Table of contents
Volume 429 Number 6993 pp685-788
In this issue (17 June 2004)
Editorials
Schools at 1020 eV and beyond p685
A project that explores a research frontier, attracts high-school students of both sexes and diverse ethnicities and that can be scaled up to international level deserves not only celebration but also the 
1-million support that it has just won.
doi:10.1038/429685a
On with the show p685
Why scientists should support an artist in trouble.
doi:10.1038/429685b
News
Scientists cry foul as Elsevier axes paper on cancer mortality p687
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/429687a
Funding review set to buck up basic research p688
Jim Giles
doi:10.1038/429688a
Fresh study questions oldest traces of life in Akilia rock p688
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/429688b
Dutch set the pace in bid to clean up diet supplements p689
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/429689a
Genomics institute rejects Venter's streamlining plan p689
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/429689b
Future brightens for Eddington project to hunt distant planets p690
Laura Nelson
doi:10.1038/429690a
Bacteria raid may lead to trial for artist tackling biodefence p690
Geoff Brumfiel
doi:10.1038/429690b
Stem-cell library boosts the case for change p691
Erika Check
doi:10.1038/429691a
Alcohol report directs drinkers to their doctors p691
Helen Pearson
doi:10.1038/429691b
News Features
Oil exploration: Every last drop p694
The price of petrol is going up and new oil discoveries are declining. Can underground fires and hydrocarbon-hungry bacteria keep the oil flowing? Jim Giles finds out.
doi:10.1038/429694a
Mental health: Asia's tigers get the blues p696
Mental illness, in particular depression, seems to be on the rise throughout East Asia. Why is this so? And can psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry together turn back the tide? Carina Dennis investigates.
doi:10.1038/429696a
Correspondence
European science must embrace modernization p699
Researchers in the United States benefit from having more money, mobility and flexibility.
Peter Andras and Bruce G. Charlton
doi:10.1038/429699a
Reliable regional climate model not yet on horizon p699
Michael MacCracken, Joel Smith and Anthony C. Janetos
doi:10.1038/429699b
Fame and popularity are no bar to Royal Society p699
John Enderby and David Read
doi:10.1038/429699c
Books and Arts
Beyond artificial intelligence p701
Does a program help us to make sense of the world?
Igor Aleksander reviews What is Thought? by Eric B. Baum
doi:10.1038/429701a
Split decision p702
Frank Close reviews The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Small Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the Race to Split the Atom by Brain Cathcart
doi:10.1038/429702a
To see and not to see p703
Manfred Fahle reviews Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision by Melvyn Goodale and David Milner
doi:10.1038/429703a
Exhibition: Retreat of the ice giants p703
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/429703b
Essay
ConceptThe ties that bind p705
Attachment: the nature of the bonds between humans are becoming accessible to scientific investigation.
Melvin Konner
doi:10.1038/429705a
News and Views
Planetary science: On Earth, as it is on Mars? p707
The small spheres of haematite, nicknamed 'blueberries', that litter the Mars landing site of NASA's rover Opportunity might have an analogue on Earth, formed from groundwater in southern Utah.
David C. Catling
doi:10.1038/429707a
Molecular biology: The loader of the rings p708
Among the numerous molecular machines involved in the process of DNA replication are the ring-shaped sliding clamp and the clamp loader. Intriguing structural details of their interaction are now revealed.
Michael A. Trakselis and Stephen D. Bell
doi:10.1038/429708a
Laser physics: Fantastic plastic p709
Plastics are ubiquitous, thanks to the cheapness and versatility of these materials. Now plastic lasers are in prospect, battery-operated for low-cost communication and display applications.
Ifor D. W. Samuel
doi:10.1038/429709a
100 and 50 years ago p710
doi:10.1038/429710a
Neurobiology: Why voles stick together p711
The tendency for animals to form social bonds after sexual activity varies greatly from species to species. Work with voles illuminates a molecular pathway in the brain that influences such differences.
Evan Balaban
doi:10.1038/429711a
Quantum physics: Push-button teleportation p712
Two groups have succeeded in teleporting quantum states between different atoms — a spectacular advance in the quest to achieve quantum computation.
H. J. Kimble and S. J. van Enk
doi:10.1038/429712a
Atmospheric chemistry: Fire and ice p713
Meinrat O. Andreae
doi:10.1038/429713a
Obituary: Carl-Ivar Brändén (1934–2004) p714
Ingemar Ernberg and Kenneth C. Holmes
doi:10.1038/429714a
news and views in brief p715
doi:10.1038/429715a
Articles
Routing of spike series by dynamic circuits in the hippocampus p717
Frédéric Pouille and Massimo Scanziani
doi:10.1038/nature02615
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1,050K) | Supplementary information
Structural analysis of a eukaryotic sliding DNA clamp–clamp loader complex p724
Gregory D. Bowman, Mike O'Donnell and John Kuriyan
doi:10.1038/nature02585
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (599K) | Supplementary information
See also: News and Views by Trakselis & Bell
Letters to Nature
A possible terrestrial analogue for haematite concretions on Mars p731
Marjorie A. Chan, Brenda Beitler, W. T. Parry, Jens Ormö and Goro Komatsu
doi:10.1038/nature02600
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (322K)
See also: News and Views by Catling
Deterministic quantum teleportation with atoms p734
M. Riebe, H. Häffner, C. F. Roos, W. Hänsel, J. Benhelm, G. P. T. Lancaster, T. W. Körber, C. Becher, F. Schmidt-Kaler, D. F. V. James and R. Blatt
doi:10.1038/nature02570
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (186K)
See also: News and Views by Kimble & van Enk
Deterministic quantum teleportation of atomic qubits p737
M. D. Barrett, J. Chiaverini, T. Schaetz, J. Britton, W. M. Itano, J. D. Jost, E. Knill, C. Langer, D. Leibfried, R. Ozeri and D. J. Wineland
doi:10.1038/nature02608
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (161K)
See also: News and Views by Kimble & van Enk
In situ observation of colloidal monolayer nucleation driven by an alternating electric field p739
Ke-Qin Zhang and Xiang Y. Liu
doi:10.1038/nature02630
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (325K) | Supplementary information
The influence of ridge migration on the magmatic segmentation of mid-ocean ridges p743
S. M. Carbotte, C. Small and K. Donnelly
doi:10.1038/nature02652
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (317K) | Supplementary information
Radiocarbon evidence of mid-Holocene mammoths stranded on an Alaskan Bering Sea island p746
R. Dale Guthrie
doi:10.1038/nature02612
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (238K) | Supplementary information
Upwelling-driven nearshore hypoxia signals ecosystem and oceanographic changes in the northeast Pacific p749
Brian A. Grantham, Francis Chan, Karina J. Nielsen, David S. Fox, John A. Barth, Adriana Huyer, Jane Lubchenco and Bruce A. Menge
doi:10.1038/nature02605
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (444K) | Supplementary information
Enhanced partner preference in a promiscuous species by manipulating the expression of a single gene p754
Miranda M. Lim, Zuoxin Wang, Daniel E. Olazábal, Xianghui Ren, Ernest F. Terwilliger and Larry J. Young
doi:10.1038/nature02539
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (269K)
See also: News and Views by Balaban
Local-feature assembling in visual pattern recognition and generalization in honeybees p758
Silke Stach, Julie Benard and Martin Giurfa
doi:10.1038/nature02594
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (291K)
Structural basis of long-term potentiation in single dendritic spines p761
Masanori Matsuzaki, Naoki Honkura, Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies and Haruo Kasai
doi:10.1038/nature02617
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (421K) | Supplementary information
Mechanoelectrical transduction of adult outer hair cells studied in a gerbil hemicochlea p766
David Z. Z. He, Shuping Jia and Peter Dallos
doi:10.1038/nature02591
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (378K)
Sirt1 promotes fat mobilization in white adipocytes by repressing PPAR-
p771
Frédéric Picard, Martin Kurtev, Namjin Chung, Acharawan Topark-Ngarm, Thanaset Senawong, Rita Machado de Oliveira, Mark Leid, Michael W. McBurney and Leonard Guarente
doi:10.1038/nature02583
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (590K)
Plant retinoblastoma homologues control nuclear proliferation in the female gametophyte p776
Chantal Ebel, Luisa Mariconti and Wilhelm Gruissem
doi:10.1038/nature02637
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (371K)
Structural basis of protein phosphatase 1 regulation p780
Mohammed Terrak, Frederic Kerff, Knut Langsetmo, Terence Tao and Roberto Dominguez
doi:10.1038/nature02582
First paragraph | Full Text | PDF (433K) | Supplementary information
Naturejobs
ProspectsMental barriers p785
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/nj6993-785a
Postdocs
Stars in the making p786
Faster than a speeding centrifuge... able to write grant proposals in a single bound... it's Superpostdoc! Kendall Powell tracks down these all-action figures.
Kendall Powell
doi:10.1038/nj6993-786a
Career View
Graduate Journal: A little Canadian goes a long way p788
Sidney Omelon
doi:10.1038/nj6993-788a
Scientists & Societies p788
Jeramia Ory
doi:10.1038/nj6993-788b
Movers p788
doi:10.1038/nj6993-788c
