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| | Foresight comes hurriedly of age 679
British plans to plot a strategy for research by untested iterative consultation are jeopardized by haste and are potentially flawed by the appearance of consensus.
doi:10.1038/365679a0
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| | Modest growth for NIH 680
Congress's conference on the budget for the US National Institutes of Health has agreed on a 6 per cent rise.
doi:10.1038/365680a0
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| | Thatcher's tale 680
This year's most celebrated political autobiography seems not to be recognizable as history of science.
doi:10.1038/365680b0
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| | News | |
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| | Space station design falls hostage to US-Russia missile deal... 681
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/365681a0
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| | ... as Europe plans solo comet trip 681
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/365681b0
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| | Italy cuts research funds but adds university jobs 682
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/365682a0
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| | Weather contributes to record ozone loss 683
Gabrielle Walker
doi:10.1038/365683a0
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| | National supercomputer centre urged for US 683
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/365683b0
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| | Biotechnology rules: Spain falls into line 684
Luis Angel Fernandez
doi:10.1038/365684a0
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| | German changes face opposition 684
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/365684b0
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| | UK report criticizes EC directives 684
doi:10.1038/365684c0
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| | Nobel rewards two laboratory revolutions 685
Kimberley Carr
doi:10.1038/365685a0
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| | Prize lifts prospects for gravity wave detectors 685
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/365685b0
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| | SSC faces last ditch challenge in Congress 686
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/365686a0
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| | French gene laboratory gets a new lease of life 686
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/365686b0
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| | Bid to launch 'European PhD' 686
doi:10.1038/365686c0
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| | Russian science bodies still at loggerheads 687
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/365687a0
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| | US 'should re-create national bioethics forum' 687
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/365687b0
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| | Minister disbands German health bureau 687
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/365687c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Common inheritance 688
Daniel E. Ruzzante & Sandra J. Walde
doi:10.1038/365688a0
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| | Anglo-Saxon attitudes 688
E. A. Dumont
doi:10.1038/365688b0
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| | Forest cover 688
T. J. Goreau
doi:10.1038/365688c0
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| | Electronic journals are already here 689
This year's gathering of publishers at Frankfurt has made it plain that the electronic distribution of research data is no longer in the future, but in the here and now.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/365689a0
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| | Odd solid predictions 690
Jeffrey S. Moore
doi:10.1038/365690a0
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| | Vehicles for gene therapy 691
James M. Wilson
doi:10.1038/365691a0
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| | The case of the coarsened crests 691
L. M.
doi:10.1038/365691b0
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| | Light faster than light? 692
Rolf Landauer
doi:10.1038/365692a0
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| | Localized learning in insects 693
T. S. Collett
doi:10.1038/365693a0
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| | Some like it hot (and oily) 694
John Parkes & James Maxwell
doi:10.1038/365694a0
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| | The silicon chameleon 695
Leigh Canham
doi:10.1038/365695a0
References | PDF (147K)
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| | RESUME 696
doi:10.1038/365696a0
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| | One giant step for kinesin 696
Jonathon Howard
doi:10.1038/365696b0
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| | Atmospheric CO2 stalled 697
Jorge L. Sarmiento
doi:10.1038/365697a0
References | PDF (459K)
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| | Electric traction 698
David Jones
doi:10.1038/365698a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Moth response to climate 699
Gert Stange & Chin Wong
doi:10.1038/365699a0
References | PDF (132K)
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| | Recovery of antediluvian DNA 700
Tomas Lindahl
doi:10.1038/365700a0
References | PDF (145K)
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| | Recovery of antediluvian DNA 700
George O. Poinar Jr
doi:10.1038/365700b0
References | PDF (272K)
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| | First fossil camels from Europe 701
Martin Pickford, Jorge Morales & Dolores Soria
doi:10.1038/365701a0
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| | Powdered moonshine 701
Alexei V. Byalko
doi:10.1038/365701b0
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| | Powdered moonshine 701
doi:10.1038/365701c0
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| | Child leukaemia after Chernobyl 702
E. P. Ivanov, G. Tolochko, V. S. Lazarev & L. Shuvaeva
doi:10.1038/365702a0
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| | Sexual orientation 702
Dean Hamer
doi:10.1038/365702b0
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| | Sexual orientation 702
L. Kruglyak
doi:10.1038/365702c0
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| | Sexual orientation 702
doi:10.1038/365702d0
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| | Logic and luck 703
N. W. Pirie reviews In Focus, Out of Step: A Biography of Frederick William Twort FRS, 1877-1950.
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Antony Twort
doi:10.1038/365703a0
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| | Through the clouds of obscurity 704
Robert Hutchison reviews Stardust to Planets: A Geological Tour of the Solar System.
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Harry Y. McSween
doi:10.1038/365704a0
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| | On the edge 704
Gabriel A. Dover reviews The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution.
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Stuart A. Kauffman
doi:10.1038/365704b0
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| | Microfossil 706
doi:10.1038/365706a0
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| | Building the crust at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 707
Deborah K. Smith & Johnson R. Cann
doi:10.1038/365707a0
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| | A search for life on Earth from the Galileo spacecraft 715
Carl Sagan, W. Reid Thompson, Robert Carlson, Donald Gurnett & Charles Hord
doi:10.1038/365715a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,258K)
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| | Direct observation of kinesin stepping by optical trapping interferometry 721
Karel Svoboda, Christoph F. Schmidt, Bruce J. Schnapp & Steven M. Block
doi:10.1038/365721a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,299K)
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| | A possible low-mass type Ia supernova 728
Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, David J. Jeffery, Peter M. Challis, Alexei V. Filippenko, Robert P. Kirshner, Luis C. Ho, Brian P. Schmidt, Francisco Sánchez & Ramon Canal
doi:10.1038/365728a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (443K)
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| | Split comets and the origin of crater chains on Ganymede and Callisto 731
H. J. Melosh & P. Schenk
doi:10.1038/365731a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (482K)
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| | Estimate of the size of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 from a tidal breakup model 733
J. V. Scotti & H. J. Melosh
doi:10.1038/365733a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (507K)
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| | Crystalline networks with unusual predicted mechanical and thermal properties 735
Ray H. Baughman & Douglas S. Galvão
doi:10.1038/365735a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (579K)
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| | Mechanism of the 1991 eruption of Hekla from continuous borehole strain monitoring 737
Alan T. Linde, Kristjan Agustsson, I. Selwyn Sacks & Ragnar Stefansson
doi:10.1038/365737a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (637K)
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| | Grain size segregation and stratigraphy in aeolian ripples modelled with a cellular automaton 740
Robert S. Anderson & Kirby L. Bunas
doi:10.1038/365740a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (629K)
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| | Hyperthermophilic archaea are thriving in deep North Sea and Alaskan oil reservoirs 743
K. O. Stetter, R. Huber, E. Blöchl, M. Kurr, R. D. Eden, M. Fielder, H. Cash & I. Vance
doi:10.1038/365743a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (477K)
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| | Walrus-like feeding adaptation in a new cetacean from the Pliocene of Peru 745
Christian de Muizon
doi:10.1038/365745a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (654K)
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| | Cope's rule, the island rule and the scaling of mammalian population density 748
John Damuth
doi:10.1038/365748a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (366K)
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| | Visual pattern recognition in Drosophila involves retinotopic matching 751
Marcus Dill, Reinhard Wolf & Martin Heisenberg
doi:10.1038/365751a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (563K)
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| | Prefrontal neuronal activity in rhesus monkeys performing a delayed anti-saccade task 753
Shintaro Funahashi, Matthew V. Chafee & Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic
doi:10.1038/365753a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (563K)
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| | MIF is a pituitary-derived cytokine that potentiates lethal endotoxaemia 756
J. Bernhagen, T. Calandra, R. A. Mitchell, S. B. Martin, K. J. Tracey, W. Voelter, K. R. Manogue, A. Cerami & R. Bucala
doi:10.1038/365756a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (505K)
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| | Pathophysiological role of endothelin revealed by the first orally active endothelin receptor antagonist 759
Martine Clozel, Volker Breu, Kaspar Burri, Jean-Marie Cassal, Walter Fischli, Gillian A. Gray, Georges Hirth, Bernd-Michael Löffier, Marcel Müller, Werner Neidhart & Henri Ramuz
doi:10.1038/365759a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (516K)
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| | Protein composition determines the anti-atherogenic properties of HDL in transgenic mice 762
Joshua R. Schultz, Judy G. Verstuyft, Elaine L. Gong, Alex V. Nichols & Edward M. Rubin
doi:10.1038/365762a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (360K)
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| | Tumour-suppressor activity of H19 RNA 764
Yue Hao, Taria Crenshaw, Thomas Moulton, Elizabeth Newcomb & Benjamin Tycko
doi:10.1038/365764a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (616K)
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| | Distinct NF- B/Rel transcription factors are responsible for tissue-specific and inducible gene activation 767
Thomas Lernbecher, Urs Müller & Thomas Wirth
doi:10.1038/365767a0
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