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1998, volume 393, articles 6687

Journal prices lead libraries to back less costly initiatives pp. 719-719

Laura Garwin

‘Insider’ gets energy secretary nomination pp. 719-719

Tony Reichhardt

UK research set for international scrutiny pp. 720-720

Ehsan Masood

Plea for plurality on advice to ministers pp. 720-720

Ehsan Masood

Defence sanctions open doors for India's private companies pp. 721-721

K. S. Jayaraman

Russian miners add weight to protests by scientists pp. 721-721

Carl Levitin

Sweden must close centres or leave CERN, says council pp. 722-722

Alison Abbott

Congress remains upbeat on public genome efforts pp. 722-722

Tony Reichhardt

Patent office struggles to handle backlog pp. 722-722

Quirin Schiermeier

CNRS reform will boost strategic advice pp. 723-723

Declan Butler

Ozone recovery will be long-term affair pp. 723-723

Ehsan Masood

Attack on Japan's engineering education pp. 724-724

Asako Saegusa

South Africa's truth commission reveals bioweapons plot pp. 724-724

Michael Cherry

New voices displace east/west tensions pp. 725-725

Alison Abbott

US scientists rally behind funding bill pp. 727-727

Martha Sloan, Arthur Jaffe, Paul Walter and Andrew M. Sessler

Combinatorial chemistry in the hunt for medicines pp. 727-727

A. Ganesan

Call for change in Brazil pp. 727-728

Eurico C. de Oliveira

Scientists at the sharp end in a disaster zone pp. 728-728

Willy Aspinall, Peter Francis, Lloyd Lynch, Richard Robertson, Keith Rowley, Steve Sparks, Simon Young and David Sanderson

When is a bird not a bird? pp. 729-730

Kevin Padian

C60's smallest cousin pp. 730-731

James R. Heath

Dolphins glow with the flow pp. 731-733

Peter J. Herring

Pumping iron makes thinner diatoms pp. 733-734

Ed Boyle

Genitally does it pp. 734-735

Darryl T. Gwynne

Smaller, faster chemistry pp. 735-737

Klavs Jensen

SMAD proteins and mammalian anatomy pp. 737-739

Rik Derynck

Actin, cofilin and cognition pp. 739-740

Jody Rosenblatt and Timothy J. Mitchison

Muffled furnace pp. 740-740

David Jones

The end of the old model Universe pp. 741-744

Peter Coles

Hooke's housefly pp. 745-745

Martin Kemp

Deadly relic of the Great War pp. 747-748

Caroline Redmond, Martin J. Pearce, Richard J. Manchee and Bjorn P. Berdal

Cnidarian homeoboxes and the zootype pp. 748-749

Daniel E. Martínez, Diane Bridge, Liria M. Masuda-Nakagawa and Paulyn Cartwright

Making water levitate pp. 749-750

Yasuhiro Ikezoe, Noriyuki Hirota, Jun Nakagawa and Koichi Kitazawa

Nicotine metabolism defect reduces smoking pp. 750-750

Michael L. Pianezza, Edward M. Sellers and Rachel F. Tyndale

History under the microscope pp. 751-752

Arthur Middleton

Darwin's fixed course pp. 752-752

Mark Pagel

Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern China pp. 753-761

Ji Qiang, Philip J. Currie, Mark A. Norell and Ji Shu-An

Tests of quantum gravity from observations of γ-ray bursts pp. 763-765

G. Amelino-Camelia, John Ellis, N. E. Mavromatos, D. V. Nanopoulos and Subir Sarkar

Global warming on Triton pp. 765-767

J. L. Elliot, H. B. Hammel, L. H. Wasserman, O. G. Franz, S. W. McDonald, M. J. Person, C. B. Olkin, E. W. Dunham, J. R. Spencer, J. A. Stansberry, M. W. Buie, J. M. Pasachoff, B. A. Babcock and T. H. McConnochie

Superconductivity in oxygen pp. 767-769

K. Shimizu, K. Suhara, M. Ikumo, M. I. Eremets and K. Amaya

Glass fibres of pure and erbium- or neodymium-doped yttria–alumina compositions pp. 769-771

J. K. Richard Weber, John J. Felten, Benjamin Cho and Paul C. Nordine

C36, a new carbon solid pp. 771-774

C. Piskoti, J. Yarger and A. Zettl

Influence of iron availability on nutrient consumption ratio of diatoms in oceanic waters pp. 774-777

Shigenobu Takeda

Oxygen isotope evidence for slab-derived fluids in the sub-arc mantle pp. 777-781

John M. Eiler, Brent McInnes, John W. Valley, Colin M. Graham and Edward M. Stolper

Skull of a Jurassic ankylosaur (Dinosauria) pp. 782-783

Kenneth Carpenter, Clifford Miles and Karen Cloward

Comparative evidence for the evolution of genitalia by sexual selection pp. 784-786

Göran Arnqvist

Smad2 role in mesoderm formation, left–right patterning and craniofacial development pp. 786-790

Masatoshi Nomura and En Li

Activation of human aortic smooth-muscle cells is inhibited by PPARα but not by PPARγ activators pp. 790-793

Bart Staels, Wolfgang Koenig, Aïda Habib, Régine Merval, Marilyne Lebret, Inés Pineda Torra, Philippe Delerive, Abdessamad Fadel, Giulia Chinetti, Jean-Charles Fruchart, Jamila Najib, Jacques Maclouf and Alain Tedgui

Modulation of AMPA receptor unitary conductance by synaptic activity pp. 793-797

Tim A. Benke, Andreas Lüthi, John T. R. Isaac and Graham L. Collingridge

IgD can largely substitute for loss of IgM function in B cells pp. 797-801

Claudia Lutz, Birgit Ledermann, Marie H. Kosco-Vilbois, Adrian F. Ochsenbein, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Georges Köhler and Frank Brombacher

Evidence for the shikimate pathway in apicomplexan parasites pp. 801-805

Fiona Roberts, Craig W. Roberts, Jennifer J. Johnson, Dennis E. Kyle, Tino Krell, John R. Coggins, Graham H. Coombs, Wilbur K. Milhous, Saul Tzipori, David J. P. Ferguson, Debopam Chakrabarti and Rima McLeod

Regulation of actin dynamics through phosphorylation of cofilin by LIM-kinase pp. 805-809

Silvia Arber, Freda A. Barbayannis, Hartwig Hanser, Corinna Schneider, Clement A. Stanyon, Ora Bernard and Pico Caroni

Cofilin phosphorylation by LIM-kinase 1 and its role in Rac-mediated actin reorganization pp. 809-812

Neng Yang, Osamu Higuchi, Kazumasa Ohashi, Kyoko Nagata, Atsushi Wada, Kenji Kangawa, Eisuke Nishida and Kensaku Mizuno

Structure of a heparin-linked biologically active dimer of fibroblast growth factor pp. 812-817

Anna D. DiGabriele, Irit Lax, Denise I. Chen, Carl M. Svahn, Michael Jaye, Joseph Schlessinger and Wayne A. Hendrickson

Gene research products pp. 818-818

Brendan Horton

1998, volume 393, articles 6686

Clinton's ocean agenda offers modest treasures for science pp. 609-609

Tony Reichhardt

Call to drop charges in French blood affair pp. 609-609

Declan Butler

US research safety system ‘in jeopardy’ pp. 610-610

Meredith Wadman

Review board head defends fenfluramine tests pp. 610-610

Meredith Wadman

Job discrimination based on genetics set for California ban pp. 611-611

Sally Lehrman

Israel reaches deal to join EU Framework programme pp. 611-611

Haim Watzman

State department to hire science adviser pp. 612-612

Colin Macilwain

Senate's proposed budget increases disappoint NSF and NASA pp. 612-612

Tony Reichhardt

Japanese media fuel fears of ‘endocrine disrupters’ pp. 613-613

Asako Saegusa

Canada putting its faith in consolidation in health sector pp. 613-613

David Spurgeon

Europeans adapt to compete with US neuroscience body pp. 614-615

Alison Abbott

Cell biologists set out on the path of reform pp. 615-615

Alison Abbott

Avenues of discovery in bioprospecting pp. 617-617

Richard D. Firn, Clive G. Jones, Tianhan Xue and Li Zhang

Smarter than you think pp. 617-617

Lewis Wolpert

Cancer controversy pp. 617-617

John Brockman

No conference critique pp. 618-618

Klaus-Michael Debatin and Peter H. Krammer

Environmental costs of subsidies oversimplified pp. 618-618

Joel Darmstadter

Congressional hearings on genetics research pp. 618-618

Mark S. Frankel

An art form whose time has come pp. 618-618

John Dalton

Putting it on plastic pp. 619-620

Karl Ziemelis

New cogwheels in the clockworks pp. 620-621

Ueli Schibler

A surprisingly attractive couple pp. 621-623

David G. Grier

Keeping the beat pp. 624-625

Alan J. Hunt

Subtle minds and mid-ocean ridges pp. 625-627

Joe Cann

Solid information pp. 628-629

Hans Coufal

101 uses for fossilized faeces pp. 629-630

Peter Andrews and Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo

Envelope's letters boxed into shape pp. 630-631

John P. Moore and James Binley

Thermal noise pp. 631-631

David Jones

Pere Alberch (1954-98) pp. 632-632

David B. Wake

Venus's voyeurs pp. 633-633

Martin Kemp

Mechanisms for memory types differ pp. 635-636

Iván Izquierdo, Daniela M. Barros, Tadeu Mello e Souza, Marcia M. de Souza, Luciana A. Izquierdo and Jorge H. Medina

Relations of the new phylum Cycliophora pp. 636-638

B. M. H. Winnepenninckx, T. Backeljau and R. M. Kristensen

Walking on Mars pp. 636-636

G. A. Cavagna, P. A. Willems and N. C. Heglund

Gulf Stream shifts following ENSO events pp. 638-638

Arnold H. Taylor, Michael B. Jordan and John A. Stephens

The origin of altruism pp. 639-640

John Maynard Smith

Per ardua ad Stockholm pp. 640-641

Walter Gratzer

Chemistry gallery pp. 641-642

István Hargittai

In retrospect chosen by David Jones pp. 642-642

David Jones

Generation of hydrothermal megaplumes by cooling of pillow basalts at mid-ocean ridges pp. 643-647

M. R. Palmer and G. G. J. Ernst

Structure of an HIV gp120 envelope glycoprotein in complex with the CD4 receptor and a neutralizing human antibody pp. 648-659

Peter D. Kwong, Richard Wyatt, James Robinson, Raymond W. Sweet, Joseph Sodroski and Wayne A. Hendrickson

A large-scale, interstellar Faraday-rotation feature of unknown origin pp. 660-662

A. D. Gray, T. L. Landecker, P. E. Dewdney and A. R. Taylor

Long-range electrostatic attraction between like-charge spheres in a charged pore pp. 663-665

W. Richard Bowen and Adel O. Sharif

Non-volatile holographic storage in doubly doped lithium niobate crystals pp. 665-668

K. Buse, A. Adibi and D. Psaltis

Isolation and properties of small-bandgap fullerenes pp. 668-671

Michael D. Diener and John M. Alford

An intermolecular (H2O)10 cluster in a solid-state supramolecular complex pp. 671-673

Leonard J. Barbour, G. William Orr and Jerry L. Atwood

Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation pp. 673-676

Gerald H. Haug and Ralf Tiedemann

Palaeozoic and Proterozoic zircons from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge pp. 676-679

Joachim Pilot, Carl-Dietrich Werner, Frank Haubrich and Nils Baumann

A king-sized theropod coprolite pp. 680-682

Karen Chin, Timothy T. Tokaryk, Gregory M. Erickson and Lewis C. Calk

Genetics underlying inbreeding depression in Mimulus with contrasting mating systems pp. 682-684

Michele R. Dudash and David E. Carr

A nutrient-sensing pathway regulates leptin gene expression in muscle and fat pp. 684-688

Jiali Wang, Rong Liu, Meredith Hawkins, Nir Barzilai and Luciano Rossetti

Male-to-female sex reversal in M33 mutant mice pp. 688-692

Yuko Katoh-Fukui, Reiko Tsuchiya, Toshihiko Shiroishi, Yoko Nakahara, Naoko Hashimoto, Kousei Noguchi and Toru Higashinakagawa

Premotor commands encode monocular eye movements pp. 692-695

Wu Zhou and Wilson King

Silent glutamatergic synapses and nociception in mammalian spinal cord pp. 695-698

Ping Li and Min Zhuo

Synaptic laminin prevents glial entry into the synaptic cleft pp. 698-701

Bruce L. Patton, Arlene Y. Chiu and Joshua R. Sanes

Association of missense and 5′-splice-site mutations in tau with the inherited dementia FTDP-17 pp. 702-705

Mike Hutton, Corinne L. Lendon, Patrizia Rizzu, Matt Baker, Susanne Froelich, Henry Houlden, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Sumi Chakraverty, Adrian Isaacs, Andrew Grover, Jennifer Hackett, Jennifer Adamson, Sarah Lincoln, Dennis Dickson, Peter Davies, Ronald C. Petersen, Martijn Stevens, Esther de Graaff, Erwin Wauters, Jeltje van Baren, Marcel Hillebrand, Marijke Joosse, Jennifer M. Kwon, Petra Nowotny, Lien Kuei Che, Joanne Norton, John C. Morris, Lee A. Reed, John Trojanowski, Hans Basun, Lars Lannfelt, Michael Neystat, Stanley Fahn, Francis Dark, Tony Tannenberg, Peter R. Dodd, Nick Hayward, John B. J. Kwok, Peter R. Schofield, Athena Andreadis, Julie Snowden, David Craufurd, David Neary, Frank Owen, Ben A. Oostra, John Hardy, Alison Goate, John van Swieten, David Mann, Timothy Lynch and Peter Heutink

The antigenic structure of the HIV gp120 envelope glycoprotein pp. 705-711

Richard Wyatt, Peter D. Kwong, Elizabeth Desjardins, Raymond W. Sweet, James Robinson, Wayne A. Hendrickson and Joseph G. Sodroski

Dynein arms are oscillating force generators pp. 711-714

Chikako Shingyoji, Hideo Higuchi, Misako Yoshimura, Eisaku Katayama and Toshio Yanagida

1998, volume 393, articles 6685

New Russian funding cuts spark protests from researchers pp. 501-501

Carl Levitin

Galileo's manuscripts go on the Internet pp. 501-501

Alison Abbott

Report urges US to spend more money on R, but not D pp. 502-502

Colin Macilwain

Framework programme to get new advisory system pp. 502-502

Alison Abbott

UK's Dounreay reprocessing plant to shut pp. 503-503

Ehsan Masood

Germany owns up to weapons-grade uranium deal with Russians pp. 503-503

Alison Abbott

Senators seek secure funds for research pp. 504-504

Colin Macilwain

Espionage verdict prompts call for retraction of polymerase paper pp. 504-504

Rex Dalton

NIH ‘should help sharing of research tools’ pp. 505-505

Meredith Wadman

France smooths the way for foreigners pp. 505-505

Declan Butler

French researchers reject reform plans⃛ pp. 506-506

Declan Butler

⃛as medical agency agrees to a compromise pp. 506-506

Declan Butler

Harvard's ‘oncomouse’ fails to win Canadian patent pp. 506-506

David Spurgeon

Swiss reject curbs on genetic engineering pp. 507-507

Quirin Schiermeier

India boosts budget for atomic research in wake of bomb tests pp. 507-507

K. S. Jayaraman

British Biotech responds to allegations pp. 509-509

Keith McCullagh

Way forward at NSF pp. 509-509

Judy Sunley

Ethical discourse by science-in-fiction pp. 511-511

Carl Djerassi

A science renga pp. 512-513

Alfred N. Aldston, Dina L. G. Borzekowski, Jonathan A. Eisen, Sheri L. Fink, E. Weber Hoen, Dean Y. Hung, Shirley Lin, Cynthia T. M. H. Nguyen, Julie E. Phillips, Michelle Stohlmeyer, Cenk Sumen, Craig A. Swanson, Noriko Takiguchi, Yvonne Thorstenson and Harriet A. Washington

Blueprint for the white plague pp. 515-516

Douglas B. Young

Single electrons in silicon drops pp. 516-517

D. Christian Glattli

Help and you shall be helped pp. 517-519

Régis Ferrière

Through a glass brightly pp. 520-521

Andrew Blain

Liquid landscape pp. 521-523

Austen Angell

Brain, heart and stress pp. 523-523

Tim Lincoln

Chemokines beyond inflammation pp. 524-525

Richard Horuk

Human quality control pp. 525-525

David Jones

Derek H. R. Barton (1918-98) pp. 526-526

F. Albert Cotton

Mendeleev's matrix pp. 527-527

Martin Kemp

Mauritian red nectar remains a mystery pp. 529-529

Jens M. Olesen, Nina Rønsted, Ulrik Tolderlund, Claus Cornett, Per Mølgaard, Jørn Madsen, Carl G. Jones and Carl E. Olsen

Moth uses fine tuning for odour resolution pp. 530-530

T. C. Baker, H. Y. Fadamiro and A. A. Cosse

Sound localization and neurons pp. 531-531

Bernt Christian Skottun

Savage reversals pp. 533-533

Adam Kuper

Wherein blue genes? pp. 534-535

George Fink

Eco-epidemiology pp. 534-534

George A. Gellert

Higher planes pp. 535-535

Lisa Satterwhite

Animal anomalies pp. 536-536

Douglas Palmer

Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence pp. 537-544

S. T. Cole, R. Brosch, J. Parkhill, T. Garnier, C. Churcher, D. Harris, S. V. Gordon, K. Eiglmeier, S. Gas, C. E. Barry, F. Tekaia, K. Badcock, D. Basham, D. Brown, T. Chillingworth, R. Connor, R. Davies, K. Devlin, T. Feltwell, S. Gentles, N. Hamlin, S. Holroyd, T. Hornsby, K. Jagels, A. Krogh, J. McLean, S. Moule, L. Murphy, K. Oliver, J. Osborne, M. A. Quail, M.-A. Rajandream, J. Rogers, S. Rutter, K. Seeger, J. Skelton, R. Squares, S. Squares, J. E. Sulston, K. Taylor, S. Whitehead and B. G. Barrell

Nature of the heating mechanism for the diffuse solar corona pp. 545-547

E. R. Priest, C. R. Foley, J. Heyvaerts, T. D. Arber, J. L. Culhane and L. W. Acton

Chemical processing in the coma as the source of cometary HNC pp. 547-550

William M. Irvine, Edwin A. Bergin, James E. Dickens, David Jewitt, Amy J. Lovell, Henry E. Matthews, F. Peter Schloerb and Matthew Senay

Electronic liquid-crystal phases of a doped Mott insulator pp. 550-553

S. A. Kivelson, E. Fradkin and V. J. Emery

Signatures of distinct dynamical regimes in the energy landscape of a glass-forming liquid pp. 554-557

Srikanth Sastry, Pablo G. Debenedetti and Frank H. Stillinger

Millennial-scale changes in North Atlantic circulation since the last glaciation pp. 557-561

Thomas M. Marchitto, William B. Curry and Delia W. Oppo

Iron-limited diatom growth and Si:N uptake ratios in a coastal upwelling regime pp. 561-564

David A. Hutchins and Kenneth W. Bruland

Anisotropic structures at the base of the Earth's mantle pp. 564-567

Lev Vinnik, Ludovic Breger and Barbara Romanowicz

Ediacara-type fossils in Cambrian sediments pp. 567-569

Sören Jensen, James G. Gehling and Mary L. Droser

Herbivore-infested plants selectively attract parasitoids pp. 570-573

C. M. De Moraes, W. J. Lewis, P. W. Paré, H. T. Alborn and J. H. Tumlinson

Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring pp. 573-577

Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund

Selective representation of relevant information by neurons in the primate prefrontal cortex pp. 577-579

Gregor Rainer, Wael F. Asaad and Earl K. Miller

Gli/Zic factors pattern the neural plate by defining domains of cell differentiation pp. 579-583

R. Brewster, Jinkook Lee and A. Ruiz i Altaba

Molecular identification of a hyperpolarization-activated channel in sea urchin sperm pp. 583-587

Renate Gauss, Reinhard Seifert and U. Benjamin Kaupp

A family of hyperpolarization-activated mammalian cation channels pp. 587-591

Andreas Ludwig, Xiangang Zong, Michael Jeglitsch, Franz Hofmann and Martin Biel

The chemokine receptor CXCR4 is essential for vascularization of the gastrointestinal tract pp. 591-594

Kazunobu Tachibana, Seiichi Hirota, Hisashi Iizasa, Hisahiro Yoshida, Kenji Kawabata, Yuki Kataoka, Yukihiko Kitamura, Kouji Matsushima, Nobuaki Yoshida, Shin-ichi Nishikawa, Tadamitsu Kishimoto and Takashi Nagasawa

Function of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 in haematopoiesis and in cerebellar development pp. 595-599

Yong-Rui Zou, Andreas H. Kottmann, Masahiko Kuroda, Ichiro Taniuchi and Dan R. Littman

Histone macroH2A1 is concentrated in the inactive X chromosome of female mammals pp. 599-601

Carl Costanzi and John R. Pehrson

1998, volume 393, articles 6684

‘Rough draft’ of human genome wins researchers' backing pp. 399-400

Meredith Wadman

Australian advisory body's first target is to reduce land salinity pp. 400-400

Peter Pockley

UK seeks physicists for environmental research pp. 400-400

Ehsan Masood

Pakistan weighs up impact of sanctions⃛ pp. 401-401

Ehsan Masood

⃛as India sees decline in cooperative work pp. 401-401

K. S. Jayaraman

Plea for female academics in Germany pp. 402-402

Alison Abbott

Authors slow to retract ‘fraudulent’ papers pp. 402-402

Quirin Schiermeier

NASA moves to speed up grants process pp. 403-403

Tony Reichhardt

South Africa gives green light to telescope pp. 403-403

Michael Cherry

Storm in Japan over sale of zoo monkeys for research pp. 404-404

Asako Saegusa

Lawsuit demands labels for modified foods pp. 404-404

Colin Macilwain

France seeks the return of the roving scholar pp. 404-404

Declan Butler

Swiss transgenic vote hangs in balance pp. 405-405

Quirin Schiermeier

Italian and US backers improve prospects for cheap trip to Mars pp. 405-405

Alison Abbott

How big breweries failed the taste test pp. 407-407

Victor E. Buckwold and Ricardo Amils

Summing up a wizard at maths ⃛ warts and all pp. 407-407

Marc J. Seifer

It's a small world pp. 409-410

James J. Collins and Carson C. Chow

Microbial microdiversity pp. 410-411

Jed A. Fuhrman and Lisa Campbell

The big match pp. 411-413

Ivar Ekeland

Licence to kill pp. 413-414

Antonio Lanzavecchia

How did the summer go? pp. 415-417

David M. Pyle

A new image for fear and emotion pp. 417-418

Steven E. Hyman

Making and braking asteroids pp. 418-419

Alan W. Harris

Life in the upper crust pp. 419-420

Peter D. Moore

Plane and fancy pp. 420-420

David Jones

Vesalius's veracity pp. 421-421

Martin Kemp

Dragon fish see using chlorophyll pp. 423-424

R. H. Douglas, J. C. Partridge, K. Dulai, D. Hunt, C. W. Mullineaux, A. Y. Tauber and P. H. Hynninen

Vision and attention: the role of training pp. 424-425

Jochen Braun

Vision and attention: the role of training pp. 425-425

Julian S. Joseph, Marvin M. Chun and Ken Nakayama

Marine phosphorus is selectively remineralized pp. 426-426

Lauren Lisa Clark, Ellery D. Ingall and Ronald Benner

American pie and food for thought pp. 427-428

Anne Murcott

Needing treatment like a hole in the head pp. 428-429

Hugh Freeman

Genera obscura pp. 429-429

Peter J. Bowler

Learning to live with lasers pp. 430-430

J. Christopher Whitehead

A new surface electron-emission mechanism in diamond cathodes pp. 431-435

M. W. Geis, N. N. Efremow, K. E. Krohn, J. C. Twichell, T. M. Lyszczarz, R. Kalish, J. A. Greer and M. D. Tabat

Disruption of kilometre-sized asteroids by energetic collisions pp. 437-440

E. Asphaug, S. J. Ostro, R. S. Hudson, D. J. Scheeres and W. Benz

Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks pp. 440-442

Duncan J. Watts and Steven H. Strogatz

Size-controlled percolation pathways for electrical conduction in porous silicon pp. 443-445

B. Hamilton, J. Jacobs, D. A. Hill, R. F. Pettifer, D. Teehan and L. T. Canham

Colloid crystal self-organization and dynamics at the air/water interface pp. 445-447

H. Hollis Wickman and Julius N. Korley

Continuing decline in the growth rate of the atmospheric methane burden pp. 447-450

E. J. Dlugokencky, K. A. Masarie, P. M. Lang and P. P. Tans

Influence of volcanic eruptions on Northern Hemisphere summer temperature over the past 600 years pp. 450-455

K. R. Briffa, P. D. Jones, F. H. Schweingruber and T. J. Osborn

Global influence of the AD 1600 eruption of Huaynaputina, Peru pp. 455-458

Shanaka L. de Silva and Gregory A. Zielinski

A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea pp. 458-460

Ernesto Abbate, Andrea Albianelli, Augusto Azzaroli, Marco Benvenuti, Berhane Tesfamariam, Piero Bruni, Nicola Cipriani, Ronald J. Clarke, Giovanni Ficcarelli, Roberto Macchiarelli, Giovanni Napoleone, Mauro Papini, Lorenzo Rook, Mario Sagri, Tewelde Medhin Tecle, Danilo Torre and Igor Villa

Selective foraging behaviour of basking sharks on zooplankton in a small-scale front pp. 460-464

David W. Sims and Victoria A. Quayle

Physiology and molecular phylogeny of coexisting Prochlorococcus ecotypes pp. 464-467

Lisa R. Moore, Gabrielle Rocap and Sallie W. Chisholm

Conscious and unconscious emotional learning in the human amygdala pp. 467-470

J. S. Morris, A. Öhman and R. J. Dolan

The human amygdala in social judgment pp. 470-474

Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel and Antonio R. Damasio

A conditioned dendritic cell can be a temporal bridge between a CD4+ T-helper and a T-killer cell pp. 474-478

John Paul Ridge, Francesca Di Rosa and Polly Matzinger

Help for cytotoxic-T-cell responses is mediated by CD40 signalling pp. 478-480

Sally R. M. Bennett, Francis R. Carbone, Freda Karamalis, Richard A. Flavell, Jacques F. A. P. Miller and William R. Heath

T-cell help for cytotoxic T lymphocytes is mediated by CD40–CD40L interactions pp. 480-483

Stephen P. Schoenberger, Rene E. M. Toes, Ellen I. H. van der Voort, Rienk Offringa and Cornelis J. M. Melief

Role of Mxi1 in ageing organ systems and the regulation of normal and neoplastic growth pp. 483-487

Nicole Schreiber-Agus, Yong Meng, Tin Hoang, Harry Hou, Ken Chen, Roger Greenberg, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Han-Woong Lee and Ronald A. DePinho

A cytokinesis checkpoint requiring the yeast homologue of an APC-binding protein pp. 487-491

Li Muhua, Neil R. Adames, Michael D. Murphy, Colleen R. Shields and John A. Cooper

Investigating the alternatives pp. 493-494

Helen Phillips

Legal recourse pp. 494-495

Potter Wickware

Reinventing yourself pp. 495-496

Robert Goriss

The write stuff pp. 496-497

Helen Phillips

Taking your skills all the way to the bank pp. 496-496

Diane Gershon

Scientists have a head start in IT pp. 497-498

James Porteous

Banking on biotech pp. 498-498

Diane Gershon

1998, volume 393, articles 6683

German technician's confession spurs check on suspect data pp. 293-293

Alison Abbott

Entry standards to UK science courses fall pp. 294-294

Ehsan Masood

Japanese research ‘must be more flexible’ pp. 294-294

Asako Saegusa

Panel calls for fair deal for US postdocs pp. 295-295

Colin Macilwain

Computers hope to score at the football world cup for robots pp. 295-295

Declan Butler

Drosophila set for fast-track sequencing pp. 296-296

David Dickson

Venter backs call for more public funds pp. 296-296

Meredith Wadman

Universities win as South Africa reverses 1997 funding trend pp. 297-297

Michael Cherry

Bid to limit prices on drugs using ‘public’ discoveries pp. 297-297

Meredith Wadman

Indian scientists speak out against bomb pp. 298-298

K. S. Jayaraman

Despair over pay sparks Russian strike pp. 298-298

Carl Levitin

Chief to leave troubled British Biotech pp. 299-299

Ehsan Masood

Germans mix support and scepticism for genetic engineering pp. 299-299

Quirin Schiermeier

Bioprospecting for drugs pp. 301-301

Gordon M. Cragg, David J. Newman and Stringner Sue Yang

No convergence for references pp. 301-301

Simonetta Sperti, Fiorenzo Stirpe and Maurizio Brigotti

No laughing matter pp. 301-301

Michael G. Vicker

No laughing matter pp. 301-301

Andrew Birch

Unreliable errors pp. 301-301

Bernard F. Erlanger

Noble gases under pressure in the mantle pp. 303-304

Minoru Ozima

A short cut to the nucleus pp. 304-305

Julian Lewis

Land-loving crabs pp. 305-305

Amanda Tromans

Ordering entropy pp. 305-307

Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker and Alain Stroobants

The stress of Gulf War syndrome pp. 308-309

Robert M. Sapolsky

Silk and sequence pp. 309-311

Paul Calvert

Methylation meets acetylation pp. 311-312

Timothy H. Bestor

Still in the dark pp. 312-313

Joseph E. Borovsky

Current chemistry pp. 313-313

David Jones

Sir Frederick Charles Frank (1911-98) pp. 314-314

John E. Enderby

Max's modelling pp. 315-315

Martin Kemp

X-ray flare sparks quake inside Sun pp. 317-318

A. G. Kosovichev and V. V. Zharkova

Low nitrate: phosphate ocean ratios corrected⃛ pp. 318-318

T. Tyrrell and C. S. Law

⃛and database flagged pp. 318-318

Margarita Conkright

Global impact of the 1789-93 El Niño pp. 318-319

Richard H. Grove

Connexin 26 gene linked to a dominant deafness pp. 319-320

Françoise Denoyelle, Genevieve Lina-Granade, Henri Plauchu, Roberto Bruzzone, Hassan Chaïb, Fabienne Lévi-Acobas, Dominique Weil and Christine Petit

Transgene risk is low pp. 320-320

Susan E. Scott and Mike J. Wilkinson

Mad cows and secret agents pp. 321-322

Adriano Aguzzi

Computer evolution pp. 322-323

Philip W. Anderson

Body of evidence pp. 323-323

Roy Porter

Movers and shakers pp. 324-324

Graham A. Dunn

Breaking the law pp. 324-324

Peter T. Landsberg

Global warming and the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet pp. 325-332

Michael Oppenheimer

RAMPs regulate the transport and ligand specificity of the calcitonin-receptor-like receptor pp. 333-339

Linda M. McLatchie, Neil J. Fraser, Martin J. Main, Alan Wise, Jason Brown, Nicola Thompson, Roberto Solari, Melanie G. Lee and Steven M. Foord

Reflected infrared spectrum of a massive protostar in Orion pp. 340-342

Jun-Ichi Morino, Takuya Yamashita, Tetsuo Hasegawa and Takenori Nakano

Relation to solar activity of intense aurorae in sunlight and darkness pp. 342-344

Patrick T. Newell, Ching-I. Meng and Simon Wing

Implementation of a quantum search algorithm on a quantum computer pp. 344-346

Jonathan A. Jones, Michele Mosca and Rasmus H. Hansen

Carbon nanotubule membranes for electrochemical energy storage and production pp. 346-349

Guangli Che, Brinda B. Lakshmi, Ellen R. Fisher and Charles R. Martin

Entropically driven microphase transitions in mixtures of colloidal rods and spheres pp. 349-352

Marie Adams, Zvonimir Dogic, Sarah L. Keller and Seth Fraden

Low argon solubility in silicate melts at high pressure pp. 352-355

Eva Chamorro-Pérez, Philippe Gillet, Albert Jambon, James Badro and Paul McMillan

Rare-gas solids in the Earth's deep interior pp. 355-358

Andrew P. Jephcoat

Optical and radiocarbon dating at Jinmium rock shelter in northern Australia pp. 358-362

Richard Roberts, Michael Bird, Jon Olley, Rex Galbraith, Ewan Lawson, Geoff Laslett, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Rhys Jones, Richard Fullagar, Geraldine Jacobsen and Quan Hua

Rapid evolution to terrestrial life in Jamaican crabs pp. 363-365

Christoph D. Schubart, Rudolf Diesel and S. Blair Hedges

The biosynthetic pathway of vitamin C in higher plants pp. 365-369

Glen L. Wheeler, Mark A. Jones and Nicholas Smirnoff

Visual input evokes transient and strong shunting inhibition in visual cortical neurons pp. 369-373

Lyle J. Borg-Graham, Cyril Monier and Yves Frégnac

Acute stress facilitates long-lasting changes in cholinergic gene expression pp. 373-377

Daniela Kaufer, Alon Friedman, Shlomo Seidman and Hermona Soreq

Increased NMDA current and spine density in mice lacking the NMDA receptor subunit NR3A pp. 377-381

Saumya Das, Yasnory F. Sasaki, Thomas Rothe, Louis S. Premkumar, Mari Takasu, James E. Crandall, Pieter Dikkes, David A. Conner, Posina V. Rayudu, Wing Cheung, H.-S. Vincent Chen, Stuart A. Lipton and Nobuki Nakanishi

Notch-1 signalling requires ligand-induced proteolytic release of intracellular domain pp. 382-386

Eric H. Schroeter, Jeffrey A. Kisslinger and Raphael Kopan

Transcriptional repression by the methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 involves a histone deacetylase complex pp. 386-389

Xinsheng Nan, Huck-Hui Ng, Colin A. Johnson, Carol D. Laherty, Bryan M. Turner, Robert N. Eisenman and Adrian Bird

Transcriptional activation independent of TFIIH kinase and the RNA polymerase II mediator in vivo pp. 389-392

Dong-ki Lee and John T. Lis

Atomic structure of progesterone complexed with its receptor pp. 392-396

Shawn P. Williams and Paul B. Sigler

Retraction Note to: Low nitrate: phosphate ratios in the global ocean pp. 396-396

T. Tyrrell and C. S. Law

Correction: A caspase-activated DNase that degrades DNA during apoptosis, and its inhibitor ICAD pp. 396-396

Masato Enari, Hideki Sakahira, Hideki Yokoyama, Katsuya Okawa, Akihiro Iwamatsu and Shigekazu Nagata

Correction: Phase-mapping of periodically domain-inverted LiNbO3 with coherent X-rays pp. 396-396

Z. W. Hu, P. A. Thomas, A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, A. Souvorov, P. G. R. Smith, G. W. Ross and S. Teat

1998, volume 393, articles 6682

India's nuclear tests meet with domestic praise and protests pp. 197-198

K. S. Jayaraman

Nuclear tests were a culmination of twenty-five years of planning pp. 197-197

K. S. Jayaraman

Disappointment as New Zealand's budget gives science ‘inflation’ pp. 198-198

Peter Pockley

First underground nuclear waste store set to open in US pp. 199-199

Colin Macilwain

Clinton ‘is failing to honour pledge on AIDS vaccine’ pp. 199-199

Colin Macilwain

Japan's emissions bill comes under fire pp. 199-199

Asako Saegusa

Europe's life patent moratorium may go ⃛ pp. 200-200

Alison Abbott

⃛ as US office claims right to rule on morality pp. 200-200

Meredith Wadman

Genome effort ‘still in need of support’ pp. 201-201

David Dickson and Meredith Wadman

British funding boost is Wellcome news pp. 201-201

David Dickson

UN reaches deal on biodiversity science pp. 202-202

Ehsan Masood

Japan's quake strategy urged to switch to long-term forecasting pp. 202-202

Asako Saegusa

France seeks scientific entrepreneurs pp. 203-203

Declan Butler

Report released on INSERM laboratory pp. 203-203

Declan Butler

Swiss democracy has its advantages pp. 205-205

John C. Badoux, David Hunkeler, Rosmarie Waldner and Henry T. Greely

Loopholes exploited in whaling regulation pp. 206-206

Sidney J. Holt

We aim to refresh science, not to rebel pp. 206-206

Vincenzo De Laurenzi, Michael Hahne, Henning Walczak and Jan Paul Medema

BSE coordinator should have been full-time job pp. 206-206

F. Brown

Sound grounds for computing dendrites pp. 207-208

Idan Segev

The carbon equation pp. 208-209

David S. Schimel

Working backwards to find answers pp. 211-212

Jean-Claude Meunier

Size is everything pp. 212-213

R. Stephen Berry

Cuckoos beg the answer pp. 213-215

Rory Howlett

A star powered by magnetism pp. 215-216

S. R. Kulkarni and Christopher Thompson

Knowing where you're going pp. 216-216

Alison Mitchell

Papillomavirus and p53 pp. 217-217

Harald zur Hausen

Silent flight pp. 217-217

David Jones

Jean Rouxel (1935-98) pp. 218-218

Michel Pouchard

Hyde's horrors pp. 219-219

Martin Kemp

Human gene for physical performance pp. 221-222

H. E. Montgomery, R. Marshall, H. Hemingway, S. Myerson, P. Clarkson, C. Dollery, M. Hayward, D. E. Holliman, M. Jubb, M. World, E. L. Thomas, A. E. Brynes, N. Saeed, M. Barnard, J. D. Bell, K. Prasad, M. Rayson, P. J. Talmud and S. E. Humphries

Polarization vision helps detect transparent prey pp. 222-223

Nadav Shashar, Roger T. Hanlon and Anne deM. Petz

Meteoritic oxide grain from supernova found pp. 222-222

L. R. Nittler, C. M. O'D. Alexander, J. Wang and X. Gao

Ultradry seed storage cuts cost of gene bank pp. 223-224

Guang-Hua Zheng, Xin-Ming Jing and Kar-Ling Tao

China's long march into the space age pp. 225-226

Roy Gibson

Lost for words pp. 226-227

Philip T. Smith

Some like it hot pp. 227-228

Andrew R. Cossins

Designer chemistry pp. 228-228

Pierre Laszlo

Role of a p53 polymorphism in the development of human papilloma-virus-associated cancer pp. 229-234

Alan Storey, Miranda Thomas, Ann Kalita, Catherine Harwood, Daniela Gardiol, Fiamma Mantovani, Judith Breuer, Irene M. Leigh, Greg Matlashewski and Lawrence Banks

An X-ray pulsar with a superstrong magnetic field in the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1806 − 20 pp. 235-237

C. Kouveliotou, S. Dieters, T. Strohmayer, J. van Paradijs, G. J. Fishman, C. A. Meegan, K. Hurley, J. Kommers, I. Smith, D. Frail and T. Murakami

Irregular variations in the melting point of size-selected atomic clusters pp. 238-240

Martin Schmidt, Robert Kusche, Bernd von Issendorff and Hellmut Haberland

Carbon nanotubes as long ballistic conductors pp. 240-242

C. T. White and T. N. Todorov

Intertwined symmetry of the magnetic modulation and the flux-line lattice in the superconducting state of TmNi2B2C pp. 242-245

M. R. Eskildsen, K. Harada, P. L. Gammel, A. B. Abrahamsen, N. H. Andersen, G. Ernst, A. P. Ramirez, D. J. Bishop, K. Mortensen, D. G. Naugle, K. D. D. Rathnayaka and P. C. Canfield

Simulated response of the ocean carbon cycle to anthropogenic climate warming pp. 245-249

Jorge L. Sarmiento, Tertia M. C. Hughes, Ronald J. Stouffer and Syukuro Manabe

Dynamic responses of terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling to global climate change pp. 249-252

Mingkui Cao and F. Ian Woodward

Mineralogy and dynamics of a pyrolite lower mantle pp. 252-255

S. E. Kesson, J. D. Fitz Gerald and J. M. Shelley

Ichthyosaurian relationships illuminated by new primitive skeletons from Japan pp. 255-257

Ryosuke Motani, Nachio Minoura and Tatsuro Ando

Dynamics of North American breeding bird populations pp. 257-260

Timothy H. Keitt and H. Eugene Stanley

Herbicide resistance caused by spontaneous mutation of the cytoskeletal protein tubulin pp. 260-263

Richard G. Anthony, Teresa R. Waldin, John A. Ray, Simon W. J. Bright and Patrick J. Hussey

An X-linked gene with a degenerate Y-linked homologue in a dioecious plant pp. 263-266

David S. Guttman and Deborah Charlesworth

Evidence for striatal dopamine release during a video game pp. 266-268

M. J. Koepp, R. N. Gunn, A. D. Lawrence, V. J. Cunningham, A. Dagher, T. Jones, D. J. Brooks, C. J. Bench and P. M. Grasby

The role of dendrites in auditory coincidence detection pp. 268-272

Hagai Agmon-Snir, Catherine E. Carr and John Rinzel

A prolactin-releasing peptide in the brain pp. 272-276

Shuji Hinuma, Yugo Habata, Ryo Fujii, Yuji Kawamata, Masaki Hosoya, Shoji Fukusumi, Chieko Kitada, Yoshinori Masuo, Tsuneo Asano, Hirokazu Matsumoto, Masahiro Sekiguchi, Tsutomu Kurokawa, Osamu Nishimura, Haruo Onda and Masahiko Fujino

Elastin is an essential determinant of arterial morphogenesis pp. 276-280

Dean Y. Li, Benjamin Brooke, Elaine C. Davis, Robert P. Mecham, Lise K. Sorensen, Beth B. Boak, Ernst Eichwald and Mark T. Keating

Protein-primed RNA synthesis by purified poliovirus RNA polymerase pp. 280-284

Aniko V. Paul, Jacques H. van Boom, Dmitri Filippov and Eckard Wimmer

Distinct roles of the co-activators p300 and CBP in retinoic-acid-induced F9-cell differentiation pp. 284-289

Hiroaki Kawasaki, Richard Eckner, Tso-Pang Yao, Kazunari Taira, Robert Chiu, David M. Livingston and Kazunari K. Yokoyama

1998, volume 393, articles 6681

Climate change centre signs up big firms pp. 99-99

Colin Macilwain

Performance monitoring is ‘last straw’ for overworked NSF staff pp. 100-100

Colin Macilwain

Company aims to beat NIH human genome efforts pp. 101-101

Meredith Wadman

Australia's research budget to remain flat for three years pp. 101-101

Peter Pockley

France urged to open up élite education ⃛ pp. 102-102

Declan Butler

⃛ but university reform ideas meet resistance pp. 102-102

Declan Butler

German chemicals giant to focus on life sciences pp. 103-103

Quirin Schiermeier

Internet research centre takes Intel inside China pp. 103-103

Richard Nathan

Reporter backs away from lucrative book deal pp. 104-104

Meredith Wadman

Cancer ‘cure’ article stirs up hot debate pp. 104-105

Meredith Wadman

EPA laboratories are ‘still struggling’ with change three years on pp. 105-105

Tony Reichhardt

Italian defeatism unwarranted pp. 107-107

Monica Zoppè

Funding needed for creative science pp. 107-107

Bertrand Le Douarin

New concepts of publication pp. 107-107

John Helly

Out of order pp. 107-107

Roy C. Anderson

The fraud of Abderhalden's enzymes pp. 109-111

Ute Deichmann and Benno Müller-Hill

Real and realistic quantum computers pp. 113-114

David P. DiVincenzo

Transcription sans TBP pp. 114-115

Lynne M. Apone and Michael R. Green

Grainy pictures of new worlds pp. 117-118

Vincent Mannings

Cocaine and the serotonin saga pp. 118-119

Francis J. White

Beauty and the beetle pp. 121-121

Alison Mitchell

How pulsars get their spins pp. 121-122

Adam Burrows

Deceptive appearances pp. 122-122

David Jones

Kepler's cosmos pp. 123-123

Martin Kemp

Imprinted gene in postnatal growth role pp. 125-126

Jean-Michel Itier, Günter L. Tremp, Jean-François Léonard, Marie-Christine Multon, Gwénaëlle Ret, Fabien Schweighoffer, Bruno Tocqué, Marie-Thérèse Bluet-Pajot, Valérie Cormier and François Dautry

Miocene/Pliocene shift: one step or several? pp. 126-126

Meike Köhler, Salvador Moyà-Solà and Jordi Agusti

Miocene/Pliocene shift: one step or several? pp. 127-127

Thure E. Cerling, John M. Harris, Bruce J. MacFadden, Jay Quade, Meave G. Leakey, Vera Eisenmann and James R. Ehleringer

Life-support system benefits from noise pp. 127-128

B. Suki, A. M. Alencar, M. K. Sujeer, K. R. Lutchen, J. J. Collins, J. S. Andrade, E. P. Ingenito, S. Zapperi and H. E. Stanley

Raising a glass to ale pp. 129-129

John Postgate

Concise cosmology pp. 130-131

George Ellis

Sex and sensibility pp. 131-132

David H. Skuse

Students' dilemma pp. 132-132

David S. Latchman

At a glance pp. 132-132

Cesare Chiosi

At a glance pp. 132-132

Michael O. Hengartner

A silicon-based nuclear spin quantum computer pp. 133-137

B. E. Kane

Birth kicks as the origin of pulsar rotation pp. 139-141

H. Spruit and E. S. Phinney

Astrometric signatures of giant-planet formation pp. 141-143

Alan P. Boss

Experimental realization of a quantum algorithm pp. 143-146

Isaac L. Chuang, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen, Xinlan Zhou, Debbie W. Leung and Seth Lloyd

Spontaneous formation of ordered structures in thin films of metals supported on an elastomeric polymer pp. 146-149

Ned Bowden, Scott Brittain, Anthony G. Evans, John W. Hutchinson and George M. Whitesides

Polymer gels with engineered environmentally responsive surface patterns pp. 149-152

Zhibing Hu, Yuanye Chen, Changjie Wang, Yindong Zheng and Yong Li

Host–guest encapsulation of materials by assembled virus protein cages pp. 152-155

Trevor Douglas and Mark Young

Possible triggering of Heinrich events by ice-load-induced earthquakes pp. 155-158

A. G. Hunt and P. E. Malin

Sphenoid shortening and the evolution of modern human cranial shape pp. 158-162

Daniel E. Lieberman

Gene transfer to the nucleus and the evolution of chloroplasts pp. 162-165

William Martin, Bettina Stoebe, Vadim Goremykin, Sabine Hansmann, Masami Hasegawa and Klaus V. Kowallik

Regulation of leaf initiation by the terminal ear 1 gene of maize pp. 166-168

Bruce Veit, Steven P. Briggs, Robert J. Schmidt, Martin F. Yanofsky and Sarah Hake

Neonatal lesions of the medial temporal lobe disrupt prefrontal cortical regulation of striatal dopamine pp. 169-171

Richard C. Saunders, Bhaskar S. Kolachana, Jocelyne Bachevalier and Daniel R. Weinberger

Control of spatial orientation in a mollusc pp. 172-175

Tatiana G. Deliagina, Yuri I. Arshavsky and Grigori N. Orlovsky

Increased vulnerability to cocaine in mice lacking the serotonin-1B receptor pp. 175-178

Beatriz A. Rocha, Kimberly Scearce-Levie, José J. Lucas, Noboru Hiroi, Nathalie Castanon, John C. Crabbe, Eric J. Nestler and René Hen

Frizzled signalling controls orientation of asymmetric sense organ precursor cell divisions in Drosophila pp. 178-181

Michel Gho and François Schweisguth

The molecular elasticity of the extracellular matrix protein tenascin pp. 181-185

Andres F. Oberhauser, Piotr E. Marszalek, Harold P. Erickson and Julio M. Fernandez

Regulation of adenovirus alternative RNA splicing by dephosphorylation of SR proteins pp. 185-187

Arvydas Kanopka, Oliver Mühlemann, Svend Petersen-Mahrt, Camilla Estmer, Christina Öhrmalm and Göran Akusjärvi

Function of TAFII-containing complex without TBP in transcription by RNA polymerase II pp. 187-191

Elzbieta Wieczorek, Marjorie Brand, Xavier Jacq and László Tora

Erratum: Structure of the αβ tubulin dimer by electron crystallography pp. 191-191

Eva Nogales, Sharon G. Wolf and Kenneth H. Downing

Erratum: Spatial and temporal organization during cardiac fibrillation pp. 191-191

Richard A. Gray, Arkady M. Pertsov and José Jalife

1998, volume 393, articles 6680

US seeks fair deal for biologists on synchrotron source access pp. 3-3

Colin Macilwain

Russian reshuffle places Bulgak at helm pp. 3-3

Carl Levitin

Animal deaths turn shuttle into ‘necrolab’ pp. 4-4

Tony Reichhardt

US plan to double spend comes under fire as ‘unrealistic exercise’ pp. 4-4

Colin Macilwain

Merger plans worry Japan's industrialists pp. 5-5

Richard Nathan

Economy lifeline viewed as mixed blessing pp. 5-5

Asako Saegusa

Scientists go down a mine to observe the Sun's neutrinos pp. 6-6

David Spurgeon

Space researchers were not spying, says India's Supreme Court pp. 6-6

K. S. Jayaraman

Bid to give legal protection to laboratory mice in US pp. 6-6

Meredith Wadman

Foresight study blazes trail in Germany pp. 7-7

Quirin Schiermeier

Utah university finally drops out of cold-fusion patent chase pp. 7-7

Steve Nadis

The changing culture of British science pp. 8-8

Ehsan Masood

UK eyes social goals for next Foresight pp. 8-9

Ehsan Masood

It's Jakob's disease, not Creutzfeldt's pp. 11-11

Friedrich Katscher

Patents paved the way pp. 11-11

Arnold Kramish

Training undervalued pp. 11-11

Alexander Olek

The burst, the burster and its lair pp. 13-14

Ralph Wijers

SNAREs line up in new environment pp. 14-15

Reinhard Jahn and Phyllis I. Hanson

Carbon-based electronics pp. 15-17

Paul L. McEuen

What killed the monk seals? pp. 17-18

John Harwood

United we sense ⃛ pp. 19-21

N. Barkai and S. Leibler

Organic groups cling to the pores pp. 21-22

Edward J. Creyghton

Transposons unbound pp. 22-23

Margaret G. Kidwell and Damon R. Lisch

The forest fragment classic pp. 23-24

Stuart L. Pimm

Gravity waving to us pp. 24-24

David Jones

Noticing Nature pp. 25-25

Martin Kemp

Zebra mussels invade Lake Erie muds pp. 27-28

Paul Arthur Berkman, Melissa A. Haltuch, Emily Tichich, David W. Garton, Gregory W. Kennedy, John E. Gannon, Scudder D. Mackey, Jonathan A. Fuller and Dale L. Liebenthal

Did algal toxins cause monk seal mortality? pp. 28-29

Mauro Hernández, Ian Robinson, Alex Aguilar, Luis Mariano González, Luis Felipe López-Jurado, María Isabel Reyero, Emiliano Cacho, José Franco, Victoria López-Rodas and Eduardo Costas

ATP synthase's second stalk comes into focus pp. 29-29

Stephan Wilkens and Roderick A. Capaldi

All aboard the biotech express pp. 31-32

Sheldon Krimsky

Living with dinosaurs pp. 32-33

José Luis Sanz, Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno and Francisco J. Poyato-Ariza

Farming forecast pp. 33-34

Peter D. Moore

Stress points pp. 34-34

Stuart Sutherland

Identification of a host galaxy at redshift z = 3.42 for the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997 pp. 35-39

S. R. Kulkarni, S. G. Djorgovski, A. N. Ramaprakash, R. Goodrich, J. S. Bloom, K. L. Adelberger, T. Kundic, L. Lubin,, D. A. Frail, F. Frontera, M. Feroci, L. Nicastro, A. J. Barth, M. Davis, A. V. Filippenko and J. Newman

Optical afterglow of the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997 pp. 41-43

J. P. Halpern, J. R. Thorstensen, D. J. Helfand and E. Costa

The energetic afterglow of the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997 pp. 43-46

A. N. Ramaprakash, S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Frail, C. Koresko, M. Kuchner, R. Goodrich, G. Neugebauer, T. Murphy, S. Eikenberry, J. S. Bloom, S. G. Djorgovski, E. Waxman, F. Frontera, M. Feroci and L. Nicastro

Solid hydrogen at 342 GPa: no evidence for an alkali metal pp. 46-49

Chandrabhas Narayana, Huan Luo, Jon Orloff and Arthur L. Ruoff

Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube pp. 49-52

Sander J. Tans, Alwin R. M. Verschueren and Cees Dekker

Organic-functionalized molecular sieves as shape-selective catalysts pp. 52-54

Christopher W. Jones, Katsuyuki Tsuji and Mark E. Davis

Correlation between Arabian Sea and Greenland climate oscillations of the past 110,000 years pp. 54-57

Hartmut Schulz,, Ulrich von Rad,, Helmut Erlenkeuser, and Ulrich von Rad,

Re–Os isotope evidence for the composition, formation and age of the lower continental crust pp. 58-61

A. E. Saal, R. L. Rudnick, G. E. Ravizza and S. R. Hart

New specimens and confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis pp. 62-66

Meave G. Leakey, Craig S. Feibel, Ian McDougall, Carol Ward and Alan Walker

Probing motivational state during agonistic encounters in animals pp. 66-68

R. W. Elwood, K. E. Wood, M. B. Gallagher and J. T. A. Dick

Undermethylation associated with retroelement activation and chromosome remodelling in an interspecific mammalian hybrid pp. 68-72

Rachel J. Waugh O'Neill, Michael J. O'Neill and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

Hypothalamic CART is a new anorectic peptide regulated by leptin pp. 72-76

Peter Kristensen, Martin E. Judge, Lars Thim, Ulla Ribel, Kennet N. Christjansen, Birgitte S. Wulff, Jes T. Clausen, Per B. Jensen, Ole D. Madsen, Niels Vrang, Philip J. Larsen and Sven Hastrup

Dramatic decreases in brain reward function during nicotine withdrawal pp. 76-79

Mark P. Epping-Jordan, Shelly S. Watkins, George F. Koob and Athina Markou

Salmonella typhi uses CFTR to enter intestinal epithelial cells pp. 79-82

Gerald B. Pier, Martha Grout, Tanweer Zaidi, Gloria Meluleni, Simone S. Mueschenborn, George Banting, Rosemary Ratcliff, Martin J. Evans and William H. Colledge

Requirement of ErbB2 for signalling by interleukin-6 in prostate carcinoma cells pp. 83-85

Yun Qiu, Lakshmeswari Ravi and Hsing-Jien Kung

Receptor clustering as a cellular mechanism to control sensitivity pp. 85-88

Dennis Bray, Matthew D. Levin and Carl J. Morton-Firth

Chromatin remodelling by the glucocorticoid receptor requires the BRG1 complex pp. 88-91

Christy J. Fryer and Trevor K. Archer

Catalysis of homologous DNA pairing by yeast Rad51 and Rad54 proteins pp. 91-94

Galina Petukhova, Sabrina Stratton and Patrick Sung