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| | Tasks for a British science adviser 623
The British government's new chief scientific adviser would have faced a formidable task even if it had not been complicated by the abrupt transfer of the Office of Science and Technology to the Department of Trade and Industry.
doi:10.1038/376623a0
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| | Privatization in tears 624
Newly private British water companies are in trouble with their first summer drought, and deserve to be.
doi:10.1038/376624a0
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| | Brussels enters debate over effects of nuclear tests on environment 625
Catherine Tastemain
doi:10.1038/376625a0
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| | Atom cloud has silver lining 625
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/376625b0
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| | Smoke signals snuffed out in San Francisco 626
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/376626a0
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| | $1 billion R&D spender emerges 626
Mike Ward
doi:10.1038/376626b0
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| | Energy department X-rays skeletons in Cold War closet 627
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/376627a0
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| | Nuclear bomb site may go solar Boston 627
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/376627b0
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| | Low-flying biologists set to become endangered species 627
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/376627c0
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| | European Union research finds Scandinavian model 628
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376628a0
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| | EU rejects reshuffling renewables 628
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376628b0
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| | Japanese take first steps towards gene therapy trials 628
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376628c0
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| | Murder charges brought in German HIV blood products case 628
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376628d0
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| | "Virtual" science centre on road to reality Potsdam. 629
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376629a0
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| | South Africa's ivory towers turn towards townships 629
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/376629b0
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| | Australian universities 630
F. S. Hambly
doi:10.1038/376630a0
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| | Australian universities 630
C. B. Osmond
doi:10.1038/376630b0
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| | Striking contrast 630
Felix Pirani
doi:10.1038/376630c0
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| | Useful Usenet 630
Nick Rhind
doi:10.1038/376630d0
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| | Polio eradication 630
H. V. Wyatt
doi:10.1038/376630e0
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| | Imprisoning the beams of the Sun 631
Science remains low on Pakistan's list of political priorities. Money and management both seem to be in short supply — except for nuclear energy which has benefited at the expense of other research fields.
doi:10.1038/376631a0
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| | Making a start on galactoarchaeology? 639
The discovery last year of Sagittarius, a new dwarf galaxy, prompts a train of speculation about the degree to which the Galaxy has scavenged some of its bulk from the surroundings.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/376639a0
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| | Ion channels lose the rhythm 640
Michael J. Welsh & Toshinori Hoshi
doi:10.1038/376640a0
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Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
doi:10.1038/376641a0
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| | Female anti-male attack 642
Harald von Boehmer
doi:10.1038/376642a0
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| | Purpose of proton pathways 643
R. J. P. Williams
doi:10.1038/376643a0
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| | Dead trees tell tales 644
Stanley N. Williams
doi:10.1038/376644a0
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| | Mixing fluids and solids 645
Rob Govers
doi:10.1038/376645a0
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| | The evidence mounts up 645
Michael C. MacCracken
doi:10.1038/376645b0
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| | Holes within holes 646
David Jones
doi:10.1038/376646a0
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| | Challenging times for bioinformatics 647
G. Casari, M. A. Andrade, P. Bork, J. Boyle, A. Daruvar, C. Ouzounis, R. Schneider, J. Tamames, A . Valencia & C. Sander
doi:10.1038/376647a0
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| | Late experience alters vision 648
T. A. Polk & M. J. Farah
doi:10.1038/376648a0
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| | Non-invasive bird tagging 649
Delphine Michard, André Ancel, Jean-Paul Gendner, Jochim Lage, Yvon Le Maho, Thierry Zorn, Lucien Gangloff, Alfred Schierrer, Kris Struyf & Géarard Wey
doi:10.1038/376649a0
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| | Zooplankton avoidance activity 650
Graeme C. Hays
doi:10.1038/376650a0
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| | Maritime sea changes 651
Jane Browne reviews HMS Beagle: The Story of Darwin's Ship
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Keith Stewart Thomson
doi:10.1038/376651a0
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| | Images of nature 652
Quentin Cronk reviews Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860
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Richard H. Grove
doi:10.1038/376652a0
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| | Technophobia then and now 653
David Edgerton reviews Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and their War on the Industrial Revolution
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Kirkpatrick Sale, Martin Bauer & Ernest Braun
doi:10.1038/376653a0
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| | Gap filling 654
Douglas W Burbank reviews Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins
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Cathy J. Busby & Raymond V. Ingersoll
doi:10.1038/376654a0
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| | A numerical method for solving partial differential equations on highly irregular evolving grids 655
Jean Braun & Malcolm Sambridge
doi:10.1038/376655a0
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| | Structure at 2.8 Å resolution of cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans
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So Iwata, Christian Ostermeier, Bernd Ludwig & Hartmut Michel
doi:10.1038/376660a0
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| | Slow rotation of the Sun's interior 669
Y. Elsworth, R. Howe, G. R. Isaak, C. P. McLeod, B. A. Miller, R. New, S. J. Wheeler & D. O. Gough
doi:10.1038/376669a0
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| | Improving enzyme–electrode contacts by redox modification of cofactors 672
Azalla Riklin, Eugenii Katz, Itamar Wiliner, Achim Stocker & Andreas F. Bückmann
doi:10.1038/376672a0
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| | Forest-killing diffuse CO2 emission at Mammoth Mountain as a sign of magmatic unrest 675
C. D. Farrar, M. L. Sorey, W. C. Evans, J. F. Howle, B. D. Kerr, B. M. Kennedy, C.-Y. King & J. R. Southon
doi:10.1038/376675a0
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| | A plant-eating crocodyliform reptile from the Cretaceous of China 678
Xiao-chun Wu, Hans-Dieter Sues & Ailing Sun
doi:10.1038/376678a0
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| | Dimethyl sulphide as a foraging cue for Antarctic Procellariiform seabirds 680
Gabrielle A. Nevitt, Richard R. Veit & Peter Kareiva
doi:10.1038/376680ao
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| | Molecular mechanism for an inherited cardiac arrhythmia 683
Paul B. Bennett, Kazuto Yazawa, Naomasa Makita & Alfred L. George Jr
doi:10.1038/376683a0
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| | Asymmetric retraction of growth cone filopodia following focal inactivation of calcineurin 686
Howard Y. Chang, Kohtaro Takei, Anne M. Sydor, Timothy Born, Frank Rusnak & Daniel G. Jay
doi:10.1038/376686a0
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| | A new family of outwardly rectifying potassium channel proteins with two pore domains in tandem 690
Karen A. Ketchum, William J. Joiner, Andrew J. Sellers, Leonard K. Kaczmarek & Steve A. N. Goldstein
doi:10.1038/376690a0
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| | Identification of a mouse male-specific transplantation antigen, H-Y 695
D. M. Scott, I. E. Ehrmann, P. S. Ellis, C. E. Bishop, A. I. Agulnik, E. Simpson & M. J. Mitchell
doi:10.1038/376695a0
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| | Inhibition of Drosophila EGF receptor activation by the secreted protein Argos 699
Ronen Schweitzer, Robert Howes, Richard Smith, Ben-Zion Shilo & Matthew Freeman
doi:10.1038/376699a0
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| | Role for the Rho-family GTPase Cdc42 in yeast mating-pheromone signal pathway 702
Marie-Noëlle Simon, Claudio De Virgilio, Brian Souza, John R. Pringle, Arie Abo & Steven I. Reed
doi:10.1038/376702a0
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| | Reconstitution of the initial steps of mitochondrial protein import 705
Naomi Hachiya, Katsuyoshi Mihara, Kitaru Suda, Martin Horst, Gottfried Schatz & Trevor Lithgow
doi:10.1038/376705a0
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| | A cap-binding protein complex mediating U snRNA export 709
Elisa Izaurralde, Joe Lewis, Chiara Gamberi, Artur Jarmolowski, Caroline McGuigan & Iain W. Mattaj
doi:10.1038/376709a0
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