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The future health of science in the United States may depend more directly on the support of public education than on the continuation of the past decade's generous support of basic research.
Next week's conference at Chicago on the peer-review system as it applies to journals will rehearse old discontents about the system, but should also ask whether pressures on the system now can be sustained.
This week's issue spotlights a set of levers for muscle research, thermal cyclers for enzymatic DNA amplification reactions, and an oven for cooking up high-temperature superconductors.
