EDITORIALS
261 PRIVACY
Power to the people
UK plans for a centralized health database will be beneficial — but they require clarity in communication
261 CLIMATE CHARGE
Cool heads needed
Freakish cold weather does not undermine the case for global warming
262 ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
V is for von«
Birds in flight Show the power of the obvious answer
WORLD VIEW
263 Physiological data must remain confidential
Stephen Fairclough Electronic monitors can now follow our every move and thought, so we must fight for our privacy
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
264 SELECTIONS FROM THE
SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE
Hot lubricant research / Light arms for star fish / A handle on active RNA / The trilobite has landed / Penguins catch a wave / Sea level see-saws
SEVEN DAYS
266 THE NEWS IN BRIEF Space station gets mission extension / Explosion atJapanese chemical plant/ Novartis under attack over blood-pressure drug / Hubble snaps deepest galaxy cluster
269 SPACE
Tension rides high as comet craft prepares to switch on
270 ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION
Questions raised over scientific value of private expeditions
272 RESEARCH COMMUNITY Biorepositories make their mark
273 METRDLOGY
Physicists rally to redefine the ampere
274 ASTROPHYSICS
Kepler data rewrite origins of supernovae
FEATURES
2BO ASTROPHYSICS
The heart of darkness Unravelling the mysteries of
cl InarnInccilfiz Hark hnIcc
2B3 SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS Time to leave GDP behind Robert Costanza et al. The current measure of national success neglects ecology, psychology and much eise
2B6 PUBLIC HEALTH
The FDA is overcautious on consumer genomics
Robert C Green & Nita A Farahany Evidence that gene testing doesn't cause distress or risky acts
2BB DEVELOPMENT Liquid assets
Margaret Catley-Carlson
289 BOOKS IN BRIEF
CORRESPONDENCE
291 Science secondary to tourism in polar cruise / Fault lines in China's university system / Outmoded graut applications need upgrade / Unavoidable sex bias
443 DISEASE RESEARCH
Rare insights
Working on neglected diseases can be a rewarding experience
445 CAREER BRIEFS
437 HIGH-SECURITY LABS Life in the danger zone Designing equipment for use in a biological containment facility calls for new ways of thinking
NEW ONLINE
293 Papers published this week at natu re.com
NEWS & VIEWS
294 EARTH SCIENCE
River incision revisited
The observation timescale affects measurements of bedrock river incision Roman A DiBiase SEE LETTER R391
295 BIR D FLICHT
Fly with a little flap from your frienc Ibises spatially synchronize their wing movements during formation flight Florian T Muijres & Michael H Dickinsor
SEE LETTER P.399
296 ASTROPHYSICS
Black hole found orbiting
a fast rotator
Discovery of a quiescent stellar-mass
black hole around a 'Be' star
M Virginia McSwain SEE LETTER P.378
299 PLANT SCIENCE
Fairy chemicals
Plants produce the growth stimulant
associated with 'fairy rings'
Andrew Mitchinson
29B MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
The tug of DNA repair
RNA polymerase can be pulled
backwards from DNA lesions
Irina Artsimovitch SEE ARTICLE P.372
ARTICLES
361 NEUROSCIENCE CNVs conferring risk of autism or schizophrenia affect cognition in controls
H Stefansson et al.
367 CELL BIOLOGY Biochemical reconstitution of topological DNA binding by the cohesin ring Y Murayama & F Uhlmann
372 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY UvrD facilitates DNA repair by pulling RNA polymerase backwards V Epshtein et al. SEE N&V R298
LETTERS
378 ASTROPHYSICS A Be-type star with a black-hole companion
J Casares et al. SEE N&V R296 Northern bald ibises in V formation during a human-led migratory flight. Birds in the `V' phase their wing-beats to path-match, allowing a trailing bird to exploit aerodynamic upwash from the bird in frönt. A bi rd flying directly behind flaps with opposite phasing in order to minimize the detrimentaL downwash from the leader's wings. -")
PAGES 295 & 399 reMP
382 MATERIALS SCIENCE Nanoparticle solutions as adhesives for gels and biological tissues
S Rose et al.
386 CHEMISTRY Asymmetric Synthesis from terminal alkenes by cascades of diboration and cross-coupling
S N Mlynarski, C H Schuster
&J P Morken
391 EARTH SCIENCE A signature of transience in bedrock river incision rates over timescales of 104-10' years NJ Finnegan, R Schumer
&S Finnegan SEE N&V R294
395 ECOLOGY Amazon River carbon dioxide outgassing fuelled by wetlands G Abril et al.
399 BIRD FLICHT Upwash exploitation and downwash avoidance by flap phasing in ibis formation flight
S J Portugal et al. SEE N&V R295
403 HUMAN EVOLUTION A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos
M Meyer et al.
407 NEUROSCIENCE Perturbed neural
activity disrupts cerebral
angiogenesis during a postnatal
critical period C Whiteus, C Freitas &J Grutzendler
4I2 IMMUNOLOGY Muc5b is required for 2
airway defence M G Roy et al.
417 PLANT SCIENCES Cytokinin signalling
inhibitory fields provide robustness to phyllotaxis
F Besnard et al.
422 BIOCHEMISTRY Chasing acyl carrier protein through a catalytic cycle of lipid A production
A Masoudi, C R H Raetz, P Zhou & C W Pemble IV
427 BIOCHEMISTRY Trapping the dynamic acyl carrier protein in fatty acid biosynthesis C Nguyen et al.
432 STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY Icosahedral bacteriophage DX174 forms a tail for DNA transport during infection L Sun et al.
436 CORRIGENDUM A Jurassic
mammaliaform and the earliest mammalian evolutionary adaptations C-F Zhou, S Wu, T Martin & Z-X Luo
436 ERRATUM Reducing the contact time of
a bouncing drop
J C Bird, R Dhiman, H-M Kwon
& K K Varanasi
A nanoparticle solution that can
achieve the tricky task of gluing
swollen gels together. PAGE 382
nature, THE INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
***NEUWERTIG***keine Lesespuren***SEHR SCHÖN***
- Verlag:
- NPG Nature publishing group
- Englische Ausgabe
- Artikelnummer:
- B00042470
- Gewicht:
- 400 gr