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| | Pure science in an age of attrition 1
Despite stupendous advances in the past 50 years, Western governments' support of research for its own sake is on the wane. The new year is an appropriate time for researchers and policy-makers to consider the implications and make some resolutions.
doi:10.1038/379001a0
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| | News | |
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| | EU−US cooperation talks may hinge on access to research programmes 3
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379003a0
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| | 1996 Fermi award honours his former student 3
doi:10.1038/379003b0
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| | French risk assessment body faces uncertain future 4
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379004a0
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| | Political uncertainty delays EMBL decision 4
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/379004b0
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| | Natural History Museum joins Kew for lottery cash 4
doi:10.1038/379004c0
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| | EC encourages science for profit 4
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/379004d0
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| | SCIENCE IN PEACE: 1945/95 | |
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| | After fifty years, a mixed verdict 5
doi:10.1038/379005a0
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| | US science funding finally hits the frontier 5
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379005b0
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| | Germany: a phoenix tastes freedom 6
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/379006a0
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| | United Kingdom: promises, promises 7
DAVID DICKSON
doi:10.1038/379007a0
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| | Japan: from rags to riches, but where to go next? 8
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/379008a0
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doi:10.1038/379008b0
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| | France: Gaullist legacy casts a long shadow 9
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379009a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Unesco and population genetics 11
Darryl Macer, John Fleming, Genoveva Keyeux & Bartha Maria Knoppers
doi:10.1038/379011a0
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| | Unesco and population genetics 11
Julia Marton-Lefèvre
doi:10.1038/379011b0
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| | ORI defended 11
Alan R. Price
doi:10.1038/379011c0
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| | Alphabetical disorder 12
P.-L. Chau
doi:10.1038/379012a0
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| | Biosafety regulations 13
Henry I. Miller
doi:10.1038/379013a0
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| | Ums 13
Ralph A. Lewin
doi:10.1038/379013b0
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| | O brave new words... 14
R. P. J. Swannell , D. J. Mitchell & M. A. Engelhardt
doi:10.1038/379014a0
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| | O brave new words... 14
Calvin Dytham
doi:10.1038/379014b0
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| | Party line? 14
Adam Ingram
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| | Blood products 14
Alfred M. Prince
doi:10.1038/379014d0
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| | Eighteen-ninety-six and all that 15
This year's commemorative platter includes ether anaesthesia, smallpox vaccination, radioactivity and several mathematical morsels, as well as an accidental death (Otto Lilienthal) and the mother of all births (the Universe).
J. L. Heilbron & W. F. Bynum
doi:10.1038/379015a0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Life (and death) in a malignant tumour 19
Lack of oxygen induces the death of cells at the centre of tumours. But cells with mutations in the p53 tumour suppressor can survive such conditions, providing yet another lead in the study of this notorious gene.
Kenneth W. Kinzler & Bert Vogelstein
doi:10.1038/379019a0
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| | Going with the flow? 20
Ellen Zweibel
doi:10.1038/379020a0
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| | Knowledge of the fount and the cause of disaster 21
William C. Evans
doi:10.1038/379021a0
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| | Avalanche theory in rice 22
Mehran Kardar
doi:10.1038/379022a0
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| | The gut in feast and famine 23
Andrew R. Cossins & Neil Roberts
doi:10.1038/379023a0
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| | The attraction of sand dunes 24
Robert S. Anderson
doi:10.1038/379024a0
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| | Getting oneself together 25
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/379025a0
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| | When colours move 26
Patrick Cavanagh
doi:10.1038/379026a0
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| | Taupo's atypical arc 27
Colin J. N. Wilson
doi:10.1038/379027a0
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| | Deep treasure 28
David Jones
doi:10.1038/379028a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Analgesic effects of myrrh 29
Piero Dolara, Cristina Luceri, Carla Ghelardini, Claudia Monserrat, Silvia Aiolli, Francesca Luceri, Maura Lodovici, Stefano Menichetti & Maria Novella Romanelli
doi:10.1038/379029a0
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| | Tracking bees with harmonic radar 29
J. R. Riley, A. D. Smith, D. R. Reynolds, A. S. Edwards, J. L. Osborne, I. H. Williams, N. L. Carreck & G. M. Poppy
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| | Birth control for grey seals 30
R. G. Brown, W. C. Kimmins, M. Mezei, J. Parsons, B. Pohajdak & W. D Bowen
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| | Illusory motion from shadows 31
Daniel Kersten, David C. Knill, Pascal Mamassian & Isabella Bülthoff
doi:10.1038/379031a0
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| | Fossilized theropod soft tissue 32
Alexander W. A. Kellner
doi:10.1038/379032a0
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| | Charcot's or ALS 32
doi:10.1038/379032b0
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | Emergent macrosimplicity 33
Ian Stewart reviews At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
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Stuart Kauffman
doi:10.1038/379033a0
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| | Did the Romans exploit uranium? 34
Michael Vickers reviews Uranium Glass
Ken Tomabechi
doi:10.1038/379034a0
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| | Sensible to feeling 34
Stuart Sutherland reviews Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
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Daniel Goleman
doi:10.1038/379034b0
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| | Geological controversies hammered out 35
Nicolaas Rupke reviews Murchison in Moray: A Geologist on Home Ground. With the Correspondence of Roderick Impey Murchison and the Rev. Dr George Gordon of Birnie
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Michael Collie & John Diemer
doi:10.1038/379035a0
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| | The end of history 36
Fred S. Rosen reviews Species and Specificity: An Interpretation of the History of Immunology
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Pauline M. H. Mazumdar and Immunology: The Making of a Modern Science
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R. B. Gallagher, Jean Gilder, G. J. V. Nossal & G. Salvatore
doi:10.1038/379036a0
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| | The crystal structure of the GroES co-chaperonin at 2.8 Å resolution 37
John F. Hunt, Arthur J. Weaver, Samuel J. Landry, Lila Gierasch & Johann Deisenhofer
doi:10.1038/379037a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Magnetic spiral arms in the galaxy NGC6946 47
R. Beck & P. Hoernes
doi:10.1038/379047a0
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| | Avalanche dynamics in a pile of rice 49
Vidar Frette, Kim Christensen, Anders Malthe-Sørenssen, Jens Feder, Torstein Jøssang & Paul Meakin
doi:10.1038/379049a0
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| | Giant magnetoresistance in Ti2Mn2O7 with the pyrochlore structure 53
Y. Shimakawa, Y. Kubo & T. Manako
doi:10.1038/379053a0
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| | Hydrogen-bond kinetics in liquid water 55
Alenka Luzar & David Chandler
doi:10.1038/379055a0
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| | Dynamics of CO2-driven lake eruptions 57
Youxue Zhang
doi:10.1038/379057a0
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| | An ancient wind-powered iron smelting technology in Sri Lanka 60
Gill Juleff
doi:10.1038/379060a0
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| | Evolution of extreme specialization within a lineage of ectomycorrhizal epiparasites 63
K. W. Cullings, T. M. Szaro & T. D. Bruns
doi:10.1038/379063a0
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| | A member of the KNOTTED class of homeodomain proteins encoded by the STM gene of Arabidopsis
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Jeff A. Long , Erich I. Moan, June I. Medford & M. Kathryn Barton
doi:10.1038/379066a0
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| | A role for glucagon-like peptide-1 in the central regulation of feeding 69
M. D. Turton, D. O'Shea, I. Gunn, S. A. Beak, C. M. B. Edwards, K. Meeran, S. J. Choi, G. M. Taylor, M. M. Heath, P. D. Lambert, J. P. H. Wilding, D. M. Smith, M. A. Ghatei, J. Herbert & S. R Bloom
doi:10.1038/379069a0
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| | Rapid colour-specific detection of motion in human vision 72
Simon J. Cropper & Andrew M. Derrington
doi:10.1038/379072a0
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| | Activation of K+ channels and suppression of neuronal activity by secreted  -amyloid-precursor protein 74
Katsutoshi Furukawa, Steven W. Barger, Eric M. Blalock & Mark P. Mattson
doi:10.1038/379074a0
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| | Regulation of glutamate release by presynaptic kainate receptors in the hippocampus 78
Ramesh Chittajallu, Michel Vignes, Kumlesh K. Dev, Janine M. Barnes, Graham L. Collingridge & Jeremy M. Henley
doi:10.1038/379078a0
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| | Defective thymocyte proliferation and IL-2 production in transgenic mice expressing a dominant-negative form of CREB 81
Kevin Barton, Natarajan Muthusamy, Monchai Chanyangam, Christopher Fischer, Cynthia Clendenin & Jeffrey
M. Leiden
doi:10.1038/379081a0
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| | Sensitization of cells and retroviruses to human serum by ( l-3) galactosyltransferase 85
Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Colin D. Porter, Karen M. Strahan, Andrew F. Preece, Kenth Gustafsson, Francois-Loic Cosset, Robin A. Weiss & Mary K. L. Collins
doi:10.1038/379085a0
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| | Hypoxia-mediated selection of cells with diminished apoptotic potential in solid tumours 88
Thomas G. Graeber, Cynthia Osmanian, Tyler Jacks, David E. Housman, Cameron J. Koch, Scott W. Lowe & Amato J. Giaccia
doi:10.1038/379088a0
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| | Regulation of cell adhesion and anchorage-dependent growth by a new 1-integrin-linked protein kinase 91
Gregory E. Hannigan, Chungyee Leung-Hagesteijn, Linda Fitz-Gibbon, Marc G. Coppolino, Galina Radeva, Jorge Filmus, John C. Bell & Shoukat Dedhar
doi:10.1038/379091a0
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| | Conserved residues and the mechanism of protein folding 96
E. Shakhnovich, V. Abkevich & O. Ptitsyn
doi:10.1038/379096a0
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