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| | The dangers of coarse politics 283
Keeping track of members of the US Congress is a good idea, but must be done with care. A science voting tally introduced by a group of eminent scientists does not fit the bill.
doi:10.1038/383283a0
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| | Charity begins abroad 283
There are few virtues in being a poor relation, as researchers on diseases of the developing world know to their cost.
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| | Support for scientific evaluation of homeopathy stirs controversy 285
Alison Abbott & Gabor Stiegler
doi:10.1038/383285a0
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| | California doubles research tax credit 285
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/383285b0
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| | Science rises up US space policy agenda 286
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/383286a0
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| | Malaria research suffering relative neglect, study claims 286
Claire O'Brien
doi:10.1038/383286b0
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| | Republicans challenge evidence of man-made climate change 287
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/383287a0
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| | Cash rivalry 'fosters neglect of posytdoc supervision" 287
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383287b0
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| | NIH edges towards healthy increase in research budget 288
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/383288a0
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| | Democrats score highest in 'votes for science' review 288
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383288b0
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| | Call for regional research boost in Europe 288
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383288c0
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| | French researchers brace for budget cuts 289
Catherine Tastemain
doi:10.1038/383289a0
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| | Swiss cull to meet fears of BSE 289
Oliver Klaffke
doi:10.1038/383289b0
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| | Galapagos tortoise disease 'contained' 290
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/383290a0
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| | Appeal to reprieve Canadian cyclotron 290
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/383290b0
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| | Japan's HIV blood scandal broadens out 291
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/383291a0
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| | UK chief scientist warns of risks of "lg Nobel' ridicule 291
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/383291b0
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| | News in brief 292
doi:10.1038/383292a0
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| | Hahn's Nobel was well deserved 294
Carl Friedrich v. Weizsäcker
doi:10.1038/383294a0
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| | Hahn's Nobel was well deserved 294
Jan H. J. Oelering
doi:10.1038/383294b0
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| | No funeral in Berlin 294
Klaus Roth
doi:10.1038/383294c0
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| | Plants and AIDS 294
Atta-ur-Rahman
doi:10.1038/383294d0
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| | Two-bit anion channel really shapes up 295
Channels that conduct anions or cations across cell membranes are of immense physiological importance. But what do they look like? A chloride channel turns out to have a double-barrelled structure quite unlike that of cation channels.
David C. Gadsby
doi:10.1038/383295a0
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| | The medium is the message 296
Achim Müller & Christian Beugholt
doi:10.1038/383296a0
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| | The third form of life 299
Michael W. Gray
doi:10.1038/383299a0
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| | Rough guide to the nanoworld 300
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/383300a0
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| | Stimulating brain but not mind 301
C. Koch & R. B. H. Tootell
doi:10.1038/383301a0
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| | Microbial ferrous wheel 303
David L. Kirchman
doi:10.1038/383303a0
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| | Astromagnetics 304
David Jones
doi:10.1038/383304a0
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| | Thermoregulating lotus flowers 305
Roger S. Seymour & Paul Schultze-Motel
doi:10.1038/383305a0
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| | Oestrogen and mental state 306
George Fink & Barbara E. H. Sumner
doi:10.1038/383306a0
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| | Battle of the sexes 307
A. E. Magurran
doi:10.1038/383307a0
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| | Na+ channel subunits and Ig domains 307
Lori L. Isom & William A. Catterall
doi:10.1038/383307b0
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| | Alternative hydrogen cloud models 308
E. J. Wampler
doi:10.1038/383308a0
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| | Geological tales of old 309
Gordon L. Herries Davies reviews Thinking About the Earth: A History of Ideas in Geology
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David Oldroyd
doi:10.1038/383309a0
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| | A weird world 310
Tony Leggett reviews Where Does the Weirdness Go? Why Quantum Mechanics is Strange, but Not as Strange as You Think
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David Lindley
doi:10.1038/383310a0
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| | Chemicals unbottled 310
A. G. Cairns-Smith reviews The Natural Selection of the Chemical Elements: The Environment and Life's Chemistry
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R. J. P. Williams & J. J. R. Fraústo da Silva
doi:10.1038/383310b0
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| | The sins of science 311
John Emsley
doi:10.1038/383311a0
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| | Choosing genes 312
Alan F. Wright & A. Christopher Boyd
doi:10.1038/383312a0
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| | Supercritical fluids as solvents for chemical and materials processing 313
Charles A. Eckert, Barbara L. Knutson & Pablo G. Debenedetti
doi:10.1038/383313a0
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| | Extremely rapid bursts of TeV photons from the active galaxy Markarian 421 319
J. A. Gaidos, C. W. Akerlof, S. Biller, P. J. Boyle, A. C. Breslin, J. H. Buckley, D. A. Carter-Lewis, M. Catanese, M. F. Cawley, D. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, J. Bussöns Gordo, A. M. Hillas, F. Krennrich, R. C. Lamb, R. W. Lessard, J. E. McEnery, C. Masterson, G. Mohanty, P. Moriarty, J. Quinn, A. J. Rodgers, H. J. Rose, F. Samuelson, M. S. Schubnell, G. H. Sembroski, R. Srinivasan, T. C. Weekes, C. L. Wilson & J. Zweerink
doi:10.1038/383319a0
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| | Hard elastic carbon thin films from linking of carbon nanoparticles 321
G. A. J. Amaratunga, M. Chhowalla, C. J. Kiely, I. Alexandrou, R. Aharonov & R. M. Devenish
doi:10.1038/383321a0
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| | Scaling behaviour of heartbeat intervals obtained by wavelet-based time-series analysis 323
Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Michael G. Rosenblum, C.-K. Peng, Joseph Mietus, Shlomo Havlin, H. Eugene Stanley & Ary L. Goldberger
doi:10.1038/383323a0
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| | A mechanism for halogen release from sea-salt aerosol in the remote marine boundary layer 327
Rainer Vogt, Paul J. Crutzen & Rolf Sander
doi:10.1038/383327a0
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| | The role of heterotrophic bacteria in iron-limited ocean ecosystems 330
Philippe D. Tortell, Maria T. Maldonado & Nell M. Price
doi:10.1038/383330a0
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Engrailed-1 as a target of the Wnt-1 signalling pathway in vertebrate midbrain development 332
Paul S. Danielian & Andrew P. McMahon
doi:10.1038/383332a0
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| | Attentional resolution and the locus of visual awareness 334
Sheng He, Patrick Cavanagh & James Intriligator
doi:10.1038/383334a0
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| | Homodimeric architecture of a CIC-type chloride ion channel 337
Richard E. Middleton, Deborah J. Pheasant & Christopher Miller
doi:10.1038/383337a0
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| | Two physically distinct pores in the dimeric CIC-0 chloride channel 340
Uwe Ludewig, Michael Pusch & Thomas J. Jentsch
doi:10.1038/383340a0
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| | Cooperation of Stat2 and p300/CBP in signalling induced by interferon- 344
Shoumo Bhattacharya, Richard Eckner, Steven Grossman, Elizabeth Oldread, Zoltan Arany, Alan D'Andrea & David M. Livingston
doi:10.1038/383344a0
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| | Rhodopsin activation blocked by metal-ion-binding sites linking transmembrane helices C and F 347
Søren P. Sheikh, Tatyana A. Zvyaga, Olivier Lichtarge, Thomas P. Sakmar & Henry R. Bourne
doi:10.1038/383347a0
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| | Neutralizing antibody to human rhinovirus 14 penetrates the receptor-binding canyon 350
Thomas J. Smith, Elaine S. Chase, Timothy J. Schmidt, Norman H. Olson & Timothy S. Baker
doi:10.1038/383350a0
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| | Control of telomere growth by interactions of RAP1 with the most distal telomeric repeats 354
Anat Krauskopf & Elizabeth H. Blackburn
doi:10.1038/383354a0
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| | An RNA-export mediator with an essential nuclear export signal 357
Robert Murphy & Susan R. Wente
doi:10.1038/383357a0
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| | New laboratory technology 361
This installment looks at equipment such as dispersion technology for particle size measurement, a homologous time-resolved assay system for drug discovery, a carbon fibre potentiostat and a robotic perfusion system.
Brendan Norton
doi:10.1038/383361a0
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