Table of contents
Volume 411 Number 6834 pp3-222
Naturejobs
prospectsWomen physicists needed p3
Paul Smaglik
doi:10.1038/35108040
SPECIAL REPORT
High-energy physics p4
The loss of one of CERN's most powerful tools could change the dynamics of employment for high-energy physicists in Europe, says Alexander Hellemans.
Alexander Hellemans
doi:10.1038/35108042
Opinion
Time for a bipartisan OTA p117
The US legislature is bereft of objective guidance on issues that underpin much of its work. A congressional Office of Technology Assessment should be reinstated as soon as possible, on a solid basis of bipartisan support.
doi:10.1038/35075707
An end to procrastination? p117
A new German bioethics council should lead to a prompt resolution of debates over stem cells.
doi:10.1038/35075709
News
Stem-cell research in doubt as funders clash with government p119
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35075711
Reprieve for Smithsonian centre p119
Corie Lok
doi:10.1038/35075714
Birthday meeting bemoans low profile of science office p120
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/35075716
Plans for missile defence system perturb physicists p120
Irwin Goodwin
doi:10.1038/35075719
Dissent grows over Helmholtz proposals p121
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/35075722
Mouse genome effort 'on course' p121
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35075725
Canada stakes claim on fusion energy project p122
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35075728
Inquiry set up into Porton Down nerve-gas death p122
David Adam
doi:10.1038/35075731
Europe brings experiments on chimpanzees to an end p123
Sally Goodman
doi:10.1038/35075735
Record donation from Silicon Valley pioneer goes to Stanford p123
Jonathan Knight
doi:10.1038/35075738
news feature
Decisions, decisions... p126
By recording the electrical activity of individual neurons in monkeys, neuroscientists are beginning to understand how the brain makes simple decisions. Bas Kast considers the links between perception and action.
Bas Kast
doi:10.1038/35075745
Private investigations p129
The tortuous tale of a probe into charges of scientific misconduct levelled at a rising neuroscientist raises questions about the adequacy of US procedures to tackle the problem. Rex Dalton reports.
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/35075752
Correspondence
Science should help teach children the meaning of humanity p131
Greg Kontos
doi:10.1038/35075631
Particle physicists need a common objective p131
Albrecht Wagner
doi:10.1038/35075633
No campaign to strip Baltimore of his Nobel p131
James D. Watson
doi:10.1038/35075635
How inbreeding affects productivity in Europe p132
Manuel Soler
doi:10.1038/35075637
Philanthropists are paying their dues p132
Ben A. Barres
doi:10.1038/35075639
Book Reviews
The hidden meanings of maps p133
Maps can convey far more about the world than the route from A to B.
Catherine Delano-Smith reviews The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography by J. B. Harley, Edited by Paul Laxton and Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination by Denis Cosgrove
doi:10.1038/35075641
Telling it like it really is p134
David L. Hull reviews Real Science: What it is, and What it Means by John Ziman
doi:10.1038/35075646
Voyager's treasures lost and found p135
John Gascoigne reviews The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768–1820
doi:10.1038/35075648
Mastermind of the bird world p136
Matthias Glaubrecht reviews Erwin Stresemann (1889–1972): Life and Work of a Pioneer of Scientific Ornithology by Jürgen Haffer, Erich Rutschke and Klaus Wunderlich
doi:10.1038/35075652
words
Floral tributes p137
Early science texts carried illustrations that are master-works in their own right.
H. W. Lack
doi:10.1038/35075675
News and Views
Evolving ideas of brain evolution p141
Recent analyses of an old data set are starting to reveal patterns in the evolution of mammalian brains. The latest study shows that mammalian groups are characterized by basic similarities in brain proportions.
Jon H. Kaas and Christine E. Collins
doi:10.1038/35075681
Climate change: The Indonesian valve p142
The behaviour of the North Atlantic is often invoked to explain the effects of climate change. But for certain episodes, including perhaps a period in human evolution, events elsewhere may have had a greater influence.
James D. Wright
doi:10.1038/35075684
Evolution: Developmental circuits rewired p143
Body segmentation occurs during the development of many invertebrate animals. Advances are being made by those striving to produce computer models of the genetic networks underlying the process.
Eörs Szathmáry
doi:10.1038/35075686
Astronomy: Young stars go cruising by p145
Astronomers have spotted a large number of newly formed stars near our Solar System. So there might be more going on in our Galactic neighbourhood than we thought.
Gibor Basri
doi:10.1038/35075690
Genomic stability: Hip-hopping out of control p146
'Jumping genes' can wreak havoc by hopping about a genome. Some plants can keep them under control by modifying them with certain chemical groups.
David E. Symer and Judith Bender
doi:10.1038/35075692
100 and 50 years ago p147
doi:10.1038/35075695
Evolutionary genomics: Sex and the X p149
Are genomes made up of strings of genes in no particular order? It seems not, given the abundance on the mouse sex chromosomes of genes involved in the manufacture of sperm.
Laurence D. Hurst
doi:10.1038/35075697
Earthquakes: Shock delay p150
Postseismic stress transfer is the local redistribution of stresses in the Earth's crust that follows an earthquake. It's a hot topic at the moment, and understandably so because of its relevance in assessing seismic hazards.
Elizabeth Harding Hearn
doi:10.1038/35075700
Computational biology: Beyond the spherical cow p151
Computational and mathematical models are helping biologists to understand the beating of a heart, the molecular dances underlying the cell-division cycle and cell movement, and much more.
John Doyle
doi:10.1038/35075703
Daedalus: The art of spinning p152
David Jones
doi:10.1038/35075705
Brief Communications
Spiny lobsters stick and slip to make sound p153
These crustaceans can scare off predators even when their usual armour turns soft.
Sheila N. Patek
doi:10.1038/35075656
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Plant development: Signals from mature to new leaves p154
J. A. Lake, W. P. Quick, D. J. Beerling and F. I. Woodward
doi:10.1038/35075660
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Biogeology: How old are bacteria from the Permian age? p155
Robert M. Hazen and Edwin Roedder
doi:10.1038/35075663
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Biogeology: How old are bacteria from the Permian age? p155
Dennis W. Powers, Russell H. Vreeland and William D. Rosenzweig
doi:10.1038/35075665
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Fisheries: Different behaviour of North and Irish Sea cod p156
David Righton, Julian Metcalfe and Paul Connolly
doi:10.1038/35075667
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Article
Closing of the Indonesian seaway as a precursor to east African aridification around 3–4 million years ago p157
Mark A. Cane and Peter Molnar
doi:10.1038/35075500
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See also: News and Views by Wright
Letters to Nature
Evidence for planet engulfment by the star HD82943 p163
G. Israelian, N. C. Santos, M. Mayor and R. Rebolo
doi:10.1038/35075512
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A complementarity experiment with an interferometer at the quantum–classical boundary p166
P. Bertet, S. Osnaghi, A. Rauschenbeutel, G. Nogues, A. Auffeves, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond and S. Haroche
doi:10.1038/35075517
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Semiconducting non-molecular nitrogen up to 240 GPa and its low-pressure stability p170
Mikhail I. Eremets, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao and Eugene Gregoryanz
doi:10.1038/35075531
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A prototype storage ring for neutral molecules p174
Floris M.H. Crompvoets, Hendrick L. Bethlem, Rienk T. Jongma and Gerard Meijer
doi:10.1038/35075537
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Evidence against dust-mediated control of glacial–interglacial changes in atmospheric CO2 p176
B. A. Maher and P. F. Dennis
doi:10.1038/35075543
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Delayed triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake by viscoelastic stress transfer p180
Andrew M. Freed and Jian Lin
doi:10.1038/35075548
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See also: News and Views by Harding Hearn
Emperor penguins and climate change p183
Christophe Barbraud and Henri Weimerskirch
doi:10.1038/35075554
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Host recognition by the tobacco hornworm is mediated by a host plant compound p186
Marta L. del Campo, Carol I. Miles, Frank C. Schroeder, Caroline Mueller, Ronald Booker and J. Alan Renwick
doi:10.1038/35075559
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Scalable architecture in mammalian brains p189
Damon A. Clark, Partha P. Mitra and Samuel S.-H. Wang
doi:10.1038/35075564
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See also: News and Views by Kaas & Collins
An evolutionary scaling law for the primate visual system and its basis in cortical function p193
Charles F. Stevens
doi:10.1038/35075572
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Interocular rivalry revealed in the human cortical blind-spot representation p195
Frank Tong and Stephen A. Engel
doi:10.1038/35075583
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Linkage disequilibrium in the human genome p199
David E. Reich, Michele Cargill, Stacey Bolk, James Ireland, Pardis C. Sabeti, Daniel J. Richter, Thomas Lavery, Rose Kouyoumjian, Shelli F. Farhadian, Ryk Ward and Eric S. Lander
doi:10.1038/35075590
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The Ph1 locus is needed to ensure specific somatic and meiotic centromere association p204
Enrique Martinez-Perez, Peter Shaw and Graham Moore
doi:10.1038/35075597
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Phagocytosis and clearance of apoptotic cells is mediated by MER p207
Rona S. Scott, Eileen J. McMahon, Shannon M. Pop, Elizabeth A. Reap, Roberto Caricchio, Philip L. Cohen, H. Shelton Earp and Glenn K. Matsushima
doi:10.1038/35075603
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Mobilization of transposons by a mutation abolishing full DNA methylation in Arabidopsis p212
Asuka Miura, Shoji Yonebayashi, Koichi Watanabe, Tomoko Toyama, Hiroaki Shimada and Tetsuji Kakutani
doi:10.1038/35075612
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See also: News and Views by Symer & Bender
The structural basis of Arfaptin-mediated cross-talk between Rac and Arf signalling pathways p215
C. Tarricone, B. Xiao, N. Justin, P. A. Walker, K. Rittinger, S. J. Gamblin and S. J. Smerdon
doi:10.1038/35075620
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Articles
erratum: Drought-induced guard cell signal transduction involves sphingosine-1-phosphate p219
Carl K.-Y. Ng, Kathryn Carr, Martin R. McAinsh, Brian Powell and Alistair M. Hetherington
doi:10.1038/35075627
erratum: BRI1 is a critical component of a plasma-membrane receptor for plant steroids p219
Zhi-Yong Wang, Hideharu Seto, Shozo Fujioka, Shigeo Yoshida and Joanne Chory
doi:10.1038/35075629
New on the Market
New cart on the block p221
A selection of equipment for general laboratory use.
doi:10.1038/35075670
