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President Reagan's budget request for the next financial year would be good for research. But there are also serious gaps unlikely to be filled by a cost-conscious Congress.
doi:10.1038/325093a0
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| | Beneficial bankruptcy 94
An asbestos company plans to pay claimants on its funds by giving them the lion's share of itself.
doi:10.1038/325094a0
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The House of Lords has made another cogent comment on British science. Who will listen?
doi:10.1038/325094b0
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| | Revolution needed to exploit British science 95
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/325095a0
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| | EMBO fellowships up 95
R. Walgate
doi:10.1038/325095b0
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| | CERN advance payments 95
R. Walgate
doi:10.1038/325095c0
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| | Sizewell report finished 95
B. Johnstone
doi:10.1038/325095d0
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V. Rich
doi:10.1038/325095e0
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| | Forensic science review 95
B. Johnstone
doi:10.1038/325095f0
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V. Rich
doi:10.1038/325095g0
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| | US administration plans budget increases for basic research 96
Joseph Palca & Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/325096a0
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| | Council on Competitiveness says industry neglects the long view 96
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/325096b0
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| | Dispute over who should do DNA fingerprinting in murder hunt 97
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/325097a0
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Radhakrishna Rao
doi:10.1038/325097b0
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Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/325097c0
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Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/325098a0
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Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/325098b0
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Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/325099a0
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Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/325099b0
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Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/325100a0
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| | Japanese experimental nuclear reactor decommissioned 100
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/325100b0
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| | Johns Hopkins leads the field in university military research 101
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/325101a0
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Radhakrishna Rao
doi:10.1038/325101b0
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F. W. LANCASTER, ABDUS SATAR & MARIA A. PORTA
doi:10.1038/325102a0
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HILTON STOWELL
doi:10.1038/325102b0
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| | Tests of relativity (continued) 103
The most sensitive test so far of special relativity is claimed to show that Lorentz invariance is correct to within one part in 1021. But the sceptics will no doubt shrug this off.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/325103a0
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| | The Lake Nyos gas disaster 104
S. J. Freeth & R. L. F. Kay
doi:10.1038/325104a0
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R. B. Miller
doi:10.1038/325105a0
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Philip Gaskell
doi:10.1038/325106a0
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| | Coping with a growing family 107
David Carpenter, Trevor Jackson & Michael R. Hanley
doi:10.1038/325107a0
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| | The spring in the human foot 108
Thomas A. McMahon
doi:10.1038/325108a0
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Anthony K. Cheetham
doi:10.1038/325109a0
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Brendan Oliver McGonigle
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Jennifer Altman
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Kenneth Mellanby
doi:10.1038/325112a0
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| | Is scrapie Prp 27–30 related to AIDS virus? 113
MICHAEL J. BRAUN & MATTHEW A. GONDA
doi:10.1038/325113a0
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ANDREW KITCHENER
doi:10.1038/325114a0
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L. J. BRUCE-CHWATT
doi:10.1038/325114b0
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R. S. EISENBERG
doi:10.1038/325114c0
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JOSHUA ZIMMERBERG & V. ADRIAN PARSEGIAN
doi:10.1038/325114d0
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| | The information sensation 115
Igor Aleksander reviews The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking
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Theodore Roszak
doi:10.1038/325115a0
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Michael Ashburner reviews Drosophila: A Practical Approach
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D. B.
doi:10.1038/325116a0
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E. R. Andrew reviews Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Medicine and Biology
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Peter G. Morris
doi:10.1038/325116b0
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Eric M. Jones reviews The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750–1900: The Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kan t to Lowell
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Michael J. Crowe
doi:10.1038/325117a0
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| | Learning about one way of learning 118
Rudi Lutz reviews Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Vol. II
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Ryszard S. Michalski, Jaime G. Carbonell & Tom M. Mitchell
doi:10.1038/325118a0
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Anthony Huxley reviews Orchids from Curtis's Botanical Magazine
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Samuel Sprunger
doi:10.1038/325118b0
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Some surveys of intelligence have suggested that the mean IQ is rising; others, that it is decreasing alarmingly. The explanation seems to be that the educational level of the populations has changed.
T. W. Teasdale & David R. Owen
doi:10.1038/325119a0
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| | Bragg diffraction by amorphous silicon 121
J. C. Phillips, J. C. Bean, B. A. Wilson & A. Ourmazd
doi:10.1038/325121a0
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| | Specific antigen—la activation of transfected human T cells expressing murine Ti
 
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Takashi Saito, Arthur Weiss, Jim Miller, Michael A. Norcross & Ronald N. Germain
doi:10.1038/325125a0
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| | First observation of a quasar with a redshift of 4 131
S. J. Warren, P. C. Hewett, M. J. Irwin, R. G. McMahon, M. T. Bridgeland, P. S. Bunclark & E. J. Kibblewhite
doi:10.1038/325131a0
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| | Tidal heating in an internal ocean model of Europa 133
M. N. Ross & G. Schubert
doi:10.1038/325133a0
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| | A new clathrate hydrate structure 135
John A. Ripmeester, John S. Tse, Christopher I. Ratcliffe & Brian M. Powell
doi:10.1038/325135a0
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| | Phosphate glasses for identification of heavy ions 137
P. B. Price, L. M. Cook & A. Markert
doi:10.1038/325137a0
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J. R. E. Lutjeharms & A. L. Gordon
doi:10.1038/325138a0
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| | Palaeoenvironment and carbon isotope stratigraphy of Upper Proterozoic carbonates of the Yangtze Platform 140
I. B. Lambert, M. R. Walter, Zang Wenlong, Lu Songnian & Ma Guogan
doi:10.1038/325140a0
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Michael L. McKinney
doi:10.1038/325143a0
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F. Franks, J. Darlington, T. Schenz, S. F. Mathias, L. Slade & H. Levine
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R. F. Ker, M. B. Bennett, S. R. Bibby, R. C. Kester & R. McN. Alexander
doi:10.1038/325147a0
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H. S. Terrace
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Alison J. Cook, Clifford J. Woolf, Patrick D. Wall & Stephen B. McMahon
doi:10.1038/325151a0
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F. Belardetti, E. R. Kandel & S. A. Siegelbaum
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Hiroko Matsuda, Akihiro Saigusa & Hiroshi Irisawa
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| | Inositol trisphosphate receptor localization in brain: variable stoichiometry with protein kinase C 159
Paul F. Worley, Jay M. Baraban, Jennifer S. Colvin & Solomon H. Snyder
doi:10.1038/325159a0
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Shigeo Ohno, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Shinobu Imajoh, Koichi Suzuki, Masaki Inagaki, Hisayuki Yokokura, Takashi Sakoh & Hiroyoshi Hidaka
doi:10.1038/325161a0
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Stuart W. Evans, Suzanne K. Beckner & William L. Farrar
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| | Inhibition of phosphorylcholine binding to antibodies using synthetic peptides 168
Eric H. C. Lai, Elvin A. Rabat, Johannes Meienhofer, E. P. Heimer, Arthur J. Olson & Richard Lerner
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| | Association of the polyomavirus middle-T antigen with c-yes protein 171
Sally Kornbluth, Marius Sudol & Hidesaburo Hanafusa
doi:10.1038/325171a0
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Scott B. Selleck & John Majors
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Agrobacterium-mediated delivery of infectious maize streak virus into maize plants 177
Nigel Grimsley, Thomas Hohn, Jeffrey W. Davies & Barbara Hohn
doi:10.1038/325177a0
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Y. Nozaki, N. Katayama, H. Ono, S. Tsubotani, S. Harada, H. Okazaki & Y. Nakao
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