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| | Rethinking on weapons clean-up 365
Science can make a critical contribution to the massive US effort to clean up sites once devoted to manufacturing nuclear armaments — but only if the Department of Energy is effectively reformed.
doi:10.1038/383365a0
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| | Closure of astrophysics laboratory blamed on Enola Gay 'fallout' 367
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383367a0
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| | Governor blocks genetic property right 367
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/383367b0
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| | ESA faces economies to pay for Anane launch failure 368
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/383368a0
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| | Bioeihics group finds
'no objection' to human gene patents 368
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383368b0
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| | Bias alleged in Japanese university awards 369
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/383369a0
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| | French scientists rally against racist claim 369
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/383369b0
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| | Loans may keep CERN collider on target 370
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383370a0
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| | 370
doi:10.1038/383370b0
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| | US review to examine university research 370
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/383370c0
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| | Popularity puts growing strain on Brussels 371
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383371a0
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| | UK medical chief suggests 'safe' does not mean 'no risk' 371
doi:10.1038/383371b0
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| | From solar energy to gamma-ray 'telescope' 372
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/383372a0
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| | NASA asks academy for space priorities 372
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/383372b0
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| | Doubts cast on Chernobyl safety claims 372
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/383372c0
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| | US increases health funds but ducks AIDS allocation 373
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/383373a0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 374
doi:10.1038/383374a0
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| | Briefings | |
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| | Science seeks weapons clean-up role 375
Cleaning up the legacy of US nuclear weapons production is now the largest environmental project in the world. But science is finding it difficult to contribute to closing the circle opened by the Manhattan Project.
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383375a0
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| | Russian waste goes to ground 376
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383376a0
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| | Hanford faces up to its nuclear hangover 377
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383377a0
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| | Research could realize elusive goals 378
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383378a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Concentrating the mind 381
Stuart Martin
doi:10.1038/383381a0
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| | Concentrating the mind 381
Michael Mclntyre
doi:10.1038/383381b0
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| | Concentrating the mind 381
Richard Wassersug
doi:10.1038/383381c0
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| | Unscientific speculation 381
Yasuhara Tokuda
doi:10.1038/383381d0
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| | Logical conclusion 381
John Godfrey
doi:10.1038/383381e0
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| | Storm in a teacup 381
Ajoy Baksi
doi:10.1038/383381f0
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| | Train of thought 381
Michael Rodgers
doi:10.1038/383381g0
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| | International PhD standards 382
David W. Fountain
doi:10.1038/383382a0
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| | Proving difficult 382
Brian D. Josephson
doi:10.1038/383382b0
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| | True but strange? 383
George Vithoulkas
doi:10.1038/383383a0
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| | Search strategies the answer 384
Stephen M. Smith
doi:10.1038/383384a0
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| | Search strategies the answer 384
Achim Th. Schäfer
doi:10.1038/383384b0
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| | Search strategies the answer 384
Bernadette Coles
doi:10.1038/383384c0
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| | Search strategies the answer 384
Oliver Dearlove
doi:10.1038/383384d0
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| | Never say never? 384
Michael Katz
doi:10.1038/383384e0
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| | Old fossils could be fractal frauds 385
Well, are they or aren't they? The debate over whether some of the accretions known as stromatolites are really of biological origin, and thus can provide information about the early history of life on Earth, takes a fresh turn.
Malcolm Walter
doi:10.1038/383385a0
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| | A-bombs against amphibians 386
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/383386a0
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| | Stirrings of the Galactic heart 389
Mark Morris
doi:10.1038/383389a0
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| | Making connections count 390
Douglas A. Lauffenburger
doi:10.1038/383390a0
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| | Revolution in magneto-optics 391
J. A. C. Bland
doi:10.1038/383391a0
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| | Help from fast synapses 393
Erwin Neher
doi:10.1038/383393a0
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| | A keener eye than EGRET 394
Peter J. T. Leonard
doi:10.1038/383394a0
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| | Unwrapping myelination 395
Greg Lemke
doi:10.1038/383395a0
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| | Elevated art 396
David Jones
doi:10.1038/383396a0
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| | Penguin dispersal after fledging 397
Gerald L. Kooyman, Tory G. Kooyman, Markus Horning & Carsten A. Kooyman
doi:10.1038/383397a0
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| | Optical fibres in an Antarctic sponge 397
R. Cattaneo-Vietti, G. Bavestrello, C. Cerrano, M. Sarà, U. Benatti, M. Giovine & E. Gaino
doi:10.1038/383397b0
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| | Distant gene flow in tropical trees 398
M. R. Chase, C. Moller, R. Kesseli & K. S. Bawa
doi:10.1038/383398a0
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| | HIV blocked by chemokine antagonist 400
Fernando Arenzana-Seisdedos, Jean-Louis Virelizier, Dominique Rousset, Ian Clark-Lewis, Pius Loetscher, Bernhard Moser & Marco Baggiolini
doi:10.1038/383400a0
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| | Discovery of hardest known oxide 401
J. M. Léger, J. Haines, M. Schmidt, J. P. Petitet, A. S. Pereira & J. A. H. da Jornada
doi:10.1038/383401a0
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| | Chlorophyll d as a major pigment 402
Hideaki Miyashita, Hisato Ikemoto, Norihide Kurano, Kyoko Adachi, Mitsuo Chihara & Shigetoh Miyachi
doi:10.1038/383402a0
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Between a rock and a hard place 403
Anthony F. Aveni reviews Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos
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John North
doi:10.1038/383403a0
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Technology drive 405
Maurice V. Wilkes reviews Computer: A History of the Information Machine
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Martin Campbell-Kelly & William Aspray
doi:10.1038/383405a0
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Scientific ruralism 406
David Coleman reviews The Human Biology of the English Village
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G. Ainsworth Harrison
doi:10.1038/383406a0
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| | Cyclopia and defective axial patterning in mice lacking Sonic hedgehog gene function 407
Chin Chiang, Ying Litingtung, Eric Lee, Keith E. Young, Jeffrey L Corden, Heiner Westphal & Philip A. Beachy
doi:10.1038/383407a0
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| | Observations of stellar
proper motions
near the Galactic Centre 415
A. Eckart & R. Genzel
doi:10.1038/383415a0
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| | Spectroscopic evidence for interstellar ices in comet Hyakutake 418
William M. Irvine, Dominique Bockelee-Morvan, Dariusz C. Lis, Henry E. Matthews, Nicolas Biver, Jacques Crovisier, John K. Davies, William R. F. Dent, Daniel Gautier, Peter D. Godfrey, Jocelyn Keene, Amy J. Lovell, Tobias C. Owen, Thomas G. Phillips, Heike Rauer, F. Peter
Schloerb, Matthew Senay & Kenneth Young
doi:10.1038/383418a0
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| | Possible contribution of a metal-rich magmatic fluid to a sea-floor hydrothermal system 420
Kaihui Yang & Steven D. Scott
doi:10.1038/383420a0
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| | An abiotic model for stromatolite morphogenesis 423
John P. Grotzinger & Daniel H. Rothman
doi:10.1038/383423a0
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| | Evidence for a sound
movement area in
the human cerebral cortex 425
Timothy D. Griffiths, Adrian Rees, Caroline Witton, Ra'ad A. Shakir, G. Bruce Henning & Gary G. R. Green
doi:10.1038/383425a0
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| | Disruption of auditory spatial working memory by inactivation of the forebrain archistriatum in barn owls 428
Eric I. Knudsen & Phyllis F. Knudsen
doi:10.1038/383428a0
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| | Calcium influx and transmitter release in a fast CNS synapse 431
J. G. G. Borst & B. Sakmann
doi:10.1038/383431a0
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| | Superoxide dismutase protects calcineurin from inactivation 434
Xutong Wang, Valeria C. Culotta & Claude B. Klee
doi:10.1038/383434a0
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| | Ligand binding regulates the directed movement of  1 integrins on fibroblasts 438
Dan P. Felsenfeld, Daniel Choquet & Michael P. Sheetz
doi:10.1038/383438a0
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| | The serpin PAI-1 inhibits cell migration by blocking integrin  v3 binding to vitronectin 441
Steingrimur Stefansson & Daniel A. Lawrence
doi:10.1038/383441a0
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| | TRAF6 is a signal transducer for interleukin-1 443
Zhaodan Cao, Jessie Xiong, Masahiro Takeuchi, Takeshi Kurama & David V. Goeddel
doi:10.1038/383443a0
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| | -Arrestin acts as a clathrin adaptor in endocytosis of the 2-adrenergic receptor 447
Oscar B. Goodman Jr, Jason G. Krupnick, Francesca Santini, Vsevolod V. Gurevich, Raymond B. Penn, Alison W. Gagnon, James H. Keen & Jeffrey L. Benovic
doi:10.1038/383447a0
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| | Activation of specific RXR heterodimers by an antagonist of RXR homodimers 450
Deepak S. Lala, Ranjan Mukherjee, Ira G. Schulman, Stacie S. Canan Koch, Laura J. Dardashti, Alex M. Nadzan, Glenn E. Croston, Ronald M. Evans & Richard A. Heyman
doi:10.1038/383450a0
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| | A new group of conserved coactivators that increase the specificity of AP-1 transcription factors 453
François-Xavier Claret, Masahiko Hibi, Susheela Dhut, Takashi Toda & Michael Karin
doi:10.1038/383453a0
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| | Complex burrows of the mud shrimp Callianassa truncata and their geochemical impact in the sea bed 457
W. Ziebis, S. Forster, M. Huettel & B. B. Jørgensen
doi:10.1038/383457a0
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| | Requirement of mammalian DNA polymerase- in base-excision repair 457
Robert W. Sobol, Julie K. Norton, Ralf Kühn, Hua Gu, Rakesh K. Singhal, Rajendra Prasad, Klaus Rajewsky & Samuel H. Wilson
doi:10.1038/383457b0
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doi:10.1038/383458a0
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| | Molecular medley 459
Techniques and technology for the molecular biologist — prepoured, polyacrylamide gels for DNA sequencing, a universal support for DNA synthesis, a baculovirus expression system, a telomerase detection kit and cDNA synthesis kits.
Brendan Norton
doi:10.1038/383459a0
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