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| | What happens to NASA now? 635
This week's report on the shuttle disaster is diagnostic rather than prescriptive. The most urgent need is that NASA should be broken into more manageable pieces.
doi:10.1038/321635a0
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| | Observers in arms 636
The fate of Britain's oldest observatory will be decided next week. Or will it?
doi:10.1038/321636a0
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| | Shuttle catastrophe: Rogers Commission report makes waves all round 637
Tim Beardsley & Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/321637a0
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| | Other avenues? 637
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/321637b0
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| | Seismic monitoring: Private diplomacy emergent 638
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/321638a0
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| | Soviet industry: Reformers get the wrong man 638
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/321638b0
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| | AIDS research: New foundation begins work 639
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/321639a0
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| | Rice breeding: Manipulation of cereal succeeds 639
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/321639b0
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| | Germany and Chernobly: End of the nuclear programme? 640
Jürgen Neffe
doi:10.1038/321640a0
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| | US biotechnology: Row over industry regulation 641
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/321641a0
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| | Chernobyl: Now for the long haul 641
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/321641b0
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| | French science: Old guard takes high jump 642
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/321642a0
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| | US policy: Another new White House man 642
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/321642b0
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| | Laboratory accidents: Inquiry into lab's bone cancers 643
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/321643a0
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| | Foreign students in science and engineering 643
doi:10.1038/321643b0
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| | Chernobyl fallout: corrigendum 643
doi:10.1038/321643c0
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| | AIDS virus nomenclature 644
JULIAN MELDRUM
doi:10.1038/321644a0
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| | AIDS virus nomenclature 644
F. BROWN
doi:10.1038/321644b0
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| | French science policy 644
NITIN K. SAKSENA
doi:10.1038/321644c0
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| | Chernobyl's message 644
S. O. FUNTOWICZ & J. R. RAVETZ
doi:10.1038/321644d0
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| | No chance... 644
DAVE E. PARRY
doi:10.1038/321644e0
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| | Erratum 644
doi:10.1038/321644f0
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| | Towards understanding snowflakes 645
The reasons why the microscopic anisotropy of molecules in crystals is reflected in the shapes of the macroscopic structures which they form have been obscure. Now there is some progress.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/321645a0
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| | Molecular biophysics: Energy and signal transduction by transmembrane protein complexes 646
Alexander N. Glazer
doi:10.1038/321646a0
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| | Robert Day Allen (1927−1986) 647
D. Lansing Taylor
doi:10.1038/321647a0
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| | Mammalian energetic: Energetic costs of reproduction 648
Paul H. Harvey
doi:10.1038/321648a0
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| | Laser technology: Microfabrication of thin films 649
Ian W. Boyd & F. Micheli
doi:10.1038/321649a0
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| | Immunology: Approaches to tolerance in man 650
Leslie Brent
doi:10.1038/321650a0
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| | Visual information: Do computers need attention? 651
Anya Hurlbert & Tomaso Poggio
doi:10.1038/321651a0
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| | Epstein−Barr virus: Infection and tumour induction 653
M. A. Epstein
doi:10.1038/321653a0
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| | 100 years ago 653
doi:10.1038/321653b0
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| | Plant ecology: Pesticides and pollination 654
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/321654a0
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| | Iodine-131 in human thyroids in Britain following Chernobyl 655
C.R. HILL, I. ADAM, W. ANDERSON, R.J. OTT & F.D. SOWBY
doi:10.1038/321655a0
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| | Do mammals need P elements? 656
IAN J. JACKSON
doi:10.1038/321656a0
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| | Initiating boiling with ice 657
ROBERT E. APFEL & RICHARD L. DAY
doi:10.1038/321657a0
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| | In defence of bacterial phylogeny 657
JAMES A. LAKE
doi:10.1038/321657b0
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| | Testis size and dizygotic twins 658
L. R. WILLATT & D. J. BARTLETT
doi:10.1038/321658a0
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| | Unnatural science? 659
Marie Jahoda reviews Profiles of Social Research: The Scientific Study of Human Interactions
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Morton Hunt
doi:10.1038/321659a0
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| | Inflamed appeal 660
Gerry Higgs & Brendan Whittle reviews The Inflammatory Reaction
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Henry Z. Movat
doi:10.1038/321660a0
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| | Engineered viruses out of doors 660
D.H.L. Bishop reviews Genetically Altered Viruses and the Environment
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Bernard Fields, Malcolm A. Martin & Daphne Kamely
doi:10.1038/321660b0
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| | A manifold mind 661
John C. Marshall reviews The Citadel of the Senses and Other Essays
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Macdonald Critchley
doi:10.1038/321661a0
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| | Whales: transition in translation 662
Samuel A. McLeod reviews General Features of the Paleobiological Evolution of Cetacea
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G. A. Mchedlidze
doi:10.1038/321662a0
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| | Tip splitting without interfacial tension and dendritic growth patterns arising from molecular anisotropy 663
Johann Nittmann & H. Eugene Stanley
doi:10.1038/321663a0
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| | Nodule-specific expression of a chimaeric soybean leghaemoglobin gene in transgenic Lotus corniculatus
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Jens Stougaard Jensen, Kjeld A. Marcker, Léon Otten & Jeff Schell
doi:10.1038/321669a0
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| | Fluorescence detection in automated DNA sequence analysis 674
Lloyd M. Smith, Jane Z. Sanders, Robert J. Kaiser, Peter Hughes, Chris Dodd, Charles R. Connell, Cheryl Heiner, Stephen B. H. Kent & Leroy E. Hood
doi:10.1038/321674a0
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| | Coordinated Exosat and spectroscopic observations of flare stars and coronal heating 679
C. J. Butler, M. Rodono, B. H. Foing & B. M. Haisch
doi:10.1038/321679a0
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| | Metallic ions in cometary comae and plasma tails 682
W.-H. Ip & W. I. Axford
doi:10.1038/321682a0
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| | Gas-like nature of the sodium anion in solution 684
Ahmed S. Ellaboudy, Dolores M. Holton, Nicholas C. Pyper, Peter P. Edwards, Brian Wood & William McFarlane
doi:10.1038/321684a0
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| | Distribution of atoms at the surface of liquid mercury 685
Scott W. Barton, Britt N. Thomas, Frank Novak, Peter M. Weber, Jonathan Harris, Paul Dolmer, J. Mati Bloch & Stuart A. Rice
doi:10.1038/321685a0
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| | Efficient solar energy conversion with CuInS2
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H. J. Lewerenz, H. Goslowsky, K.-D. Husemann & S. Fiechter
doi:10.1038/321687a0
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| | Vertical profile of lead isotopic compositions in the north-east Pacific 689
A. R. Flegal, K. Itoh, C. C. Patterson & C. S. Wong
doi:10.1038/321689a0
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| | Basal metabolic rate and energetics of reproduction in therian mammals 690
Steven D. Thompson & Martin E. Nicoll
doi:10.1038/321690a0
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| | Enhanced detection in the aperture of focal attention during simple discrimination tasks 693
Dov Sagi & Bela Julesz
doi:10.1038/321693a0
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| | Phorbol esters block a voltage-sensitive chloride current in hippocampal pyramidal cells 695
Daniel V. Madison, Robert C. Malenka & Roger A. Nicoll
doi:10.1038/321695a0
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| | Phorbol ester facilitates 45Ca accumulation and catecholamine secretion by nicotine and excess K+ but not by muscarine in rat adrenal medulla 698
Arun R. Wakade, Ravindra K. Malhotra & Taruna D. Wakade
doi:10.1038/321698a0
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| | Mediation of mouse natural cytotoxic activity by tumour necrosis factor 700
John R. Ortaldo, Llewellyn H. Mason, Bonnie J. Mathieson, Shu-Mei Liang, David A. Flick & Ronald B. Herberman
doi:10.1038/321700a0
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| | A block to elongation is largely responsible for decreased transcription of c-myc in differentiated HL60 cells 702
David L. Bentley & Mark Groudine
doi:10.1038/321702a0
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| | Idealization of the hydrophobic segment of the alkaline phosphatase signal peptide 706
Debra A. Kendall, Susan Clark Bock & Emil Thomas Kaiser
doi:10.1038/321706a0
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| | Stringent control of initiation of chromosomal replication in Bacillus subtilis
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Simone J. Séror, Francoise Vannier, Alain Levine & Gilles Henckes
doi:10.1038/321709a0
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| | Books Received 711
doi:10.1038/321711a0
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