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| | Collisions between science and media 745
Premature release of scientific results to the public is against the interests of scientists, journalists and the public. The use of embargoed press releases is beneficial, and helps the quality of coverage of science in the media.
doi:10.1038/383745a0
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| | Don't ban sceptics 745
Climatological lobbyists have given scepticism a bad name, and more credible criticism is at risk of suppression.
doi:10.1038/383745b0
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| | News | |
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| | NASA panel gives top priority to international satellite projects 747
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/383747a0
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| | TIGER tracks down tropical carbon fix 747
doi:10.1038/383747b0
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| | Delays in alternative tests defer animal ban 748
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383748a0
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| | Energy labs link up genome efforts 748
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383748b0
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| | Congress hearings used as 'scientific court' 749
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383749a0
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| | Maths gaffe may add up to negative votes 749
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/383749b0
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| | Berlin's universities face further cuts 749
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/383749c0
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| | Election tonic for Japanese science funding 750
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/383750a0
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| | Biologists call on Brussels to bolster basic research 750
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383750b0
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| | Nuclear waste plans enter critical phase 751
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/383751a0
PDF (947K)
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| | Rock laboratory faces key questions 752
EHSAN MASOOD
doi:10.1038/383752a0
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| | US panel approves salt bed burial in New Mexico 752
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383752b0
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| | Papal confession: Darwin was right about evolution 753
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383753a0
PDF (255K)
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| | Clinton woos women's votes with cancer genetics funds 753
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/383753b0
PDF (255K)
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| | BSE link prompts German vote on sheep 753
doi:10.1038/383753c0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 754
doi:10.1038/383754a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Plants condemned as pesticides 756
Henry I. Miller
doi:10.1038/383756a0
PDF (262K)
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| | Did the Romans exploit uranium? 756
Ken Tomabechi
doi:10.1038/383756b0
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| | Dousing the flame 756
Paolo Crosignani, Franco Berrino & Franco Rilke
doi:10.1038/383756c0
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| | Fishy fragments tip the scales 757
The discovery of 510-million-year-old skeletal fragments that are thought to belong to an early armoured fish — probably one of the earliest-known vertebrates — may change accepted ideas about the evolution of the vertebrate skeleton.
Philippe Janvier
doi:10.1038/383757a0
References | PDF (639K)
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| | Slow and steady spirals 758
Ellen G. Zweibel
doi:10.1038/383758a0
References | PDF (482K)
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| | How does morphine work? 759
Leslie L. Iversen
doi:10.1038/383759a0
References | PDF (812K)
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| | Random mask brightens image 760
Ted Dixon
doi:10.1038/383760a0
References | PDF (904K)
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| | Molecular sexing of birds 761
Kate Lessells & Christa Mateman
doi:10.1038/383761a0
References | PDF (619K)
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| | Changeable, with a chance of showers 762
Stephen Battersby
doi:10.1038/383762a0
PDF (274K)
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| | Reprogramming transcription 763
David W. Mount
doi:10.1038/383763a0
References | PDF (723K)
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| | Exploding electron bubbles 764
Peter McClintock
doi:10.1038/383764a0
References | PDF (633K)
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| | High hops of transgenic frogs 765
J. M. W. Slack
doi:10.1038/383765a0
References | PDF (589K)
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| | Hydrogen for ever! 766
David Jones
doi:10.1038/383766a0
PDF (267K)
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Insect protection against viruses 767
Jan O. Washburn, Bruce A. Kirkpatrick & Loy E. Volkman
doi:10.1038/383767a0
References | PDF (336K)
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| | HIV-1 subtype and second-receptor use 768
Linqi Zhang, Yaoxing Huang, Tian He, Yunzhen Cao & David D. Ho
doi:10.1038/383768a0
References | PDF (211K)
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| | Noise in human muscle spindles 769
Paul Cordo, J. Timothy Inglis, Sabine Verschueren, James J. Collins, Daniel M. Merfeld, Stuart Rosenblum, Scott Buckley & Frank Moss
doi:10.1038/383769a0
References | PDF (416K)
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| | Noise-enhanced tactile sensation 770
James J. Collins, Thomas T. Imhoff & Peter Grigg
doi:10.1038/383770a0
References | PDF (217K)
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| | Autumn Books | |
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| | The gospel of contingency 771
Christian de Duve
doi:10.1038/383771a0
PDF (549K)
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| | Why God plays dice 772
David Mermin
doi:10.1038/383772a0
PDF (261K)
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| | From the top down 772
Philip W. Anderson
doi:10.1038/383772b0
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| | 773
doi:10.1038/383773a0
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| | Cranks 0, Schoolboys 1 774
F. E. A. Johnson
doi:10.1038/383774a0
PDF (287K)
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| | Thought blocks 774
Alan Mackay
doi:10.1038/383774b0
PDF (287K)
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| | Artful communication 775
John Morton
doi:10.1038/383775a0
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doi:10.1038/383775b0
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| | Sport on the brain leads to pain 776
John C. Marshall
doi:10.1038/383776a0
PDF (234K)
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| | The specific notion 777
Fred S. Rosen
doi:10.1038/383777a0
PDF (267K)
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| | Tunnel vision 777
I. Bernard Weinstein
doi:10.1038/383777b0
PDF (743K)
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doi:10.1038/383778a0
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| | Rocket blast from the past 779
Michael J. Neufeld
doi:10.1038/383779a0
PDF (306K)
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| | To directly go 780
Christopher P. McKay
doi:10.1038/383780a0
PDF (423K)
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doi:10.1038/383780b0
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| | Environmentally friendly 781
Walt Patterson
doi:10.1038/383781a0
PDF (223K)
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| | Femme fatale? 781
Roy Porter
doi:10.1038/383781b0
PDF (575K)
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| | 782
doi:10.1038/383782a0
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| | Madness on trial 783
The case became a cause celebre for the vindication of a corporate pharmaceutical giant's cash cow, and a legal battle between free will and neurophilosophical reductionism.
Keri K. Gould
doi:10.1038/383783a0
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| | When litigation becomes a lottery 784
Lee Loevinger
doi:10.1038/383784a0
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doi:10.1038/383785a0
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| | Goodness denied 785
Frans B. M. de Waal
doi:10.1038/383785b0
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| | How the camel got his hump 786
Juliet Clutton-Brock
doi:10.1038/383786a0
PDF (274K)
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| | Functional diversity of helper T lymphocytes 787
Abul K. Abbas, Kenneth M. Murphy & Alan Sher
doi:10.1038/383787a0
Abstract & References | PDF (2,149K)
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| | Origin of floral asymmetry in Antirrhinum
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Da Luo, Rosemary Carpenter, Coral Vincent, Lucy Copsey & Enrico Coen
doi:10.1038/383794a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,654K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | Origin of the magnetic spiral arms in the galaxy NGC6946 800
Zuhui Fan & Yu-Qing Lou
doi:10.1038/383800a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (783K)
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| | Fluorescence intermittency in single cadmium selenide nanocrystals 802
M. Nirmal, B. O. Dabbousi, M. G. Bawendi, J. J. Macklin, J. K. Trautman, T. D. Harris & L. E. Brus
doi:10.1038/383802a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (675K)
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| | Efficient real-time confocal microscopy with white light sources 804
R. Ju kaitis, T. Wilson, M. A. A. Neil & M. Kozubek
doi:10.1038/383804a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (742K)
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| | Rapid changes in ocean circulation and heat flux in the Nordic seas during the last interglacial period 806
Torben Fronval & Eystein Jansen
doi:10.1038/383806a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,336K)
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| | A possible Late Cambrian vertebrate from Australia 810
Gavin C. Young, Valya N. Karatajute-Talimaa & Moya M. Smith
doi:10.1038/383810a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (974K)
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| | A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions 812
J. S. Morris, C. D. Frith, D. I. Perrett, D. Rowland, A. W. Young, A. J. Calder & R. J. Dolan
doi:10.1038/383812a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,129K)
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| | Precisely correlated firing in cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus 815
Jose-Manuel Alonso, W. Martin Usrey & R. Clay Reid
doi:10.1038/383815a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,397K)
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| | Loss of morphine-induced analgesia, reward effect and withdrawal symptoms in mice lacking the µ-opioid-receptor gene 819
Hans W. D. Matthes, Rafael Maldonado, Frédéric Simonin, Olga Valverde, Susan Slowe, Ian Kitchen, Katia Befort, Andrée Dierich, Marianne Le Meur, Pascal Dollé, Eleni Tzavara, Jacques Hanoune, Bernard P. Roques & Brigitte L. Kieffer
doi:10.1038/383819a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,527K)
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| | Imaging of radiocarbon-labelled tracer molecules in neural tissue using accelerator mass spectrometry 823
R. E. M. Hedges, Z. X. Jiang, C. Bronk Ramsey, A. Cowey, J. D. B. Roberts & P. Somogyi
doi:10.1038/383823a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,229K)
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| | The octadecanoid signalling pathway in plants mediates a response to ultraviolet radiation 826
Antonio Conconi, Michael J. Smerdon, Gregg A. Howe & Clarence A. Ryan
doi:10.1038/383826a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (997K)
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| | Insertional mutagenesis and rapid cloning of essential genes in zebrafish 829
Nicholas Gaiano, Adam Amsterdam, Koichi Kawakami, Miguel Allende, Thomas Becker & Nancy Hopkins
doi:10.1038/383829a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,120K)
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| | Partnership between DPC4 and SMAD proteins in TGF- signalling pathways 832
Giorgio Lagna, Akiko Hata, Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou & Joan Massagué
doi:10.1038/383832a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,340K)
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| | Rapid shuttling of NF-AT in discrimination of Ca2+ signals and immunosuppression 837
Luika A. Timmerman, Neil A. Clipstone, Steffan N. Ho, Jeffrey P. Northrop & Gerald R. Crabtree
doi:10.1038/383837a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (872K)
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| | A meiotic recombination checkpoint controlled by mitotic checkpoint genes 840
David Lydall, Yuri Nikolsky, Douglas K. Bishop & Ted Weinert
doi:10.1038/383840a0
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doi:10.1038/383844a0
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