Table of contents
Volume 425 Number 6961 pp885-989
Editorials
Timing is everything p885
If you're a morning person, you know how hard it is to function properly late at night. And don't even think of getting a night owl to talk sense at daybreak. Yet our society largely ignores these important differences.
doi:10.1038/425885a
Don't create a climate of fear p885
US researchers studying sexual behaviour, drug use and other controversial topics need protection from political interference.
doi:10.1038/425885b
News
US launches joint effort to probe dark secrets of the Universe p887
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/425887a
Canada prepares to pull the plug on fusion project p887
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/425887b
Space station light show sparks aurora riddle p888
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/425888a
Democrats condemn government 'meddling' with NIH p888
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/425888b
South Florida rocked as dean quits over political funding p889
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/425889a
Marine survey sees net gain in number of fish species p889
Betsy Mason
doi:10.1038/425889b
Biodiversity schemes take root in China p890
David Cyranoski
doi:10.1038/425890a
Europe kills cash flow to EURESCO science meetings p890
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/425890b
Doubts swirl around plan to use rigs as reefs p891
Betsy Mason
doi:10.1038/425891a
News Features
Fertilized to death p894
Vast quantities of nitrogen being poured onto farmers' fields are wreaking havoc with our forests. Nicola Nosengo investigates.
doi:10.1038/425894a
Restless nights, listless days p896
More and more people's working and social lives are blighted by skewed sleep patterns. Is it time for the medical mainstream to take notice of what neuroscientists are learning about the body clock? Alison Abbott reports.
doi:10.1038/425896a
Correspondence
Middle East: trying to break down the barriers p899
Collaborations are welcome, but can science ever thrive while the conflict continues?
Bassam R. Ali
doi:10.1038/425899a
Middle East: a picture is worth a thousand words p899
Joel Bigman
doi:10.1038/425899b
Timaeus's insight on the shape of the Universe p899
Claudio Giomini
doi:10.1038/425899c
Chemists enthusiastic to embrace change p899
Daryle Busch and Eli Pearce
doi:10.1038/425899d
Books and Arts
Completing the helix trilogy p901
Maurice Wilkins, who shared a Nobel with Crick and Watson, tells his story.
Raymond Gosling reviews The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins by Maurice Wilkins
doi:10.1038/425901a
Hearty fare? p902
Marion Nestle reviews Coronary Artery Disease: Genes, Drugs, and the Agricultural Connection by Ole Færgeman
doi:10.1038/425902a
Dear diary... p902
Nancy Rothwell and Siobhan Blagbrough review Science, Not Art: Ten Scientists' Diaries
doi:10.1038/425902b
Quantity control p903
David Lindley reviews Measure for Measure: The Story of Imperial, Metric, and Other Units by Alex Hebra
doi:10.1038/425903a
Science in culture p904
Philip Ball reviews
doi:10.1038/425904a
Concepts
Clinical proteomics: Written in blood p905
Lance A. Liotta, Mauro Ferrari and Emanuel Petricoin
doi:10.1038/425905a
News and Views
Molecular neuroscience: BAC-to-BAC images of the brain p907
A large-scale effort to uncover the gene-expression profiles of individual neurons and create a demographic atlas of the brain is under way. First data from this project are revealing new information about neuronal development.
Huda Y. Zoghbi
doi:10.1038/425907a
Black holes: Sparks of interest p908
Why is the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy so dim, when those in other galaxies can outshine the stars around them? Newly discovered bursts of infrared radiation may give the first clues to what is going on.
Ramesh Narayan
doi:10.1038/425908a
Physiology: Foreman in the bone factory p909
Amanda Tromans
doi:10.1038/425909a
100 and 50 years ago p910
doi:10.1038/425910a
Palaeontology: Smart-winged pterosaurs p910
Why did ancient flying reptiles have so much processing-power in the back of their brain? To provide highly responsive flight control, is an answer to emerge from an innovative analysis of pterosaur skulls.
David M. Unwin
doi:10.1038/425910b
Medical technology: Balancing the unbalanced p911
Elderly but healthy people are often seriously injured in falls. Exploiting the phenomenon of stochastic resonance, biological physicists have designed a shoe with a vibrating insole that helps maintain balance.
Frank Moss and John G. Milton
doi:10.1038/425911a
Neuroscience: States of mind p912
In the brains of anaesthetized animals, neurons create spontaneous patterns of activity that resemble representations of visual stimuli. This finding may change our notions about visual perception.
Dario L. Ringach
doi:10.1038/425912a
Photonics: Defective quality p912
Ed Gerstner
doi:10.1038/425912b
News and views in brief p914
doi:10.1038/425914a
Brief Communications
Virology: SARS virus infection of cats and ferrets p915
There is now a choice of animal models for testing therapies against the human virus.
Byron E. E. Martina, Bart L. Haagmans, Thijs Kuiken, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Guus F. Rimmelzwaan, Geert van Amerongen, J. S. Malik Peiris, Wilina Lim and Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus
doi:10.1038/425915a
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Palaeontology: Preserved organs of Devonian harvestmen p916
Jason A. Dunlop, Lyall I. Anderson, Hans Kerp and Hagen Hass
doi:10.1038/425916a
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Articles
A gene expression atlas of the central nervous system based on bacterial artificial chromosomes p917
Shiaoching Gong, Chen Zheng, Martin L. Doughty, Kasia Losos, Nicholas Didkovsky, Uta B. Schambra, Norma J. Nowak, Alexandra Joyner, Gabrielle Leblanc, Mary E. Hatten and Nathaniel Heintz
doi:10.1038/nature02033
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See also: News and Views by Zoghbi
Motor neuron columnar fate imposed by sequential phases of Hox-c activity p926
Jeremy S. Dasen, Jeh-Ping Liu and Thomas M. Jessell
doi:10.1038/nature02051
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Letters to Nature
Near-infrared flares from accreting gas around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre p934
R. Genzel, R. Schödel, T. Ott, A. Eckart, T. Alexander, F. Lacombe, D. Rouan and B. Aschenbach
doi:10.1038/nature02065
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See also: News and Views by Narayan
Controlled collisions for multi-particle entanglement of optically trapped atoms p937
Olaf Mandel, Markus Greiner, Artur Widera, Tim Rom, Theodor W. Hänsch and Immanuel Bloch
doi:10.1038/nature02008
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Demonstration of conditional gate operation using superconducting charge qubits p941
T. Yamamoto, Yu. A. Pashkin, O. Astafiev, Y. Nakamura and J. S. Tsai
doi:10.1038/nature02015
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High-Q photonic nanocavity in a two-dimensional photonic crystal p944
Yoshihiro Akahane, Takashi Asano, Bong-Shik Song and Susumu Noda
doi:10.1038/nature02063
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See also: News and Views by Gerstner
High interannual variability of sea ice thickness in the Arctic region p947
Seymour Laxon, Neil Peacock and Doug Smith
doi:10.1038/nature02050
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Neuroanatomy of flying reptiles and implications for flight, posture and behaviour p950
Lawrence M. Witmer, Sankar Chatterjee, Jonathan Franzosa and Timothy Rowe
doi:10.1038/nature02048
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See also: News and Views by Unwin
Spontaneously emerging cortical representations of visual attributes p954
Tal Kenet, Dmitri Bibitchkov, Misha Tsodyks, Amiram Grinvald and Amos Arieli
doi:10.1038/nature02078
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See also: News and Views by Ringach
Positioning of follicular dendritic cells within the spleen controls prion neuroinvasion p957
Marco Prinz, Mathias Heikenwalder, Tobias Junt, Petra Schwarz, Markus Glatzel, Frank L. Heppner, Yang-Xin Fu, Martin Lipp and Adriano Aguzzi
doi:10.1038/nature02072
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Bmi-1 dependence distinguishes neural stem cell self-renewal from progenitor proliferation p962
Anna V. Molofsky, Ricardo Pardal, Toshihide Iwashita, In-Kyung Park, Michael F. Clarke and Sean J. Morrison
doi:10.1038/nature02060
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Fusion of bone-marrow-derived cells with Purkinje neurons, cardiomyocytes and hepatocytes p968
Manuel Alvarez-Dolado, Ricardo Pardal, Jose M. Garcia-Verdugo, John R. Fike, Hyun O. Lee, Klaus Pfeffer, Carlos Lois, Sean J. Morrison and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
doi:10.1038/nature02069
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SNARE-protein-mediated disease resistance at the plant cell wall p973
Nicholas C. Collins, Hans Thordal-Christensen, Volker Lipka, Stephan Bau, Erich Kombrink, Jin-Long Qiu, Ralph Hückelhoven, Mónica Stein, Andreas Freialdenhoven, Shauna C. Somerville and Paul Schulze-Lefert
doi:10.1038/nature02076
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Bone recognition mechanism of porcine osteocalcin from crystal structure p977
Quyen Q. Hoang, Frank Sicheri, Andrew J. Howard and Daniel S. C. Yang
doi:10.1038/nature02079
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ATP-dependent reduction of cysteine–sulphinic acid by S. cerevisiae sulphiredoxin p980
Benoît Biteau, Jean Labarre and Michel B. Toledano
doi:10.1038/nature02075
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New on the Market
From monoclonals to markers p985
New equipment and reagents with a neurosciences slant.
doi:10.1038/425985a
Naturejobs
ProspectsRisky business p987
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6961-987a
SPECIAL REPORT
Making the switch from science to business p988
Grant schemes supporting scientific entrepreneurs have induced job growth in the United States, but they haven't yet crossed the Atlantic, says Eugene Russo.
Eugene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj6961-988a
