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Nature is injecting increased effort into the readability of its papers. This is a task in which authors can help by trying out their texts on colleagues before submission.
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| | Winning is not everything 497
Germany is to use competitions to boost university−industry collaboration. The idea has merits — but also pitfalls.
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| | Missing dinosaur skulls raise new fears of smuggling in Moscow 499
Alison Abbott
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| | US drops patent claim to Hagahai cell line 500
Sally Lehrman
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| | Germany extends academic−industry competition plans 500
Alison Abbott
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| | NIH asked to budget for flat funding for management costs 501
MEREDITH WADMAN
doi:10.1038/384501a0
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| | Gibbons 'has no plans to leave government' 501
Colin Macilwain
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| | Commercial backing 'could impair academic influence" 501
Meredith Wadman
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| | US space programme 'should not centre on Mars life claims' 502
Tony Reichhardt
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| | Europe agrees a compromise on food labels 502
Declan Butler
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| | EU urges national action to police imports of genetically altered maize 502
DECLAN BUTLER
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| | Call for reform of scientific panels 503
DECLAN BUTLER
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| | Japan faces opposition over plan to raise tuition fees... 504
Richard Nathan
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| | ... as research funds take off again 504
RICHARD NATHAN
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| | Australian universities brace for higher fees after Senate vote 504
Peter Pockley
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| | Radiotelescopes face costs of complexity 505
Colin Macilwain
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| | News in brief 506
doi:10.1038/384506a0
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| | Divided by a common language 508
David S. Moulder
doi:10.1038/384508a0
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| | Divided by a common language 508
Carlo Ambrogi Lorenzini
doi:10.1038/384508b0
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| | Divided by a common language 508
Mike Hails (Hails, M. R.)
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| | Pump priming works in Singapore 508
Lee Kheng Cheok
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| | No relation 508
Charles Frank
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| | Nothing new 508
Gerald E. Smyth
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| | Paranoid about peer review? 509
Franklin D. Rumjanek
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| | South African priorities 509
Michael Kahn
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| | Mote and beam 509
George Magyar
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| | The Great Pyramids of Canada 510
Lars Osberg
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| | Theoretical papers 510
David M. Wilkinson
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| | Fact and fission 510
M. Goldhaber
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| | When Galileo met Ganymede 511
David J. Stevenson
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| | From the nose to the brain 512
Cori Bargmann
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| | Narrow in the beam 513
Stephen Battersby
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| | Watermarking by numbers 514
Jian Zhao
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| | Genes from zebrafish screens 515
Nigel Holder & Andrew McMahon
doi:10.1038/384515a0
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| | The F2 screen 516
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| | Train signals for electric fish 517
Len Maler
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| | Two faces are better than one 518
Bernard Malissen
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| | Inside stories 519
David Jones
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| | Abdus Salam (1926−96) 520
Seif Randjbar-Daemi
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| | Evolutionary handicap for turtles 521
Werner Schroth, Bruno Streit & Bernd Schierwater
doi:10.1038/384521a0
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| | Erratum 522
doi:10.1038/384522a0
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| | Human effect on global climate? 522
Patrick J. Michaels & Paul C. Knappenberger
doi:10.1038/384522b0
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| | Human effect on global climate? 523
Gerd R. Weber
doi:10.1038/384523a0
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| | Human effect on global climate? 524
Benjamin D. Santer, the 12 co-authors of ref. 1, James S. Boyle & David E. Parker
doi:10.1038/384524a0
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| | At ground zero 525
Daniel S. Greenberg reviews An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay
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Martin Harwit
doi:10.1038/384525a0
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| | Darwinism alive and well 526
James F. Crow reviews Selection: The Mechanism of Evolution
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Graham Bell, Graham Bell & George C. Williams
doi:10.1038/384526a0
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| | Oil in troubled waters 528
Peter Kassler reviews Perspectives of Oil and Gas: The Road to Interdependence
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Marcello Colitti & Claudio Simeoni
doi:10.1038/384528a0
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| | Christmas goodies 528
doi:10.1038/384528b0
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| | Host factors and the pathogenesis of HIV-induced disease 529
Anthony S. Fauci
doi:10.1038/384529a0
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| | Evidence for a magnetosphere at Ganymede from plasma-wave observations by the Galileo spacecraft 535
D. A. Gurnett, W. S. Kurth, A. Roux, S. J. Bolton & C. F. Kennel
doi:10.1038/384535a0
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| | Discovery of Ganymede's magnetic field by the Galileo spacecraft 537
M. G. Kivelson, K. K. Khurana, C. T. Russell, R. J. Walker, J. Warnecke, F. V. Coroniti, C. Polanskey, D. J. Southwood & G. Schubert
doi:10.1038/384537a0
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| | Gravitational constraints on the internal structure of Ganymede 541
J. D. Anderson, E. L. Lau, W. L. Sjogren, G. Schubert & W. B. Moore
doi:10.1038/384541a0
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| | The magnetic field and internal structure of Ganymede 544
Gerald Schubert, Keke Zhang, Margaret G. Kivelson & John D. Anderson
doi:10.1038/384544a0
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| | Relationship between melting and amorphization of ice 546
Osamu Mishima
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| | Mechanism of the biological response to winter cooling in the northeastern Arabian Sea 549
M. Madhupratap, S. Prasanna Kumar, P. M. A. Bhattathiri, M. Dileep Kumar, S. Raghukumar, K. K. C. Nair & N. Ramaiah
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| | Greater drought intensity and frequency before AD 1200 in the Northern Great Plains, USA 552
Kathleen R. Laird, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Kirk A. Maasch & Brian F. Cumming
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| | Fossils of large terrestrial arthropods from the Lower Devonian of Canada 555
William A. Shear, Patricia G. Gensel & Andrew J. Jeram
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| | Photorespiration protects C3 plants from photooxidation 557
Akiko Kozaki & Go Takeba
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| | Sensitization of meningeal sensory neurons and the origin of headaches 560
A. M. Strassman, S. A. Raymond & R. Burstein
doi:10.1038/384560a0
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| | From stimulus encoding to feature extraction in weakly electric fish 564
F. Gabbiani, W. Metzner, R. Wessel & C. Koch
doi:10.1038/384564a0
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| | Mutations in the kinase Rsk-2 associated with Coffin-Lowry syndrome 567
Elisabeth Trivier, Dario De Cesare, Sylvie Jacquot, Solange Pannetier, Elaine Zackai, Ian Young, Jean-Louis Mandel, Paolo Sassone-Corsi & André Hanauer
doi:10.1038/384567a0
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| | Requirement of the paraxis gene for somite formation and musculoskeletal patterning 570
Rob Burgess, Alan Rawls, Doris Brown, Allan Bradley & Eric N. Olson
doi:10.1038/384570a0
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| | Requirement for Brn-3.0 in differentiation and survival of sensory and motor neurons 574
Robert J. McEvilly, Linda Erkman, Lin Luo, Paul E. Sawchenko, Allen F. Ryan & Michael G. Rosenfeld
doi:10.1038/384574a0
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| | CD8 enhances formation of stable T-cell receptor/MHC class I molecule complexes 577
K. Christopher Garcia, Christopher A. Scott, Anders Brunmark, Francis R. Carbone, Per A. Peterson, Ian A. Wilson & Luc Teyton
doi:10.1038/384577a0
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| | Import of carrier proteins into the mitochondrial inner membrane mediated by Tim22 582
Christian Sirrenberg, Matthias F. Bauer, Bernard Guiard, Walter Neupert & Michael Brunner
doi:10.1038/384582a0
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| | Translocation arrest of an intramitochondrial sorting signal next to Tim11 at the inner-membrane import site 585
Kostas Tokatlidis, Tina Junne, Suzette Moes, Gottfried Schatz & Benjamin S. Glick
doi:10.1038/384585a0
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| | The histone deacetylase RPD3 counteracts genomic silencing in Drosophila and yeast 589
Francesco De Rubertis, David Kadosh, Sandra Henchoz, Daniel Pauli, Gunter Reuter, Kevin Struhl & Pierre Spierer
doi:10.1038/384589a0
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| | Crystal structure of the GTPase-activating domain of human p120GAP and implications for the interaction with Ras 591
Klaus Scheffzek, Alfred Lautwein, Wolfgang Kabsch, Mohammad Reza Ahmadian & Alfred Wittinghofer
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wingless refines its own expression domain on the Drosophila wing margin 597
Eric J. Rulifson, Craig A. Micchelli, Jeffrey D. Axelrod, Norbert Perrimon & Seth S. Blair
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| | Guide to authors of contributions to Nature
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