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The existence of public databases adds an obligation to some authors
to deposit data. The situation with research materials is less clear-cut. It is
time, nevertheless, for a change in Nature's policies.
doi:10.1038/379191a0
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| | Enter Nature Biotechnology
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The family of Nature journals is about to expand once again, to
develop a publishing niche.
doi:10.1038/379191b0
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| | Ocean drilling enters choppy waters as France and UK question
strategy 193
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379193a0
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| | New director for Cambridge biology laboratory 193
doi:10.1038/379193b0
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| | A good year for US biotech, but caution is still advised 194
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/379194a0
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| | MPs challenge rejection of genetics panel 195
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/379195a0
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| | Charity head faces resignation calls 195
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379195b0
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| | Sodium leak blots Japan's nuclear prospects 196
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/379196a0
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| | Russia appoints vice-premier for science 196
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/379196b0
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| | US role in LHC 'to be agreed within a year' 197
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379197a0
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| | European debate on biotech highlights policy differences 197
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/379197b0
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| | Livermore reopens Plutonium building amid danger claims 198
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/379198a0
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| | Kidnappings 'must not deter' sponsors of research trips 198
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/379198b0
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| | Witwatersrand seeks to defuse 'race row' 199
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/379199a0
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| | Congress steps back into dispute over Arizona telescope 199
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/379199b0
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| | News in Brief 200
doi:10.1038/379200a0
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| | Crystallographic data deposition 202
Edward N. Baker, Tom L. Blundell, Mamannamana Vijayan, Eleanor Dodson, Guy Dodson, Gary I. Gilliland & Joel L. Sussman
doi:10.1038/379202a0
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| | Panic and the Pill 202
Michael D. Rawlins
doi:10.1038/379202b0
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| | Games people play 202
Thomas H. Jukes
doi:10.1038/379202c0
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| | The wake of a legendary earthquake 203
Although quiet this century, the Cascadia subduction zone has produced big earthquakes in the past. But how big? An ingenious study involving documents written 300 years ago suggests that they can be giants.
Hiroo Kanamori & Thomas H. Heaton
doi:10.1038/379203a0
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| | Making sense of rongorongo
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Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/379204a0
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| | Martians in a deep freeze 205
Norton E. Newsom
doi:10.1038/379205a0
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| | A faint light in the graveyard 206
John C. L. Wang
doi:10.1038/379206a0
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| | The question of culture 207
Christophe Boesch
doi:10.1038/379207a0
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| | New trick from an old foe 208
Bryan R. Cullen
doi:10.1038/379208a0
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| | Something stirs under the Sun 209
Eugene Parker
doi:10.1038/379209a0
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| | War studies 210
David Jones
doi:10.1038/379210a0
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Pterodaustro's true teeth 211
L. M. Chiappe & A. Chinsamy
doi:10.1038/379211a0
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| | Social stress and dominance 212
Scott Creel, Nancy MarushaCreel & Steven L. Monfort
doi:10.1038/379212a0
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| | No diffusion barrier at axon hillock 213
Bettina Winckler & Mu-ming Poo
doi:10.1038/379213a0
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| | PNA as a rare genome-cutter 214
Alexei G. Veselkov, Vadim V. Demidov, Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii & Peter E. Nielsen
doi:10.1038/379214a0
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| | The invisible man of science 215
Michael Sherborne reviews HG: The History of Mr Wells
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Michael Foot
doi:10.1038/379215a0
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| | What it's all about 216
Christopher Longuet-Higgins reviews The Artful Universe
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John D. Barrow
doi:10.1038/379216a0
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| | Designer ecosystems 217
Stuart L. Pimm reviews Miracle Under the Oaks: The Revival of Nature in America
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William K. Stevens
doi:10.1038/379217a0
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| | Flaming nuisance? 218
Peter D. Moore reviews The Ecology of Fire . Cambridge University
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Robert J. Whelan
doi:10.1038/379218a0
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| | The art of the unseen 218
doi:10.1038/379218b0
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| | Role of hydration and water structure in biological and colloidal
interactions 219
Jacob Israelachvili & Håkan Wennerström
doi:10.1038/379219a0
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| | Structure and mechanism of DNA topoisomerase II 225
James M. Berger, Steven J. Gamblin, Stephen C. Harrison & James C. Wang
doi:10.1038/379225a0
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| | Discovery of a nearby isolated neutron star 233
Frederick M. Walter, Scott J. Wolk & Ralph Neuhäuser
doi:10.1038/379233a0
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| | Downflows under sunspots detected by helioseismic tomography 235
T. L. Duvall Jr, S. D'Silva, S. M. Jefferies, J. W. Harvey & J. Schou
doi:10.1038/379235a0
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| | Synthesis of RNA oligomers on heterogeneous templates 238
Gözen Ertem & James P. Ferris
doi:10.1038/379238a0
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| | Economic and environmental choices in the stabilization of atmospheric CO2
concentrations 240
T. M. L. Wigley, R.
Richels & J. A. Edmonds
doi:10.1038/379240a0
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| | Brief interstadial events in the Santa Barbara basin, NE Pacific, during
the past 60 kyr 243
Richard J. Behl & James P. Kennett
doi:10.1038/379243a0
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| | Time and size of a giant earthquake in Cascadia inferred from Japanese
tsunami records of January 1700 246
Kenji Satake, Kunihiko Shimazaki, Yoshinobu Tsuji & Kazue Ueda
doi:10.1038/379246a0
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| | Manufacture and use of hook-tools by New Caledonian crows 249
Gavin R. Hunt
doi:10.1038/379249a0
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| | Development of identical orientation maps for two eyes without common
visual experience 251
Imke Gödecke & Tobias Bonhoeffer
doi:10.1038/379251a0
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| | Conservation of hippocampal memory function in rats and humans 255
M. Bunsey & H. Eichenbaum
doi:10.1038/379255a0
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| | A tetrodotoxin-resistant voltage-gated sodium channel expressed by sensory neurons 257
Armen N. Akopian, Lucia Sivilotti & John N. Wood
doi:10.1038/379257a0
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| | Chondrodysplasia and neurological abnormalities in ATF-2-deficient mice 262
Andreas M. Reimold, Michael J. Grusby, Bela Kosaras, Jochen W. U. Fries, Ryuji Mori, Sokichi Maniwa, Isabella M. Clauss, Tucker Collins, Richard L. Sidman, Melvin J. Glimcher & Laurie H. Glimcher
doi:10.1038/379262a0
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| | Adhesion through L-selectin requires a threshold hydrodynamic shear 266
Erik B. Finger, Kamal D. Purl, Ronen Alon, Michael B. Lawrence, Ulrich H. von Andrian & Timothy A. Springer
doi:10.1038/379266a0
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| | A bipolar kinesin 270
A. S. Kashlna, R. J. Baskin, D. G. Cole, K. P. Wedaman, W. M. Saxton & J. M. Scholey
doi:10.1038/379270a0
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| | Post-transcriptional transactivation of human retroviral envelope glycoprotein expression by herpes simplex virus Us11 protein 273
Jean-Jacques Diaz, Madeleine Due Dodon, Nathalie Schaerer-Uthurralt, Denis Simonin, Karine Kindbeiter, Louis Gazzolo & Jean-Jacques Madjar
doi:10.1038/379273a0
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| | Spatial constraints on the recognition of phosphoproteins by the tandem SH2 domains of the phosphatase SH-PTP2 277
Michael J. Eck, Scott Pluskey, Thomas Trüb, Stephen C. Harrison & Steven E. Shoelson
doi:10.1038/379277a0
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