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| | An accelerator worth fighting for 379
The Large Hadron Collider project faces new financial obstacles. Some proposed solutions to its problems are implausible. Others can surely be found, but will need great skill from CERN's management in limiting the damage to the laboratory.
doi:10.1038/382379a0
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| | Britain draws up 'superleague' plan for leading research universities 381
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/382381a0
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| | BSE transmission data cause confusion 381
Ginny Page
doi:10.1038/382381b0
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| | Australian investors lose tax incentives on innovation 382
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/382382a0
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| | Indian budget boosts AIDS research 382
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/382382b0
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| | US industry lobbies for extension of $3bn tax credit schemes 382
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/382382c0
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| | US agencies 'can fight' declining budgets 383
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/382383a0
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| | Internet mentors seek to bring more women into science 383
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/382383b0
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| | Medical developments get small investors' backing in Canada 384
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/382384a0
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| | Liability clause blocks talks on biosafety protocol 384
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/382384b0
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| | Livermore to get $100m supercomputer 385
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/382385a0
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| | Cray files formal 'dumping complaint' 385
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/382385b0
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| | Software testing blamed for Ariane failure 386
Roni Amelan
doi:10.1038/382386a0
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| | Budget cuts hit German funding for ESA 386
Alison Abbott & Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/382386b0
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| | CERN comes under fresh financial pressure 387
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/382387a0
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| | News in brief 388
doi:10.1038/382388a0
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| | Ozone layer: the road not taken 390
Stephen O. Andersen & Alan Miller
doi:10.1038/382390a0
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| | Counterattack 390
Harold Hillman
doi:10.1038/382390b0
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| | Manners please 390
Valerie Good
doi:10.1038/382390c0
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| | Bureaucracy defeated at EPA 391
Bernard D. Goldstein
doi:10.1038/382391a0
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| | Hot biology papers 391
Zhang Haiqi
doi:10.1038/382391b0
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| | Genetic testing and insurance 392
Richard J. Skaer
doi:10.1038/382392a0
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| | Climate debate 392
S. Fred Singer
doi:10.1038/382392b0
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| | Not Mussolini but Volterra 392
Judith R. Goodstein
doi:10.1038/382392c0
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| | Dropping bricks 392
Anna Hodson
doi:10.1038/382392d0
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| | A Nobel tale of wartime injustice 393
Recently released documents give the inside story of Otto Hahn's 1944 Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. They reveal flaws in the award-making process — and an attempt to rewrite history.
Elisabeth Crawford, Ruth Lewin Sime & Mark Walker
doi:10.1038/382393a0
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| | Look Ma, no chromosomes! 397
The segregation of chromosomes at mitosis and meiosis during cell division depends on their interaction with a bipolar spindle. But, surprisingly, it turns out that the spindle can form and function even in the absence of chromosomes.
Jeremy Hyams
doi:10.1038/382397a0
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| | Obscured objects of desire 398
Richard Barvainis
doi:10.1038/382398a0
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| | Communication between oceans 399
Arnold L. Gordon
doi:10.1038/382399a0
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| | Early bird in slow motion 400
Kevin Padian
doi:10.1038/382400a0
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| | George D. Snell (1903−96) 402
Jan Klein
doi:10.1038/382402a0
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| | Rust marks second-hand crust 403
William M. White
doi:10.1038/382403a0
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| | Some liked it hot 404
E. G. Nisbet & C. M. R. Fowler
doi:10.1038/382404a0
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| | The baking of layer cakes 405
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/382405a0
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| | Travel by cola 406
David Jones
doi:10.1038/382406a0
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| | Endohedral fullerene production 407
R. Tellgmann, N. Krawez, S.-H. Lin, I. V. Hertel & E. E. B. Campbell
doi:10.1038/382407a0
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| | Genome analysis 408
Peter Little
doi:10.1038/382408a0
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| | Colour-blind camouflage 408
N. J. Marshall & J. B. Messenger
doi:10.1038/382408b0
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| | Cyclin encoded by KS herpesvirus 410
Yuan Chang, Patrick S. Moore, Simon J. Talbot, Chris H. Boshoff, Tamara Zarkowska, Diana Godden-Kent, Hugh Paterson, Robin A. Weiss & Sibylle Mittnacht
doi:10.1038/382410a0
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| | America's greatest gift 411
Ryan J. Huxtable reviews The True History of Chocolate
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Sophie D. Coe & Michael D. Coe
doi:10.1038/382411a0
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| | Botanical cultures 412
David Pimentel reviews Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany
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Michael J. Balick, Paul Alan Cox, Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy, Jeffrey Burkhardt, Douglas Hemken, Jubel Moraga-Rojel, Timothy Koponen, José de Souza Silva, Michael J. Balick, Elaine Elisabetsky & Sarah A. Laird
doi:10.1038/382412a0
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| | Genetic half-truths 413
William H. McNeill reviews In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny
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Steve Jones
doi:10.1038/382413a0
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| | A discordant duo 414
P. W. Francis reviews Music of the Earth: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Other Geological Wonders
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Ron L. Morton & J. D. MacDougall
doi:10.1038/382414a0
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| | Major-element variability in the Hawaiian mantle plume 415
Erik H. Hauri
doi:10.1038/382415a0
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| | Self-organization of microtubules into bipolar spindles around artificial chromosomes in Xenopus egg extracts 420
Rebecca Heald, Régis Tournebize, Thiemo Blank, Raphael Sandaltzopoulos, Peter Becker, Anthony Hyman & Eric Karsenti
doi:10.1038/382420a0
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| | Detection of molecular gas in the quasar BR1202 − 0725 at redshift z = 4.69 426
K. Ohta, T. Yamada, K. Nakanishi, K. Kohno, M. Akiyama & R. Kawabe
doi:10.1038/382426a0
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| | Molecular gas and dust around a radio-quiet quasar at redshift 4.69 428
Alain Omont, Patrick Petitjean, Stéphane Guilloteau, Richard G. McMahon, P. M. Solomon & Emmanuel Pécontal
doi:10.1038/382428a0
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| | A simpler approach to Penrose tiling with implications for quasicrystal formation 431
Paul J. Steinhardt & Hyeong-Chai Jeong
doi:10.1038/382431a0
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| | Carbon onions as nanoscopic pressure cells for diamond formation 433
F. Banhart & P. M. Ajayan
doi:10.1038/382433a0
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| | An estimate of global ocean circulation and heat fluxes 436
Alison M. Macdonald & Carl Wunsch
doi:10.1038/382436a0
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| | Short magma chamber residence time at an Icelandic volcano inferred from U-series disequilibria 440
Olgeir Sigmarsson
doi:10.1038/382440a0
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| | An Early Cretaceous bird from Spain and its implications for the evolution of avian flight 442
José L. Sanz, Luis M. Chiappe, Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno, Angela D. Buscalioni, José J. Moratalla, Francisco Ortega & Francisco J. Poyato-Ariza
doi:10.1038/382442a0
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| | Humic substances as electron acceptors for microbial respiration 445
Derek R. Lovley, John D. Coates, Elizabeth L. Blunt-Harris, Elizabeth J. P. Phillips & Joan C. Woodward
doi:10.1038/382445a0
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| | Increased bone formation in osteocalcin-deficient mice 448
Patricia Ducy, Christelle Desbois, Brendan Boyce, Gerald Pinero, Beryl Story, Colin Dunstan, Erica Smith, Jeffrey Bonadio, Steven Goldstein, Caren Gundberg, Allan Bradley & Gerard Karsenty
doi:10.1038/382448a0
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| | Induction of a specific muscle cell type by a hedgehog-like protein in zebrafish 452
Peter D. Currie & Phillip W. Ingham
doi:10.1038/382452a0
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| | A non-muscle myosin required for embryonic polarity in Caenorhabditis elegans 455
Su Guo & Kenneth J. Kemphues
doi:10.1038/382455a0
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| | Symmetry perception in an insect 458
Martin Giurfa, Birgit Eichmann & Randolf Menzel
doi:10.1038/382458a0
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| | Affinity maturation without germinal centres in lymphotoxin- -deficient mice 462
Mitsuru Matsumoto, Stanley F. Lo, Cynthia J. L. Carruthers, Jingjuan Min, Sanjeev Mariathasan, Guangming Huang, David R. Plas, Steven M. Martin, Raif S. Geha, Moon H. Nahm & David D. Chaplin
doi:10.1038/382462a0
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| | 'Anaphase' and cytokinesis in the absence of chromosomes 466
Dahong Zhang & R. Bruce Nicklas
doi:10.1038/382466a0
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| | Autocatalytic processing of the 20S proteasome 468
Erika Seemüller, Andrei Lupas & Wolfgang Baumeister
doi:10.1038/382468a0
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| | Visualization of ordered genomic RNA and localization of transcriptional complexes in rotavirus 471
B. V. Venkataram Prasad, R. Rothnagel, C. Q.-Y. Zeng, J. Jakana, J. A. Lawton, W. Chiu & M. K. Estes
doi:10.1038/382471a0
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| | Molecular breakdown 475
This week's tender covers DNA technology, including a kit for DNA analysis using high-resolution gel electrophoresis, a hybridization and detection system, primer design software and a purification kit for high-molecular-weight genomic DNA.
Brendan Norton
doi:10.1038/382475a0
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