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| | What science for Europe's 1992? 675
An acid test of the European Community's intentions in support of science after 1992 is its willingness to respond to an imaginative proposal from radioastronomers.
doi:10.1038/337675a0
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| | Research by numbers 676
British grant-makers unwisely conspire with the British government to tell researchers what to do.
doi:10.1038/337676a0
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| | Supporting universities 676
What is the obligation of the US federal government to university research?
doi:10.1038/337676b0
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| | Arctic chemistry may cause significant ozone loss 677
Joseph Palca & Philippa Lloyd
doi:10.1038/337677a0
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| | Compensation for haemophiliacs 677
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/337677b0
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| | New Delta rocket off the ground 677
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/337677c0
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| | West Germany cracks down on exports of weapons gas 678
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/337678a0
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| | Soviet research ship is impounded for "illegal entry" 678
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/337678b0
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| | Protests as Bhopal settlement rebounds on government 679
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/337679a0
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| | Generic drug-makers win telling point 679
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/337679b0
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| | Embryo research 679
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/337679c0
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| | US database link helps open up Japan to the West 680
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/337680a0
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| | Europe's fast reactor plan inches forward 680
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/337680b0
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| | Chinese satellites look to the future 680
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/337680c0
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| | Truce on the US horizon for engineered organism releases 681
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/337681a0
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| | Research foundation loses out in fund-raising failures 681
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/337681b0
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| | US–Soviet collaboration on biosatellite is a success 682
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/337682a0
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| | Europeans join forces to design a bigger and better chip 682
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/337682b0
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| | Byelorussia still alarmed by the effects of Chernobyl fallout 683
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/337683a0
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| | More West German university investment?
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Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/337683b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Reprints: more for than against 684
JAN A. WITKOWSKI
doi:10.1038/337684a0
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| | Reprints: more for than against 684
JOHN H. SANDY
doi:10.1038/337684b0
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| | Reprints: more for than against 684
CHRISTOPHER P. DUNN
doi:10.1038/337684c0
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| | No closure 684
P. B. TINKER
doi:10.1038/337684d0
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| | Science funding 684
MARIE ROSE VAN SCHRAVENDIJK
doi:10.1038/337684e0
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| | Einstein's much delayed little joke 685
When Einstein invented the cosmological constant in 1917, and promptly disowned it, he cannot have known that the concept would be bothering his successors more than 70 years later.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/337685a0
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| | A touchstone for theories 686
T. M. Rice
doi:10.1038/337686a0
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| | Ubiquitous variations in nerves 687
Jean-Marc Gallo & Brian H. Anderton
doi:10.1038/337687a0
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| | A nose for Alzheimer's disease? 688
Jennifer Altman
doi:10.1038/337688a0
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| | Comet showers and  -ray bursts 689
Bohdan Paczy ski
doi:10.1038/337689a0
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| | Responses to chemical warfare 690
J. S. Jones
doi:10.1038/337690a0
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| | Growth of large hailstones 691
Anthony Illingworth
doi:10.1038/337691a0
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| | Are rising and falling particles microbial elevators? 691
J. R. Toggweiler
doi:10.1038/337691b0
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| | Species borders and metabolism 692
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/337692a0
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| | Early teething troubles 693
Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/337693a0
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| | 100 years ago: A movable zoological station 693
doi:10.1038/337693b0
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| | Casting new light on old relationships 694
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/337694a0
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| | Strains of sweet music 694
David Jones
doi:10.1038/337694b0
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| | Transatlantic spread of seal virus 695
M. KLINOWSKA
doi:10.1038/337695a0
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| | Transatlantic spread of seal virus 695
S. KENNEDY, J. A. KMYTH, P. F. CUSH, S. J. MCCULLOUGH, G. M. ALLAN & S. MCQUAID
doi:10.1038/337695b0
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| | Preferences of Palaeozoic predators 695
LOREN E. BABCOCK & RICHARD A. ROBISON
doi:10.1038/337695c0
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| | Mating success in male pheasants 696
ANDREW POMIANKOWSKI
doi:10.1038/337696a0
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| | Hazards of sulphur 696
IVOR SMITH, VANESSA FURST & JOHN HOLTON
doi:10.1038/337696b0
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| | Disciplinary institutions 697
W. F. Bynum reviews The Investigative Enterprise: Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-Century Medicine
Edited By
William Frederic L. ColemanHolmes & Ronald & Keith R. & Jane RaingerBensonMaienschein
doi:10.1038/337697a0
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| | History in science 698
A. G. Cairns-Smith reviews Origins: The Darwin College Lectures
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A. C. Fabian
doi:10.1038/337698a0
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| | Animal rights and the apocalypse 698
Mary Ann Elston reviews Animal Liberators: Research and Morality
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Susan Sperling
doi:10.1038/337698b0
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| | Lost connections 699
Margaret A. Boden reviews The Artificial Intelligence Debate: False Starts, Real Foundations
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Stephen R. Graubard
doi:10.1038/337699a0
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| | Why simians are smart 700
Card P. van Schaik & Jan A. R. A. M. van Hooff reviews Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
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Richard Andrew ByrneWhiten
doi:10.1038/337700a0
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| | Limited expectations 700
doi:10.1038/337700b0
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| | Chaos in the international arms race 701
Simple nonlinear models, incorporating novel concepts, can shed light on the build-up of armaments between nations.
Siegfried Grossmann & Gottfried Mayer-Kress
doi:10.1038/337701a0
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| | Evidence from neodymium isotopes for mantle contributions to Phanerozoic crustal genesis in the Canadian Cordillera 705
Scott D. Samson, William C. McClelland, P. Jonathan Patchett, George E. Gehrels & Robert G. Anderson
doi:10.1038/337705a0
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| | The three-dimensional structure of foot-and-mouth disease virus at 2.9 Å resolution 709
Ravindra Acharya, Elizabeth Fry, David Stuart, Graham Fox, David Rowlands & Fred Brown
doi:10.1038/337709a0
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| | A model for soft -ray burst repeaters 716
M Boer, J. M. Hameury & J. P. Lasota
doi:10.1038/337716a0
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| | Production of technetium in red giants by - ray-induced fission 718
Robert A. Malaney
doi:10.1038/337718a0
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| | Nature of the charge carriers in electron-doped copper oxide superconductors 720
J. M. Tranquada, S. M. Heald, A. R. Moodenbaugh, G. Liang & M. Croft
doi:10.1038/337720a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (202K)
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| | Use of trialkylamines as an indicator of urban sewage in sludges, coastal waters and sediments 722
M. Valls, J. M. Bayona & J. Albaigés
doi:10.1038/337722a0
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| | Upward fluxes of particulate organic matter in the deep North Pacific 724
K. L. Smith Jr, P. M. Williams & E. R. M. Druffel
doi:10.1038/337724a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (327K)
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| | Direct observation of a section through slow-spreading oceanic crust 726
J.-M. Auzende, D. Bideau, E. Bonatti, M. Cannat, J. Honnorez, Y. Lagabrielle, J. Malavieille, V. Mamaloukas-Frangoulis & C. Mevel
doi:10.1038/337726a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (433K)
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| | Evidence for a lost ocean in Variscan terranes of the western Massif Central, France 729
G. Dubuisson, J.-C. C. Mercier, J. Girardeau & J.-Y. Frison
doi:10.1038/337729a0
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| | Evolutionary pressures on planktonic production of atmospheric sulphur 732
Ken Caldeira
doi:10.1038/337732a0
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| | The perception of moving plaids reveals two motion-processing stages 734
Leslie Welch
doi:10.1038/337734a0
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| | Pathological changes in olfactory neurons in patients with Alzheimer's disease 736
Barbara R. Talamo, RuthAnn Rudel, Kenneth S. Kosik, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Samuel Neff, Lester Adelman & John S. Kauer
doi:10.1038/337736a0
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| | Extrusion of calcium from rod outer segments is driven by both sodium and potassium gradients 740
L. Cervetto, L. Lagnado, R. J. Perry, D. W. Robinson & P. A. McNaughton
doi:10.1038/337740a0
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| | Direct binding of influenza peptides to class I HLA molecules 743
Benjamin P. Chen & Peter Parham
doi:10.1038/337743a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of CheY, the response regulator of bacterial chemotaxis 745
Ann M. Stock, James M. Mottonen, Jeffry B. Stock & Clarence E. Schutt
doi:10.1038/337745a0
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| | A cluster of phosphorylation sites on the cyclic AMP-regulated nuclear factor CREB predicted by its sequence 749
Gustavo A. Gonzalez, Karen K. Yamamoto, Wolfgang H. Fischer, David Karr, Patricia Menzel, William Biggs III, Wylie W. Vale & Marc R. Montminy
doi:10.1038/337749a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (498K)
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| | A pseudo-exon in the functional human A-crystallin gene 752
Cynthia J. Jaworski & Joram Piatigorsky
doi:10.1038/337752a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (354K)
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| | Dynamical transition of myoglobin revealed by inelastic neutron scattering 754
Wolfgang Doster, Stephen Cusack & Winfried Petry
doi:10.1038/337754a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (378K)
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