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2001, volume 413, articles 6858

Getting a handle on data pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

A permanent education pp. 4-5

Helen Gavaghan

Training in a hybrid discipline pp. 6-7

Potter Wickware

Playing catch-up pp. 8-8

Robert Triendl

Storm clouds gather over science as war build-up accelerates pp. 759-759

Matthew Davis

Fallout from terrorism hits summits on developing world pp. 759-759

K. S. Jayaraman and Philipp Weis

Brain mix-up leaves BSE research in turmoil pp. 760-760

Declan Butler

Grants to help women climb academic ladder pp. 761-761

Rex Dalton

Proposed scheme will scrutinize student supervisors pp. 761-761

David Adam

NASA head bows out after a record run pp. 762-762

William Triplett

Faculty concerns cost university venture-capital funds pp. 762-762

Rex Dalton

Workshop prepares ground for human proteome project pp. 763-763

Alison Abbott

Confusion over law leaves stem-cell research in the lurch pp. 763-763

Xavier Bosch

Cryptography on the front line pp. 766-767

David Adam

Science sans frontières pp. 768-770

Quirin Schiermeier

Masai Mara tourism reveals partnership benefits pp. 771-771

M. J. Walpole and N. Leader-Williams

Italian immunology well but hoping to do better pp. 771-771

Gianni Marone

Postdocs in France need less red tape, more cash pp. 771-772

Andrew A. Munk

Planned law could put German research at risk pp. 772-772

Thomas Jentsch

Hunger added an edge to Vincent's sharp wit pp. 772-772

Ajoy K. Baksi

Bacteria in biofilms are living an unnatural life pp. 772-772

David L. Kirchman

Protecting privacy and liberty pp. 773-773

Bruce Schneier

Honest Jim: the sequel pp. 775-776

Horace Freeland Judson

The world within the skull pp. 776-777

Ilya Farber

So why is it colder in winter? pp. 777-778

Peter Coles

Science in culture pp. 778-778

Martin Kemp

Wondrous order pp. 779-779

Matthew Cobb

Fundamental feelings pp. 781-781

Antonio Damasio

Preserved for the afterlife pp. 783-784

Sarah Wisseman

Slick switching of X-rays pp. 785-787

Ferenc Krausz and Christian Spielmann

Solving a sticky problem pp. 787-788

Christof Niehrs

Magnetic spins that last for ever pp. 788-789

Piers Coleman

Those elusive Neanderthals pp. 791-792

Chris Stringer and William Davies

The meaning of junk pp. 792-792

David Jones

Motor-cortical activity in tetraplegics pp. 793-793

Shy Shoham, Eric Halgren, Edwin M. Maynard and Richard A. Normann

Arctic waders are not capital breeders pp. 794-794

Marcel Klaassen, Åke Lindström, Hans Meltofte and Theunis Piersma

Key enzyme in leptin-induced anorexia pp. 794-795

Kevin D. Niswender, Gregory J. Morton, Walter H. Stearns, Christopher J. Rhodes, Martin G. Myers and Michael W. Schwartz

Weakening link to colorectal cancer? pp. 796-796

M. Barbier, S. Attoub, R. Calvez, M. Laffargue, A. Jarry, M. Mareel, F. Altruda, C. Gespach, D. Wu, B. Lu, E. Hirsch and M. P. Wymann

Morphogen gradient interpretation pp. 797-803

J. B. Gurdon and P.-Y. Bourillot

Locally critical quantum phase transitions in strongly correlated metals pp. 804-808

Qimiao Si, Silvio Rabello, Kevin Ingersent and J. Lleweilun Smith

Ion conduction pore is conserved among potassium channels pp. 809-813

Zhe Lu, Angela M. Klem and Yajamana Ramu

Structural basis for the interaction of antibiotics with the peptidyl transferase centre in eubacteria pp. 814-821

Frank Schlünzen, Raz Zarivach, Jörg Harms, Anat Bashan, Ante Tocilj, Renate Albrecht, Ada Yonath and François Franceschi

Energy spectra of quantum rings pp. 822-825

A. Fuhrer, S. Lüscher, T. Ihn, T. Heinzel, K. Ensslin, W. Wegscheider and M. Bichler

Coherent control of pulsed X-ray beams pp. 825-828

M. F. DeCamp, D. A. Reis, P. H. Bucksbaum, B. Adams, J. M. Caraher, R. Clarke, C. W. S. Conover, E. M. Dufresne, R. Merlin, V. Stoica and J. K. Wahlstrand

Spin-dependent exciton formation in π-conjugated compounds pp. 828-831

J. S. Wilson, A. S. Dhoot, A. J. A. B. Seeley, M. S. Khan, A. Köhler and R. H. Friend

Superconductivity in single crystals of the fullerene C70 pp. 831-833

J. H. Schön, Ch. Kloc, T. Siegrist, M. Steigerwald, C. Svensson and B. Batlogg

Magma storage beneath Axial volcano on the Juan de Fuca mid-ocean ridge pp. 833-836

M. West, W. Menke, M. Tolstoy, S. Webb and R. Sohn

Organic chemistry of embalming agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman mummies pp. 837-841

Stephen A. Buckley and Richard P. Evershed

Local interactions predict large-scale pattern in empirically derived cellular automata pp. 841-844

J. Timothy Wootton

Perceptual learning without perception pp. 844-848

Takeo Watanabe, José E. Náñez and Yuka Sasaki

Complete genome sequence of a multiple drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi CT18 pp. 848-852

J. Parkhill, G. Dougan, K. D. James, N. R. Thomson, D. Pickard, J. Wain, C. Churcher, K. L. Mungall, S. D. Bentley, M. T. G. Holden, M. Sebaihia, S. Baker, D. Basham, K. Brooks, T. Chillingworth, P. Connerton, A. Cronin, P. Davis, R. M. Davies, L. Dowd, N. White, J. Farrar, T. Feltwell, N. Hamlin, A. Haque, T. T. Hien, S. Holroyd, K. Jagels, A. Krogh, T. S. Larsen, S. Leather, S. Moule, P. Ó'Gaora, C. Parry, M. Quail, K. Rutherford, M. Simmonds, J. Skelton, K. Stevens, S. Whitehead and B. G. Barrell

Complete genome sequence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2 pp. 852-856

Michael McClelland, Kenneth E. Sanderson, John Spieth, Sandra W. Clifton, Phil Latreille, Laura Courtney, Steffen Porwollik, Johar Ali, Mike Dante, Feiyu Du, Shunfang Hou, Dan Layman, Shawn Leonard, Christine Nguyen, Kelsi Scott, Andrea Holmes, Neenu Grewal, Elizabeth Mulvaney, Ellen Ryan, Hui Sun, Liliana Florea, Webb Miller, Tamberlyn Stoneking, Michael Nhan, Robert Waterston and Richard K. Wilson

Frizzled-7 signalling controls tissue separation during Xenopus gastrulation pp. 856-860

Rudolf Winklbauer, Araceli Medina, Rajeeb K. Swain and Herbert Steinbeisser

Gene expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms pp. 860-864

Marvin Whiteley, M. Gita Bangera, Roger E. Bumgarner, Matthew R. Parsek, Gail M. Teitzel, Stephen Lory and E. P. Greenberg

Mass spectroscopy: Mix and match pp. 869-869

Potter Wickware and Paul Smaglik

Proteomics technology: Character references pp. 869-871

Potter Wickware and Paul Smaglik

Automation: Multiple choice pp. 871-871

Potter Wickware and Paul Smaglik

Chips: Alternative approaches pp. 873-873

Potter Wickware and Paul Smaglik

Software: Setting standards pp. 875-875

Potter Wickware and Paul Smaglik

2001, volume 413, articles 6857

Right physics problem, but pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Genetic sleuths rush to identify anthrax strains in mail attacks pp. 657-658

Rex Dalton

Bioweapons treaty under threat pp. 657-657

Declan Butler

Scientific leaders respond to US government's call to arms pp. 658-658

Jonathan Knight

Gaps remain in Japan's biodefences pp. 658-658

David Cyranoski

Birds fly in the face of 'green' farming incentive scheme pp. 659-659

John Whitfield

Plans to centralize biology research set for rough ride pp. 659-659

David Cyranoski

CERN's head rejects mismanagement claims pp. 660-660

Alison Abbott

Sanger Centre welcomes gene funds with a new name pp. 660-660

David Adam

Chemistry prize reflects tailor-made reactions pp. 661-661

David Adam

Bid to end EU's transgenic impasse pp. 661-661

Quirin Schiermeier

The outrageous hypothesis pp. 664-666

Larry O'Hanlon

It all falls into place pp. 667-668

Phillip Ball

Owen was right, as Darwin's work continues pp. 669-669

Jacob W. Gruber

SPOrt to fill a gap on cosmic maps pp. 669-669

Stefano Cortiglioni

Singapore considers institute's future pp. 669-669

Khaw Boon Wan

Peers under review pp. 669-669

Stephen K. Donovan

The best and worst of times pp. 671-671

David R. Worlock

Lessons for the future of journals pp. 672-674

Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King

Travelling the genomic road pp. 674-675

Samuel Broder

The Earth cubed pp. 675-675

Donald E. Canfield

Towards a common future pp. 675-676

David R. Brown

Room for one more on board? pp. 676-676

Amir Hoveyda

Forum for the genomic onslaught pp. 676-677

John D. McPherson

On the high side of life pp. 677-678

Ronald J. White and Jancy C. McPhee

The organic chemist's newswire pp. 678-679

Richard E. Taylor

Outlook on a crisis discipline pp. 678-678

Oscar E. Gaggiotti

A European slant on mol biol pp. 679-680

Hidde Ploegh

The way of the future? pp. 680-680

William Hersh

In the name of love? pp. 681-681

Alan Lightman

An intriguing door pp. 683-683

Ian Glynn

Fat and formation in flight pp. 685-686

Jeremy M. V. Rayner

Where drunkards hang out pp. 686-687

Ian Stewart

Tree trail to Chaco Canyon pp. 687-689

Jared Diamond

A magnet made from carbon pp. 690-691

Fernando Palacio

Exploiting expression pp. 691-693

Gillian P. Bates

Quo vadis, iceberg? pp. 693-693

Heike Langenberg

Diversity suppresses growth pp. 694-695

David W. Oxtoby

RNA enzymes for RNA splicing pp. 695-696

Andy Newman

A word in your ear pp. 696-696

David Jones

Energy saving in flight formation pp. 697-698

Henri Weimerskirch, Julien Martin, Yannick Clerquin, Peggy Alexandre and Sarka Jiraskova

Developmental arrest in vent worm embryos pp. 698-699

Florence Pradillon, Bruce Shillito, Craig M. Young and Françoise Gaill

Longitudinal variation in springtime ozone trends pp. 699-700

Bjørn M. Knudsen and Signe B. Andersen

Ancient wild olives in Mediterranean forests pp. 700-700

Roselyne Lumaret and Noureddine Ouazzani

Splicing-related catalysis by protein-free snRNAs pp. 701-707

Saba Valadkhan and James L. Manley

Discovery of X-rays from the protostellar outflow object HH2 pp. 708-711

Steven H. Pravdo, Eric D. Feigelson, Gordon Garmire, Yoshitomo Maeda, Yohko Tsuboi and John Bally

Suppression of crystal nucleation in polydisperse colloids due to increase of the surface free energy pp. 711-713

Stefan Auer and Daan Frenkel

Self-assembled monolayer organic field-effect transistors pp. 713-716

Jan Hendrik Schön, Hong Meng and Zhenan Bao

Magnetic carbon pp. 716-718

Tatiana L. Makarova, Bertil Sundqvist, Roland Höhne, Pablo Esquinazi, Yakov Kopelevich, Peter Scharff, Valerii A. Davydov, Ludmila S. Kashevarova and Aleksandra V. Rakhmanina

Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctic ice sheet at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary pp. 719-723

Tim R. Naish, Ken J. Woolfe, Peter J. Barrett, Gary S. Wilson, Cliff Atkins, Steven M. Bohaty, Christian J. Bücker, Michele Claps, Fred J. Davey, Gavin B. Dunbar, Alistair G. Dunn, Chris R. Fielding, Fabio Florindo, Michael J. Hannah, David M. Harwood, Stuart A. Henrys, Lawrence A. Krissek, Mark Lavelle, Jaap van der Meer, William C. McIntosh, Frank Niessen, Sandra Passchier, Ross D. Powell, Andrew P. Roberts, Leonardo Sagnotti, Reed P. Scherer, C. Percy Strong, Franco Talarico, Kenneth L. Verosub, Giuliana Villa, David K. Watkins, Peter-N. Webb and Thomas Wonik

Agri-environment schemes do not effectively protect biodiversity in Dutch agricultural landscapes pp. 723-725

David Kleijn, Frank Berendse, Ruben Smit and Niels Gilissen

Endoscopic exploration of Red Sea coral reefs reveals dense populations of cavity-dwelling sponges pp. 726-730

Claudio Richter, Mark Wunsch, Mohammed Rasheed, Iris Kötter and Mohammad I. Badran

Carrying large fuel loads during sustained bird flight is cheaper than expected pp. 730-732

Anders Kvist, Åke Lindström, Martin Green, Theunis Piersma and G. Henk Visser

Recognition of double-stranded RNA and activation of NF-κB by Toll-like receptor 3 pp. 732-738

Lena Alexopoulou, Agnieszka Czopik Holt, Ruslan Medzhitov and Richard A. Flavell

Histone deacetylase inhibitors arrest polyglutamine-dependent neurodegeneration in Drosophila pp. 739-743

Joan S. Steffan, Laszlo Bodai, Judit Pallos, Marnix Poelman, Alexander McCampbell, Barbara L. Apostol, Alexsey Kazantsev, Emily Schmidt, Ya-Zhen Zhu, Marilee Greenwald, Riki Kurokawa, David E. Housman, George R. Jackson, J. Lawrence Marsh and Leslie M. Thompson

Forkhead transcription factors contribute to execution of the mitotic programme in mammals pp. 744-747

Beatriz Alvarez, Carlos Martínez-A., Boudewijn M. T. Burgering and Ana C. Carrera

The bacteriophage φ29 portal motor can package DNA against a large internal force pp. 748-752

Douglas E. Smith, Sander J. Tans, Steven B. Smith, Shelley Grimes, Dwight L. Anderson and Carlos Bustamante

Uracil-DNA glycosylase acts by substrate autocatalysis pp. 752-755

Aaron R. Dinner, G. Michael Blackburn and Martin Karplus

2001, volume 413, articles 6856

California, home of laureates pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Physics graduates in industry pp. 4-5

Steve Bunk

Trio united by division as cell cycle clinches centenary Nobel pp. 553-553

Bernd Pulverer

Cool atoms make physics prize matter pp. 554-554

Philip Ball

Ig Nobels raise a welcome smile pp. 554-554

Steve Nadis

Illicit GM cotton sparks corporate fury pp. 555-555

K. S. Jayaraman

US lays out bare bones of fossil protection package pp. 555-555

Rex Dalton

Bangladeshis to sue over arsenic poisoning pp. 556-556

Tom Clarke

Spain's postdoc plan takes off pp. 556-556

Xavier Bosch

CERN management faulted over sudden budget crisis pp. 557-557

David Adam

Ireland weighs up options to buy into European research pp. 557-557

Erica Klarreich

Eyes on the prize pp. 560-564

Trisha Gura

Public trust requires disclosure of potential conflicts of interest pp. 565-565

Steven Gurney and Jennifer Sass

Declaring interests in the fight for good science pp. 565-565

Vanessa Spedding

Financial interests are not the only bias factor pp. 565-565

Gio Batta Gori

Exciting future planned for birthplace of genetics pp. 565-565

Kim Nasmyth and Dieter Schweizer

Debate over language's link with intelligence pp. 565-566

Elizabeth Bates, Helen Tager-Flusberg, Stefano Vicari and Virginia Volterra

Concerns highlight need to make faster decisions pp. 566-566

Regis Kelly

Sound basis for research pp. 566-566

Mitchell E. Daniels

Echoes from the dreamtime pp. 567-568

Robert L. Bettinger

Biographical biology pp. 568-569

Claus Wedekind

Benefactors of mankind pp. 569-571

Alison Abbott

Yes, I remember it well pp. 571-572

Larry R. Squire

A physical view of the cytoskeleton pp. 572-572

Edwin Taylor

Science's fiction pp. 573-573

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

Unweaving the whirls pp. 575-575

Joël Sommeria

Semiconductors are cool pp. 577-578

Cronin B. Vining

Matter of time on the prairie pp. 578-579

Lindsey Rustad

Swimming with sperm pp. 579-581

David L. Garbers

Melting from within pp. 582-583

Robert W. Cahn

The odd coupling pp. 583-585

R. Andrew Keys and Michael R. Green

Molecules join the assembly line pp. 585-586

Paul S. Weiss

Inside history on droplets pp. 586-587

Marcia Baker

Even more light pp. 587-587

David Jones

Edward T. Hall (1924–2001) pp. 588-588

Stuart A. Young

Reward value of attractiveness and gaze pp. 589-589

Knut K. W. Kampe, Chris D. Frith, Raymond J. Dolan and Uta Frith

Antenna ring around photosystem I pp. 590-590

T. S. Bibby, J. Nield, F. Partensky and J. Barber

Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems pp. 591-596

Marten Scheffer, Steve Carpenter, Jonathan A. Foley, Carl Folke and Brian Walker

Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit pp. 597-602

Rama Venkatasubramanian, Edward Siivola, Thomas Colpitts and Brooks O'Quinn

A sperm ion channel required for sperm motility and male fertility pp. 603-609

Dejian Ren, Betsy Navarro, Gloria Perez, Alexander C. Jackson, Shyuefang Hsu, Qing Shi, Jonathan L. Tilly and David E. Clapham

Tunable quantum tunnelling of magnetic domain walls pp. 610-613

J. Brooke, T. F. Rosenbaum and G. Aeppli

Coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in URhGe pp. 613-616

Dai Aoki, Andrew Huxley, Eric Ressouche, Daniel Braithwaite, Jacques Flouquet, Jean-Pascal Brison, Elsa Lhotel and Carley Paulsen

Atomic-scale imaging of insulating diamond through resonant electron injection pp. 616-619

Kirill Bobrov, Andrew J. Mayne and Gérald Dujardin

Selective assembly on a surface of supramolecular aggregates with controlled size and shape pp. 619-621

Takashi Yokoyama, Shiyoshi Yokoyama, Toshiya Kamikado, Yoshishige Okuno and Shinro Mashiko

Acclimatization of soil respiration to warming in a tall grass prairie pp. 622-625

Yiqi Luo, Shiqiang Wan, Dafeng Hui and Linda L. Wallace

The earliest known fully quadrupedal sirenian pp. 625-627

D. P. Domning

A general model for ontogenetic growth pp. 628-631

Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown and Brian J. Enquist

Hyperpolarization-activated channels HCN1 and HCN4 mediate responses to sour stimuli pp. 631-635

David R. Stevens, Reinhard Seifert, Bernd Bufe, Frank Müller, Elisabeth Kremmer, Renate Gauss, Wolfgang Meyerhof, U. Benjamin Kaupp and Bernd Lindemann

Consequences of a biological invasion reveal the importance of mutualism for plant communities pp. 635-639

Caroline E. Christian

In situ class switching and differentiation to IgA-producing cells in the gut lamina propria pp. 639-643

Sidonia Fagarasan, Kazuo Kinoshita, Masamichi Muramatsu, Koichi Ikuta and Tasuku Honjo

Pre-mRNA splicing and mRNA export linked by direct interactions between UAP56 and Aly pp. 644-647

Ming-Juan Luo, Zhaolan Zhou, Keith Magni, Claudine Christoforides, Juri Rappsilber, Matthias Mann and Robin Reed

Splicing factor Sub2p is required for nuclear mRNA export through its interaction with Yra1p pp. 648-652

Katja Sträßer and Ed Hurt

Correction: A mouse knock-in model exposes sequential proteolytic pathways that regulate p27Kip1 in G1 and S phase pp. 652-652

Nisar P. Malek, Holly Sundberg, Seth McGrew, Keiko Nakayama, Themis R. Kyriakides and James M. Roberts

Correction: CREB regulates hepatic gluconeogenesis through the coactivator PGC-1 pp. 652-652

Stephan Herzig, Fanxin Long, Ulupi S. Jhala, Susan Hedrick, Rebecca Quinn, Anton Bauer, Dorothea Rudolph, Gunther Schutz, Cliff Yoon, Pere Puigserver, Bruce Spiegelman and Marc Montminy

Erratum: A titanosilicate molecular sieve with adjustable pores for size-selective adsorption of molecules pp. 652-652

Steven M. Kuznicki, Valerie A. Bell, Sankar Nair, Hugh W. Hillhouse, Richard M. Jacubinas, Carola M. Braunbarth, Brian H. Toby and Michael Tsapatsis

2001, volume 413, articles 6855

Shaking off genome fatigue pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Population Genetics pp. 4-5

Eugene Russo

Large Hadron Collider in crisis as magnet costs spiral upwards pp. 441-441

David Adam

Senators call for biodefence boost pp. 441-441

Jonathan Knight

Bilateral Vietnam study plans to assess war fallout of dioxin pp. 442-442

Rex Dalton

Eviction threat to Belgium's science academies pp. 442-442

Quirin Schiermeier

Doctors propose panel on research misconduct pp. 442-442

Erica Klarreich

Testing time for gene patent as Europe rebels pp. 443-443

Meredith Wadman

Last-minute floods sink research pp. 443-443

Alison Abbott

Mouse genome roars ahead with new map pp. 444-444

Declan Butler

Psychiatrist launches lawsuit over 'academic freedom' pp. 444-444

David Spurgeon

NASA budget problems alarm space-station collaborators pp. 445-445

William Triplett

Vatican approves use of animal transplants 'to benefit humans' pp. 445-445

Xavier Bosch

Hard times for high tech pp. 448-449

Declan Butler and Jim Giles

Biologists join the dots pp. 450-452

Erica Klarreich

Rules on originality need to be clearly set out pp. 453-453

Tadasu Nagaoka and Hisatsugu Miyakoshi

Related problems pp. 453-453

Alex C. W. May

Give us time to put reforms into action pp. 453-453

Enrico Garaci

In the stem-cell debate, new concepts need new words pp. 453-453

Ann A. Kiessling

Whither evo–devo? pp. 455-456

Axel Meyer

No easy answers pp. 457-458

Xavier Bosch

Is content king? pp. 458-459

Johanna McEntyre

A new window on space pp. 459-459

Ingo Lehmann

Science in culture pp. 460-460

Martin Kemp

Tales behind the tags pp. 461-461

Philip Morrison

The natural economy pp. 463-463

Jeff Harvey

Talk of genetics and vice versa pp. 465-466

Steven Pinker

Mastering the language of atoms pp. 466-467

Ron Folman and Jörg Schmiedmayer

A plague o' both your hosts pp. 467-469

Stewart T. Cole and Carmen Buchrieser

Chill taken out of the tropics pp. 470-471

Lee R. Kump

Developing order pp. 471-473

Rick Livesey and Connie Cepko

Black hole blockbuster pp. 473-473

Sarah Tomlin

Suspended by sound pp. 474-475

E. H. Brandt

To clot or not pp. 475-476

Amanda J. Fosang and Peter J. Smith

Learning from melting pp. 476-476

David Jones

Snapping shrimp make flashing bubbles pp. 477-478

Detlef Lohse, Barbara Schmitz and Michel Versluis

The economic benefits of the Kyoto Protocol pp. 478-479

Giulio A. De Leo, Luca Rizzi, Andrea Caizzi and Marino Gatto

Evolution of prehistoric cave art pp. 479-479

H. Valladas, J. Clottes, J.-M. Geneste, M. A. Garcia, Michael Arnold, H. Cachier and N. Tisnérat-Laborde

Cold current in thermoreceptive neurons pp. 480-480

Gordon Reid and Maria-Luiza Flonta

Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs pp. 481-487

Paul N. Pearson, Peter W. Ditchfield, Joyce Singano, Katherine G. Harcourt-Brown, Christopher J. Nicholas, Richard K. Olsson, Nicholas J. Shackleton and Mike A. Hall

Mutations in a member of the ADAMTS gene family cause thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura pp. 488-494

Gallia G. Levy, William C. Nichols, Eric C. Lian, Tatiana Foroud, Jeanette N. McClintick, Beth M. McGee, Angela Y. Yang, David R. Siemieniak, Kenneth R. Stark, Ralph Gruppo, Ravindra Sarode, Susan B. Shurin, Visalam Chandrasekaran, Sally P. Stabler, Hernan Sabio, Eric E. Bouhassira, Jefferson D. Upshaw, David Ginsburg and Han-Mou Tsai

Light interference from single atoms and their mirror images pp. 495-498

J. Eschner, Ch. Raab, F. Schmidt-Kaler and R. Blatt

Bose–Einstein condensation on a microelectronic chip pp. 498-501

W. Hänsel, P. Hommelhoff, T. W. Hänsch and J. Reichel

Spatially resolved electronic structure inside and outside the vortex cores of a high-temperature superconductor pp. 501-504

V. F. Mitrović, E. E. Sigmund, M. Eschrig, H. N. Bachman, W. P. Halperin, A. P. Reyes, P. Kuhns and W. G. Moulton

Swollen liquid-crystalline lamellar phase based on extended solid-like sheets pp. 504-508

Jean-Christophe P. Gabriel, Franck Camerel, Bruno J. Lemaire, Hervé Desvaux, Patrick Davidson and Patrick Batail

High frequency of ‘super-cyclones’ along the Great Barrier Reef over the past 5,000 years pp. 508-512

Jonathan Nott and Matthew Hayne

Multiple benefits of gregariousness cover detectability costs in aposematic aggregations pp. 512-514

Marianna Riipi, Rauno V. Alatalo, Leena Lindström and Johanna Mappes

Positive selection of a gene family during the emergence of humans and African apes pp. 514-519

Matthew E. Johnson, Luigi Viggiano, Jeffrey A. Bailey, Munah Abdul-Rauf, Graham Goodwin, Mariano Rocchi and Evan E. Eichler

A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder pp. 519-523

Cecilia S. L. Lai, Simon E. Fisher, Jane A. Hurst, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem and Anthony P. Monaco

Genome sequence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague pp. 523-527

J. Parkhill, B. W. Wren, N. R. Thomson, R. W. Titball, M. T. G. Holden, M. B. Prentice, M. Sebaihia, K. D. James, C. Churcher, K. L. Mungall, S. Baker, D. Basham, S. D. Bentley, K. Brooks, A. M. Cerdeño-Tárraga, T. Chillingworth, A. Cronin, R. M. Davies, P. Davis, G. Dougan, T. Feltwell, N. Hamlin, S. Holroyd, K. Jagels, A. V. Karlyshev, S. Leather, S. Moule, P. C. F. Oyston, M. Quail, K. Rutherford, M. Simmonds, J. Skelton, K. Stevens, S. Whitehead and B. G. Barrell

An endogenous cannabinoid (2-AG) is neuroprotective after brain injury pp. 527-531

David Panikashvili, Constantina Simeonidou, Shimon Ben-Shabat, Lumír Hanuš, Aviva Breuer, Raphael Mechoulam and Esther Shohami

A synthetic glycolipid prevents autoimmune encephalomyelitis by inducing TH2 bias of natural killer T cells pp. 531-534

Katsuichi Miyamoto, Sachiko Miyake and Takashi Yamamura

Direct ligand–receptor complex interaction controls Brassica self-incompatibility pp. 534-538

Seiji Takayama, Hiroko Shimosato, Hiroshi Shiba, Miyuki Funato, Fang-Sik Che, Masao Watanabe, Megumi Iwano and Akira Isogai

Quality control of mRNA 3′-end processing is linked to the nuclear exosome pp. 538-542

Patricia Hilleren, Terri McCarthy, Michael Rosbash, Roy Parker and Torben Heick Jensen

Transmission intensity and impact of control policies on the foot and mouth epidemic in Great Britain pp. 542-548

Neil M. Ferguson, Christl A. Donnelly and Roy M. Anderson

Erratum: The timing of the last deglaciation in North Atlantic climate records pp. 548-548

Claire Waelbroeck, Jean-Claude Duplessy, Elisabeth Michel, Laurent Labeyrie, Didier Paillard and Josette Duprat

Erratum: Control of conformational and interpolymer effects in conjugated polymers pp. 548-548

J. Kim and M. Swager

Erratum: Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments pp. 548-548

Michel Loreau and Andy Hector

2001, volume 413, articles 6854

Rewards of seeing potential pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

'Identity crisis' racks depleted research arms of spy agencies pp. 335-336

William Triplett

Swift move to collect fallout data pp. 335-335

Rex Dalton

Support for science is firm as emergency raises budget pp. 336-336

Matthew Davis

Japan's first BSE case fuels fears elsewhere pp. 337-337

David Cyranoski

Transgenic corn found growing in Mexico pp. 337-337

Rex Dalton

British archaeology boost may uncover old enthusiasm pp. 338-338

David Adam

Crushing victory could help in quest for fusion energy pp. 338-338

William Triplett

China plans 'hybrid' embryonic stem cells pp. 339-339

Alison Abbott and David Cyranoski

Stamp booklet has physicists licked pp. 339-339

Erica Klarreich

All creatures great and small pp. 342-344

John Whitfield

Storm in a culture dish pp. 345-346

Laura Bonetta

Need for public debate about fertility treatments pp. 347-347

Robert K. Naviaux and Keshav K. Singh

Risk that websites could break code of anonymity pp. 347-347

David L. Reed, Brett Moyer and Dale Clayton

IVF and the history of stem cells pp. 349-351

R. G. Edwards

Does ivory burn? pp. 353-354

Colin Tudge

Wormholes through physics pp. 354-355

Paul Davies

Cut-and-paste knowledge pp. 355-355

W.F. Bynum

The price of success pp. 355-356

David Dickson

An astronomical adventure story pp. 356-357

Joel Wm. Parker

The other man to discover evolution pp. 357-358

Jane R. Camerini

Unlocking nature's ancient secrets pp. 358-359

Tomas Lindahl

Modern values in post-modernism pp. 359-360

John Ziman

A life of good taste pp. 360-361

Tom Sanders

In for the count pp. 361-362

Simon Singh

Is anyone out there listening? pp. 362-363

Harold Mooney

Discourse and discord pp. 363-364

Geoffrey Cantor

Washing one's hands of controversy pp. 364-364

Martyn Poliakoff

Bridge or ravine? pp. 365-365

George and Eva Klein

More than words pp. 367-367

Geoffrey K. Pullum and Barbara C. Scholz

Once upon an asteroid pp. 369-370

Erik Asphaug

Testing telomerase pp. 371-373

Robert Marciniak and Leonard Guarente

The salesman and the tourist pp. 373-374

H. Eugene Stanley and Sergey V. Buldyrev

Transporters on the move pp. 374-375

Mark Estelle

Entangled atomic samples pp. 375-377

J. Ignacio Cirac

Ardent spirits pp. 377-377

David Jones

Patrick D. Wall (1925–2001) pp. 378-378

Clifford J. Woolf

Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery pp. 379-380

Jacques Marescaux, Joel Leroy, Michel Gagner, Francesco Rubino, Didier Mutter, Michel Vix, Steven E. Butner and Michelle K. Smith

Cyanobacteria track water in desert soils pp. 380-381

Ferran Garcia-Pichel and Olivier Pringault

Receptor-specific messenger oscillations pp. 381-382

Mark S. Nash, Kenneth W. Young, R. A. John Challiss and Stefan R. Nahorski

Do power laws imply self-regulation? pp. 382-382

Robert P. Freckleton and William J. Sutherland

Two-component circuitry in Arabidopsis cytokinin signal transduction pp. 383-389

Ildoo Hwang and Jen Sheen

The landing of the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros pp. 390-393

J. Veverka, B. Farquhar, M. Robinson, P. Thomas, S. Murchie, A. Harch, P. G. Antreasian, S. R. Chesley, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen, B. G. Williams, D. Yeomans, D. Dunham, G. Heyler, M. Holdridge, R. L. Nelson, K. E. Whittenburg, J. C. Ray, B. Carcich, A. Cheng, C. Chapman, J. F. Bell, M. Bell, B. Bussey, B. Clark, D. Domingue, M. J. Gaffey, E. Hawkins, N. Izenberg, J. Joseph, R. Kirk, P. Lucey, M. Malin, L. McFadden, W. J. Merline, C. Peterson, L. Prockter, J. Warren and D. Wellnitz

Shoemaker crater as the source of most ejecta blocks on the asteroid 433 Eros pp. 394-396

P. C. Thomas, J. Veverka, M. S. Robinson and S. Murchie

The nature of ponded deposits on Eros pp. 396-400

M. S. Robinson, P. C. Thomas, J. Veverka, S. Murchie and B. Carcich

Experimental long-lived entanglement of two macroscopic objects pp. 400-403

Brian Julsgaard, Alexander Kozhekin and Eugene S. Polzik

A Bragg glass phase in the vortex lattice of a type II superconductor pp. 404-406

T. Klein, I. Joumard, S. Blanchard, J. Marcus, R. Cubitt, T. Giamarchi and P. Le Doussal

The jamming route to the glass state in weakly perturbed granular media pp. 407-409

G. D'Anna and G. Gremaud

Photochemical cycling of iron in the surface ocean mediated by microbial iron(iii)-binding ligands pp. 409-413

K. Barbeau, E. L. Rue, K. W. Bruland and A. Butler

Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia pp. 413-417

R. X. Zhu, K. A. Hoffman, R. Potts, C. L. Deng, Y. X. Pan, B. Guo, C. D. Shi, Z. T. Guo, B. Y. Yuan, Y. M. Hou and W. W. Huang

Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics pp. 417-420

Paul M. Thompson and Janet C. Ollason

Histamine regulates T-cell and antibody responses by differential expression of H1 and H2 receptors pp. 420-425

Marek Jutel, Takeshi Watanabe, Sven Klunker, Mübeccel Akdis, Olivier A. R. Thomet, Jozef Malolepszy, Teresa Zak-Nejmark, Ritsuko Koga, Takashi Kobayashi, Kurt Blaser and Cezmi A. Akdis

Auxin transport inhibitors block PIN1 cycling and vesicle trafficking pp. 425-428

Niko Geldner, Jiří Friml, York-Dieter Stierhof, Gerd Jürgens and Klaus Palme

Voltage-induced membrane movement pp. 428-432

Ping-Cheng Zhang, Asbed M. Keleshian and Frederick Sachs

The RNA component of telomerase is mutated in autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenita pp. 432-435

Tom Vulliamy, Anna Marrone, Frederick Goldman, Andrew Dearlove, Monica Bessler, Philip J. Mason and Inderjeet Dokal

DNA topoisomerase IIα is required for RNA polymerase II transcription on chromatin templates pp. 435-438

Neelima Mondal and Jeffrey D. Parvin

2001, volume 413, articles 6853

Mergers and acquisitions pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Biopolis on the Elbe Dresden pp. 4-5

Helen Gavaghan

Technology will assist the fight against terrorism pp. 238-239

William Triplett

Job refusal sparks row over mind-drug critic pp. 240-240

David Spurgeon

Mad cow disease comes to Japan pp. 240-240

Jim Giles

Cancer institute director's exit leaves NIH in the lurch pp. 241-241

Matthew Davis

Top researchers plan to snub fertility conference pp. 241-241

Erica Klarreich

Two become one pp. 244-246

Helen Pearson

The stowaways pp. 247-248

Tom Clarke

Probabilities will help us plan for climate change pp. 249-249

A. Barrie Pittock, Roger Jones and Chris D. Mitchell

Vital parameters need to be in print pp. 249-249

David Borhani

Paradox of the savant mind pp. 251-252

Allan Snyder

Spandrels or selection? pp. 252-253

Michael A. Goldman

Preaching to the chemical converts pp. 253-254

John Emsley

Reading the history of humanity pp. 254-254

Howy Jacobs

Sex, love and science pp. 255-255

Susan Gaines

A principled stance pp. 257-257

Martyn Poliakoff and Paul Anastas

Walking with whales pp. 259-260

Christian de Muizon

A new crack at friction pp. 260-261

David A. Kessler

Mobile protein signals cell fate pp. 261-263

Sarah Hake

Up on the C60 elevator pp. 264-265

Paul Grant

Crowd trouble for predators pp. 265-265

Peter D. Moore

Déjà vu in optics pp. 267-268

Nail N. Akhmediev

Archipelago of destruction pp. 268-269

Michael Schwab and Mike Tyers

Genomes and souls pp. 269-269

David Jones

Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) pp. 270-270

John Maddox

Neonatal sunburn and melanoma in mice pp. 271-272

Frances P. Noonan, Juan A. Recio, Hisashi Takayama, Paul Duray, Miriam R. Anver, Walter L. Rush, Edward C. De Fabo and Glenn Merlino

Population of origin of Atlantic cod pp. 272-272

Einar E. Nielsen, Michael M. Hansen, Cathrin Schmidt, Dorte Meldrup and Peter Grønkjaer

Controlling photons using electromagnetically induced transparency pp. 273-276

M. D. Lukin and A. Imamoğlu

Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls pp. 277-281

J. G. M. Thewissen, E. M. Williams, L. J. Roe and S. T. Hussain

Microscopic electronic inhomogeneity in the high-Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x pp. 282-285

S. H. Pan, J. P. O'Neal, R. L. Badzey, C. Chamon, H. Ding, J. R. Engelbrecht, Z. Wang, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, A. K. Gupta, K.-W. Ng, E. W. Hudson, K. M. Lang and J. C. Davis

Friction and fracture pp. 285-288

Eric Gerde and M. Marder

A high-strain-rate superplastic ceramic pp. 288-291

B.-N. Kim, K. Hiraga, K. Morita and Y. Sakka

Ultrafast holographic nanopatterning of biocatalytically formed silica pp. 291-293

Lawrence L. Brott, Rajesh R. Naik, David J. Pikas, Sean M. Kirkpatrick, David W. Tomlin, Patrick W. Whitlock, Stephen J. Clarson and Morley O. Stone

High-resolution record of climate stability in France during the last interglacial period pp. 293-296

Patrick Rioual, Valérie Andrieu-Ponel, Miri Rietti-Shati, Richard W. Battarbee, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Rachid Cheddadi, Maurice Reille, Helena Svobodova and Aldo Shemesh

An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus accelerates decomposition and acquires nitrogen directly from organic material pp. 297-299

Angela Hodge, Colin D. Campbell and Alastair H. Fitter

The rhythm of microbial adaptation pp. 299-302

Philip Gerrish

An agrin minigene rescues dystrophic symptoms in a mouse model for congenital muscular dystrophy pp. 302-307

Joachim Moll, Patrizia Barzaghi, Shuo Lin, Gabriela Bezakova, Hanns Lochmüller, Eva Engvall, Ulrich Müller and Markus A. Ruegg

Intercellular movement of the putative transcription factor SHR in root patterning pp. 307-311

Keiji Nakajima, Giovanni Sena, Tal Nawy and Philip N. Benfey

Archipelago regulates Cyclin E levels in Drosophila and is mutated in human cancer cell lines pp. 311-316

Kenneth H. Moberg, Daphne W. Bell, Doke C. R. Wahrer, Daniel A. Haber and Iswar K. Hariharan

Human F-box protein hCdc4 targets cyclin E for proteolysis and is mutated in a breast cancer cell line pp. 316-322

Heimo Strohmaier, Charles H. Spruck, Peter Kaiser, Kwang-Ai Won, Olle Sangfelt and Steven I. Reed

A mouse knock-in model exposes sequential proteolytic pathways that regulate p27Kip1 in G1 and S phase pp. 323-327

Nisar P. Malek, Holly Sundberg, Seth McGrew, Keiko Nakayama, Themis R. Kyriakidis and James M. Roberts

RNA-binding protein Nrd1 directs poly(A)-independent 3′-end formation of RNA polymerase II transcripts pp. 327-331

Eric J. Steinmetz, Nicholas K. Conrad, David A. Brow and Jeffry L. Corden

2001, volume 413, articles 6852

A rich diversity pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

French researchers take a stand against cancer gene patent pp. 95-96

Declan Butler and Sally Goodman

Venture capital concerns academics pp. 95-95

Rex Dalton

Helmholtz Society prepares itself for strategic reforms pp. 96-96

Quirin Schiermeier

Summit to put education at the heart of Brazil's future pp. 96-96

Ricardo Bonalume

Pirates attack US research ship off Somalia pp. 97-97

Mark Schrope

WHO plans study of Gulf War fallout pp. 97-97

Alison Abbott

Relaxed restrictions blamed for rise in foot and mouth pp. 98-98

Jim Giles

Scotland aims to capitalize on spirit of scientific innovation pp. 98-98

David Dickson

Astronomers buoyed by rejection of merger pp. 99-99

Tony Reichhardt

NIH ponders repository for embryonic stem cells pp. 99-99

Laura Bonetta

Peers under pressure pp. 102-104

Rex Dalton

Keeping up with the Joneses pp. 105-106

David Adam

Investment is the best cure for inbreeding pp. 107-107

Juan Pedro M. Camacho

Taxonomy is small, but it has its citation classics pp. 107-107

Eugene Garfield

Ethical link between IVF and stem-cell research pp. 107-108

Lewis Wolpert

Science archives should remain in public hands pp. 108-108

Peter Harper and Julia Sheppard

Nature's laws revealed in rhyming couplets pp. 108-108

N. C. Craig Sharp

Enthusiasm ran ahead of discoveries still to come pp. 108-108

Alan P. Zelicoff

The 'new synthesis' vindicated pp. 109-110

Laurent Keller

Shedding light on a golden age pp. 110-111

John H. Thomas

Techy in fuzzy clothing pp. 111-112

Horace Freeland Judson

Science in culture pp. 112-112

Sara Abdulla

Good news is no news pp. 113-113

John Emsley

Fidelity and infidelity pp. 115-115

Miroslav Radman

Particles driven to diffraction pp. 117-118

Philip H. Bucksbaum

Nitric oxide and respiration pp. 119-121

Stuart A. Lipton

Sum of the arthropod parts pp. 121-122

Mark Blaxter

Sizing up the heavyweights pp. 122-125

Yuri Oganessian

Controlling the glucose factory pp. 125-126

Antonio Vidal-Puig and Stephen O'Rahilly

Extremes of rubbish pp. 126-126

David Jones

Pack formation in cycling and orienteering pp. 127-127

G. J. Ackland and D. Butler

Endocrine disrupters and flavonoid signalling pp. 128-129

Jennifer E. Fox, Marta Starcevic, Kelvin Y. Kow, Matthew E. Burow and John A. McLachlan

Are ducks impressed by drakes' display? pp. 128-128

Kevin G. McCracken, Robert E. Wilson, Pamela J. McCracken and Kevin P. Johnson

Diversity of temperate plants in east Asia pp. 129-130

S. P. Harrison, G. Yu, H. Takahara and I. C. Prentice

Diversity of temperate plants in east Asia pp. 130-130

Hong Qian and Robert E. Ricklefs

Control of hepatic gluconeogenesis through the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1 pp. 131-138

J. Cliff Yoon, Pere Puigserver, Guoxun Chen, Jerry Donovan, Zhidan Wu, James Rhee, Guillaume Adelmant, John Stafford, C. Ronald Kahn, Daryl K. Granner, Christopher B. Newgard and Bruce M. Spiegelman

A high-velocity black hole on a Galactic-halo orbit in the solar neighbourhood pp. 139-141

I. F. Mirabel, V. Dhawan, R. P. Mignani, I. Rodrigues and F. Guglielmetti

Observation of the Kapitza–Dirac effect pp. 142-143

Daniel L. Freimund, Kayvan Aflatooni and Herman Batelaan

Unexpected inhibition of fusion in nucleus–nucleus collisions pp. 144-147

A. C. Berriman, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, C. R. Morton, R. D. Butt and J. O. Newton

Diffusion of point defects in two-dimensional colloidal crystals pp. 147-150

Alexandros Pertsinidis and X. S. Ling

Evolution of magma-poor continental margins from rifting to seafloor spreading pp. 150-154

R. B. Whitmarsh, G. Manatschal and T. A. Minshull

Mitochondrial protein phylogeny joins myriapods with chelicerates pp. 154-157

Ui Wook Hwang, Markus Friedrich, Diethard Tautz, Chan Jong Park and Won Kim

Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology pp. 157-161

Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory D. Edgecombe and Ward C. Wheeler

Dissociation between hand motion and population vectors from neural activity in motor cortex pp. 161-165

Stephen H. Scott, Paul L. Gribble, Kirsten M. Graham and D. William Cabel

Rae1 and H60 ligands of the NKG2D receptor stimulate tumour immunity pp. 165-171

Andreas Diefenbach, Eric R. Jensen, Amanda M. Jamieson and David H. Raulet

S-Nitrosothiols signal the ventilatory response to hypoxia pp. 171-174

Andrew J. Lipton, Michael A. Johnson, Timothy Macdonald, Michael W. Lieberman, David Gozal and Benjamin Gaston

The SH2/SH3 adaptor Grb4 transduces B-ephrin reverse signals pp. 174-179

Chad A. Cowan and Mark Henkemeyer

CREB regulates hepatic gluconeogenesis through the coactivator PGC-1 pp. 179-183

Stephan Herzig, Fanxin Long, Ulupi S. Jhala, Susan Hedrick, Rebecca Quinn, Anton Bauer, Dorothea Rudolph, Gunther Schutz, Cliff Yoon, Pere Puigserver, Bruce Spiegelman and Marc Montminy

Erratum: Roles of tumour localization, second signals and cross priming in cytotoxic T-cell induction pp. 183-183

Adrian F. Ochsenbein, Sophie Sierro, Bernhard Odermatt, Marcus Pericin, Urs Karrer, Ian Hermans, Silvio Hemmi, Hans Hengartner and Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Visual transduction in Drosophila pp. 186-193

Roger C. Hardie and Padinjat Raghu

Molecular basis of mechanosensory transduction pp. 194-202

Peter G. Gillespie and Richard G. Walker

Molecular mechanisms of nociception pp. 203-210

David Julius and Allan I. Basbaum

How the olfactory system makes sense of scents pp. 211-218

Stuart Firestein

Receptors and transduction in taste pp. 219-225

Bernd Lindemann

Stochastic sensors inspired by biology pp. 226-230

Hagan Bayley and Paul S. Cremer

2001, volume 413, articles 6851

Presenting Naturejobs.com 2 pp. 3-3

Paul Smaglik

Fears for basic science as Bush backs use of investment criteria pp. 5-5

Colin Macilwain

Stanford gift scaled back over federal stem-cell policy pp. 5-5

Rex Dalton

Y-chromosome analysis urged for sex crimes pp. 6-6

Quirin Schiermeier

Journal boycott presses demand for free access pp. 6-6

Jonathan Knight

Building protein pipelines pp. 6-6

Paul Smaglik

Environmental laws face military manoeuvres pp. 7-7

Mark Schrope

Listing resumes for species at risk pp. 7-7

Mark Schrope

Japan plans revision of science lessons pp. 8-8

David Cyranoski

Ministry attempts to breathe life into clinical trials pp. 8-8

David Cyranoski

Japan in the post-genomics age pp. 8-8

Robert Triendl

Liver tumours temper hopes for gene-therapy technique pp. 9-9

Helen Pearson

Celera and Motorola brought in to aid hunt for disease genes pp. 9-9

Jonathan Knight

Biology's last taboo pp. 12-15

Jonathan Knight

Brazil has the talent: just let us get on with the job pp. 16-16

Sérvio P. Ribeiro, Milton de S. Mendonça-Júnior, Edésio M. Barbosa and J. Adauto de Souza Neto

Group did give timely foot-and-mouth analysis pp. 16-16

Roy M. Anderson, Neil M. Ferguson and Christl A. Donnelly

To boldly go where no plant has yet been found pp. 16-16

Cindy Lee Van Dover

The ultimate means of destruction pp. 17-18

Stuart Croft

Counting on the metaphorical pp. 18-19

Gerald A. Goldin

Sticking by our one and only? pp. 19-20

T. R. Birkhead

A tale from Bioutopia pp. 21-21

Pier Luigi Nimis

The self 'out there' pp. 23-23

Igor Aleksander

X-rays from the edge of infinity pp. 25-26

Fulvio Melia

Platelets and proteases pp. 26-27

Skip Brass

Core beliefs pp. 27-29

Andrew Jephcoat and Keith Refson

Evolution in bacteria pp. 30-30

Harold P. Erickson

Going for gold pp. 31-33

Hubert Schmidbaur

Out in the cold pp. 33-34

John A. J. Gowlett

Pay for the Internet pp. 34-34

David Jones

Language rhythms in baby hand movements pp. 35-36

Laura Ann Petitto, Siobhan Holowka, Lauren E. Sergio and David Ostry

A new receptor for β-glucans pp. 36-37

Gordon D. Brown and Siamon Gordon

A bird's-eye view of the health of coral reefs pp. 36-36

Peter J. Mumby, John R. M. Chisholm, Chris D. Clark, John D. Hedley and Jean Jaubert

Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA pp. 37-38

Sofia Berlin and Hans Ellegren

Prokaryotic origin of the actin cytoskeleton pp. 39-44

Fusinita van den Ent, Linda A. Amos and Jan Löwe

Rapid X-ray flaring from the direction of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre pp. 45-48

F. K. Baganoff, M. W. Bautz, W. N. Brandt, G. Chartas, E. D. Feigelson, G. P. Garmire, Y. Maeda, M. Morris, G. R. Ricker, L. K. Townsley and F. Walter

How ‘spin ice’ freezes pp. 48-51

J. Snyder, J. S. Slusky, R. J. Cava and P. Schiffer

Fluidity of water confined to subnanometre films pp. 51-54

Uri Raviv, Pierre Laurat and Jacob Klein

Anomalous properties in ferroelectrics induced by atomic ordering pp. 54-57

A. M. George, Jorge Íñiguez and L. Bellaiche

Elasticity of iron at the temperature of the Earth's inner core pp. 57-60

Gerd Steinle-Neumann, Lars Stixrude, R. E. Cohen and Oguz Gülseren

Texturing of the Earth's inner core by Maxwell stresses pp. 60-63

B. A. Buffett and H.-R. Wenk

Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago pp. 64-67

Pavel Pavlov, John Inge Svendsen and Svein Indrelid

A cellular mechanism of reward-related learning pp. 67-70

John N. J. Reynolds, Brian I. Hyland and Jeffery R. Wickens

Mobilization of a Drosophila transposon in the Caenorhabditis elegans germ line pp. 70-74

Jean-Louis Bessereau, Ashley Wright, Daniel C. Williams, Kim Schuske, M. Wayne Davis and Erik M. Jorgensen

Role of thrombin signalling in platelets in haemostasis and thrombosis pp. 74-78

Gilberto R. Sambrano, Ethan J. Weiss, Yao-Wu Zheng, Wei Huang and Shaun R. Coughlin

Mal (MyD88-adapter-like) is required for Toll-like receptor-4 signal transduction pp. 78-83

Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Eva M. Palsson-McDermott, Andrew G. Bowie, Caroline A. Jefferies, Ashley S. Mansell, Gareth Brady, Elizabeth Brint, Aisling Dunne, Pearl Gray, Mary T. Harte, Diane McMurray, Dirk E. Smith, John E. Sims, Timothy A. Bird and Luke A. J. O'Neill

Loss of p16Ink4a confers susceptibility to metastatic melanoma in mice pp. 83-86

Paul Krimpenfort, Kim C. Quon, Wolter J. Mooi, Ate Loonstra and Anton Berns

Loss of p16Ink4a with retention of p19Arf predisposes mice to tumorigenesis pp. 86-91

Norman E. Sharpless, Nabeel Bardeesy, Kee-Ho Lee, Daniel Carrasco, Diego H. Castrillon, Andrew J. Aguirre, Emily A. Wu, James W. Horner and Ronald A. DePinho