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All governments worry about the civil spin-off from defence research, but the British government has more reason than most to be alarmed.
doi:10.1038/339081a0
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| | Is TRON unfair? 82
Preparations for trade retaliation by the United States against Japan nonsense.
doi:10.1038/339082a0
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| | Disputed paper takes centre stage in Congress 83
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/339083a0
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| | Still no certainty 84
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/339084a0
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| | Row in the Senate over altered testimony 84
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/339084b0
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| | Compromise disappoints 85
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/339085a0
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| | West Germany founds space agency 85
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/339085b0
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| | International telecommunications 85
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/339085c0
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| | Destruction area disputed 86
Ricardo Bonalume Neto
doi:10.1038/339086a0
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| | Increased cancer risk found 86
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/339086b0
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| | Magellan's search for data 87
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/339087a0
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| | UK advisers want civil links 87
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/339087b0
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| | Transfusion damages 87
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/339087c0
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| | Car phones fuel battle 88
David Swinbanks & Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/339088a0
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| | University of Arizona construction agreed 88
Elizabeth Pennisi
doi:10.1038/339088b0
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| | Pitfalls come to light 89
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/339089a0
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| | Koop out early 89
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/339089b0
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| | Showpiece reactor on ice 90
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/339090a0
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| | Disposal plan for old military reactors 90
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/339090b0
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| | Reactors in Wonderland 90
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/339090c0
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| | A view of misconduct in science 91
In the United States, suspicion of fraud has become a cancer in research. To tackle the problem, real and perceived, scientists will have to become more practised at public relations.
Efraim Racker
doi:10.1038/339091a0
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| | Use of growth hormones 94
R. B. HEAP
doi:10.1038/339094a0
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| | Use of growth hormones 94
G. E. LAMMING
doi:10.1038/339094b0
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| | Earthquake risk 94
M. SALGANIK
doi:10.1038/339094c0
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| | Halley's comet is quite young 95
Three years after the most recent apparition of Halley's Comet, estimates of the time for which the comet has been circuiting in something like its present orbit seem to be converging on a few tens of thousands of years.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/339095a0
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| | The envelope thickens 96
Roger Chevalier
doi:10.1038/339096a0
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| | Regulating the cell cycle 97
Geoffrey North
doi:10.1038/339097a0
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| | Mass anomaly in superconductor 98
Alastair I. M. Rae
doi:10.1038/339098a0
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| | A shrimp's kaleidoscopic world 99
J. K. Bowmaker
doi:10.1038/339099a0
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| | Archaebacteria and Archezoa 100
T. Cavalier-Smith
doi:10.1038/339100a0
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| | Vision of solid objects 101
Michael J. Morgan
doi:10.1038/339101a0
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| | Sir Harold Jeffreys (1891−1989) 102
Keith Runcorn
doi:10.1038/339102a0
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| | Meteorites large and small 103
D. E. Brown lee
doi:10.1038/339103a0
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| | Black-footed ferret update 104
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/339104a0
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| | Maidenhead revisited 104
David Jones
doi:10.1038/339104b0
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| | Explanations of cold fusion 105
LINUS PAULING
doi:10.1038/339105a0
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| | Explanations of cold fusion 105
JOHN GITTUS & JAMES BOCKRIS
doi:10.1038/339105b0
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| | Stereo-image 105
NELSON MAX
doi:10.1038/339105c0
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| | Trilobite attacks 105
DAVID P. MAITLAND
doi:10.1038/339105d0
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STEPHEN STIGLER
doi:10.1038/339106a0
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| | Quasar lensing by galaxies? 106
CRAIG J. HOGAN, RAMESH NARAYAN & SIMON D. M. WHITE
doi:10.1038/339106b0
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| | Quasar lensing by galaxies? 106
RACHEL L. WEBSTER, PAUL C. HEWETT, MARGARET E. HARDING & GARY A. WEGNER
doi:10.1038/339106c0
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| | A natural selection 107
R. C. Lewontin reviews Evolutionary Genetics
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John Maynard Smith
doi:10.1038/339107a0
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| | Star dust 108
David W. Hughes reviews Dust in the Universe
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M. E. Bailey & D. A. Williams
doi:10.1038/339108a0
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| | Birth pangs 108
Joseph Silk reviews The Early Universe: Facts and Fiction
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G. Börner
doi:10.1038/339108b0
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| | Time to turn to Marje? 109
R. N. Thompson reviews Igneous Petrogenesis
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M. Wilson
doi:10.1038/339109a0
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| | From spectrum to molecule 110
William Rhodes reviews Theory and Methods of Calculation of Molecular Spectra
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L. A. Gribov & W. J. Orville-Thomas
doi:10.1038/339110a0
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| | World of decay 110
Adrian Bath reviews Isotopes in the Earth Sciences
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Robert Bowen
doi:10.1038/339110b0
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| | Structure and function of bacterial photosynthetic reaction centres 111
G. Feher, J. P. Allen, M. Y. Okamura & D. C. Rees
doi:10.1038/339111a0
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| | Properties, detectability and origin of interstellar diamonds in meteorites 117
Roy S. Lewis, Edward Anders & Bruce T. Draine
doi:10.1038/339117a0
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| | Resolution of the 1,238-keV  -ray line from supernova 1987A 122
B. J. Teegarden, S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller, M. Leventhal & C. J. MacCallum
doi:10.1038/339122a0
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| | Infrared and optical evidence for a dust cloud behind supernova
1987A 123
James E. Felten & Eli Dwek
doi:10.1038/339123a0
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| | Unusual olivine and pyroxene composition in interplanetary dust and
unequilibrated ordinary chondrites 126
W. Klöck, K. L. Thomas, D. S. McKay & H. Palme
doi:10.1038/339126a0
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| | Identification of body-centred cubic cobalt and its importance in CO
hydrogenation 129
Saul E. Colley, Richard G. Copperthwaite, Graham J. Hutchings, S. Petrus Terblanche & Michael M. Thackeray
doi:10.1038/339129a0
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| | Flocculation clustering and weakness of ceramics 130
K. Kendall, N. McN. Alford, W. J. Clegg & J. D. Birchall
doi:10.1038/339130a0
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| | Viability costs of male tail ornaments in a swallow 132
Anders Pape Møller
doi:10.1038/339132a0
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| | Disparity curvature and the perception of three-dimensional surfaces 135
Brian Rogers & Ron Cagenello
doi:10.1038/339135a0
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| | A retina with at least ten spectral types of photoreceptors in a mantis shrimp 137
Thomas W. Cronin & N. Justin Marshall
doi:10.1038/339137a0
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| | Accelerated evolution of a false-truffle from a mushroom ancestor 140
Thomas D. Bruns, Robert Fogel, Thomas J. White & Jeffrey D. Palmer
doi:10.1038/339140a0
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| | Origin of the algae 142
Roland Perasso, Anne Baroin, Liang Hu Qu, Jean Pierre Bachellerie & André Adoutte
doi:10.1038/339142a0
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| | Phylogenetic analysis based on rRNA sequences supports the archaebacterial rather than the eocyte tree 145
Manolo Gouy & Wen-Hsiung Li
doi:10.1038/339145a0
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| | A family of mitochondrial proteins involved in bioenergetics and
biogenesis 147
Ulrich Schulte, Michael Arretz, Helmut Schneider, Maximilian Tropschug, Elmar Wachter, Walter Neupert & Hanns Weiss
doi:10.1038/339147a0
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| | Production of the haemopoietic growth factors GM-CSF and interleukin-3 by mast cells in response to IgE receptor-mediated activation 150
Aleksandra Wodnar-Filipowicz, Christoph H. Heusser & Christoph Moroni
doi:10.1038/339150a0
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| | Suppressor effects and cyclic AMP accumulation by the CD29 molecule of CD4+ lymphocytes 152
Hervé Groux, Stéphane Huet, Hélèna Valentin, Danièle Pham & Alain Bernard
doi:10.1038/339152a0
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protein 155
S. Giordano, C. Ponzetto, M. F. Di Renzo, C. S. Cooper & P. M. Comoglio
doi:10.1038/339155a0
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Global phenotype analyses are now possible using a versatile redox chemistry that is readily automated with computerization and microplate technology.
B. R. Bochner
doi:10.1038/339157a0
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| | Microbiology minutes 158
At next week's meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in New Orleans, Louisiana, products for growing, analysing and engineering microbes will be on display.
Cary Prince
doi:10.1038/339158a0
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