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2004, volume 427, articles 6977

Media attack prompts editorial backlash against MMR study pp. 765-765

Jim Giles

Poor communication blamed for delays to US visas pp. 766-766

Geoff Brumfiel

Mad cow's standing puts downer on testing strategy pp. 766-766

Erika Check

Labs urged to pre-empt bioterrorism threat pp. 767-767

Erika Check

Electron movements pinned down to the split second pp. 767-767

Mark Peplow

Treaty calls time on long-term pollutants pp. 768-768

Jim Giles

Closure threat propels astronomers to institute's aid pp. 768-768

Quirin Schiermeier

Gulf Stream probed for early warnings of system failure pp. 769-769

Quirin Schiermeier

Bioprospectors edge towards deal with developing countries pp. 769-769

Rex Dalton

Taking the voters' pulse pp. 772-773

Tony Reichhardt

Virtual plagues get real pp. 774-775

Virginia Gewin

Intelligent plagiarists are the most dangerous pp. 777-777

Lennart Stenflo

Overseas scientists still welcome in United States pp. 777-777

Warren M. Washington

HIV denialists will exploit any journal's tolerance pp. 777-777

John P. Moore

The future of gene therapy pp. 779-781

Marina Cavazzana-Calvo, Adrian Thrasher and Fulvio Mavilio

From spears to speech pp. 783-783

Robin Dunbar

Trying to beat the clock pp. 784-785

Till Roenneberg

Science in culture pp. 785-785

Martin Kemp

Cancer without disease pp. 787-787

Judah Folkman and Raghu Kalluri

Turning the key on p53 pp. 789-790

David P. Lane and Peter M. Fischer

Out of the Dark Ages pp. 790-791

S. George Djorgovski

Replication trimmed back pp. 791-793

Stephen P. Goff

Through thick and thin pp. 793-795

Neil M. Ribe

Spot the difference pp. 795-797

David C. Gadsby

A move to sort life from death pp. 798-799

David R. Kaplan and Freda D. Miller

Symmetry not required pp. 799-799

S. S. Saxena and P. Monthoux

RNA editing and death of motor neurons pp. 801-801

Yukio Kawahara, Kyoko Ito, Hui Sun, Hitoshi Aizawa, Ichiro Kanazawa and Shin Kwak

Magnetic enhancement of superconductivity pp. 802-802

Roman Movshovich, Andrea Bianchi, Cigdem Capan, Marcelo Jaime and R.G. Goodrich

Magnetic enhancement of superconductivity pp. 802-802

H. A. Radovan, N. A. Fortune, T. P. Murphy, S. T. Hannahs, E. C. Palm, S. W. Tozer and D. Hall

Secondary active transport mediated by a prokaryotic homologue of ClC Cl- channels pp. 803-807

Alessio Accardi and Christopher Miller

Structure of the signal recognition particle interacting with the elongation-arrested ribosome pp. 808-814

Mario Halic, Thomas Becker, Martin R. Pool, Christian M. T. Spahn, Robert A. Grassucci, Joachim Frank and Roland Beckmann

A large neutral fraction of cosmic hydrogen a billion years after the Big Bang pp. 815-817

J. Stuart B. Wyithe and Abraham Loeb

Atomic transient recorder pp. 817-821

R. Kienberger, E. Goulielmakis, M. Uiberacker, A. Baltuska, V. Yakovlev, F. Bammer, A. Scrinzi, Th. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher and F. Krausz

Giant magnetoresistance in organic spin-valves pp. 821-824

Z. H. Xiong, Di Wu, Z. Valy Vardeny and Jing Shi

Bottom water warming in the North Pacific Ocean pp. 825-827

Masao Fukasawa, Howard Freeland, Ron Perkin, Tomowo Watanabe, Hiroshi Uchida and Ayako Nishina

Rejuvenation of the lithosphere by the Hawaiian plume pp. 827-829

Xueqing Li, Rainer Kind, Xiaohui Yuan, Ingo Wölbern and Winfried Hanka

Iron corrosion by novel anaerobic microorganisms pp. 829-832

Hang T. Dinh, Jan Kuever, Marc Mußmann, Achim W. Hassel, Martin Stratmann and Friedrich Widdel

Conventional taxonomy obscures deep divergence between Pacific and Atlantic corals pp. 832-835

Hironobu Fukami, Ann F. Budd, Gustav Paulay, Antonio Solé-Cava, Chaolun Allen Chen, Kenji Iwao and Nancy Knowlton

Phylogenetic constraints and adaptation explain food-web structure pp. 835-839

Marie-France Cattin, Louis-Félix Bersier, Carolin Banašek-Richter, Richard Baltensperger and Jean-Pierre Gabriel

Global organization of metabolic fluxes in the bacterium Escherichia coli pp. 839-843

E. Almaas, B. Kovács, T. Vicsek, Z. N. Oltvai and A.-L. Barabási

Sortilin is essential for proNGF-induced neuronal cell death pp. 843-848

Anders Nykjaer, Ramee Lee, Kenneth K. Teng, Pernille Jansen, Peder Madsen, Morten S. Nielsen, Christian Jacobsen, Marco Kliemannel, Elisabeth Schwarz, Thomas E. Willnow, Barbara L. Hempstead and Claus M. Petersen

The cytoplasmic body component TRIM5α restricts HIV-1 infection in Old World monkeys pp. 848-853

Matthew Stremlau, Christopher M. Owens, Michel J. Perron, Michael Kiessling, Patrick Autissier and Joseph Sodroski

The large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel is essential for innate immunity pp. 853-858

Jatinder Ahluwalia, Andrew Tinker, Lucie H. Clapp, Michael R. Duchen, Andrey Y. Abramov, Simon Pope, Muriel Nobles and Anthony W. Segal

OXI1 kinase is necessary for oxidative burst-mediated signalling in Arabidopsis pp. 858-861

Maike C. Rentel, David Lecourieux, Fatma Ouaked, Sarah L. Usher, Lindsay Petersen, Haruko Okamoto, Heather Knight, Scott C. Peck, Claire S. Grierson, Heribert Hirt and Marc R. Knight

Visualization of release factor 3 on the ribosome during termination of protein synthesis pp. 862-865

Bruno P. Klaholz, Alexander G. Myasnikov and Marin van Heel

Ghosts in the machine pp. 867-867

Paul Smaglik

Getting mobile in Europe pp. 868-869

Sally Goodman

One of those days pp. 870-870

Amber Jenkins

Scientists & Societies pp. 870-870

Sylwia Gorlach and Mikolaj Slabicki

2004, volume 427, articles 6976

Publishers split over response to US trade embargo ruling pp. 663-663

Geoff Brumfiel

Scientists slam Bush record pp. 663-663

Geoff Brumfiel

Guatemalan forensic work brings award and death threats pp. 664-664

Jim Giles

Cloning success marks Asian nations as scientific tigers pp. 664-664

Helen Pearson

Colwell calls time on ‘wonderful run’ at NSF pp. 665-665

Geoff Brumfiel

Medical research wins simpler grants and extra cash pp. 665-665

Laura Nelson

Misconduct row fuels calls for reform pp. 666-666

Carina Dennis

Berlin biologists outraged by imminent pay cut pp. 666-666

Anna Wellmann

NASA casts a shadow over bid to illuminate dark energy pp. 667-667

Geoff Brumfiel

Thumbs up for fresh formula to gauge university funding pp. 667-667

Jim Giles

The fabulous fish guy pp. 672-673

Alison Abbott

Born in a watery commune pp. 674-676

John Whitfield

Dropping habilitation would aid progress in Poland pp. 677-677

Maciej Zylicz

Polish journals have an international impact pp. 677-677

Adam T. Halamski and Dorota Religa

Learning humility from a Nobel prizewinner pp. 677-677

John Godfrey

Invention and innovation pp. 679-679

W. C. McGrew

Synthetic thought pp. 680-680

John L. Casti

Art pp. 681-681

Alison Abbott

A recipe for the mind pp. 681-681

Anthony P. Monaco

One more thing pp. 683-683

Nancy Rothwell

Immigration denied pp. 685-686

Pasko Rakic

Low-down on a rhythmic high pp. 686-687

Katharina Billups

Origins of licensing control pp. 687-688

Xue Li and Michael G. Rosenfeld

Two is the magic number pp. 688-689

Ken Peach

A changed climate in Africa? pp. 690-691

Christopher Thomas

Give a shell a break pp. 691-691

Rosamund Daw

Shine a light pp. 692-692

Michael Norman

Cancer cells compress intratumour vessels pp. 695-695

Timothy P. Padera, Brian R. Stoll, Jessica B. Tooredman, Diane Capen, Emmanuelle di Tomaso and Rakesh K. Jain

The stability of forest biodiversity pp. 696-697

James S. Clark and Jason S. McLachlan

The stability of forest biodiversity pp. 696-696

Igor Volkov, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan and Stephen P. Hubbell

Living in synchrony on Greenland coasts? pp. 697-698

Jon Olav Vik, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Giacomo Tavecchia, Atle Mysterud and Ole Chr. Lingjærde

Living in synchrony on Greenland coasts? pp. 698-698

Eric Post and Mads C. Forchhammer

Grain boundaries as reservoirs of incompatible elements in the Earth's mantle pp. 699-703

Takehiko Hiraga, Ian M. Anderson and David L. Kohlstedt

Whisker movements evoked by stimulation of single pyramidal cells in rat motor cortex pp. 704-710

Michael Brecht, Miriam Schneider, Bert Sakmann and Troy W. Margrie

Decoherence of matter waves by thermal emission of radiation pp. 711-714

Lucia Hackermüller, Klaus Hornberger, Björn Brezger, Anton Zeilinger and Markus Arndt

High-transition-temperature superconductivity in the absence of the magnetic-resonance mode pp. 714-717

J. Hwang, T. Timusk and G. D. Gu

Clarifying the glass-transition behaviour of water by comparison with hyperquenched inorganic glasses pp. 717-720

Yuanzheng Yue and C. Austen Angell

High-latitude influence on the eastern equatorial Pacific climate in the early Pleistocene epoch pp. 720-723

Zhonghui Liu and Timothy D. Herbert

Aftershocks driven by a high-pressure CO2 source at depth pp. 724-727

Stephen A. Miller, Cristiano Collettini, Lauro Chiaraluce, Massimo Cocco, Massimiliano Barchi and Boris J. P. Kaus

Changes in fisheries discard rates and seabird communities pp. 727-730

Stephen C. Votier, Robert W. Furness, Stuart Bearhop, Jonathan E. Crane, Richard W. G. Caldow, Paulo Catry, Kenny Ensor, Keith C. Hamer, Anne V. Hudson, Ellen Kalmbach, Nicholas I. Klomp, Simone Pfeiffer, Richard A. Phillips, Isabel Prieto and David R. Thompson

Soil biota and exotic plant invasion pp. 731-733

Ragan M. Callaway, Giles C. Thelen, Alex Rodriguez and William E. Holben

Organization of genetic variation in individuals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi pp. 733-737

Teresa E. Pawlowska and John W. Taylor

Multistability in the lactose utilization network of Escherichia coli pp. 737-740

Ertugrul M. Ozbudak, Mukund Thattai, Han N. Lim, Boris I. Shraiman and Alexander van Oudenaarden

Unique astrocyte ribbon in adult human brain contains neural stem cells but lacks chain migration pp. 740-744

Nader Sanai, Anthony D. Tramontin, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Nicholas M. Barbaro, Nalin Gupta, Sandeep Kunwar, Michael T. Lawton, Michael W. McDermott, Andrew T. Parsa, José Manuel-García Verdugo, Mitchel S. Berger and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

Direct interaction of geminin and Six3 in eye development pp. 745-749

Filippo Del Bene, Kristin Tessmar-Raible and Joachim Wittbrodt

The cell-cycle regulator geminin inhibits Hox function through direct and polycomb-mediated interactions pp. 749-753

Lingfei Luo, Xiaoping Yang, Yoshihiro Takihara, Hendrik Knoetgen and Michael Kessel

An eIF4AIII-containing complex required for mRNA localization and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pp. 753-757

Isabel M. Palacios, David Gatfield, Daniel St Johnston and Elisa Izaurralde

Pitching ideas pp. 759-759

Paul Smaglik

Short-term limbo pp. 760-761

Karen Kreeger

Home or abroad? pp. 762-762

Tshaka Cunningham

Scientists & Societies pp. 762-762

Steven Wendell

2004, volume 427, articles 6975

Virologists call for vaccination in bid to beat bird flu epidemic pp. 573-573

Alison Abbott

Retraction signals end of cell-biology debate pp. 574-574

Erika Check

NASA steels itself for rough ride over Hubble's demise pp. 574-574

Tony Reichhardt

Food panel calls for beefed up response to mad cow disease pp. 575-575

Erika Check

Pacific dolphins make waves for US policy on Mexican tuna pp. 575-575

Virginia Gewin

Bioprospectors hunt for fair share of profits pp. 576-576

Rex Dalton

Carp virus crisis prompts moves to avert global spread pp. 577-577

Helen Pearson

Kofi Annan backs call for science push in developing countries pp. 577-577

Declan Butler

Collateral damage pp. 580-581

Jim Giles

The hot hand of history pp. 582-583

Betsy Mason

Europe needs a strategy to fight kidney disease pp. 584-584

Peter J. Lockyer

Celebrating supernovae that changed the world pp. 584-584

P. R. Vishwanath

Was Watson and Crick's model truly self-evident? pp. 584-584

Stanley Scher

Systematic survey of the spheres pp. 585-586

Doug Hamilton

Soul searching pp. 585-585

Rina Knoeff

Science and the city pp. 586-587

Jacqueline Reynolds and Charles Tanford

A visceral experience pp. 587-587

Carina Dennis

Extinction: past and present pp. 589-589

David Jablonski

Lattice window on strong force pp. 591-592

Ian Shipsey

Genetic spotlight on a blood defect pp. 592-593

Diether Lambrechts and Peter Carmeliet

Favoured aliens for the future pp. 594-594

Peter D. Moore

The optical age of silicon pp. 595-596

Graham T. Reed

Magnetic Mercury pp. 595-595

Tim Limcoln

Fatal medicine for vultures pp. 596-597

Robert Risebrough

Molecular merry-go-round pp. 597-597

Magdalena Helmer

Ensuring error-free DNA repair pp. 598-598

Tomas Lindahl

Networking opportunity pp. 601-604

Ian Stewart

Brain asymmetry and long-term memory pp. 605-606

Alberto Pascual, Kai-Lian Huang, Julie Neveu and Thomas Préat

CCR5 mutation and plague protection pp. 606-606

Joan Mecsas, Greg Franklin, William A. Kuziel, Robert R. Brubaker, Stanley Falkow and Donald E. Mosier

Reversible redox energy coupling in electron transfer chains pp. 607-612

Artur Osyczka, Christopher C. Moser, Fevzi Daldal and P. Leslie Dutton

The central image of a gravitationally lensed quasar pp. 613-615

Joshua N. Winn, David Rusin and Christopher S. Kochanek

A high-speed silicon optical modulator based on a metal–oxide–semiconductor capacitor pp. 615-618

Ansheng Liu, Richard Jones, Ling Liao, Dean Samara-Rubio, Doron Rubin, Oded Cohen, Remus Nicolaescu and Mario Paniccia

A 1.7-kilobase single-stranded DNA that folds into a nanoscale octahedron pp. 618-621

William M. Shih, Joel D. Quispe and Gerald F. Joyce

Earthquake nucleation by transient deformations caused by the M = 7.9 Denali, Alaska, earthquake pp. 621-624

J. Gomberg, P. Bodin, K. Larson and H. Dragert

Ramp initiation in a thrust wedge pp. 624-627

John Panian and David Wiltschko

New light shed on the oldest insect pp. 627-630

Michael S. Engel and David A. Grimaldi

Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan pp. 630-633

J. Lindsay Oaks, Martin Gilbert, Munir Z. Virani, Richard T. Watson, Carol U. Meteyer, Bruce A. Rideout, H. L. Shivaprasad, Shakeel Ahmed, Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal Chaudhry, Muhammad Arshad, Shahid Mahmood, Ahmad Ali and Aleem Ahmed Khan

An optimal bronchial tree may be dangerous pp. 633-636

B. Mauroy, M. Filoche, E. R. Weibel and B. Sapoval

Susceptibility to leprosy is associated with PARK2 and PACRG pp. 636-640

Marcelo T. Mira, Alexandre Alcaïs, Nguyen Van Thuc, Milton O. Moraes, Celestino Di Flumeri, Vu Hong Thai, Mai Chi Phuong, Nguyen Thu Huong, Nguyen Ngoc Ba, Pham Xuan Khoa, Euzenir N. Sarno, Andrea Alter, Alexandre Montpetit, Maria E. Moraes, José R. Moraes, Carole Doré, Caroline J. Gallant, Pierre Lepage, Andrei Verner, Esther van de Vosse, Thomas J. Hudson, Laurent Abel and Erwin Schurr

Identification of an angiogenic factor that when mutated causes susceptibility to Klippel–Trenaunay syndrome pp. 640-645

Xiao-Li Tian, Rajkumar Kadaba, Sun-Ah You, Mugen Liu, Ayse Anil Timur, Lin Yang, Qiuyun Chen, Przemyslaw Szafranski, Shaoqi Rao, Ling Wu, David E. Housman, Paul E. DiCorleto, David J. Driscoll, Julian Borrow and Qing Wang

A conserved siRNA-degrading RNase negatively regulates RNA interference in C. elegans pp. 645-649

Scott Kennedy, Duo Wang and Gary Ruvkun

Cytoplasmic dynein functions as a gear in response to load pp. 649-652

Roop Mallik, Brian C. Carter, Stephanie A. Lex, Stephen J. King and Steven P. Gross

Structural basis for removal of adenine mispaired with 8-oxoguanine by MutY adenine DNA glycosylase pp. 652-656

J. Christopher Fromme, Anirban Banerjee, Susan J. Huang and Gregory L. Verdine

Patching a leaky pipeline pp. 657-657

Paul Smaglik

Baywatch: San Francisco pp. 658-659

Paul Smaglik

Seeking perspective pp. 660-660

Philipp Angerer

Bricks & Mortar pp. 660-660

Sally Goodman

2004, volume 427, articles 6974

Fear of human pandemic grows as bird flu sweeps through Asia pp. 472-473

Alison Abbott and Helen Pearson

Drug suicide risks prompt call for FDA action pp. 474-474

Erika Check

Europe urged to move on transgenic crop imports pp. 474-474

Quirin Schiermeier

Bush's belt-tightening budget offers science slim pickings pp. 475-475

Geoff Brumfiel

Suicide-inquiry fallout ‘could gag’ scientists pp. 476-476

Jim Giles

Fusion meeting shelved as site decision slides pp. 476-476

Declan Butler

Universities battle for extra funds in bid to boost quality pp. 477-477

Quirin Schiermeier

Extinction meeting kicks off Japan's plans for networking pp. 477-477

David Cyranoski

Sound and vision pp. 480-481

Declan Butler

Back to the future pp. 482-484

Philip Ball

Fertilizer ‘solution’ could turn local problem global pp. 485-485

David S. Reay

Framework reveals lack of basic-research funds pp. 485-485

Carlos F. Ibanez

Working hard for the money pp. 485-485

Mike Fainzilber

Pet breeding has a long and colourful history pp. 485-485

Sophien Kamoun

Racial realities or bombast? pp. 487-488

Robert N. Proctor

Plotting the downfall of society pp. 488-489

Joseph A. Tainter

Get connected pp. 489-489

Joanne Baker

Spot the Milky Way pp. 489-489

Alison Abbott

Prisoners of the dilemma pp. 491-491

Martin A. Nowak

K is for koagulation pp. 493-494

J. Evan Sadler

Double trouble pp. 494-495

Joseph A. Burns

Guardian spirit blesses meiosis pp. 495-497

Robin Allshire

Jagged edge pp. 497-497

Philip Ball

Ammonia transformed pp. 498-499

Michael D. Fryzuk

Shake, rattle or roll? pp. 499-500

Robert O. Blaustein and Christopher Miller

Getting to the bottom of a granular medium pp. 503-504

Matthew B. Stone, David P. Bernstein, Rachel Barry, Matthew D. Pelc, Yee-Kin Tsui and Peter Schiffer

Fat-1 mice convert n-6 to n-3 fatty acids pp. 504-504

Jing X. Kang, Jingdong Wang, Lin Wu and Zhao B. Kang

Mixing, volatile loss and compositional change during impact-driven accretion of the Earth pp. 505-509

Alex N. Halliday

The conserved kinetochore protein shugoshin protects centromeric cohesion during meiosis pp. 510-517

Tomoya S. Kitajima, Shigehiro A. Kawashima and Yoshinori Watanabe

The formation of Kuiper-belt binaries through exchange reactions pp. 518-520

Yoko Funato, Junichiro Makino, Piet Hut, Eiichiro Kokubo and Daisuke Kinoshita

Statistical mechanics of a gas-fluidized particle pp. 521-523

R. P. Ojha, P.-A. Lemieux, P. K. Dixon, A. J. Liu and D. J. Durian

A route to high surface area, porosity and inclusion of large molecules in crystals pp. 523-527

Hee K. Chae, Diana Y. Siberio-Pérez, Jaheon Kim, YongBok Go, Mohamed Eddaoudi, Adam J. Matzger, Michael O'Keeffe and Omar M. Yaghi

Hydrogenation and cleavage of dinitrogen to ammonia with a zirconium complex pp. 527-530

Jaime A. Pool, Emil Lobkovsky and Paul J. Chirik

Low-velocity zone atop the 410-km seismic discontinuity in the northwestern United States pp. 530-533

Teh-Ru Alex Song, Don. V. Helmberger and Stephen P. Grand

Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean pp. 533-536

Peter J. Mumby, Alasdair J. Edwards, J. Ernesto Arias-González, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Paul G. Blackwell, Angela Gall, Malgosia I. Gorczynska, Alastair R. Harborne, Claire L. Pescod, Henk Renken, Colette C. C. Wabnitz and Ghislane Llewellyn

Mutations in VKORC1 cause warfarin resistance and multiple coagulation factor deficiency type 2 pp. 537-541

Simone Rost, Andreas Fregin, Vytautas Ivaskevicius, Ernst Conzelmann, Konstanze Hörtnagel, Hans-Joachim Pelz, Knut Lappegard, Erhard Seifried, Inge Scharrer, Edward G. D. Tuddenham, Clemens R. Müller, Tim M. Strom and Johannes Oldenburg

Identification of the gene for vitamin K epoxide reductase pp. 541-544

Tao Li, Chun-Yun Chang, Da-Yun Jin, Pen-Jen Lin, Anastasia Khvorova and Darrel W. Stafford

Multiple transport modes of the cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger pp. 544-548

Tong Mook Kang and Donald W. Hilgemann

A proton pore in a potassium channel voltage sensor reveals a focused electric field pp. 548-553

Dorine M. Starace and Francisco Bezanilla

Dephosphorylated SRp38 acts as a splicing repressor in response to heat shock pp. 553-558

Chanseok Shin, Ying Feng and James L. Manley

Molecular engineering of a backwards-moving myosin motor pp. 558-561

Georgios Tsiavaliaris, Setsuko Fujita-Becker and Dietmar J. Manstein

Crystal structure and mechanism of a bacterial fluorinating enzyme pp. 561-565

Changjiang Dong, Fanglu Huang, Hai Deng, Christoph Schaffrath, Jonathan B. Spencer, David O'Hagan and James H. Naismith

Cash incentives pp. 567-567

Paul Smaglik

All systems go pp. 568-569

Hannah Hoag

Conference survival pp. 570-570

Sidney Omelon

Nuts & Bolts pp. 570-570

Deb Koen

2004, volume 427, articles 6973

Prolific ecologist vows to fight Danish misconduct verdict pp. 381-381

Alison Abbott

Prospects brighten around the red planet pp. 382-382

Tony Reichhardt

Photo express pp. 382-382

Quirin Schiermeier

Japan's ethnic crime database sparks fears over human rights pp. 383-383

David Cyranoski

North Korea offers US tour party glimpse of weapons programme pp. 383-383

Geoff Brumfiel

Quashed convictions reignite row over British cot deaths pp. 384-384

Laura Nelson

African labs win major role in tsetse-fly genome project pp. 384-384

Declan Butler

Wildlife attacks hinder conservation efforts pp. 385-385

Rex Dalton

NIH acts to quench ‘conflict of interest’ allegations pp. 385-385

Erika Check

The reluctant celebrity pp. 388-389

Emily Singer

The most important sexual organ pp. 390-392

Carina Dennis

Fraud offers big rewards for relatively little risk pp. 393-393

T.M. Fenning

Biodefence funds have tight strings attached pp. 393-393

Edward McSweegan

Bridging a know–do gap pp. 393-393

Sarah Davies and Abiola Sulaimon

Hibben was not proved guilty of misconduct pp. 393-393

Terry L. Yates

Crops behaving badly pp. 395-396

Rick Roush

Japan's secret weapons pp. 396-396

Alastair Hay

Love, actually pp. 396-397

Alison Jolly

Fossils off the record pp. 397-398

Martin Rudwick

Science in culture pp. 398-398

Martin Kemp

Engineering complex systems pp. 399-399

J. M. Ottino

Fungi and the food of the gods pp. 401-402

Keith Clay

How does a nanofibre grow? pp. 402-403

Pulickel M. Ajayan

Tail of decay pp. 403-404

Alexander F. Schier

Faults greased at high speed pp. 405-406

Chris Marone

A natural solution to corrosion? pp. 406-407

Stuart Lyon

Pathogen propulsion pp. 407-407

Deepa Nath

Turning the ATP motor pp. 407-408

Richard L. Cross

Scent-triggered navigation in honeybees pp. 411-411

Judith Reinhard, Mandyam V. Srinivasan and Shaowu Zhang

Catch-up growth and obesity in male mice pp. 411-412

Susan E. Ozanne and C. Nicholas Hales

Devonian tetrapod from western Europe pp. 412-413

Gaël Clément, Per E. Ahlberg, Alain Blieck, Henning Blom, Jennifer A. Clack, Edouard Poty, Jacques Thorez and Philippe Janvier

Is TALL-1 a trimer or a virus-like cluster? pp. 413-414

Eugene A. Zhukovsky, Jie-Oh Lee, Michael Villegas, Cheryl Chan, Seung Chu and Cameron Mroske

Is Tall-1 a trimer or a virus-like cluster? pp. 414-414

Xia Hong, John Kappler, Yingfang Liu, Liangguo Xu, Hong-Bing Shu and Gongyi Zhang

Summing up the noise in gene networks pp. 415-418

Johan Paulsson

fgf8 mRNA decay establishes a gradient that couples axial elongation to patterning in the vertebrate embryo pp. 419-422

Julien Dubrulle and Olivier Pourquié

A high-mobility electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerface pp. 423-426

A. Ohtomo and H. Y. Hwang

Atomic-scale imaging of carbon nanofibre growth pp. 426-429

Stig Helveg, Carlos López-Cartes, Jens Sehested, Poul L. Hansen, Bjerne S. Clausen, Jens R. Rostrup-Nielsen, Frank Abild-Pedersen and Jens K. Nørskov

Enhanced ice sheet growth in Eurasia owing to adjacent ice-dammed lakes pp. 429-432

G. Krinner, J. Mangerud, M. Jakobsson, M. Crucifix, C. Ritz and J. I. Svendsen

Natural examples of olivine lattice preferred orientation patterns with a flow-normal a-axis maximum pp. 432-436

Tomoyuki Mizukami, Simon R. Wallis and Junji Yamamoto

Friction falls towards zero in quartz rock as slip velocity approaches seismic rates pp. 436-439

Giulio Di Toro, David L. Goldsby and Terry E. Tullis

A new orang-utan relative from the Late Miocene of Thailand pp. 439-441

Yaowalak Chaimanee, Varavudh Suteethorn, Pratueng Jintasakul, Chavalit Vidthayanon, Bernard Marandat and Jean-Jacques Jaeger

The strict anaerobe Bacteroides fragilis grows in and benefits from nanomolar concentrations of oxygen pp. 441-444

Anthony D. Baughn and Michael H. Malamy

A newly discovered Roseobacter cluster in temperate and polar oceans pp. 445-448

Natascha Selje, Meinhard Simon and Thorsten Brinkhoff

Species-specific calls evoke asymmetric activity in the monkey's temporal poles pp. 448-451

Amy Poremba, Megan Malloy, Richard C. Saunders, Richard E. Carson, Peter Herscovitch and Mortimer Mishkin

SOL-1 is a CUB-domain protein required for GLR-1 glutamate receptor function in C. elegans pp. 451-457

Yi Zheng, Jerry E. Mellem, Penelope J. Brockie, David M. Madsen and Andres V. Maricq

The RickA protein of Rickettsia conorii activates the Arp2/3 complex pp. 457-461

Edith Gouin, Coumaran Egile, Pierre Dehoux, Véronique Villiers, Josephine Adams, Frank Gertler, Rong Li and Pascale Cossart

The ADP/ATP translocator is not essential for the mitochondrial permeability transition pore pp. 461-465

Jason E. Kokoszka, Katrina G. Waymire, Shawn E. Levy, James E. Sligh, Jiyang Cai, Dean P. Jones, Grant R. MacGregor and Douglas C. Wallace

Mechanically driven ATP synthesis by F1-ATPase pp. 465-468

Hiroyasu Itoh, Akira Takahashi, Kengo Adachi, Hiroyuki Noji, Ryohei Yasuda, Masasuke Yoshida and Kazuhiko Kinosita

Mapping life-science skills pp. 469-469

Paul Smaglik

The long and the short of it pp. 470-470

Tshaka Cunningham

Scientists & Societies pp. 470-470

Johanna Nilsson

2004, volume 427, articles 6972

NASA's drive to revisit the Moon leaves no scope for Hubble pp. 273-273

Tony Reichhardt

Bird flu sparks worldwide bid to prevent human pandemic pp. 274-274

Alison Abbott and David Cyranoski

Director quits as cash cutbacks hit Californian labs pp. 274-274

Rex Dalton

Feathers fly over welfare of hemmed-in hens pp. 275-275

Laura Nelson

Ministers prepare to back neuroscience network pp. 275-275

Declan Butler

Resignation threats add steel to French revolt pp. 276-276

Declan Butler

Europe's researchers up in arms over clinical-trial rules pp. 276-276

Alison Abbott

Health concerns prompt US review of exotic-pet trade pp. 277-277

Erika Check

Telepathic charm seduces audience at paranormal debate pp. 277-277

John Whitfield

Star quality pp. 282-283

David Cyranoski

Gut reaction pp. 284-286

Alison Abbott

Milton and Galileo would back BMJ on free speech pp. 287-287

Richard Smith

X-ray clues to viability of loop quantum gravity pp. 287-287

Philip Kaaret

Return of bone archives is a loss to humanity pp. 287-287

Neil Chalmers

The hole truth pp. 289-291

Susan Solomon

The curious naturalist pp. 293-294

John Krebs

Chemistry's bag of tricks pp. 294-294

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

Tuberculosis hits back pp. 295-295

D. A. Mitchison

Science in culture pp. 296-296

John D. Barrow

A meeting with Enrico Fermi pp. 297-297

Freeman Dyson

A problem of distance pp. 299-300

Bohdan Paczynski

Burning the spindle at both ends pp. 300-301

Rebecca W. Heald

Dreams of a hollow future pp. 301-303

Luis Hueso and Neil Mathur

Insight and the sleep committee pp. 304-305

Pierre Maquet and Perrine Ruby

Carbon budget in the black pp. 305-307

Michael W. I. Schmidt

A class act pp. 307-308

Theodore S. Jardetzky and Robert A. Lamb

Changes in grey matter induced by training pp. 311-312

Bogdan Draganski, Christian Gaser, Volker Busch, Gerhard Schuierer, Ulrich Bogdahn and Arne May

Cognitive bias and affective state pp. 312-312

Emma J. Harding, Elizabeth S. Paul and Michael Mendl

Structure of the dengue virus envelope protein after membrane fusion pp. 313-319

Yorgo Modis, Steven Ogata, David Clements and Stephen C. Harrison

Conformational change and protein–protein interactions of the fusion protein of Semliki Forest virus pp. 320-325

Don L. Gibbons, Marie-Christine Vaney, Alain Roussel, Armelle Vigouroux, Brigid Reilly, Jean Lepault, Margaret Kielian and Félix A. Rey

A distance of 133–137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster pp. 326-328

Xiaopei Pan, M. Shao and S. R. Kulkarni

The microscopic nature of localization in the quantum Hall effect pp. 328-332

S. Ilani, J. Martin, E. Teitelbaum, J. H. Smet, D. Mahalu, V. Umansky and A. Yacoby

The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves pp. 332-336

Christoph Schär, Pier Luigi Vidale, Daniel Lüthi, Christoph Frei, Christian Häberli, Mark A. Liniger and Christof Appenzeller

Reburial of fossil organic carbon in marine sediments pp. 336-339

Angela F. Dickens, Yves Gélinas, Caroline A. Masiello, Stuart Wakeham and John I. Hedges

Melting of iron at the physical conditions of the Earth's core pp. 339-342

Jeffrey H. Nguyen and Neil C. Holmes

Chicken welfare is influenced more by housing conditions than by stocking density pp. 342-344

Marian Stamp Dawkins, Christl A. Donnelly and Tracey A. Jones

Travelling waves in the occurrence of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Thailand pp. 344-347

Derek A.T. Cummings, Rafael A. Irizarry, Norden E. Huang, Timothy P. Endy, Ananda Nisalak, Kumnuan Ungchusak and Donald S. Burke

A primitive Y chromosome in papaya marks incipient sex chromosome evolution pp. 348-352

Zhiyong Liu, Paul H. Moore, Hao Ma, Christine M. Ackerman, Makandar Ragiba, Qingyi Yu, Heather M. Pearl, Minna S. Kim, Joseph W. Charlton, John I. Stiles, Francis T. Zee, Andrew H. Paterson and Ray Ming

Sleep inspires insight pp. 352-355

Ullrich Wagner, Steffen Gais, Hilde Haider, Rolf Verleger and Jan Born

Lymphocyte egress from thymus and peripheral lymphoid organs is dependent on S1P receptor 1 pp. 355-360

Mehrdad Matloubian, Charles G. Lo, Guy Cinamon, Matthew J. Lesneski, Ying Xu, Volker Brinkmann, Maria L. Allende, Richard L. Proia and Jason G. Cyster

The mitochondrial calcium uniporter is a highly selective ion channel pp. 360-364

Yuriy Kirichok, Grigory Krapivinsky and David E. Clapham

Two mitotic kinesins cooperate to drive sister chromatid separation during anaphase pp. 364-370

Gregory C. Rogers, Stephen L. Rogers, Tamara A. Schwimmer, Stephanie C. Ems-McClung, Claire E. Walczak, Ronald D. Vale, Jonathan M. Scholey and David J. Sharp

The MAPK Hog1 recruits Rpd3 histone deacetylase to activate osmoresponsive genes pp. 370-374

Eulàlia de Nadal, Meritxell Zapater, Paula M. Alepuz, Lauro Sumoy, Glòria Mas and Francesc Posas

Shifting the balance pp. 375-375

Paul Smaglik

Mapping opportunities pp. 376-377

Virginia Gewin

A tough challenge pp. 378-378

Amber Jenkins

Giving young European students a voice pp. 378-378

Alexandre Urani, Raoul Tan, Renzo Rubele and Daniel Mietchen

2004, volume 427, articles 6971

Robotic missions set to benefit as US takes aim at the Moon pp. 183-183

Tony Reichhardt

Plans resurrected to raise Venice above the encroaching sea pp. 184-184

Alison Abbott

Intelligence law draws fire over NSF security project pp. 184-184

Geoff Brumfiel

Europe warned against research council pp. 184-184

Jim Giles

Antibodies to SARS-like virus hint at repeated infections pp. 185-185

Helen Pearson

India targets local HIV strain in test of AIDS vaccine pp. 185-185

K. S. Jayaraman

Neglected diseases brought in from the cold pp. 186-186

Alison Abbott

National park's sale of creationist book draws geologists' ire pp. 186-186

Rex Dalton

Sandpit initiative digs deep to bring disciplines together pp. 187-187

Jim Giles

Ethics accusations spark rapid reaction from NIH chief pp. 187-187

Erika Check

Scandals stem from the low priority of peer review pp. 196-196

Jean-Patrick Connerade

Eastern Europe: progress stifled by the old guard pp. 196-196

Cezary Wójcik

Eastern Europe needs a competitive atmosphere pp. 196-196

Juraj Gregan

Warning of warming pp. 197-198

Stephen H. Schneider

The parenting gap pp. 198-199

Abigail J. Stewart and Danielle LaVaque-Manty

The descent of man pp. 199-199

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

Wildlife in watercolours pp. 199-199

Mary Purton

Tumour suppression: Putting on the brakes pp. 201-201

Henry Harris

Protein surgery pp. 203-204

Hans-Georg Rammensee

Supersolid helium pp. 204-205

John Beamish

Lost children of the Cambrian pp. 205-207

Graham E. Budd

Keeping score on the core pp. 207-208

Erik Hauri

Star maker pp. 207-207

Alison Wright

Our relative genetics pp. 208-209

David Penny

A lion found in the Egyptian tomb of Maïa pp. 211-212

Cécile Callou, Anaïck Samzun and Alain Zivie

Mosquito receptor for human-sweat odorant pp. 212-213

Elissa A. Hallem, A. Nicole Fox, Laurence J. Zwiebel and John R. Carlson

Impact of land-use change on climate pp. 213-214

Russell S. Vose, Thomas R. Karl, David R. Easterling, Claude N. Williams and Matthew J. Menne

Rural land-use change and climate pp. 213-213

Kevin E. Trenberth

Impact of land-use change on climate pp. 214-214

Ming Cai and Eugenia Kalnay

Substrate twinning activates the signal recognition particle and its receptor pp. 215-221

Pascal F. Egea, Shu-ou Shan, Johanna Napetschnig, David F. Savage, Peter Walter and Robert M. Stroud

An ultra-relativistic outflow from a neutron star accreting gas from a companion pp. 222-224

Rob Fender, Kinwah Wu, Helen Johnston, Tasso Tzioumis, Peter Jonker, Ralph Spencer and Michiel van der Klis

Probable observation of a supersolid helium phase pp. 225-227

E. Kim and M. H. W. Chan

Partial order in the non-Fermi-liquid phase of MnSi pp. 227-231

C. Pfleiderer, D. Reznik, L. Pintschovius, H. v. Löhneysen, M. Garst and A. Rosch

Observational evidence of a change in radiative forcing due to the indirect aerosol effect pp. 231-234

Joyce E. Penner, Xiquan Dong and Yang Chen

Tungsten isotope evidence that mantle plumes contain no contribution from the Earth's core pp. 234-237

Anders Scherstén, Tim Elliott, Chris Hawkesworth and Marc Norman

Fossil embryos from the Middle and Late Cambrian period of Hunan, south China pp. 237-240

Xi-ping Dong, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Hong Cheng and Jian-bo Liu

Whole-lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food webs pp. 240-243

Michael L. Pace, Jonathan J. Cole, Stephen R. Carpenter, James F. Kitchell, James R. Hodgson, Matthew C. Van de Bogert, Darren L. Bade, Emma S. Kritzberg and David Bastviken

Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning pp. 244-247

Konrad P. Körding and Daniel M. Wolpert

Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist pp. 247-252

Ross D. King, Kenneth E. Whelan, Ffion M. Jones, Philip G. K. Reiser, Christopher H. Bryant, Stephen H. Muggleton, Douglas B. Kell and Stephen G. Oliver

Immune recognition of a human renal cancer antigen through post-translational protein splicing pp. 252-256

Ken-ichi Hanada, Jonathan W. Yewdell and James C. Yang

Ras regulates assembly of mitogenic signalling complexes through the effector protein IMP pp. 256-260

Sharon A. Matheny, Chiyuan Chen, Robert L. Kortum, Gina L. Razidlo, Robert E. Lewis and Michael A. White

Mustard oils and cannabinoids excite sensory nerve fibres through the TRP channel ANKTM1 pp. 260-265

Sven-Eric Jordt, Diana M. Bautista, Huai-hu Chuang, David D. McKemy, Peter M. Zygmunt, Edward D. Högestätt, Ian D. Meng and David Julius

Erratum: Structure and conserved RNA binding of the PAZ domain pp. 265-265

Kelley S. Yan, Sherry Yan, Amjad Farooq, Arnold Han, Lei Zeng and Ming-Ming Zhou

Correction: Corrigendum: Eya protein phosphatase activity regulates Six1–Dach–Eya transcriptional effects in mammalian organogenesis pp. 265-265

Xue Li, Kenneth A. Ohgi, Jie Zhang, Anna Krones, Kevin T. Bush, Christopher K. Glass, Sanjay K. Nigam, Aneel K. Aggarwal, Richard Maas, David W. Rose and Michael G. Rosenfeld

Starting the brain gain pp. 267-267

Paul Smaglik

Destressing in the geekosphere pp. 268-269

Kendall Powell

At the crossroads pp. 270-270

Philipp Angerer

Bricks & Mortar: Lancaster Environment Centre pp. 270-270

Paul Smaglik

2004, volume 427, articles 6970

Rover barks before Beagle as Mars success lifts NASA's spirits pp. 89-89

Tony Reichhardt

Swift response greets return of SARS in China pp. 89-89

David Cyranoski

Yucca review-board head quits in face of impartiality charges pp. 90-90

Geoff Brumfiel

Safety concerns prompt US ban on dietary supplement pp. 90-90

Jonathan Knight

Geneticists chip away at unruly data pp. 91-91

Erika Check

Canadian prime minister makes science a priority pp. 91-91

David Spurgeon

Dreaming on the Danube pp. 94-95

Quirin Schiermeier

Automatic archaeology pp. 96-98

Haim Watzman

Cooperation needed to increase fertilizer efficiency pp. 99-99

M. M. Alley

Fertilizer: complex issue calls for informed debate pp. 99-99

Mark B. David, Gregory F. McIsaac, Robert W. Howarth, Christine L. Goodale and Laurie E. Drinkwater

Fertilizer: no-till farming could reduce run-off pp. 99-99

Anthony Trewavas

When development goes wrong pp. 101-102

Peter Little

Watching the Earth move pp. 102-102

Michael Matthews

A glimpse inside the Sun pp. 103-103

Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

A glass bead game pp. 105-106

Thomas M. Bayerl

How to make eggs and sperm pp. 106-107

M. Azim Surani

Clouded futures pp. 107-109

J. Alan Pounds and Robert Puschendorf

To catch a stellar thief pp. 109-110

Thomas Matheson

Guarding the guardian? pp. 110-111

Henning F. Horn and Karen H. Vousden

Asymmetric fixation pp. 111-112

Nick Monk

The flowers that bloom in the spring pp. 112-112

Christopher Surridge

Explosive craters and soil liquefaction pp. 115-116

Paul A. Rydelek and Martitia Tuttle

Tuning of vocal tract resonance by sopranos pp. 116-116

Elodie Joliveau, John Smith and Joe Wolfe

Dating the rise of atmospheric oxygen pp. 117-120

A. Bekker, H. D. Holland, P.-L. Wang, D. Rumble, H. J. Stein, J. L. Hannah, L. L. Coetzee and N. J. Beukes

Notch activity acts as a sensor for extracellular calcium during vertebrate left–right determination pp. 121-128

Ángel Raya, Yasuhiko Kawakami, Concepción Rodríguez-Esteban, Marta Ibañes, Diego Rasskin-Gutman, Joaquín Rodríguez-León, Dirk Büscher, José A. Feijó and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte

The massive binary companion star to the progenitor of supernova 1993J pp. 129-131

Justyn R. Maund, Stephen J. Smartt, Rolf P. Kudritzki, Philipp Podsiadlowski and Gerard F. Gilmore

An intense stratospheric jet on Jupiter pp. 132-135

F. M. Flasar, V. G. Kunde, R. K. Achterberg, B. J. Conrath, A. A. Simon-Miller, C. A. Nixon, P. J. Gierasch, P. N. Romani, B. Bézard, P. Irwin, G. L. Bjoraker, J. C. Brasunas, D. E. Jennings, J. C. Pearl, M. D. Smith, G. S. Orton, L. J. Spilker, R. Carlson, S. B. Calcutt, P. L. Read, F. W. Taylor, P. Parrish, A. Barucci, R. Courtin, A. Coustenis, D. Gautier, E. Lellouch, A. Marten, R. Prangé, Y. Biraud, T. Fouchet, C. Ferrari, T. C. Owen, M. M. Abbas, R. E. Samuelson, F. Raulin, P. Ade, C. J. Césarsky, K. U. Grossman and A. Coradini

Hybridization of electronic states in quantum dots through photon emission pp. 135-138

Khaled Karrai, Richard J. Warburton, Christian Schulhauser, Alexander Högele, Bernhard Urbaszek, Ewan J. McGhee, Alexander O. Govorov, Jorge M. Garcia, Brian D. Gerardot and Pierre M. Petroff

Detection of molecular interactions at membrane surfaces through colloid phase transitions pp. 139-141

Michael M. Baksh, Michal Jaros and Jay T. Groves

Critically pressured free-gas reservoirs below gas-hydrate provinces pp. 142-144

Matthew J. Hornbach, Demian M. Saffer and W. Steven Holbrook

Extinction risk from climate change pp. 145-148

Chris D. Thomas, Alison Cameron, Rhys E. Green, Michel Bakkenes, Linda J. Beaumont, Yvonne C. Collingham, Barend F. N. Erasmus, Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira, Alan Grainger, Lee Hannah, Lesley Hughes, Brian Huntley, Albert S. van Jaarsveld, Guy F. Midgley, Lera Miles, Miguel A. Ortega-Huerta, A. Townsend Peterson, Oliver L. Phillips and Stephen E. Williams

Derivation of embryonic germ cells and male gametes from embryonic stem cells pp. 148-154

Niels Geijsen, Melissa Horoschak, Kitai Kim, Joost Gribnau, Kevin Eggan and George Q. Daley

T-cell priming by dendritic cells in lymph nodes occurs in three distinct phases pp. 154-159

Thorsten R. Mempel, Sarah E. Henrickson and Ulrich H. von Andrian

Vernalization in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by the PHD finger protein VIN3 pp. 159-164

Sibum Sung and Richard M. Amasino

Vernalization requires epigenetic silencing of FLC by histone methylation pp. 164-167

Ruth Bastow, Joshua S. Mylne, Clare Lister, Zachary Lippman, Robert A. Martienssen and Caroline Dean

Bcl10 activates the NF-κB pathway through ubiquitination of NEMO pp. 167-171

Honglin Zhou, Ingrid Wertz, Karen O'Rourke, Mark Ultsch, Somasekar Seshagiri, Michael Eby, Wei Xiao and Vishva M. Dixit

Vinculin activation by talin through helical bundle conversion pp. 171-175

Tina Izard, Gwyndaf Evans, Robert A. Borgon, Christina L. Rush, Gerard Bricogne and Philippe R. J. Bois

Erratum: Hydrocarbons and the evolution of human culture pp. 175-175

Charles Hall, Pradeep Tharakan, John Hallock, Cutler Cleveland and Michael Jefferson

Tuning in to yourself pp. 177-177

Paul Smaglik

Healthy limits pp. 178-179

Karen Kreeger

From biochemist to engineer pp. 180-180

Sidney Omelon

Nuts & Bolts: Career journals pp. 180-180

Deb Koen

2004, volume 427, articles 6969

Plagiarism in Cambridge physics lab prompts calls for guidelines pp. 3-3

Jim Giles

Primate lab faces closure threat over mistreatment charge pp. 4-4

Quirin Schiermeier

Ecologists hit out at plan to export Argentinian parrots pp. 4-4

Rex Dalton

Mars satellite flies into hunt for lost Beagle 2 pp. 5-5

Declan Butler

Beef blockade greets first mad cow in United States pp. 5-5

Rex Dalton and Erika Check

Organ failure pp. 8-9

Tom Clarke

All wired up pp. 10-12

Jon Copley

Tough lessons for survival in hard academic times pp. 13-13

John A. Duley

White House cost-cutting undermines productivity pp. 13-13

Matthew C. Salanga

Joint efforts needed to forecast space weather pp. 13-13

Julian Hunt and Andrew Coates

The hidden cost of health care pp. 15-16

Arthur Caplan

The bits that make up the Universe pp. 16-17

Michael A. Nielsen

Characters from the dawn of chemistry pp. 16-16

John Emsley

Art that draws you in pp. 17-17

Alison Abbott

Water, water, everywhere? pp. 19-20

Philip Ball

The need for speed pp. 20-21

Kendall J. Blumer

Relativity on a chip pp. 21-22

Michael E. Flatté

Chinese lantern for early primates pp. 22-23

Robert D. Martin

The southern supplier pp. 23-24

Joachim Ribbe

Shape-shifting protein channel pp. 24-25

Jordi Benach and John F. Hunt

The veil of two cities pp. 25-25

Juliane Mössinger

Secrets of successful stone-skipping pp. 29-29

Christophe Clanet, Fabien Hersen and Lydéric Bocquet

A nematode expansin acting on plants pp. 30-30

Ling Qin, Urszula Kudla, Erwin H. A. Roze, Aska Goverse, Herman Popeijus, Jeroen Nieuwland, Hein Overmars, John T. Jones, Arjen Schots, Geert Smant, Jaap Bakker and Johannes Helder

Reconstructing galaxy histories from globular clusters pp. 31-35

Michael J. West, Patrick Côté, Ronald O. Marzke and Andrés Jordán

X-ray structure of a protein-conducting channel pp. 36-44

Bert van den Berg, William M. Clemons, Ian Collinson, Yorgo Modis, Enno Hartmann, Stephen C. Harrison and Tom A. Rapoport

A correlation between the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure in the Universe pp. 45-47

Stephen Boughn and Robert Crittenden

A large population of ‘Lyman-break’ galaxies in a protocluster at redshift z ≈ 4.1 pp. 47-50

George K. Miley, Roderik A. Overzier, Zlatan I. Tsvetanov, Rychard J. Bouwens, Narciso Benítez, John P. Blakeslee, Holland C. Ford, Garth D. Illingworth, Marc Postman, Piero Rosati, Mark Clampin, George F. Hartig, Andrew W. Zirm, Huub J. A. Röttgering, Bram P. Venemans, David R. Ardila, Frank Bartko, Tom J. Broadhurst, Robert A. Brown, Chris J. Burrows, E. S. Cheng, Nicholas J. G. Cross, Carlos De Breuck, Paul D. Feldman, Marijn Franx, David A. Golimowski, Caryl Gronwall, Leopoldo Infante, André R. Martel, Felipe Menanteau, Gerhardt R. Meurer, Marco Sirianni, Randy A. Kimble, John E. Krist, William B. Sparks, Hien D. Tran, Richard L. White and Wei Zheng

Coherent spin manipulation without magnetic fields in strained semiconductors pp. 50-53

Y. Kato, R. C. Myers, A. C. Gossard and D. D. Awschalom

The interface between silicon and a high-k oxide pp. 53-56

Clemens J. Först, Christopher R. Ashman, Karlheinz Schwarz and Peter E. Blöchl

High-latitude controls of thermocline nutrients and low latitude biological productivity pp. 56-60

J. L. Sarmiento, N. Gruber, M. A. Brzezinski and J. P. Dunne

Stability of magnesite and its high-pressure form in the lowermost mantle pp. 60-63

Maiko Isshiki, Tetsuo Irifune, Kei Hirose, Shigeaki Ono, Yasuo Ohishi, Tetsu Watanuki, Eiji Nishibori, Masaki Takata and Makoto Sakata

Unmatched tempo of evolution in Southern African semi-desert ice plants pp. 63-65

C. Klak, G. Reeves and T. Hedderson

A euprimate skull from the early Eocene of China pp. 65-68

Xijun Ni, Yuanqing Wang, Yaoming Hu and Chuankui Li

Unsaturated fatty acid content in seston and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes pp. 69-72

Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra, Michael T. Brett, Sangkyu Park, Sudeep Chandra, Ashley P. Ballantyne, Eduardo Zorita and Charles R. Goldman

SOS response promotes horizontal dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes pp. 72-74

John W. Beaber, Bianca Hochhut and Matthew K. Waldor

Defects in RGS9 or its anchor protein R9AP in patients with slow photoreceptor deactivation pp. 75-78

Koji M. Nishiguchi, Michael A. Sandberg, Aart C. Kooijman, Kirill A. Martemyanov, Jan W. R. Pott, Stephanie A. Hagstrom, Vadim Y. Arshavsky, Eliot L. Berson and Thaddeus P. Dryja

Expression and function of orphan nuclear receptor TLX in adult neural stem cells pp. 78-83

Yanhong Shi, D. Chichung Lie, Philippe Taupin, Kinichi Nakashima, Jasodhara Ray, Ruth T. Yu, Fred H. Gage and Ronald M. Evans

On the road pp. 85-85

Paul Smaglik