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| | More worries about pollution 451
Recent events notwithstanding, significant problems lie ahead from increasing concentrations of some constituents of the lower atmosphere. Solutions depend not only on regulation but also on changes in the way environmental science is supported.
doi:10.1038/381451a0
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| | Watch this boom 451
California's links between science, technology and the economy of the state still set the standard for others to follow.
doi:10.1038/381451b0
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| | Creutzfeldt-Jakob researchers seek greater access to data on cases 453
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/381453a0
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| | ESA wants compulsory Earth missions 453
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/381453b0
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| | Fusion programme 'could aid terrorists' 454
David Kramer
doi:10.1038/381454a0
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| | Commercial use of encryption backed 454
doi:10.1038/381454b0
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| | MITI turns up heat on research into thermophile genes 455
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/381455a0
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| | Head of climate group rejects claims of political influence 455
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/381455b0
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| | Cuts spark strike at Australian universities 456
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/381456a0
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| | Agricultural institutes 'to favour developing countries' 456
Anju Sharma
doi:10.1038/381456b0
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| | Pollutants 'may harm fetal development' 457
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/381457a0
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| | Health agency avoids Congress's axe 457
MEREDITH WADMAN
doi:10.1038/381457b0
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| | India's missile centre shaken by blast 457
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/381457c0
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| | Paper from jailed professor stirs debate over publication 458
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/381458a0
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| | Universities charge for Internet access 458
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/381458b0
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| | Russian rescue effort nears polar scientists but faces icy barrier 458
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/381458c0
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| | California looks to science partnerships ... 459
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/381459a0
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| | ...and supports medical research 459
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/381459b0
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| | News in brief 460
doi:10.1038/381460a0
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| | Will space-based astronomy give value for money? 461
Tony Reichhardt, Alison Abbott & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/381461a0
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| | Radioastronomy floats into space on VSOP 463
doi:10.1038/381463a0
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| | What will be the Next Big Thing? 465
doi:10.1038/381465a0
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| | The case for the passive voice 467
Simon R. Leather
doi:10.1038/381467a0
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| | Questionable judgement 467
Fred Schaufele
doi:10.1038/381467b0
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| | Human rights in Belarus 467
Alexander Lutzko
doi:10.1038/381467c0
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| | Pioneers of vaccination 468
Friedrich Katscher
doi:10.1038/381468a0
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| | School daze 469
J. R. Lloyd
doi:10.1038/381469a0
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| | Beyond the Hubble Space Telescope 470
NASA needs to develop a new generation of space observatories embracing the theme of 'cosmic origins' if it is to maintain its lead in the exploration of space.
Harley A. Thronson Jr, Alan Dressler & Douglas Richstone
doi:10.1038/381470a0
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| | Strengths and weaknesses in memory 471
How memories are formed is an enduring puzzle. Two studies further implicate a process by which synapses in the brain are made weaker, as well as stronger, and provide pointers as to how the two phenomena are regulated.
Charles F. Stevens
doi:10.1038/381471a0
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| | Shrill notes from the stars 472
Guy Miller
doi:10.1038/381472a0
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| | Snapping social swimmers 473
Jon Seger & Nancy A. Moran
doi:10.1038/381473a0
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| | Looking for the twilight zone 474
David Black
doi:10.1038/381474a0
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| | Foams flow by stick and slip 475
David A. Weitz
doi:10.1038/381475a0
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| | Turbulent times at Taupo 476
Tim Druitt
doi:10.1038/381476a0
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Mark Chandler
doi:10.1038/381477a0
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Clarke R. Slater
doi:10.1038/381478a0
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David Jones
doi:10.1038/381479a0
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| | Neolithic resinated wine 480
Patrick E. McGovern, Donald L. Glusker, Lawrence J. Exner & Mary M. Voigt
doi:10.1038/381480a0
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| | When batterer becomes murderer 481
I. J. Good
doi:10.1038/381481a0
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| | Plastid in human parasites 482
Geoffrey I. McFadden, Michael E. Reith, Janet Munholland & Naomi Lang-Unnasch
doi:10.1038/381482a0
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| | The birth of microsatellites 483
Walter Messier, Shou-Hsien Li & Caro-Beth Stewart
doi:10.1038/381483a0
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| | Cosmological constant 483
Stacy S. McGaugh
doi:10.1038/381483b0
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| | Ancient DNA and island endemics 484
Alan Cooper, Judith Rhymer, Helen F. James, Storrs L. Olson, Carl E. Mclntosh, Michael D. Sorenson & Robert C. Fleischer
doi:10.1038/381484a0
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| | Quantum incoherence 485
Daniel C. Dennett
doi:10.1038/381485a0
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| | Out of the shadows 486
Sally Temple
doi:10.1038/381486a0
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| | Romantic ideals 487
Graham Farmelo
doi:10.1038/381487a0
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| | Legal protection 488
Susan E. Foden
doi:10.1038/381488a0
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| | Delicate investigations 488
Stephen Mason
doi:10.1038/381488b0
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| | The history of the galaxies 489
M. Fukugita, C. J. Hogan & P. J. E. Peebles
doi:10.1038/381489a0
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| | Guide to authors of contributions to Nature
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doi:10.1038/381496a0
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| | Very low braking index for the Vela pulsar 497
A. G. Lyne, R. S. Pritchard, F. Graham-Smith & F. Camilo
doi:10.1038/381497a0
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| | Synthesis of layered LiMnO2 as an electrode for rechargeable lithium batteries 499
A. Robert Armstrong & Peter G. Bruce
doi:10.1038/381499a0
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| | Characterization of a cage form of the water hexamer 501
K. Liu, M. G. Brown, C. Carter, R. J. Saykally, J. K. Gregory & D. C. Clary
doi:10.1038/381501a0
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| | Role of orbitally induced changes in tundra area in the onset of glaciation 503
R. G. Gallimore & J. E. Kutzbach
doi:10.1038/381503a0
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| | The mechanism of dissolution of oxide minerals 506
William H. Casey & Christian Ludwig
doi:10.1038/381506a0
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| | Emplacement of the Taupo ignimbrite by a dilute turbulent flow 509
W. Brian Dade & Herbert E. Huppert
doi:10.1038/381509a0
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| | Eusociality in a coral-reef shrimp 512
J.Emmett Duffy
doi:10.1038/381512a0
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| | Embryology of vestimentiferan tube worms from deep-sea methane/sulphide seeps 514
Craig M. Young, Elsa Vázquez, Anna Metaxas & Paul A. Tyler
doi:10.1038/381514a0
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| | Role of the thrombin receptor in development and evidence for a second receptor 516
Andrew J. Connolly, Hiroaki Ishihara, Mark L. Kahn, Robert V. Farese Jr & Shaun R. Coughlin
doi:10.1038/381516a0
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| | Speed of processing in the human visual system 520
Simon Thorpe, Denis Fize & Catherine Marlot
doi:10.1038/381520a0
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| | Target-cell-specific concentration of a metabotropic glutamate receptor in the presynaptic active zone 523
Ryuichi Shigemoto, Akos Kulik, J. David B. Roberts, Hitoshi Ohishi, Zoltan Nusser, Takeshi Kaneko & Peter Somogyi
doi:10.1038/381523a0
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Alfredo Kirkwood, Marc G. Rioult & Mark F. Bear
doi:10.1038/381526a0
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Amy K. Csink & Steven Henikoff
doi:10.1038/381529a0
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Andrew P. Gilmore & Keith Burridge
doi:10.1038/381531a0
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| | Inhibition by SR proteins of splicing of a regulated adenovirus pre-mRNA 535
Arvydas Kanopka, Oliver Mühlemann & Göran Akusjärvi
doi:10.1038/381535a0
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| | Histology of the first fish 538
M. P. Smith, I. J. Sansom & J. E. Repetski
doi:10.1038/381538a0
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