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| | Making ends meet in South Africa 1
As it struggles to overcome the legacy of apartheid, South Africa needs to protect and strengthen the most productive parts of its science base. That requires a tough approach to the redistribution of resources – and determination to tackle big spenders.
doi:10.1038/384001a0
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| | Peer review and the courts 1
Despite an out-of-court settlement last week, science must not rely on litigation to keep its house in order.
doi:10.1038/384001b0
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| | British scientists seek recognition of role in "life on Mars' debate 3
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/384003a0
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| | as NASA's claims win few converts 3
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/384003b0
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| | Settlement deprives peer review of its day in court 4
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/384004a0
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| | German physicians warn of genetics risks 5
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/384005a0
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| | Russian academy opts again for Osipov 5
doi:10.1038/384005b0
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| | 'Ambition and impatience' blamed for fraud 6
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/384006a0
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| | Scientists 'too quick' to back claims 6
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/384006b0
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| | British ruling supports legal challenge to broad patents 7
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/384007a0
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| | Brussels inquiry criticizes BSE secrecy 8
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/384008a0
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| | Australian reef fisheries project swims for survival 9
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/384009a0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 10
doi:10.1038/384010a0
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| | Briefings | |
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| | Change comes slowly to South Africa 11
Reviving the fortunes of South African science after years of political isolation is proving an uphill task. The needs are enormous, while funding remains as tight as ever. Nevertheless many researchers remain optimistic.
doi:10.1038/384011a0
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| | Hopes rise for redistribution of funds 12
doi:10.1038/384012a0
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| | Research flourishes, even in harsh climate 13
doi:10.1038/384013a0
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| | All change for university funding? 13
doi:10.1038/384013b0
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| | Education reforms struggle against apartheid's legacy 14
doi:10.1038/384014a0
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| | Restructuring plans could revitalize museums' role 15
doi:10.1038/384015a0
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| | International links help to overcome years of isolation 15
doi:10.1038/384015b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | No maternal transmission? 17
R. M. Ridley & H. F. Baker
doi:10.1038/384017a0
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| | The problem with MAFF 17
Gerald C. Coles
doi:10.1038/384017b0
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| | Nicotine, tobacco and addiction 18
Mark Griffiths
doi:10.1038/384018a0
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| | Nicotine, tobacco and addiction 18
R. Doug Shytle, Archie A. Silver & Paul R. Sanberg
doi:10.1038/384018b0
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| | Strange characters 19
Keld Sorensen
doi:10.1038/384019a0
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| | First, teach the teachers 20
John Kirkman
doi:10.1038/384020a0
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| | All the lab's a stage 20
Henry I. Miller
doi:10.1038/384020b0
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| | Divided by a common language 20
A. J. van Loon
doi:10.1038/384020c0
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| | The earliest memories of life on Earth 21
How old is life on Earth? Its chemical traces may have been recognized in rocks from Greenland that are more than 3.8 billion years old, at least 300 million years older than any previous evidence.
John M. Hayes
doi:10.1038/384021a0
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| | X-ray lenses near reality 22
Jerome Hastings
doi:10.1038/384022a0
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| | Signalling the fat controller 23
Charles N. Serhan
doi:10.1038/384023a0
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| | A new wave for heart rhythms 24
Bernard Attali
doi:10.1038/384024a0
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| | Push and pull of base flipping 25
Thomas A. Kunkel & Samuel H. Wilson
doi:10.1038/384025a0
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| | Four pins for four petals 26
Alison Mitchell
doi:10.1038/384026a0
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| | The buzz about pollination 27
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/384027a0
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| | A new turn for Archimedes 28
David Hoffman
doi:10.1038/384028a0
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| | Olbers' uproar 29
David Jones
doi:10.1038/384029a0
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| | Stuart Piggott (1910–96) 30
Sara Champion
doi:10.1038/384030a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Competition for royalty in bees 31
Robin F. A. Moritz, Per Kryger & Mike H. Allsopp
doi:10.1038/384031a0
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| | Effect of natural tetrafluoromethane 32
J. Harnisch, R. Borchers, P. Fabian, H. W. Gäggeler & U. Schotterer
doi:10.1038/384032a0
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| | Dwarf mice and the ageing process 33
Holly M. Brown-Borg, Kurt E. Borg, Charles J. Meliska & Andrzej Bartke
doi:10.1038/384033a0
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| | Aminoacylation error correction 33
Laura Lin, Stephen P. Hale & Paul Schimmel
doi:10.1038/384033b0
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| | Looking back in anger 35
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
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doi:10.1038/384035a0
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| | Also on the dark side 36
doi:10.1038/384036a0
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| | Myths about a polymath 36
Arrhenius: From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect
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doi:10.1038/384036b0
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| | To sleep, perchance to learn 37
The Enchanted World of Sleep
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doi:10.1038/384037a0
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| | and writing, reading, talking 37
doi:10.1038/384037b0
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| | Building planetary surfaces 38
Volcanoes of the Solar System
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doi:10.1038/384038a0
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| | Back on Earth (in paperback) 38
doi:10.1038/384038b0
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| | The PPAR –leukotriene B4 pathway to inflammation control 39
Pallavi R. Devchand, Hansjörg Keller, Jeffrey M. Peters, Manuel Vazquez, Frank J. Gonzalez & Walter Wahli
doi:10.1038/384039a0
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| | Detection of high-velocity 26AI towards the Galactic Centre 44
Juan E. Naya, Scott D. Barthelmy, Lyle M. Bartlett, Neil Gehrels, Marvin Leventhal, Ann Parsons, Bonnard J. Teegarden & Jack Tueller
doi:10.1038/384044a0
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| | Secular changes in the xenon and krypton abundances in the solar wind recorded in single lunar grains 46
Rainer Wieler, Karl Kehm, Alexander P. Meshik & Charles M. Hohenberg
doi:10.1038/384046a0
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| | A compound refractive lens for focusing high-energy X-rays 49
A. Snigirev, V. Kohn, I. Snigireva & B. Lengeler
doi:10.1038/384049a0
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| | Mapping stress with ultrasound 52
Eva Drescher-Krasicka & J. R. Willis
doi:10.1038/384052a0
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| | Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago 55
S. J. Mojzsis, G. Arrhenius, K. D. McKeegan, T. M. Harrison, A. P. Nutman & C. R. L. Friend
doi:10.1038/384055a0
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| | Activation of floral meristem identity genes in Arabidopsis
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Rüdiger Simon, M. Isabel Igeño & George Coupland
doi:10.1038/384059a0
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| | Initiation of vertebrate left–right axis formation by maternal Vg1 62
Brian A. Hyatt, Jamie L. Lohr & H. Joseph Yost
doi:10.1038/384062a0
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| | Fatal haemorrhage and incomplete block to embryogenesis in mice lacking coagulation factor V 66
Jisong Cui, K. Sue O'Shea, Anjali Purkayastha, Thomas L. Saunders & David Ginsburg
doi:10.1038/384066a0
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| | Synpolydactyly in mice with a targeted deficiency in the HoxD complex 69
József Zákány & Denis Duboule
doi:10.1038/384069a0
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wingless refines its own expression domain on the Drosophila wing margin 72
Eric J. Rulifson, Craig A. Micchelli, Jeffrey D. Axelrod, Norbert Perrimon & Seth S. Blair
doi:10.1038/384072a0
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| | Shared neural control of attentional shifts and eye movements 74
Alexander A. Kustov & David Lee Robinson
doi:10.1038/384074a0
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| | KvLQT1 and IsK (minK) proteins associate to form the I
KS cardiac potassium current 78
Jacques Barhanin, Florian Lesage, Eric Guillemare, Michel Fink, Michel Lazdunski & Georges Romey
doi:10.1038/384078a0
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| | Coassembly of KVLQT1 and minK (IsK) proteins to form cardiac I
KS potassium channel 80
M. C. Sanguinetti, M. E. Curran, A. Zou, J. Shen, P. S. Specter, D. L. Atkinson & M. T. Keating
doi:10.1038/384080a0
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| | Molecular characterization of an enzyme that degrades neuromodulatory fatty-acid amides 83
Benjamin F. Cravatt, Dan K. Giang, Stephen P. Mayfield, Dale L. Boger, Richard A. Lerner & Norton B. Gilula
doi:10.1038/384083a0
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| | A nucleotide-flipping mechanism from the structure of human uracil–DNA glycosylase bound to DNA 87
Geir Slupphaug, Clifford D. Mol, Bodil Kavli, Andrew S. Arvai, Hans E. Krokan & John A. Tainer
doi:10.1038/384087a0
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