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| | Will Europe be lost in space? 545
The European Space Agency has a good reputation and an even better prospectus, but it needs to be rid of the anachronistic doctrine of juste retour.
doi:10.1038/373545a0
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| | Clinton"s dark horses 545
The putative Surgeon-General of the United States should command his president's support.
doi:10.1038/373545b0
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| | France"s blood scandal 546
France should commission an independent inquiry in the contaminated-blood saga.
doi:10.1038/373546a0
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| | US spent-fuel ban leaves European research reactors out in the cold 547
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/373547a0
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| | Norway honours space physics pioneer 547
doi:10.1038/373547b0
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| | ESA eyes the attractions of small space missions 548
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/373548a0
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| | Budget cuts will put Russian agency in "critical" condition 548
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/373548b0
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| | Panel to propose shake-up for NASA labs 549
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/373549a0
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| | Italy retains existing concorso rules 549
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/373549b0
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| | Merck releases first 'gene index' sequences 549
doi:10.1038/373549c0
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| | British MPs 'likely to oppose gene patents' 550
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/373550a0
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| | Blood transfusion chief is refused parole 550
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/373550b0
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| | Japanese bureaucracy reforms may only pierce skin deep 551
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/373551a0
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| | ESO chief pledges to fight Chilean telescope ruling 551
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/373551b0
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| | Indirect cost rules seek to deflect threat of 'capping' 552
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/373552a0
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| | White House under fire over lack of clear priorities... 552
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373552b0
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| | ... as Congress finds its first victims 552
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/373552c0
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| | CNRS plays down 'embryo freezing' results 553
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/373553a0
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| | France keeps up pressure for maritime research policy 553
DECLAN BUTLER
doi:10.1038/373553b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | The role of seismology 554
Robert J. Geller
doi:10.1038/373554a0
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| | Salam's successor 554
Hans Blix
doi:10.1038/373554b0
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| | Darwinist Lysenko? 554
Thomas H. Jukes
doi:10.1038/373554c0
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| | Polite row about models in biology 555
A public debate last week between Stuart Kauffman and John Maynard Smith entertained a London audience but left the status of modelling in biology ill-defined.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/373555a0
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| | Splitting molecular hydrogen 556
Richard Cammack
doi:10.1038/373556a0
References | PDF (294K)
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| | Challenge of portable power 557
Bruno Scrosati
doi:10.1038/373557a0
References | PDF (275K)
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| | The molecular explosion 558
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/373558a0
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| | Underplating over hotspots 559
W. Steven Holbrook
doi:10.1038/373559a0
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| | Tense spindles can relax 560
Andrew W. Murray
doi:10.1038/373560a0
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| | La diffe´rence vive 561
Michael Rugg
doi:10.1038/373561a0
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| | Flight into pre-history 562
Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/373562a0
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| | Vibrations in the memory 563
Rodney J. Douglas & Kevan A. C. Martin
doi:10.1038/373563a0
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| | Reflections on transparent motion 563
Charles Jennings
doi:10.1038/373563b0
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| | Carbonated metal 564
David Jones
doi:10.1038/373564a0
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| | Decline of melanic moths 565
Bruce Grant, Denis F. Owen & Cyril A Clarke
doi:10.1038/373565a0
References | PDF (135K)
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| | Hydrophobicity and phylogeny 565
Gavin J. P. Naylor, Timothy M. Collins & Wesley M. Brown
doi:10.1038/373565b0
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| | Complex bacterial patterns 566
Eshel Ben-Jacob, Inon Cohen, Ofer Shochet, Igor Aranson, Herbert Levine & Lev Tsimring
doi:10.1038/373566a0
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| | Biological levels 567
Robert E. Buxbaum
doi:10.1038/373567a0
References | PDF (338K)
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| | Was the solitaire of Re´union an ibis ? 568
Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Roger Bour & Sonia Ribes
doi:10.1038/373568a0
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| | Facing the facts 569
Erika L. Rosenberg reviews Human Facial Expression: An Evolutionary View
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Alan J. Fridlund
doi:10.1038/373569a0
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| | Evolving together 570
Brian Charlesworth reviews The Coevolutionary Process
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John N. Thompson
doi:10.1038/373570a0
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| | Physical ambition 570
Eörs Szathma´ry reviews Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution
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Mikhail V. Volkenstein. & Artavaz Beknazarov.
doi:10.1038/373570b0
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doi:10.1038/373571a0
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| | Matchmakers 572
Stuart Sutherland reviews Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought
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Keith J. Holyoak & Paul Thagard
doi:10.1038/373572a0
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| | Protein modules and signalling networks 573
Tony Pawson
doi:10.1038/373573a0
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| | Crystal structure of the nickel−iron hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio
gigas
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Anne Volbeda, Marie-Hélène Charon, Claudine Piras, E. Claude Hatchikian, Michel Frey & Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps
doi:10.1038/373580a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,169K)
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| | Discovery of explosion fragments outside the Vela supernova remnant shock-wave boundary 587
B. Aschenbach, R. Egger & J Trümper
doi:10.1038/373587a0
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| | A radio-emitting X-ray "bullet" ejected by the Vela supernova 590
Richard Strom, Helen M. Johnston, Frank Verbunt & Bernd Aschenbach
doi:10.1038/373590a0
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| | Chemical and thermal response of Jupiter's atmosphere following the impact of comet Shoemaker−Levy 9 592
E. Lellouch, G. Paubert, R. Moreno, M. C. Festou, B. Bézard, D. Bockelée-Morvan, P. Colom, J. Crovisier, T. Encrenaz, D. Gautier, A. Marten, D. Despois, D. F. Strobel & A. Sievers
doi:10.1038/373592a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (432K)
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| | Phase-contrast imaging of weakly absorbing materials using hard X-rays 595
T. J. Davis, D. Gao, T. E. Gureyev, A. W. Stevenson & S. W. Wilkins
doi:10.1038/373595a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (498K)
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| | Dimercaptan−polyaniline composite electrodes for lithium batteries with high energy density 598
N. Oyama, T. Tatsuma, T. Sato & T. Sotomura
doi:10.1038/373598a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (325K)
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| | Seismic imaging of hotspot-related crustal underplating beneath the Marquesas Islands 600
David W. Caress, Marcia K. McNutt, Robert S. Detrick & John C. Mutter
doi:10.1038/373600a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (481K)
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| | An Early Miocene anthropoid skull from the Chilean Andes 603
John J. Flynn, André R. Wyss, Reynaldo Charrier & Carl C. Swisher
doi:10.1038/373603a0
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| | Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language 607
Bennett A. Shaywitz, Sally E. Shaywltz, Kenneth R. Pugh, R. Todd Constable, Pawel Skudlarski, Robert K. Fulbright, Richard A. Bronen, Jack M. Fletcher, Donald P. Shankweiler, Leonard Katz & John C. Gore
doi:10.1038/373607a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (424K)
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| | Integration of motion and stereopsis in middle temporal cortical area of macaques 609
David C. Bradley, Ning Qian & Richard A. Andersen
doi:10.1038/373609a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (356K)
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| | Synchronized oscillations in interneuron networks driven by metabotropic glutamate receptor activation 612
Miles A. Whittington, Roger D. Traub & John G. R. Jefferys
doi:10.1038/373612a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (417K)
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| | The E-selectin-ligand ESL-1 is a variant of a receptor for fibroblast growth factor 615
Martin Steegmaler, Agneta Levinovitz, Sandra Isenmann, Eric Borges, Martin Lenter, Hans P. Kocher, Beate Kleuser & Dletmar Vestweber
doi:10.1038/373615a0
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| | Selective requirement for MAP kinase activation in thymocyte differentiation 620
Jose Alberola-lla, Katherine A. Forbush, Rony Seger, Edwin G. Krebs & Roger M. Perlmutter
doi:10.1038/373620a0
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| | Axl receptor tyrosine kinase stimulated by the vitamin K-dependent protein encoded by growth-arrest-specific gene 6 623
Brian C. Varnum, Cynthia Young, Gary Elliott, Andy Garcia, Timothy D. Bartley, Yih-Woei Fridell, Robert W. Hunt, Geraldine Trail, Chris Clogston, Robert J. Toso, Donna Yanagihara, Larry Bennett, Maura Sylber, Lee Anne Merewether, Alice Tseng, Eva Escobar, Edison T. Liu & Harvey K. Yamane
doi:10.1038/373623a0
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| | SNAP-mediated protein−protein interactions essential for neurotransmitter release 626
W. M. DeBello, V. O'Connor, T. Dresbach, S. W. Whiteheart, S. S.-H. Wang, F. E. Schweizer, H Bertz, J. E. Rothman & G. J. Augustine
doi:10.1038/373626a0
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| | Mitotic forces control a cell-cycle checkpoint 630
Xiaotong Li & R. Bruce Nicklas
doi:10.1038/373630a0
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| | Interaction with RAP74 subunit of TFIIF is required for transcriptional activation by serum response factor 632
Vèronique Joliot, Mark Demma & Ron Prywes
doi:10.1038/373632a0
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| | Crystal structure of the GreA transcript cleavage factor from Escherichia coli
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Charles E. Stebbins, Sergei Borukhov, Marianna Orlova, Andrey Polyakov, Alex Goldfarb & Seth A. Darst
doi:10.1038/373636a0
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doi:10.1038/373640a0
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| | Setting our sites on lasers 641
This week focuses on laser optics. A whole spectrum of accoutrements including
a HeNe laser, an optical design tool system, a particle sizer and personal
densitometer.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/373641a0
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