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| | Task force turns on sponsor (DoE) 457
The US national laboratories are a large part of the richest country's resources in research, and are being wasted by mismanagement by the Department of Energy — according to a DoE task force now reporting.
doi:10.1038/373457a0
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| | Intellectual wars 458
The US dispute with China over intellectual property rights threatens lasting and avoidable trouble.
doi:10.1038/373458a0
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| | Is plagiarism OK? 458
A bruising civil suit between two academics at the University of Hong Kong will do the university no good.
doi:10.1038/373458b0
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| | Cuts force UK astronomers to drop key role in gamma-ray satellite 459
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/373459a0
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| | Advisers ignored over observatory head 459
ALISON ABBOTT
doi:10.1038/373459b0
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| | Clinton puts freeze on US science budget 460
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373460a0
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| | NSF: Research grants get 8 per cent boost 460
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/373460b0
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| | DoE: neutron source to be axed 460
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/373460c0
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| | NIH: in line with expectations 461
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/373461a0
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| | NASA: new starts despite tough year 461
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/373461b0
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| | Other highlights . . . 461
COLIN MACILWAIN & TONY REICHHARDT
doi:10.1038/373461c0
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| | Prospects dim for agreement on new climate targets 462
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/373462a0
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| | Switzerland seeks greater role in EC research projects 462
Oliver Klaffke & Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/373462b0
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| | Sweeping reforms urged for US energy labs 463
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373463a0
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| | What the Galvin report said on: 463
doi:10.1038/373463b0
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| | Gene therapy trial passed in Japan 464
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/373464a0
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| | UK shifts research support into 'strategic' initiatives 464
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/373464b0
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| | University challenges plagiarism judgement 465
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/373465a0
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| | Darwin's islands under threat 465
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/373465b0
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| | Europe dilutes draft bioethics convention 466
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/373466a0
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| | MRC concordat 'under threat', say Lords 466
MAGGIE VERRALL
doi:10.1038/373466b0
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| | Germany eyes new ozone controls 466
Toni Feder
doi:10.1038/373466c0
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| | Italy pursues cuts in manned space efforts 467
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/373467a0
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| | Chile court backs locals in telescope row 467
ALISON ABBOTT
doi:10.1038/373467b0
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| | Revolutionary birthdays 468
Michael Holmes
doi:10.1038/373468a0
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| | ESF membership expanded 468
Peter Colyer
doi:10.1038/373468b0
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| | Coelacanth dated 468
Oliver Sacks
doi:10.1038/373468c0
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| | Japanese research 468
Glen Brown & Shiono Satoru
doi:10.1038/373468d0
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| | Moral premises 468
John A. Davis
doi:10.1038/373468e0
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| | Classical and quantum physics mix 469
A neat way of talking of quantum and classical physics in the same language will be of interest in itself even if it does not avoid the need for a quantum theory of gravity; but that would be a huge extra.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/373469a0
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| | How special is Jupiter? 470
George W. Wetherill
doi:10.1038/373470a0
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| | 110, 111... and counting 471
Darleane C. Hoffman
doi:10.1038/373471a0
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Homo at the gates of Europe 472
David Dean & Eric Delson
doi:10.1038/373472a0
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| | Features of the Dmanisi mandible 473
DAVID DEAN & ERIC DELSON
doi:10.1038/373473a0
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| | Understanding ocean dynamics 474
Kurt Lambeck
doi:10.1038/373474a0
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| | Multiple Kauzmann paradoxes 475
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/373475a0
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| | Mouse model made 476
Karen Duff & John Hardy
doi:10.1038/373476a0
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| | Getting down to specifics 477
Tony Pawson
doi:10.1038/373477a0
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| | Stifled sound 478
David Jones
doi:10.1038/373478a0
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| | Origins of photosynthesis 479
Euan G. Nisbet, Johnson R. Cann, Cindy Lee & Van Dover
doi:10.1038/373479a0
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| | First use of coal 480
I. Théry, J. Gril, J. L. Vernet, L. Meignen & J. Maury
doi:10.1038/373480a0
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| | A tombstone in Alzheimer's? 481
Mark P. Mattson, John W. Carney & D. Allan Butterfield
doi:10.1038/373481a0
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| | Calcium entry signal? 481
G. St J. Bird, Xiaopeng Bian & J. W. Putney Jr
doi:10.1038/373481b0
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| | Calcium entry signal? 482
Clotilde Randriamampita & Roger Y. Tsien
doi:10.1038/373482a0
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| | Science and religion 482
Ebrahim Yazdi
doi:10.1038/373482b0
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| | Cruising for peace 483
Ziauddin Sardar reviews Rivers of Eden: The Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East
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Daniel Hillel
doi:10.1038/373483a0
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| | Beyond the limits of culture 484
Tom Kirkwood reviews How and Why We Age
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Leonard Hayflick
doi:10.1038/373484a0
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| | Research with a vengeance 485
David Edgerton reviews The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era
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Michael Neufeld
doi:10.1038/373485a0
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| | The structural basis of specific base-excision repair by uracil−DNA glycosylase 487
Renos Savva, Katherine McAuley-Hecht, Tom Brown & Laurence Pearl
doi:10.1038/373487a0
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| | Inhibition of giant-planet formation by rapid gas depletion around young stars 494
B. Zuckerman, T. Forveille & J. H. Kastner
doi:10.1038/373494a0
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| | Survival of isotopically heterogeneous graphite in a differentiated meteorite 496
Ahmed EI Gorosy, Ernst Zinner & Kurt Marti
doi:10.1038/373496a0
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| | Atomic-layer titration of surface reactions 499
R. M. Tromp & T. Michely
doi:10.1038/373499a0
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| | Enhancement of interfacial catalysis in a biphasic system using catalyst-binding ligands 501
R. V. Chaudhari, B. M. Bhanage, R. M. Deshpande & H. Delmas
doi:10.1038/373501a0
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| | Modulation of hemispheric sea-ice cover by ENSO events 503
Per Gloersen
doi:10.1038/373503a0
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| | Climate-related variations in denitrification in the Arabian Sea from sediment 15N/14N ratios 506
Mark A. Altabet, Roger Francois, David W. Murray & Warren L. Prell
doi:10.1038/373506a0
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| | A Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Dmanisi, East Georgia, Caucasus 509
L. Gabunia & A. Vekua
doi:10.1038/373509a0
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| | Mating cost of large floral displays in hermaphrodite plants 512
Lawrence D. Harder & Spencer C. H. Barrett
doi:10.1038/373512a0
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E. Vaadia, I. Haalman, M. Abeles, H. Bergman, Y. Prut, H. Slovin & A. Aertsen
doi:10.1038/373515a0
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| | Neuronal correlates of inferred motion in primate posterior parietal cortex 518
John A. Assad & John H. R. Maunsell
doi:10.1038/373518a0
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| | Seeing the forest but only half the trees? 521
John C. Marshall & Peter W. Halligan
doi:10.1038/373521a0
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| | Alzheimer-type neuropathology in transgenic mice overexpressing V717F  -amyloid precursor protein 523
Dora Games, David Adams, Ree Alessandrini, Robin Barbour, Patricia Borthelette, Catherine Blackwell, Tony Carr, James Clemens, Thomas Donaldson, Frances Gillespie, Terry Guido, Stephanie Hagopian, Kelly Johnson-Wood, Karen Khan, Mike Lee, Paul Leibowitz, Ivan Lieberburg, Sheila Little, Eliezer Masliah, Lisa McConlogue, Martin Montoya-Zavala, Lennart Mucke, Lisa Paganini, Elizabeth Penniman, Mike Power, Dale Schenk, Peter Seubert, Ben Snyder, Ferdie Soriano, Hua Tan, James Vitale, Sam Wadsworth, Ben Wolozin & Jun Zhao
doi:10.1038/373523a0
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| | Gating of the voltage-dependent chloride channel CIC-0 by the permeant anion 527
Michael Pusch, Uwe Ludewig, Annett Rehfeldt & Thomas J. Jentsch
doi:10.1038/373527a0
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| | Expression of relB is required for the development of thymic medulla and dendritic cells 531
Linda Burkly, Catherine Hession, Lynn Ogata, Christina Reilly, Lori Anne Marconl, Dian Olson, Richard Tizard, Richard Gate & David Lo
doi:10.1038/373531a0
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| | Catalytic specificity of protein-tyrosine kinases is critical for selective signalling 536
Zhou Songyang, Kermit L. Carraway III, Michael J. Eck, Stephen C. Harrison, Ricardo A. Feldman, Moosa Mohammadi, Joseph Schlessinger, Stevan R. Hubbard, Darrin P. Smith, Charis Eng, Marla J. Lorenzo, Bruce A. J. Ponder, Bruce J. Mayer & Lewis C. Cantley
doi:10.1038/373536a0
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| | Crystal structure of an integrin-binding fragment of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 at 1.8 Å resolution 539
E. Y. Jones, K. Harlos, M. J. Bottomley, R. C. Robinson, P. C. Driscoll, R. M. Edwards, J. M. Clements, T. J. Dudgeon & D. I. Stuart
doi:10.1038/373539a0
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