsberg
doi:10.1038/416035a
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Palaeontology: 'Modern' feathers on a non-avian dinosaur p36
Mark Norell, Qiang Ji, Keqin Gao, Chongxi Yuan, Yibin Zhao and Lixia Wang
doi:10.1038/416036a
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Fibre science: Supercontraction stress in wet spider dragline p37
Fraser I. Bell, Iain J. McEwen and Christopher Viney
doi:10.1038/416037a
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Anhydrobiosis: Plant desiccation gene found in a nematode p38
John Browne, Alan Tunnacliffe and Ann Burnell
doi:10.1038/416038a
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Review
Determining the composition of the Earth p39
Michael J. Drake and Kevin Righter
doi:10.1038/416039a
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Articles
Out of Africa again and again p45
Alan Templeton
doi:10.1038/416045a
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See also: News and Views by Cann
Identification of a cold receptor reveals a general role for TRP channels in thermosensation p52
David D. McKemy, Werner M. Neuhausser and David Julius
doi:10.1038/nature719
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See also: News and Views by Zuker
Letters to Nature
Massive star formation in 100,000 years from turbulent and pressurized molecular clouds p59
Christopher F. McKee and Jonathan C. Tan
doi:10.1038/416059a
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See also: News and Views by Lizano
Coherent emission of light by thermal sources p61
Jean-Jacques Greffet, Rémi Carminati, Karl Joulain, Jean-Philippe Mulet, Stéphane Mainguy and Yong Chen
doi:10.1038/416061a
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A general process for in situ formation of functional surface layers on ceramics p64
Toshihiro Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Yamaoka, Yoshikatsu Harada, Teruaki Fujii and Toshio Nagasawa
doi:10.1038/416064a
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Observation and interpretation of a time-delayed mechanism in the hydrogen exchange reaction p67
Stuart C. Althorpe, Félix Fernández-Alonso, Brian D. Bean, James D. Ayers, Andrew E. Pomerantz, Richard N. Zare and Eckart Wrede
doi:10.1038/416067a
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Glacial–interglacial stability of ocean pH inferred from foraminifer dissolution rates p70
David M. Anderson and David Archer
doi:10.1038/416070a
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Laser–Raman imagery of Earth's earliest fossils p73
J. William Schopf, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev, David G. Agresti, Thomas J. Wdowiak and Andrew D. Czaja
doi:10.1038/416073a
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See also: News and Views by Gee
Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils p76
Martin D. Brasier, Owen R. Green, Andrew P. Jephcoat, Annette K. Kleppe, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, John F. Lindsay, Andrew Steele and Nathalie V. Grassineau
doi:10.1038/416076a
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See also: News and Views by Gee
Arctic microorganisms respond more to elevated UV-B radiation than CO2 p82
David Johnson, Colin D. Campbell, John A. Lee, Terry V. Callaghan and Dylan Gwynn-Jones
doi:10.1038/416082a
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Diversity-dependent production can decrease the stability of ecosystem functioning p84
Andrea B. Pfisterer and Bernhard Schmid
doi:10.1038/416084a
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See also: News and Views by Naeem
Chimaeric sounds reveal dichotomies in auditory perception p87
Zachary M. Smith, Bertrand Delgutte and Andrew J. Oxenham
doi:10.1038/416087a
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Long-term plasticity in hippocampal place-cell representation of environmental geometry p90
Colin Lever, Tom Wills, Francesca Cacucci, Neil Burgess and John O'Keefe
doi:10.1038/416090a
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Balanced responsiveness to chemoattractants from adjacent zones determines B-cell position p94
Karin Reif, Eric H. Ekland, Lars Ohl, Hideki Nakano, Martin Lipp, Reinhold Förster and Jason G. Cyster
doi:10.1038/416094a
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Ubiquitination-dependent cofactor exchange on LIM homeodomain transcription factors p99
Heather P. Ostendorff, Reto I. Peirano, Marvin A. Peters, Anne Schlüter, Michael Bossenz, Martin Scheffner and Ingolf Bach
doi:10.1038/416099a
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Structure of the HP1 chromodomain bound to histone H3 methylated at lysine 9 p103
Peter R. Nielsen, Daniel Nietlispach, Helen R. Mott, Juliana Callaghan, Andrew Bannister, Tony Kouzarides, Alexey G. Murzin, Natalia V. Murzina and Ernest D. Laue
doi:10.1038/nature722
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