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| | Making headway for science 571
The president of the Royal Society has spoken out publicly in protest at what is happening to British science. The hope must be that his modest demands are granted — and that it is not too late.
doi:10.1038/332571a0
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| | Exploitation gone awry 571
British efforts to turn information technology into prosperity have not come to much.
doi:10.1038/332571b0
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| | Nerve gas cloud hangs over West German firms 573
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/332573a0
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| | Home test kits for AIDS blocked 573
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/332573b0
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| | US and Soviet science deal to be renewed 573
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/332573c0
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| | Mainstream scientists confront unorthodox view of AIDS 574
Rebecca Ward
doi:10.1038/332574a0
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| | High magnetic fields 574
Steve Dickman
doi:10.1038/332574b0
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| | China syndrome 574
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/332574c0
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| | Soviet scientific set-up attacked 574
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/332574d0
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| | Foreigners fear superconductor club is beyond their means 575
David Swinbanks & Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/332575a0
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| | High-critical-temperature superconductor made from glass 575
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/332575b0
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| | Sanction plans anger Japan 576
Alun Anderson & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/332576a0
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| | Soviet and US scientists go for a blast in the Nevada desert 576
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/332576b0
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| | Evolutionary ships passing in the night? 576
Andrew Pomiankowski & Paul H. Harvey
doi:10.1038/332576c0
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| | UK physics higher education "at severe risk" says institute 577
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/332577a0
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| | TPA too costly for medical use 577
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/332577b0
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| | UK vice-chancellors propose part-taught PhD scheme 577
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/332577c0
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| | Power cuts fuel speculation 578
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/332578a0
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| | Australian vice-chancellors opposed to government reforms 578
Charles Morgan
doi:10.1038/332578b0
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| | UK medical research in morale crisis 578
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/332578c0
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| | UK information technology research programme criticized 579
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/332579a0
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| | Indus Valley rock carvings under threat from road-building plans 579
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/332579b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Creationism and common sense 580
DAVID WAGGER
doi:10.1038/332580a0
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| | Creationism and common sense 580
ROGER C. PRINCE
doi:10.1038/332580b0
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| | Creationism and common sense 580
COLIN PATTERSON
doi:10.1038/332580c0
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| | Cup that cheers 580
B. BANERJEE
doi:10.1038/332580d0
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| | Licence to slang Copenhagen? 581
The passage of six decades has not ensured that the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics is generally accepted. If anything, discontents are growing stronger.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/332581a0
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| | Hard facts on soft centres 582
Peter Artymiuk
doi:10.1038/332582a0
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| | Sexual selection by female choice in monogamous birds 583
Rory Howlett
doi:10.1038/332583a0
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| | Solar cycles and the atmosphere 584
Marvin A. Geller
doi:10.1038/332584a0
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| | Heat flux in the Antarctic 585
Roland A. de Szoeke
doi:10.1038/332585a0
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| | Why cats have nine lives 586
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/332586a0
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| | Indian maize in the twelfth century BC 587
Carl L. Johannessen
doi:10.1038/332587a0
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| | Richard Phillips Feynman (1918−1988) 588
H. A. Bethe
doi:10.1038/332588a0
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| | How old is a polymorphism? 588
Jonathan C. Howard
doi:10.1038/332588b0
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| | Unspoken words 590
David Jones
doi:10.1038/332590a0
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Lycopodium spores found in condom dusting agent 591
MICHAEL J. BALICK & JOSEPH M. BEITEL
doi:10.1038/332591a0
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| | Myosin heads and assembly of muscle thick filaments 591
JEAN E. MOREL & NACIMA BACHOUCHI
doi:10.1038/332591b0
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| | Cometary organic matter still a contentious issue 592
CHRISTOPHER CHYBA & CARL SAGAN
doi:10.1038/332592a0
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| | Long-term climate changes from crystal growth 592
R. B. ALLEY, J. H. PEREPEZKO & C. R. BENTLEY
doi:10.1038/332592b0
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| | Long-term climate changes from crystal growth 593
J. R. PETIT, P. DUVAL & C. LORIUS
doi:10.1038/332593a0
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| | Sexual selection and predation risk in guppies 593
J. A. ENDLER
doi:10.1038/332593b0
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| | Sexual selection and predation risk in guppies 594
F. BREDEN
doi:10.1038/332594a0
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| | Deep into the shallows 595
J. H. S. Blaxter & A. Edwards reviews Georges Bank
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Richard H. Backus
doi:10.1038/332595a0
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| | Life under chilly conditions 596
F. Franks reviews The Effects of Low Temperatures on Biological Systems
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B. W. W. Grout & G. J. Morris
doi:10.1038/332596a0
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| | Field surveys 596
Peter J. Smith reviews Geomagnetism, Vols 1 and 2
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J. A. Jacobs
doi:10.1038/332596b0
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| | Mutating molecules 597
N. H. Barton & J. S. Jones reviews Molecular Evolutionary Genetics
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Masatoshi Nei
doi:10.1038/332597a0
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| | In the words of the good and the great 598
A. P. French reviews The World of Physics: A Small Library of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present, Vols I–III
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Jefferson Hane Weaver, Lloyd Motz & Dale McAdoo
doi:10.1038/332598a0
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| | Diffuse back-arc deformation in the southwestern Pacific 599
Michael W. Hamburger & Bryan L. Isacks
doi:10.1038/332599a0
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| | Two-tiered regulation of spatially patterned engrailed gene expression during Drosophila embryogenesis 604
Stephen DiNardo, Elizabeth Sher, Jill Heemskerk-Jongens, Judith A. Kassis & Patrick H. O'Farrell
doi:10.1038/332604a0
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| | Gamma-rays from superconducting cosmic strings 610
Alexander Vilenkin
doi:10.1038/332610a0
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| | The nature and origin of interstellar diamond 611
David F. Blake, Friedemann Freund, Kannan F. M. Krishnan, Charles J. Echer, Ruth Shipp, Theodore E. Bunch, Alexander G. Tielens, Robert J. Lipari, Crispin J. D. Hetherington & Sherwood Chang
doi:10.1038/332611a0
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| | Residual stress measurement by means of the thermoelastic effect 613
A. K. Wong, S. A. Dunn & J. G. Sparrow
doi:10.1038/332613a0
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| | Surface–plasmon microscopy 615
Benno Rothenhäusler & Wolfgang Knoll
doi:10.1038/332615a0
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| | Direct imaging of an adsorbed layer by high-resolution electron microscopy 617
D. A. Jefferson & P. J. F. Harris
doi:10.1038/332617a0
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| | Electron microscopy on the T
c = 110 K (midpoint) phase in the system Bi2O3–SrO–CaO–CuO 620
H. W. Zandbergen, Y. K. Huang, M. J. V. Menken, J. N. Li, K. Kadowaki, A. A. Menovsky, G. van Tendeloo & S. Amelinckx
doi:10.1038/332620a0
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| | Bulk superconductivity in Tl2CaBa2Cu2O8+ up to 120 K 623
L. Gao, Z. J. Huang, R. L. Meng, P. H. Hor, J. Bechtold, Y. Y. Sun, C. W. Chu, Z. Z. Sheng & A. M. Hermann
doi:10.1038/332623a0
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| | Estimating Southern Ocean eddy flux of heat and salt from satellite altimetry 624
T. Keffer & G. Holloway
doi:10.1038/332624a0
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| | Field evidence for hydraulic jumps in subaqueous sediment gravity flows 626
Frank H. Weirich
doi:10.1038/332626a0
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| | Marine dispersal and deposition of Yellow River silts by gravity-driven underflows 629
L. D. Wright, W. J. Wiseman, B. D. Bornhold, D. B. Prior, J. N. Suhayda, G. H. Keller, Z.-S. Yang & Y. B. Fan
doi:10.1038/332629a0
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| | The structure of the Rockall Trough from seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection measurements 632
D. G. Roberts, A. Ginzberg, K. Nunn & R. McQuillin
doi:10.1038/332632a0
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| | The dielectric constant approach to speciation and ion pairing at high temperature and pressure 635
John V. Walther & Jacques Schott
doi:10.1038/332635a0
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| | First Cretaceous mammal from India 638
G. V. R. Prasad & Ashok Sahni
doi:10.1038/332638a0
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| | Female choice selects for male sexual tail ornaments in the monogamous swallow 640
Anders Pape Møller
doi:10.1038/332640a0
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| | Selective responses of visual cortical cells do not depend on shunting inhibition 642
Rodney J. Douglas, Kevan A. C. Martin & David Whitteridge
doi:10.1038/332642a0
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| | Type I phosphatidylinositol kinase makes a novel inositol phospholipid, phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate 644
Malcolm Whitman, C. Peter Downes, Marilyn Keeler, Tracy Keller & Lewis Cantley
doi:10.1038/332644a0
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| | GM-CSF induces human neutrophil IgA-mediated phagocytosis by an IgA Fc receptor activation mechanism 647
R. H. Weisbart, A. Kacena, A. Schuh & D. W. Golde
doi:10.1038/332647a0
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| | The JUN oncoprotein, a vertebrate transcription factor, activates transcription in yeast 649
Kevin Struhl
doi:10.1038/332649a0
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| | The origin of MHC class II gene polymorphism within the genus Mus
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Thomas J. McConnell, William S. Talbot, Richard A. McIndoe & Edward K. Wakeland
doi:10.1038/332651a0
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| | Independent evolution of structural and coding regions in a Neurospora mitochondrial intron 654
Elizabeth M. Mota & Richard A. Collins
doi:10.1038/332654a0
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| | Telomeric repeat from T. thermophila cross hybridizes with human telomeres 656
Robin C. Allshire, John R. Gosden, Sally H. Cross, Gwen Cranston, Derek Rout, Neal Sugawara, Jack W. Szostak, Peter A. Fantes & Nicholas D. Hastie
doi:10.1038/332656a0
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| | Liquid-like movements in crystalline insulin 659
D. L. D. Caspar, J. Clarage, D. M. Salunke & M. Clarage
doi:10.1038/332659a0
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| | Is the G18.95–1.1 radio source a shell-type supernova remnant with a central object? 662
A. R. Patnaik, T. Velusamy & V. R. Venugopal
doi:10.1038/332662a0
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| | DNA footprinting with hydroxyl radical 663
High resolution images of proteins bound to DNA can be achieved through the use of a simple inorganic chemical system that produces the hydroxyl radical.
T. D. Tullius
doi:10.1038/332663a0
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| | Analytica highlights 664
Some of Europe's finest products for the scientific market will be shown at the Analytica exhibition next week in Munich. Several are highlighted below.
Carol Ezzel
doi:10.1038/332664a0
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