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| | Basic research: an economic good 741
A new survey of the literature of economics and social aspects of science gives support to commonly held beliefs about the value of `blue-skies' research.
doi:10.1038/382741a0
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| | In search of anger 741
Road transport should be on trial. New proposals on air quality suggest that it is not.
doi:10.1038/382741b0
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| | British government releases plans to cut air pollution by 2005 743
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/382743a0
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| | France told to put brake on biofuels 743
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/382743b0
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| | India backing wrong technologies, report says 744
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/382744a0
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| | Nuke ship reincarnated 744
RICHARD NATHAN
doi:10.1038/382744b0
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| | Ebola bar creates monkey shortage 744
Richard Nathan
doi:10.1038/382744c0
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| | A few (million) dollars more can keep Galileo exploring 745
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/382745a0
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| | Mars research boost 745
TONY REICHHARDT
doi:10.1038/382745b0
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| | NASA aircraft move won't save money, audit finds 745
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/382745c0
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| | Coordinated plan to protect South China Sea 746
Elisabeth Tacey
doi:10.1038/382746a0
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| | Greens attack transgenic plant trials 746
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/382746b0
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| | Last-ditch bid to rescue nuclear test ban treaty 747
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/382747a0
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| | South Carolina told to take spent fuel 747
David Kramer
doi:10.1038/382747b0
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| | NSF backs down on import of Japanese supercomputer 747
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/382747c0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 748
doi:10.1038/382748a0
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| | Mandela names new minister 749
doi:10.1038/382749e0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Foxy logic on gene pursuit 750
Robert B. Eckhardt
doi:10.1038/382750a0
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| | Low impact 750
Giovanni A. Fava
doi:10.1038/382750b0
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| | Innovations catalogue 750
Jonathan Cowle
doi:10.1038/382750c0
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| | Is science losing its objectivity? 751
The philosophy of science is not independent of the way research is organized. Can scientists produce objective knowledge in a world where their research is increasingly directed towards making money or meeting social needs?
John Ziman
doi:10.1038/382751a0
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| | Sacred cows, science and uncertainties 755
An analysis of the transmission dynamics of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Britain provides options for cattle-culling policy. Deciding which option to implement is another matter.
David C. G. Skegg
doi:10.1038/382755a0
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| | Competition for brain space 756
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/382756a0
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| | Scum of the Earth after all 758
P. Jonathan Patchett
doi:10.1038/382758a0
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| | Synapses get smarter 759
Terrence J. Sejnowski
doi:10.1038/382759a0
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| | Has the fat lady sung? 760
David Bishop
doi:10.1038/382760a0
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| | Shaking light from the void 761
Paul Davies
doi:10.1038/382761a0
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| | Retrovirus restriction revealed 762
John M. Coffin
doi:10.1038/382762a0
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| | Physics in a jumping sandbox 763
Jay Fineberg
doi:10.1038/382763a0
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| | Against the grain 764
JAY FINEBERG
doi:10.1038/382764a0
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| | Laying the lies 764
David Jones
doi:10.1038/382764b0
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| | Climate and species' range 765
Camille Parmesan
doi:10.1038/382765a0
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| | Base-rate errors and rain forecasts 766
Robert A. J. Matthews
doi:10.1038/382766a0
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| | Chemokines and HIV replication 767
Helena Schmidtmayerova, Barbara Sherry & Michael Bukrinsky
doi:10.1038/382767a0
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| | Missing energy and cosmic expansion 768
Paul J. Steinhardt
doi:10.1038/382768a0
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| | Lighter than air 769
John L. Casti reviews The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
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John Horgan
doi:10.1038/382769a0
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| | Aural awe 770
doi:10.1038/382770a0
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| | Almost all about symmetry 771
Simon Altmann reviews Symmetries of Nature: A Handbook for Philosophy of Nature and Science
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Klaus Mainzer
doi:10.1038/382771a0
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doi:10.1038/382771b0
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| | In it for the eggs 772
T. R. Birkhead reviews Female Control: Sexual Selection by Cryptic Female Choice
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William G. Eberhard
doi:10.1038/382772a0
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| | The three faces of Eve's therapist 772
Hugh Freeman reviews Alter Egos: Multiple Personalities
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David Cohen
doi:10.1038/382772b0
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| | From plume head to continental lithosphere in the Arabian−Nubian shield 773
Mordechai Stein & Steven L. Goldstein
doi:10.1038/382773a0
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| | Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle 779
R. M. Anderson, C. A. Donnelly, N. M. Ferguson, M. E. J. Woolhouse, C. J. Watt, H. J. Udy, S. MaWhinney, S. P. Dunstan, T. R. E. Southwood, J. W. Wilesmith, J. B. M. Ryan, L. J. Hoinville, J. E. Hillerton, A. R. Austin & G. A. H. Wells
doi:10.1038/382779a0
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| | Wind-dominated optical line emission from accretion disks around luminous cataclysmic variable stars
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N. Murray & J. Chiang
doi:10.1038/382789a0
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| | Calorimetric measurement of the latent heat of vortex-lattice melting in untwinned YBa2Cu3O7−
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A. Schilling, R. A. Fisher, N. E. Phillips, U. Welp, D. Dasgupta, W. K. Kwok & G. W. Crabtree
doi:10.1038/382791a0
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| | Localized excitations in a vertically vibrated granular layer 793
Paul B. Umbanhowar, Francisco Melo & Harry L. Swinney
doi:10.1038/382793a0
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| | A silicoboron carbonitride ceramic stable to 2,000°C 796
Ralf Riedel, Andreas Kienzle, Wolfgang Dressler, Lutz Ruwisch, Joachim Bill & Fritz Aldinger
doi:10.1038/382796a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (686K)
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| | Fluid-mediated influence of adjacent thrusting on the seismic cycle at Parkfield 799
Stephen A. Miller
doi:10.1038/382799a0
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| | Flavodoxin as an in situ marker for iron stress in phytoplankton 802
Julie La Roche, Philip W. Boyd, R. Michael L. McKay & Richard J. Geider
doi:10.1038/382802a0
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| | Two different areas within the primary motor cortex of man 805
Stefan Geyer, Anders Ledberg, Axel Schleicher, Shigeo Kinomura, Thorsten Schormann, Uli Bürgel, Torkel Klingberg, Jonas Larsson, Karl Zilles & Per E. Roland
doi:10.1038/382805a0
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| | Redistribution of synaptic efficacy between neocortical pyramidal neurons 807
Henry Markram & Misha Tsodyks
doi:10.1038/382807a0
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| | A diffusible coupling signal from the transplanted suprachiasmatic nucleus controlling circadian locomotor rhythms 810
Rae Silver, Joseph LeSauter, Patrick A. Tresco & Michael N. Lehman
doi:10.1038/382810a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (990K)
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| | Activation of Raf by ionizing radiation 813
Usha Kasid, Simeng Suy, Paul Dent, Sugata Ray, Theresa L. Whiteside & Thomas W. Sturgill
doi:10.1038/382813a0
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| | Cooperation of the tumour suppressors IRF-1 and p53 in response to DNA damage 816
Nobuyuki Tanaka, Masahiko Ishihara, Marc S. Lamphier, Hiroaki Nozawa, Toshifumi Matsuyama, Tak W. Mak, Shinichi Aizawa, Takashi Tokino, Moshe Oren & Tadatsugu Taniguchi
doi:10.1038/382816a0
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| | Two distinct actions of retinoid-receptor ligands 819
Jia-Yang Chen, John Clifford, Chris Zusi, John Starrett, David Tortolani, Jacek Ostrowski, Peter R. Reczek, Pierre Chambon & Hinrich Gronemeyer
doi:10.1038/382819a0
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| | Dimeric ligands define a role for transcriptional activation domains in reinitiation 822
Steffan N. Ho, Stephen R. Biggar, David M. Spencer, Stuart L. Schreiber & Gerald R. Crabtree
doi:10.1038/382822a0
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| | Positional cloning of the mouse retrovirus restriction gene Fvl
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Steve Best, Paul Le Tissier, Greg Towers & Jonathan P. Stoye
doi:10.1038/382826a0
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| | The lymphocyte chemoattractant SDF-1 is a ligand for LESTR/fusin and blocks HIV-1 entry 829
Conrad C. Bleul, Michael Farzan, Hyeryun Choe, Cristina Parolin, Ian Clark-Lewis, Joseph Sodroski & Timothy A. Springer
doi:10.1038/382829a0
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| | The CXC chemokine SDF-1 is the ligand for LESTR/fusin and prevents infection by T-cell-line-adapted HIV-1 833
Estelle Oberlin, Ali Amara, Franc˛oise Bachelerie, Christine Bessia, Jean-Louis Virelizier, Fernando Arenzana-Seisdedos, Olivier Schwartz, Jean-Michel Heard, Ian Clark-Lewis, Daniel F. Legler, Marcel Loetscher, Marco Baggiolini & Bernhard Moser
doi:10.1038/382833a0
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| | Guide to Authors | |
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| | Guide to authors of contributions to Nature
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doi:10.1038/382836a0
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| | Product Review | |
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| | A proliferation of programs 837
Time once again to contact your software providers who are peddling such wares as a searchable chemical database, an Internet search engine, chemometrics software and virus protection software for networks.
doi:10.1038/382837a0
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