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| | Upheaval for Soviet academy 101
The coming of perestroika seems to have caught the Soviet Academy of Sciences at a loss for knowing what to do. Here is how it might tackle some of the questions arising later in the month.
doi:10.1038/335101a0
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| | European science 102
An enterprise to champion European science and the European spirit should not expect too much.
doi:10.1038/335102a0
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| | International cooperation on superconductors 103
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/335103a0
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| | Neural networks 103
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335103b0
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| | Microgravity tower 103
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/335103c0
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| | Money for Frontiers 103
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/335103d0
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| | Association flies the science flag 104
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335104a0
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| | Japan plans to build world's biggest fusion device 104
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/335104b0
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| | Plans for state slug salted away 104
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/335104c0
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| | NASA sets launch schedules for future missions 105
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/335105a0
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| | Genentech patent 105
Carol Ezzell
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| | New federal awards 105
Joseph Palca
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| | Collaboration begins 105
Steven Dickman
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| | Changing relationship seen in new corporate−university ties 106
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/335106a0
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| | Industry calls for review of teaching 106
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335106b0
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| | Fault in Indian communications satellite not worth repairing 106
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/335106c0
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| | Scandal over Soviet artificial blood research project 107
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/335107a0
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| | Industrialists in force on new funding body 107
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335107b0
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| | New set of eyes on the radio sky in the Southern Hemisphere 108
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/335108a0
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| | US astronomers gain access to database 108
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/335108b0
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| | West Germany drills deeper 108
Steven Dickman
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| | Unreproducible results 109
GREGORY A. PETSKO
doi:10.1038/335109a0
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| | Unreproducible results 109
PETER J. LIPOWICZ
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| | Unreproducible results 109
LESLIE C. LANE
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| | Unreproducible results 109
B.H. BLAND
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| | Pugwash changes guard and style 110
The 38th annual meeting of Pugwash last week was unusually decorous but may have been nonetheless valuable on that account, if only because the organization is seriously pondering its future.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/335110a0
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| | A unicorn in the garden 112
Franklin W. Stahl
doi:10.1038/335112a0
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| | Exhibition of ivory-pocket sundials 112
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| | Magnetic theories in a spin 113
N. d'Ambmmenil
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| | Sticky fingers and CAAX boxes 114
Tony Magee & Michael Hanley
doi:10.1038/335114a0
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| | Conducting-polymer electronics 115
David Bloor
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| | Reference reagents for antinuclear antibodies 116
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| | 100 years ago 117
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| | Methanol masers map new stars 117
R.J. Cohen
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| | Perils of molecular introspection 118
Joe Felsenstein
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| | Distant galaxy observed 119
R.F. Carswell
doi:10.1038/335119a0
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| | Shiver my timbers! 119
David Jones
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| | Radioactive protein-labelling techniques 120
JILL MEISENHELDER & TONY HUNTER
doi:10.1038/335120a0
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| | Taxonomic instability continues to irritate 120
D. J. CRISP & G. E. FOGG
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| | Molecular biology running into a cul-de-sac? 121
HARRY RUBIN
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| | Adrenal transplants for Huntington's disease? 122
PAUL R. SANBERG & ANDREW B. NORMAN
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| | Cystic fibrosis, fertility and birth intervals 122
D.J. PRITCHARD
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| | When the world turned 123
Owen Gingerich reviews The Genesis of the Copernican World
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Hans Blumenberg & Robert M. Wallace
doi:10.1038/335123a0
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| | Seeing stars 124
M.G. Edmunds reviews Astronomical Optics
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Daniel J. Schroeder
doi:10.1038/335124a0
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| | Fruits of industry 124
Norman Myers reviews Acidification in Tropical Countries, SCOPE 36
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Henning Rodhe & Rafael Herrera
doi:10.1038/335124b0
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| | Safe as houses? The risks of radon 125
John Fremlin reviews Radon and its Decay Products: Occurrence, Properties, and Health Effects
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Philip K. Hopke, David Bodansky, Maurice A. Robkin, David R. Stadler, C. Richard Cothern, James E. Smith Jr., William W. Nazaroff & Anthony V. Nero Jr.
doi:10.1038/335125a0
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| | Grub's up 126
John Treherne reviews Why Not Eat Insects?
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Vincent M. Holt
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| | From continental drift to plate tectonics 127
Twenty-five years ago, on 7 September 1963, a paper by F.J. Vine and D.H. Matthews, "Magnetic Anomalies Over Oceanic Ridges", appeared in Nature. It attracted little immediate interest. But the paper turned out to be one of the seminal contributions to a sea-change in the Earth sciences that brewed through the 1950s and early 1960s and culminated in the theory of plate tectonics.
Here, Henry Frankel describes the genesis and influence of the work of Vine and the contributions of some of the many Earth scientists who participated in the transformation of their discipline. In the following Review Article (p. 131), Peter Molnar picks up the story and reviews the progress made in applying plate tectonics to the thorny question of continental deformation.
Henry Frankel
doi:10.1038/335127a0
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| | Continental tectonics in the aftermath of plate tectonics 131
Peter Molnar
doi:10.1038/335131a0
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| | New semiconductor device physics in polymer diodes and transistors 137
J. H. Burroughes, C. A. Jones & R. H. Friend
doi:10.1038/335137a0
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| | The origin of mutants 142
John Cairns, Julie Overbaugh & Stephan Miller
doi:10.1038/335142a0
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| | Disruption of galactic radio jets by shocks in the ambient medium 146
Michael L. Norman, Jack O. Burns & Martin E. Sulkanen
doi:10.1038/335146a0
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| | Milliarcsecond maps of 12 GHz methanol masers 149
R. P. Norris, W. H. McCutcheon, J. L. Caswell, K. J. Wellington, J. E. Reynolds, R. S. Peng & M. J. Kesteven
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Y. J. Uemura, B. J. Sternlieb, D. E. Cox, J. H. Brewer, R. Kadono, J. R. Kempton, R. F. Kiefl, S. R. Kreitzman, G. M. Luke, P. Mulhern, T. Riseman, D. L. Williams, W. J. Kossler, X. H. Yu, C. E. Stronach, M. A. Subramanian, J. Gopalakrishnan & A. W. Sleight
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| | Terrestrial feedback in atmospheric oxygen regulation by fire and phosphorus 152
L. R. Kump
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| | Remote sensing of canopy chemistry and nitrogen cycling in temperate forest ecosystems 154
Carol A. Wessman, John D. Aber, David L. Peterson & Jerry M. Melillo
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R. J. Angel, T. Gasparik, N. L. Ross, L. W. Finger, C. T. Prewitt & R. M. Hazen
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226Ra excesses in mid-ocean-ridge basalts and mantle melting 158
K. H. Rubin & J. D. Macdougall
doi:10.1038/335158a0
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| | Cell lineage analysis reveals multipotency of some avian neural crest cells 161
Marianne Bronner-Fraser & Scott E. Fraser
doi:10.1038/335161a0
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| | Calcitonin gene-related peptide acts as a novel vasodilator neurotransmitter in mesenteric resistance vessels of the rat 164
Hiromu Kawasaki, Koichiro Takasaki, Akira Saito & Katsutoshi Goto
doi:10.1038/335164a0
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| | Pattern of nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class I loci reveals overdominant selection 167
Austin L. Hughes & Masatoshi Nei
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| | Deletion of the human T-cell receptor  -gene by a site-specific recombination 170
Jean-Pierre de Villartay, Richard D. , David HockettCoran, Stanley J. Korsmeyer & David I. Cohen
doi:10.1038/335170a0
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| | Intrathymic deletion of self-reactive cells prevented by neonatal anti-CD4 antibody treatment 174
H. Robson MacDonald, Hans Hengartner & Thierry Pedrazzini
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| | Vaccinia virus encodes a secretory polypeptide structurally related to complement control proteins 176
Girish J. Kotwal & Bernard Moss
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K. K. Sethi, H. Näher & I. Stroehmann
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| | Immunodeficiency virus rev trans-activator modulates the expression of the viral regulatory genes 181
Michael H. Malim, Joachim Hauber, Randy Fenrick & Bryan R. Cullen
doi:10.1038/335181a0
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| | Genome linking with yeast artificial chromosomes 184
Alan Coulson, Robert Waterston, Jane Kiff, John Sulston & Yuji Kohara
doi:10.1038/335184a0
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| | Site-specific cleavage of single-stranded DNAs at unique sites by a copper-dependent redox reaction 186
Sergey A. Kazakov, Tatiana G. Astashkina, Sergey V. Mamaev & Valentin V. Vlassov
doi:10.1038/335186a0
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Arthur M. Lesk & Cyrus Chothia
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