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| | Ethical watchdog's just desserts 355
The US scientific community continues to make heavy weather of the policing of scientific misconduct, chiefly because federal agencies cannot act without being forced to be courts of law. But now there is a chance to undo one mistake.
doi:10.1038/349355a0
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| | Overheads overblown 355
British researchers are being saddled with a system of research accounting that is failing in the United States.
doi:10.1038/349355b0
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| | Is this the eco-war? 356
Spilled oil in the Persian Gulf is better than spilled blood on the sand, but there is probably that ahead.
doi:10.1038/349356a0
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| | UK nuclear physicists fear SERC's cuts 357
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/349357a0
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| | Court ruling put to test 357
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/349357b0
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| | Gulf war clouds convention 358
Christopher Anderson & Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/349358a0
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| | Doors are opened to advanced study 358
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/349358b0
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| | Spectre of contamination 359
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/349359a0
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| | Allocation pleases no-one 359
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/349359b0
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| | Japan's project stalls 360
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/349360a0
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| | Tomatoes approved 360
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/349360b0
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| | Polytechnics seeking their fair share 360
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/349360c0
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| | Showdown over overheads? 361
Christopher Anderson & Elizabeth Schaefer
doi:10.1038/349361a0
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| | Turning off the gas . . . 362
SIGURD O. NIELSEN
doi:10.1038/349362a0
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| | Uphill struggle 362
JONATHAN SCOTT
doi:10.1038/349362b0
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| | One route to religious ecstasy 362
DANIELE PIOMELLI
doi:10.1038/349362c0
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| | Olbers' paradox has more to teach 363
The question of why the sky is dark at night is a textbook problem, but textbook answers may still miss the point. The problem is that of determining which is the more dominant of the two preferred solutions.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/349363a0
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| | A stop—start ocean conveyer 364
Glen A. Jones
doi:10.1038/349364a0
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| | Why the eye doesn't shape up 365
Brian J. Rogers
doi:10.1038/349365a0
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| | Mice and men 366
doi:10.1038/349366a0
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| | Winding up 366
doi:10.1038/349366b0
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| | Crystal tips 366
doi:10.1038/349366c0
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| | Remembrance of things past 367
Andrew W. Murray
doi:10.1038/349367a0
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| | Glueballs and exotic matter 368
Frank Close
doi:10.1038/349368a0
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| | Real and imagined dangers 369
Gordon Ada
doi:10.1038/349369a0
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Physarum — C the difference? 370
Brenda L. Bass
doi:10.1038/349370a0
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| | Putting the pieces together 371
William L. Ellsworth
doi:10.1038/349371a0
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| | Transform faults and vertical tectonics 371
doi:10.1038/349371b0
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| | Read my lips 372
David Jones
doi:10.1038/349372a0
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| | A bigger can of worms? 373
P. C. MALONE & D. N. WHEATLEY
doi:10.1038/349373a0
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| | N20 production in the ocean 373
S. W. A. NAQVI
doi:10.1038/349373b0
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| | Ancient Arctic hunters 374
VLADIMIR PITUL'KO & VJATCHESLAV MAKEYEV
doi:10.1038/349374a0
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| | Provenance of HIV strains 374
ROBIN A. WEISS
doi:10.1038/349374b0
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| | Questions of life 375
Alan Holland reviews Embryo Experimentation
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Peter Singer & Michael J. Coughlan
doi:10.1038/349375a0
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| | The return of entropy 376
P. T. Landsberg reviews Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information, Computing
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H. S. Leff, A. F. Rex & W. H. Zurek
doi:10.1038/349376a0
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| | Linked functions 377
Gary K. Ackers reviews Binding and Linkage: Functional Chemistry of Biological Macromolecules
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Jeffries Wyman & Stanley J. Gill
doi:10.1038/349377a0
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| | Thinking about thought 378
Douglas Hofstadter reviews The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms
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Margaret A. Boden
doi:10.1038/349378a0
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| | Particle physics after a year of LEP 379
David J. Miller
doi:10.1038/349379a0
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| | Involvement of p34
cdc2
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Daniel Broek, Rachel Bartlett, Kevin Crawford & Paul Nurse
doi:10.1038/349388a0
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| | Negative ions in the coma of comet Halley 393
P. Chaizy, H. Rème, J. A. Sauvaud, C. d'Uston, R. P. Lin, D. E. Larson, D. L. Mitchell, K. A. Anderson, C. W. Carlson, A. Korth & D. A. Mendis
doi:10.1038/349393a0
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| | Phonon suppression of coherence peak in nuclear spin relaxation rate of superconductors 396
Philip B. Allen & Dierk Rainer
doi:10.1038/349396a0
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| | Molecular-resolution images of Langmuir−Blodgett films using atomic force microscopy 398
E. Meyer, L. Howald, R. M. Overney, H. Heinzelmann, J. Frommer, H.-J. Güntherodt, T. Wagner, H. Schier & S. Roth
doi:10.1038/349398a0
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| | Volume transition in a gel driven by hydrogen bonding 400
Franck Ilmain, Toyoichi Tanaka & Etsuo Kokufuta
doi:10.1038/349400a0
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| | Long-range transport of volcanic ash to the Greenland ice sheet 401
Michael Ram & Robert I. Gayley
doi:10.1038/349401a0
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| | Coherence between seasonal cycles of dimethyl sulphide, methanesulphonate and sulphate in marine air 404
G. P. Ayers, J. P. Ivey & R. W. Gillett
doi:10.1038/349404a0
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| | Global nature of the Younger Dryas cooling event inferred from oxygen isotope data from Sulu Sea cores 406
H. R. Kudrass, H. Erlenkeuser, R. Vollbrecht & W. Weiss
doi:10.1038/349406a0
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| | A new high-pressure form of MgAl2O4
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T. Irifune, K. Fujino & E. Ohtani
doi:10.1038/349409a0
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| | Vertical disparities and perception of three-dimensional shape 411
B. G. Cumming, E. B. Johnston & A. J. Parker
doi:10.1038/349411a0
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| | Two-tone distortion in the basilar membrane of the cochlea 413
Luis Robles, Mario A. Ruggero & Nola C. Rich
doi:10.1038/349413a0
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| | Protection of substantia nigra from MPP+ neurotoxicity by N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists 414
Lechoslaw Turski, Karin Bressler, Klaus Jürgen Rettig, Peter-Andreas Löschmann & Helmut Wachtel
doi:10.1038/349414a0
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| | NMDA receptor agonists selectively block N-type calcium channels in hippocampal neurons 418
Natalya I. Chernevskaya, Alexander G. Obukhov & Oleg A. Krishtal
doi:10.1038/349418a0
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| | Calcium-dependent regulation of cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase by a protein from frog retinal rods 420
Satoru Kawamura & Motohiko Murakami
doi:10.1038/349420a0
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| | Cloning and characterization of the cDNAs for human and rat corticotropin releasing factor-binding proteins 423
E. Potter, D. P. Behan, W. H. Fischer, E. A. Linton, P. J. Lowry & W. W. Vale
doi:10.1038/349423a0
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| | Raf-1 protein kinase is required for growth of induced NIH/3T3 cells 426
Walter Kolch, Gisela Heidecker, Patricia Lloyd & Ulf R. Rapp
doi:10.1038/349426a0
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| | Localization of p53, retinoblastoma and host replication proteins at sites of viral replication in herpes-infected cells 429
D. Wilcock & D. P. Lane
doi:10.1038/349429a0
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| | Insertion of specific bases during DNA synthesis past the oxidation-damaged base 8-oxodG 431
Shinya Shibutani, Masaru Takeshita & Arthur P. Grollman
doi:10.1038/349431a0
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| | RNA editing by cytidine insertion in mitochondria of Physarum polycephalum
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R. Mahendran, M. R. Spottswood & D. L. Miller
doi:10.1038/349434a0
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| | Type I iodothyronine deiodinase is a selenocysteine-containing enzyme 438
Maria J. Berry, Laila Banu & P. Reed Larsen
doi:10.1038/349438a0
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