Table of contents
Volume 428 Number 6986 pp877-967
Editorials
Enlightened enlargement p877
At last, the European Union is to be joined by eastern countries, many of which have strong scientific traditions. But whether they can recapture past glories depends on the wisdom of new investment.
doi:10.1038/428877a
Robots in space p877
NASA should support the development of robots for use in space exploration — and we would all share the benefits.
doi:10.1038/428877b
News
Young biologists rejected as NIH budget squeezes training grants p879
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/428879a
Trainee let down as allergy institute withdraws support p879
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/428879b
Livermore plans ignite protests over nuclear weapons p880
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/428880a
Cardiologists take heart from stem-cell treatment success p880
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/428880b
Anthropologists rocked by fossil access row p881
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/428881a
Gates grant helps Africa develop science academies p881
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/428881b
Britain seeks compromise on animal research p882
Laura Nelson
doi:10.1038/428882a
Victims of extremists join together to change the law p882
Laura Nelson
doi:10.1038/428882b
Fishy predator gets its teeth into ancient climate history p883
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/428883a
Money changes hands in key bank transaction p883
Eva Schillinger
doi:10.1038/428883b
News Features
Art conservation: Biology for art's sake p886
Paintings and other works of art are under attack from insects and fungi. Conventional pesticides don't help — they, too, can damage precious artefacts. Hannah Hoag meets a biologist who is finding gentler alternatives.
doi:10.1038/428886a
Planetary exploration: A job for the droids? p888
If NASA wants to build a Moon base or put human footprints on Mars, its astronauts are going to need a lot of help from robots. Does Houston have the technology? Tony Reichhardt investigates.
doi:10.1038/428888a
Correspondence
Ten-year review of research in South Africa p891
Government is tackling the R&D crisis caused by a shift of focus to service delivery.
Jerome A. Singh
doi:10.1038/428891a
Injustice of draft law will speed Italy's brain drain p891
David Burr
doi:10.1038/428891b
ITER, fusion for humanity p891
David King
doi:10.1038/428891c
Commentary
Dreaming of clean nukes p892
Can the Pentagon defend its plans for new nuclear bombs?
doi:10.1038/428892a
Books and Arts
Engineering for animals p893
Biomechanics explores natural solutions to the physical problems of living.
Daniel E. Lieberman reviews Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World by Steven Vogel
doi:10.1038/428893a
Plotting the course of climate change p894
Myles Allen reviews Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
doi:10.1038/428894a
A scientific empire? p894
Ziauddin Sardar reviews Science, Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
doi:10.1038/428894b
Science in culture p895
Poets and scientists join forces in the name of conservation.
Peter Bennett reviews
doi:10.1038/428895a
Concert: Electronic evolution p896
Juliane C. Mössinger and Claudio R. Alonso
doi:10.1038/428896a
Essay
Turning pointsLearning from the Altmeister p897
How reading Ernst Mayr's books (in his bathtub) changed my research.
Axel Meyer
doi:10.1038/428897a
News and Views
Evolutionary biology: The cod that got away p899
Commercial fishing can reduce the age and size at which fish mature. But it has been unclear whether this reflects changes in genes or in physical responses to the environment. A look at Atlantic cod provides an answer.
Jeffrey A. Hutchings
doi:10.1038/428899a
Astrophysics: Jump-start for a neutron star p900
Radio emission from one of the neutron stars in the 'double-pulsar' system is strangely enhanced in two sections of its orbit — stimulated, perhaps, by radiation from its companion.
Duncan Lorimer
doi:10.1038/428900a
Hearing: Tightrope act p901
A component of the 'tip link' that conveys tension to mechanically sensitive ion channels in the inner ear has been identified. The finding raises new questions about elastic elements in our hearing apparatus.
David P. Corey and Marcos Sotomayor
doi:10.1038/428901a
Meteoritics: Stars in stones p903
Silicate minerals that predate the Solar System have been detected inside primitive stony meteorites. Isotopic analysis suggests that the silicates probably condensed around dying ancient stars.
Sara Russell
doi:10.1038/428903a
100 and 50 years ago p903
doi:10.1038/428903b
Zoology: Nose of moose p904
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/428904a
Palaeoanthropology: Neanderthal teeth lined up p904
A huge amount of biological information is preserved in the growth records of teeth. Tapping into those records provides a tantalizing look at how quickly Neanderthals grew up and reached maturity.
Jay Kelley
doi:10.1038/428904b
Obituary: Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930–2004) p906
John W. Goodby
doi:10.1038/428906a
News and views in brief p907
doi:10.1038/428907a
Brief Communications
Animal behaviour: Geomagnetic map used in sea-turtle navigation p909
These migratory animals have their own equivalent of a global positioning system.
Kenneth J. Lohmann, Catherine M. F. Lohmann, Llewellyn M. Ehrhart, Dean A. Bagley and Timothy Swing
doi:10.1038/428909a
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Environment: Whale-call response to masking boat noise p910
Andrew D. Foote, Richard W. Osborne and A. Rus Hoelzel
doi:10.1038/428910a
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Review
The path to ubiquitous and low-cost organic electronic appliances on plastic p911
Stephen R. Forrest
doi:10.1038/nature02498
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Letters to Nature
The geometry of the double-pulsar system J0737–3039 from systematic intensity variations p919
Fredrick A. Jenet and Scott M. Ransom
doi:10.1038/nature02509
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See also: News and Views by Lorimer
Stardust silicates from primitive meteorites p921
Kazuhide Nagashima, Alexander N. Krot and Hisayoshi Yurimoto
doi:10.1038/nature02510
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (287K)
See also: News and Views by Russell
Carbon nanotubes as nanoscale mass conveyors p924
B. C. Regan, S. Aloni, R. O. Ritchie, U. Dahmen and A. Zettl
doi:10.1038/nature02496
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Interdecadal variation in the extent of South Pacific tropical waters during the Younger Dryas event p927
Thierry Corrège, Michael K. Gagan, J. Warren Beck, George S. Burr, Guy Cabioch and Florence Le Cornec
doi:10.1038/nature02506
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Polysaccharide aggregation as a potential sink of marine dissolved organic carbon p929
Anja Engel, Silke Thoms, Ulf Riebesell, Emma Rochelle-Newall and Ingrid Zondervan
doi:10.1038/nature02453
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Maturation trends indicative of rapid evolution preceded the collapse of northern cod p932
Esben M. Olsen, Mikko Heino, George R. Lilly, M. Joanne Morgan, John Brattey, Bruno Ernande and Ulf Dieckmann
doi:10.1038/nature02430
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See also: News and Views by Hutchings
Surprisingly rapid growth in Neanderthals p936
Fernando V. Ramirez Rozzi and José Maria Bermudez de Castro
doi:10.1038/nature02428
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See also: News and Views by Kelley
Sperm death and dumping in Drosophila p939
Rhonda R. Snook and David J. Hosken
doi:10.1038/nature02455
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Detecting selection using a single genome sequence of M. tuberculosis and P. falciparum p942
Joshua B. Plotkin, Jonathan Dushoff and Hunter B. Fraser
doi:10.1038/nature02458
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Regulation of ethylene gas biosynthesis by the Arabidopsis ETO1 protein p945
Kevin L.-C. Wang, Hitoshi Yoshida, Claire Lurin and Joseph R. Ecker
doi:10.1038/nature02516
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Cadherin 23 is a component of the tip link in hair-cell stereocilia p950
Jan Siemens, Concepcion Lillo, Rachel A. Dumont, Anna Reynolds, David S. Williams, Peter G. Gillespie and Ulrich Müller
doi:10.1038/nature02483
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Mutations in cadherin 23 affect tip links in zebrafish sensory hair cells p955
Christian Söllner, Gerd-Jörg Rauch, Jan Siemens, Robert Geisler, Stephan C. Schuster, the Tübingen 2000 Screen Consortium, Ulrich Müller and Teresa Nicolson
doi:10.1038/nature02484
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Splicing of oskar RNA in the nucleus is coupled to its cytoplasmic localization p959
Olivier Hachet and Anne Ephrussi
doi:10.1038/nature02521
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Erratum: Enzymic activation and transfer of fatty acids as acyl-adenylates in mycobacteria p963
Omita A. Trivedi, Pooja Arora, Vijayalakshmi Sridharan, Rashmi Tickoo, Debasisa Mohanty and Rajesh S. Gokhale
doi:10.1038/nature02537
Naturejobs
ProspectsState of the unions p965
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6986-965a
Careers and Recruitment
New lease of life for tropical medicine p966
Born of necessity in the Victorian era, tropical medicine has been given a new impetus by genomics, philanthropy and an increasing awareness of the toll of tropical diseases. This is leading to new opportunities in tropical-disease research. Eugene Russo reports.
Eugene Russo
doi:10.1038/nj6986-966a
