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| | Climate debate must not overheat 539
Charges by parts of the US energy industry that a recent report on global climate change has been 'scientifically cleansed' should not be allowed to undermine efforts to win political support for abatement strategies.
doi:10.1038/381539a0
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| | Replacing Cluster 539
European space scientists learnt a hard lesson last week: there is no such thing as a free launch.
doi:10.1038/381539b0
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| | ESA seeks to pick up the pieces from Cluster mission's fiery fate 541
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/381541a0
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| | NASA tightens criteria for new launchers 541
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/381541b0
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| | Chinese rocket site 'blind to safety' 542
Elisabeth Tacey
doi:10.1038/381542a0
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| | NIH resists bill to promote research into Parkinson's 542
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/381542b0
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| | Labs collide over rival tritium schemes 543
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/381543a0
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| | Cancer genetics group drafts guidelines 543
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/381543b0
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| | Did UK 'dump' contaminated feed after ban? 544
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/381544a0
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| | Science agencies benefit as Congress eases up on cuts 545
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/381545a0
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| | European vote raises bioethics stakes 545
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/381545b0
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| | Climate report 'subject to scientific cleansing' 546
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/381546a0
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| | South African museums under review 546
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/381546b0
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| | US urged to keep labs open to foreigners 547
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/381547a0
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| | Australian industry joins scientists' protests at geology cuts 547
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/381547b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 548
doi:10.1038/381548a0
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| | Motorola versus radioastronomy 550
John Ponsonby
doi:10.1038/381550a0
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| | Citation policy on sequences 550
Mark Dowton
doi:10.1038/381550b0
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| | The ozone layer: the road not taken 551
In evaluating the cost of phasing out chlorofluorocarbons, it pays to look not only at current damage to the ozone layer but also at what might have happened had our use of these chemicals continued unimpeded.
Michael Prather, Pauline Midgley, F. Sherwood Rowland & Richard Stolarski
doi:10.1038/381551a0
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| | An old galaxy in a young Universe 555
A mature galaxy has been discovered in an early phase of the Universe apparently too young to contain it. Is this the end of the theorists' favourite cosmology, the Einstein–de Sitter model?
Robert C. Kennicutt Jr
doi:10.1038/381555a0
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| | A meeting of Hubble constants 555
ROBERT C. KENNICUT
doi:10.1038/381555b0
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| | Faults without friction? 556
Christopher H. Scholz
doi:10.1038/381556a0
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| | Julius Marmur (1926–96) 557
Paul Doty
doi:10.1038/381557a0
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| | An affinity for learning 558
David H. Margulies
doi:10.1038/381558a0
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| | Counting the ten-year returns 559
Paul Grant
doi:10.1038/381559a0
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| | An efficient code in V1? 560
Roland Baddeley
doi:10.1038/381560a0
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| | Mad connection to the nucleus 561
Christof Niehrs
doi:10.1038/381561a0
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| | Fire from heaven 562
David Jones
doi:10.1038/381562a0
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| | Erratum 562
Michael E. WYSESSION
doi:10.1038/381562b0
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| | Preclinical test for prion diseases 563
B. E. C. Schreuder, L. J. M. van Keulen, M. E. W. Vromans, J. P. M. Langeveld & M. A. Smits
doi:10.1038/381563a0
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| | Forest canopy productivity index 564
R. J. Norby
doi:10.1038/381564a0
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| | Clutch size and malaria resistance 565
Anne Oppliger, Philippe Christe & Heinz Richner
doi:10.1038/381565a0
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J. R. M. Chisholm, C. Dauga, E. Ageron, P. A. D. Grimont & J. M. Jaubert
doi:10.1038/381565b0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Bird species diversity 566
Robert M. Zink
doi:10.1038/381566a0
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| | Skin grafts and cheetahs 566
M. A. Sanjayan & Kevin Crooks
doi:10.1038/381566b0
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| | Recycling history 567
Sydney Brenner
doi:10.1038/381567a0
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| | The voice of experiments 568
William Shea
doi:10.1038/381568a0
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| | Dinosaurs for grown-ups 569
Alan Charig
doi:10.1038/381569a0
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doi:10.1038/381569b0
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| | Global movers and shakers 570
Jean-Pierre Burg
doi:10.1038/381570a0
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| | Review | |
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| | Molecular chaperones in cellular protein folding 571
F. Ulrich Hartl
doi:10.1038/381571a0
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| | A 3.5-Gyr-old galaxy at redshift 1.55 581
James Dunlop, John Peacock, Hyron Spinrad, Arjun Dey, Raul Jimenez, Daniel Stern & Rogier Windhorst
doi:10.1038/381581a0
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| | Evidence from a processing pulsar orbit for a neutron-star birth kick 584
V. M. Kaspi, M. Bailes, R. N. Manchester, B. W. Stappers & J. F. Bell
doi:10.1038/381584a0
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| | Distribution of bedrock and alluvial channels in forested mountain drainage basins 587
David R. Montgomery, Tim B. Abbe, John M. Buffington, N. Phil Peterson, Kevin M. Schmidt & Jonathan D. Stock
doi:10.1038/381587a0
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| | Free-standing and oriented mesoporous silica films grown at the air–water interface 589
Hong Yang, Neil Coombs, Igor Sokolov & Geoffrey A. Ozin
doi:10.1038/381589a0
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| | Seismicity and stress rotation in a granular model of the brittle crust 592
David R. Scott
doi:10.1038/381592a0
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| | Detection of tidal dissipation in the solid Earth by satellite tracking and altimetry 595
R. D. Ray, R. J. Eanes & B. F. Chao
doi:10.1038/381595a0
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| | The guinea-pig is not a rodent 597
Anna Maria D'Erchia, Carmela Gissi, Graziano Pesole, Cecilia Saccone & Ulfur Arnason
doi:10.1038/381597a0
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| | Power laws governing epidemics in isolated populations 600
C. J. Rhodes & R. M. Anderson
doi:10.1038/381600a0
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| | Role of transcription factors a Brn-3.1 and Brn-3.2 in auditory and visual system development 603
Linda Erkman, Robert J. McEvilly, Lin Luo, Aimee K. Ryan, Farideh Hooshmand, Shawn M. O'Connell, Elizabeth M. Keithley, David H. Rapaport, Alien F. Ryan & Michael G. Rosenfeld
doi:10.1038/381603a0
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| | Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images 607
Bruno A. Olshausen & David J. Field
doi:10.1038/381607a0
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| | Primary cortical representation of sounds by the coordination of action-potential timing 610
R. Christopher deCharms & Michael M. Merzenich
doi:10.1038/381610a0
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| | Absence of spectrally specific lateral inputs to midget ganglion cells in primate retina 613
David J. Calkins & Peter Sterling
doi:10.1038/381613a0
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| | T-cell-receptor affinity and thymocyte positive selection 616
S. Munir Alam, Paul J. Travers, Jay L. Wung, Wade Nasholds, Stella Redpath, Stephen C. Jameson & Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne
doi:10.1038/381616a0
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| | A human Mad protein acting as a BMP-regulated transcriptional activator 620
Fang Liu, Akiko Hata, Julie C. Baker, Jacqueline Doody, Juan Cárcamo, Richard M. Harland & Joan Massagué
doi:10.1038/381620a0
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| | Intersubunit rotation in active F-ATPase 623
D. Sabbert, S. Engelbrecht & W. Junge
doi:10.1038/381623a0
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| | The details on DNA 627
BRENDAN HORTON
doi:10.1038/381627a0
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