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| | Exploring life as we don't yet know it 89
Media coverage of genetics research, and scientists' responses to it, tend to have a short-term perspective. But enough is now foreseeable for longer-term thinking about the impact on society to be more developed, and to have a higher profile.
doi:10.1038/380089a0
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| | Science in American Life 89
Scientists have been over-sensitive to public discussion of what they do.
doi:10.1038/380089b0
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| | US health politics may give insurers a respite on genetic information 91
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/380091a0
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| | Hubble brings Pluto's surface into view 91
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/380091b0
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| | Canadian technology budget downgrades basic science 92
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/380092a0
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| | Courts back research and compensation for Japanese HIV victims 92
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/380092b0
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| | US plans for virtual laboratories by Internet 93
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/380093a0
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| | Transgenic trials under pressure in Germany 94
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/380094a0
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| | Europe 'sliding back' in technology 94
doi:10.1038/380094b0
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| | Lobbying in US Senate heads off restrictions on foreign researchers 95
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/380095a0
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| | Chemists sound warning on sponsorship of exhibitions 95
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/380095b0
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| | Genome ethics chair resigns amid worries over autonomy 96
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/380096a0
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| | Pollution inspectors 'inconsistent' about radioactive material 96
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/380096b0
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| | Meeting warms to binding climate agreement 97
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/380097a0
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doi:10.1038/380097b0
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| | News in brief 98
doi:10.1038/380098a0
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| | Improving Austrian science 100
Tillman U. Gerngross
doi:10.1038/380100a0
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| | Life on Mars? 100
Anthonie W. J. Muller
doi:10.1038/380100b0
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| | ISI miscount? 100
Olle Persson
doi:10.1038/380100c0
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| | Little difference 100
Roland H. Wenger & Max Gassmann
doi:10.1038/380100d0
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| | Errors of judgement at Greenwich in 1796 101
The origins of experimental psychology can be traced back to 1796, when the then Astronomer Royal dismissed his assistant for making some seemingly inaccurate measurements. But there is more to the story than meets the eye.
J. D. Mollon & A. J. Perkins
doi:10.1038/380101a0
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| | Daisy gives an evolutionary answer 103
It is not often that evolution by natural selection is actually witnessed in plants or animals. A study of little weeds on Canadian islands now provides a striking example of the phenomenon.
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/380103a0
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| | Harder than diamond? 104
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/380104a0
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| | Now blows the east wind 105
Chung-I Wu
doi:10.1038/380105a0
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| | Hale−Bopp looks like a winner 107
Harold A. Weaver
doi:10.1038/380107a0
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| | Hyakutake: an uncertain curtain raiser 108
Harold A. WEAVER
doi:10.1038/380108a0
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| | A march of genetic maps 111
Elke Jordan & Francis S. Collins
doi:10.1038/380111a0
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| | Spin and lift 112
David Jones
doi:10.1038/380112a0
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| | Erythropoietin abuse in athletes 113
Raynald Gareau, Michel Audran, Roy D. Baynes, Carol H. Flowers, Alain Duvallet, Louis Senécal & Guy R. Brisson
doi:10.1038/380113a0
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| | Derivative of the hyperbolic cotangent 113
G. W. Ford & R. F. O'Connell
doi:10.1038/380113b0
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| | Cheaters in yucca/moth mutualism 114
John F. Addicott
doi:10.1038/380114a0
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| | Atlantic forest extinctions 115
Thomas Brooks & Andrew Balmford
doi:10.1038/380115a0
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| | Splits in fruitfly Hox gene complexes 116
Gretchen Von Allmen, IIham Hogga, Anne Spierer , François Karch, Welcome Bender, Henrik Gyurkovics & Ed Lewis
doi:10.1038/380116a0
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| | Chinese missile guide 117
David DeVorkin reviews Thread of the SilkwormIris Chang
doi:10.1038/380117a0
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| | Geratology comes of age 118
J. Grimley Evans reviews Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science
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W. Andrew Achenbaum
doi:10.1038/380118a0
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| | Society and mind 119
Clive Gamble reviews The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives
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Ian Tattersall and The Neanderthal Legacy: An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe
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Paul Mellars
doi:10.1038/380119a0
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doi:10.1038/380119b0
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| | Fight on two fronts 120
G. E. R. Lloyd reviews Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe
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David B. Ruderman
doi:10.1038/380120a0
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| | The organization of work in social insect colonies 121
In social insect colonies, workers perform a variety of tasks, such as foraging, brood care and nest construction. As the needs of the colony change, and as resources become available, colonies adjust the numbers of workers engaged in each task. Task allocation is the process that results in specific workers being engaged in specific tasks, in numbers appropriate to the current situation.
Deborah M. Gordon
doi:10.1038/380121a0
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| | Volcanic growth faults and the origin of Pacific abyssal hills 125
Ken C. Macdonald, P. J. Fox, Russ T. Alexander, Robert Pockalny & Pascal Gente
doi:10.1038/380125a0
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| | A light-entrainment mechanism for the Drosophila circadian clock 129
Hongkui Zeng, Zuwei Qian, Michael P. Myers & Michael Rosbash
doi:10.1038/380129a0
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| | Substantial outgassing of CO from comet Hale−Bopp at large heliocentric distance 137
Nicolas Biver, Heike Rauer, Didier Despois, Raphaël Moreno, Gabriel Paubert, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Pierre Colom, Jacques Crovisier, Eric Gérard & Laurent Jorda
doi:10.1038/380137a0
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| | Periodic collisions between the moon Prometheus and Saturn's F ring 139
Carl D. Murray & Silvia M. Giuliatti Winter
doi:10.1038/380139a0
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| | Giant magnetoresistance of manganese oxides with a layered perovskite structure 141
Y. Moritomo, A. Asamitsu, H. Kuwahara & Y. Tokura
doi:10.1038/380141a0
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| | Intermolecular interactions in the molecular ferromagnetic NH4Ni(mnt)2 H2O 144
A. T. Coomber, D. Beljonne, R. H. Friend , J. L. Brédas, A. Charlton, N. Robertson, A. E. Underbill , M. Kurmoo & P. Day
doi:10.1038/380144a0
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| | Magma fragmentation by rapid decompression 146
Mikhail Alidibirov & Donald B. Dingwell
doi:10.1038/380146a0
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| | A comprehensive genetic map of the mouse genome 149
William F. Dietrich, Joyce Miller, Robert Steen, Mark A. Merchant, Deborah Damron-Boles, Zeeshan Husain, Robert Dredge, Mark J. Daly, Kimberly A. Ingalls, Tara J , Cheryl A. O'ConnorEvans, Margaret M. DeAngelis,
David M. , Leonid LevinsonKruglyak, Nathan Goodman, Neal G. Copeland, Nancy A. Jenkins, Trevor L. Hawkins, Lincoln Stein, David C. Page & Eric S. Lander
doi:10.1038/380149a0
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| | A comprehensive genetic map of the human genome based on 5,264 microsatellites 152
Colette Dib, Sabine Fauré, Cécile Fizames, Delphine Samson, Nathalie Drouot, Alain Vignal, Philippe Millasseau, Sophie Marc, Jamile Kazan, Eric Seboun, Mark Lathrop, Gabor Gyapay, Jean Morissette & Jean Weissenbach
doi:10.1038/380152a0
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| | Non-mutualistic yucca moths and their evolutionary consequences 155
Olle Pellmyr, James Leebens-Mack & Chad J. Huth
doi:10.1038/380155a0
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Andrew W. Davis, John Roote, Teresa Morley, Kyoichi Sawamura, Siegrun Herrmann & Michael Ashburner
doi:10.1038/380157a0
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| | Spermiogenesis deficiency and germ-cell apoptosis in CREM-mutant mice 159
François Nantel, Lucia Monaco, Nicholas S. Foulkes, Denis Masquilier, Marianne LeMeur, Kenth Henriksén, Andrée Dierich, Martti Parvinen & Paolo Sassone-Corsi
doi:10.1038/380159a0
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| | Severe impairment of permatogenesis in mice lacking the CREM gene 162
Julie A. Blendy, Klaus H. Kaestner, Gerhard F. Weinbauer, Eberhard Nieschlag & Günther Schütz
doi:10.1038/380162a0
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| | Broadband neural encoding in the cricket cereal sensory system enhanced by stochastic resonance 165
Jacob E. Levin & John P. Miller
doi:10.1038/380165a0
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| |  -Amyloid-mediated vasoactivity and vascular endothelial damage 168
Tom Thomas, George Thomas, Chris McLendon, Truitt Sutton & Michael Mullan
doi:10.1038/380168a0
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| | Impaired migration but not differentiation of haematopoietic stem cells in the absence of 1 integrins 171
Emilio Hirsch, Antonio Iglesias, Alexandra J. Potocnik, Ursula Hartmann & Reinhard Fässler
doi:10.1038/380171a0
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Kazuo Harada, Shelley S. Martin & Alan D. Frankel
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