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| | Amber light for nuclear power 375
The long-awaited report on the future of nuclear power in Britain, a qualified licence to push ahead, is a proof that governments cannot delegate the big decisions.
doi:10.1038/325375a0
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| | The price of secrecy 375
The British government's latest self-made secrecy issue exemplifies its over-zealous policies.
doi:10.1038/325375b0
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| | Unquiet Chinese science 376
Chinese science is being blamed for the unrest among students. Will reform now be halted?
doi:10.1038/325376a0
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| | New science plans provoke UK government hostility 377
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/325377a0
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| | Layfield gives approval to Sizewell B 377
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/325377b0
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| | Sizewell inquiry leaves questions unanswered 378
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/325378a0
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| | Chinese and Japanese outshine US schoolchildren in maths 379
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/325379a0
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| | Multi-million dollar vaccination drive against infant mortality 379
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/325379b0
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| | When the wind blows 379
doi:10.1038/325379c0
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| | Kazakh Academy of Sciences in trouble with Moscow 380
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/325380a0
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| | US–Japanese research initiative renegotiates cooperative projects 380
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/325380b0
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| | Soviet academician makes rare appearance at US Congress 381
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/325381a0
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| | Companies to pay for using others' ideas? 381
Nechemia Meyers
doi:10.1038/325381b0
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| | Woman's AIDS death in Japan produces shock waves 382
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/325382a0
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| | World human-powered flight record 382
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/325382b0
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| | Shuttle parts could provide route to cut-price heavy launcher 383
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/325383a0
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| | India's plans for an indigenous launch vehicle still on target 383
Radhakrishna Rao
doi:10.1038/325383b0
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| | Castles in the Saharan air 384
RICHARD GRANTHAM
doi:10.1038/325384a0
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| | Learning the lesson 384
D. A. A. FAGANDINI
doi:10.1038/325384b0
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| | Inflation run riot 384
MARTA MONTELEONI
doi:10.1038/325384c0
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| | Classification 384
J. A. BARNETT
doi:10.1038/325384d0
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| | Where Zitterbewegungen may lead 385
There is a valuable place for journals a little to the side of orthodoxy that allow people to explore unfashionable themes. Even classical explanations of quantum mechanics have great interest.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/325385a0
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| | Are mathematicians logical? 386
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/325386a0
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| | Vortex production in helium 387
Peter McClintock
doi:10.1038/325387a0
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| | New ways to see atoms 388
John Pethica
doi:10.1038/325388a0
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| | Another cyclic-nucleotide-gated conductance 389
doi:10.1038/325389a0
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| | Patterns of flower pigmentation 390
John R. S. Fincham
doi:10.1038/325390a0
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| | The mite pockets of lizards 391
Michael J. Benton
doi:10.1038/325391a0
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| | Mapping the mantle and core 392
David Gubbins
doi:10.1038/325392a0
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| | Soft-hearted saurians in museum stores 393
Michael Taylor
doi:10.1038/325393a0
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| | Survival in extreme isolation 394
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/325394a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Prediction of HIV vaccine 395
BARRY ROBSON, ROBERT V. FISHLEIGH & CHRISTOPHER A. MORRISON
doi:10.1038/325395a0
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| | Protein structure and the specific heat of water 395
KARL KADLER & DARWIN J. PROCKOP
doi:10.1038/325395b0
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| | EMBL database offer 395
RAINER STULICH
doi:10.1038/325395c0
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| | Mendel was no fraud 395
LEIGH M. VAN VALEN
doi:10.1038/325395d0
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| | Testis size comparisons 396
DAVID C. JOLLY
doi:10.1038/325396a0
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| | More clues to gene rearrangements 396
FRANK G. HALUSKA & CARLO M. CROCE
doi:10.1038/325396b0
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| | More clues to gene rearrangements 396
TARIK MÖRÖY, MICHELLE HADCHOUEL, PIERRE TIOLLAIS & MARIE-ANNICK BUENDIA
doi:10.1038/325396c0
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| | Electronic structure of the benzene molecule 396
LINUS PAULING
doi:10.1038/325396d0
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| | Behind the laboratory door 397
Hugh Rowell reviews Explorers of the Black Box: The Search for the Cellular Basis of Memory
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Susan Allport
doi:10.1038/325397a0
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| | Palaeontology for the public 398
Tony Thulborn reviews The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction
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Robert T. Bakker
doi:10.1038/325398a0
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| | Storage facilities 398
Daniel L. Schacter reviews Working Memory
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Alan Baddeley
doi:10.1038/325398b0
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| | London learning 399
W. F. Bynum reviews The University of London 1836–1986: An Illustrated History
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Negley Harte
doi:10.1038/325399a0
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| | Light on lasers—and a lot of it 400
C. R. Pidgeon reviews Lasers
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Anthony E. Siegman
doi:10.1038/325400a0
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| | Talk of nucleotides 400
Richard Grantham reviews Gnomic: A Dictionary of Genetic Codes
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Edward N. Trifonov & Volker Brendel
doi:10.1038/325400b0
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| | Communication between segments of DNA during site-specific recombination 401
Martin Gellert & Howard Nash
doi:10.1038/325401a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of the Earth from splitting in free-oscillation spectra 405
Domenico Giardini, Xiang-Dong Li & John H. Woodhouse
doi:10.1038/325405a0
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| | Deregulated c-fos expression interferes with normal bone development in transgenic mice 412
Ulrich Rüther, Christa Garber, Dymitr Komitowski, Rolf Müller & Erwin F. Wagner
doi:10.1038/325412a0
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| | A determination of the white-dwarf masses in wide binary radio-pulsar systems 416
G. J. Savonije
doi:10.1038/325416a0
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| | The formation of a magnetic-field-free cavity at comet Halley 418
W.-H. Ip & W. I. Axford
doi:10.1038/325418a0
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| | Atomic-scale surface modifications using a tunnelling microscope 419
R. S. Becker, J. A. Golovchenko & B. S. Swartzentruber
doi:10.1038/325419a0
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| | Inertial waves identified in the Earth's fluid outer core 421
K. D. Aldridge & L. I. Lumb
doi:10.1038/325421a0
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| | Geometry, conditions and timing of off-axis hydrothermal metamorphism and ore-deposition in the Solea graben 423
Peter Schiffman, Brian M. Smith, Robert J. Varga & Eldridge M. Moores
doi:10.1038/325423a0
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| | The effect of sparse vegetation on the transport of dune sand by wind 426
Ralf Buckley
doi:10.1038/325426a0
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| | Evidence for a relationship between hydrocarbons and authigenic magnetite 428
R. D. Elmore, M. H. Engel, L. Crawford, K. Nick, S. Imbus & Z. Sofer
doi:10.1038/325428a0
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| | A land-bridge island perspective on mammalian extinctions in western North American parks 430
William D. Newmark
doi:10.1038/325430a0
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| | TIT FOR TAT in sticklebacks and the evolution of cooperation 433
Manfred Milinski
doi:10.1038/325433a0
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| | Efficiency characteristics of crescent-shaped wings and caudal fins 435
C. P. van Dam
doi:10.1038/325435a0
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| | Dopamine enhances excitatory amino acid-gated conductances in cultured retinal horizontal cells 437
Andrew G. Knapp & John E. Dowling
doi:10.1038/325437a0
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| | Spectral sensitivity of human cone photoreceptors 439
J. L. Schnapf, T. W. Kraft & D. A. Baylor
doi:10.1038/325439a0
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| | A cyclic nucleotide-gated conductance in olfactory receptor cilia 442
Tadashi Nakamura & Geoffrey H. Gold
doi:10.1038/325442a0
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| | The GTP-binding protein, Go9 regulates neuronal calcium channels 445
J. Hescheler, W. Rosenthal, W. Trautwein & G. Schultz
doi:10.1038/325445a0
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| | Digital image processing of intracellular pH in gastric oxyntic and chief cells 447
Anthony M. Paradiso, Roger Y. Tsien & Terry E. Machen
doi:10.1038/325447a0
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| | Failure to find holes in the T-cell repertoire 450
Kazumasa Ogasawara, W. Lee Maloy & Ronald H. Schwartz
doi:10.1038/325450a0
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| | Unusual intron in the immunoglobulin domain of the newly isolated murine CD4 (L3T4) gene 453
Dan R. Littman & Sonya N. Gettner
doi:10.1038/325453a0
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| | Activation of sodium–proton exchange is a prerequisite for Ca2+ mobilization in human platelets 456
W. Siffert & J. W. N. Akkerman
doi:10.1038/325456a0
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| | Gene structure and extracellular secretion of Neisseria gonorrhoeae IgA protease 458
Johannes Pohlner, Roman Halter, Konrad Beyreuther & Thomas F. Meyer
doi:10.1038/325458a0
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| | Energy conversion catalysis using semiconducting transition metal cluster compounds 462
N. Alonso Vante & H. Tributsch
doi:10.1038/325462a0
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| | US Supreme Court to review Louisiana appeal 462
Thomas H. Jukes
doi:10.1038/325462b0
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| | Matters Arising | |
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| | Observation of an unexplained event from a magnetic monopole detector 463
C. N. GUY
doi:10.1038/325463a0
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| | Observation of an unexplained event from a magnetic monopole detector 463
A. D. CAPLIN, M. HARDIMAN & J. C. SCHOUTEN
doi:10.1038/325463b0
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| | Gel electrophoresis of protein–DNA complexes 464
Regions of DNA bending can be explored using gel electrophoresis on protein-DNA complexes, proving gel electrophoresis does more than just separate proteins and nucleic acids according to size.
D. M. Crothers
doi:10.1038/325464a0
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| | Separation showcase 465
Chromatography and electrophoresis are the themes for this week's issue, with something for every separation need.
doi:10.1038/325465a0
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