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| | Science Wars and the need for respect and rigour 373
Dubious claims that science is a purely social construction are not representative of all 'science studies'. But 'constructivism' should not be dismissed if science wishes to strengthen its role in society.
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| | Republican senators promote a doubling of funds for research 375
Tony Reichhardt
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| | Insurance levy could fund medical centres 375
Meredith Wadman
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| | Health scientists strike over cuts at Argentinian labs 376
Ehsan Masood
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| | First German BSE case worries consumers 376
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| | Study discloses financial interests behind papers 376
Meredith Wadman
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| | UCSF settles lawsuit over research costs 377
Rex Dalton
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| | UK's top research groups win extra funds 377
Claire O'Brien
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| | French museum 'in decay' fights for its life 378
Declan Butler
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| | Pig heart transplant surgeon held in jail 378
K. S. Jayaraman
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| | Japan's demography poses questions for old and young alike 379
David Swinbanks
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| | Canada and France fall out over the risks of asbestos 379
Declan Butler & David Spurgeon
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| | ESA plans put solar science out of orbit 380
Alison Abbott
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| | Mission made possible: the miracle mirror 380
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| | The 'Sokal affair' takes transatlantic turn 381
David Dickson
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 382
doi:10.1038/385382a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Peer reviewers could do much better 384
Simon Wain-Hobson
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| | Unitary construction 384
Jeffrey B. Miller
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| | Not 0 but O 384
Friedrich Katscher
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| | Ways to surmount the language barrier 385
David S. Moulder
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| | NO prizes 385
Magdi Yacoub & Julia M. Polak
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| | South Africa 385
Luis B. Honwana
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| | Ground rules 385
Eugenio L. de Hostos
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| | Stone Age confusion 385
A. John MacLennan
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| | Jet propulsion is essential for young stars 387
Many young stars are observed to emit fast-flowing jets of material. A new model of how they are generated confirms the suspicion that episodic jets are an unavoidable consequence of star formation.
David A. Clarke
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| | New wrinkles in cytokinesis 388
Julie A. Theriot & Lisa L. Satterwhite
doi:10.1038/385388a0
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| | Bottom line for hydrocarbons 389
Ian R. MacDonald
doi:10.1038/385389a0
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| | Structure of a molecular hole-punch 390
Mark S. P. Sansom
doi:10.1038/385390a0
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| | Help from within for damaged axons 391
Yves-Alain Barde
doi:10.1038/385391a0
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| | Near to the edge of an ice sheet 393
Steven W. Hostetler
doi:10.1038/385393a0
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| | Integration hot-spot gets hotter 394
Kathleen Dunlap
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| | A kinase with keen eyes 397
Jonathan D. G. Jones
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| | Creation in silicon 399
John L. Casti
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| | Celestial torque 399
David Jones
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| | Carl Sagan (1934−96)Astronomer and popularizer of science 400
Joseph A. Burns
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| | Oldest record of a bisexual plant 401
Monique Feist & Raimund Feist
doi:10.1038/385401a0
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| | Blindsight in normal subjects? 401
M. J. Morgan, A. J. S. Mason & J. A. Solomon
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| | Heritabilities and paradigm shifts 402
Rauno V. Alatalo, Johanna Mappes & Mark A. Elgar
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| | Almost airborne 403
Melissa G. Kramer & James H. Marden
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| | Nitrification in Antarctic soils 404
K. Wilson, J. I. Sprent & D. W. Hopkins
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| | When superstition displaces science 405
Martin Gardner reviews Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic and Science from Antiquity to the New Age
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Anthony Aveni
doi:10.1038/385405a0
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| | Dabbling in the world of the waterfowl 405
doi:10.1038/385405b0
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| | One of the greats 406
J. C. R. Hunt reviews The Life and Legacy of G. I. Taylor
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George Batchelor
doi:10.1038/385406a0
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| | After the Ark 407
Martin Rudwick reviews Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought
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Norman Cohn
doi:10.1038/385407a0
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| | Diving to the depths in pursuit of history 407
doi:10.1038/385407b0
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| | Take a nature walk on the ocean floor 408
Peter G. Brewer reviews Oceanography: An Illustrated Guide
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C. P. Summerhayes & S.A. Thorpe
doi:10.1038/385408a0
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| | Episodic jets from black holes and protostars 409
Rachid Ouyed, Ralph E. Pudritz & James M. Stone
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| | Large-scale magnetic fields in the outflow from the young stellar object T Tauri S 415
T. P. Ray, T. W. B. Muxlow, D. J. Axon, A. Brown, D. Corcoran, J. Dyson & R. Mundt
doi:10.1038/385415a0
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| | Phase measurement in a quantum dot via a double-slit interference experiment 417
R. Schuster, E. Buks, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu, V. Umansky & Hadas Shtrikman
doi:10.1038/385417a0
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| | Bacterial templating of ordered macrostructures in silica and silica-surfactant mesophases 420
Sean A. Davis, Sandra L. Burkett, Neil H. Mendelson & Stephen Mann
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| | Exceptionally steep north−south gradients in lake temperatures during the last deglaciation 423
André J. Levesque, Les C. Cwynar & Ian R. Walker
doi:10.1038/385423a0
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| | Direct measurement of in situ methane quantities in a large gas-hydrate reservoir 426
Gerald R. Dickens, Charles K. Paull & Paul Wallace
doi:10.1038/385426a0
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| | A new Late Eocene anthropoid primate from Thailand 429
Yaowalak Chaimanee, Varavudh Suteethorn, Jean-Jacques Jaeger & Stéphane Ducrocq
doi:10.1038/385429a0
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| | Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses 432
Risto Näätänen, Anne Lehtokoski, Mietta Lennes, Marie Cheour, Minna Huotilainen, Antti Iivonen, Martti Vainio, Paavo Alku, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Aavo Luuk, Jüri Allik, Janne Sinkkonen & Kimmo Alho
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| | Bcl-2 promotes regeneration of severed axons in mammalian CNS 434
Dong Feng Chen, Gerald E. Schneider, Jean-Claude Martinou & Susumu Tonegawa
doi:10.1038/385434a0
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| | Competitive binding of  -actinin and calmodulin to the NMDA receptor 439
Michael Wyszynski, Jerry Lin, Anuradha Rao, Elizabeth Nigh, Alan H. Beggs, Ann Marie Craig & Morgan Sheng
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| | Crosstalk between G proteins and protein kinase C mediated by the calcium channel 1 subunit 442
Gerald W. Zamponi, Emmanuel Bourinet, Donald Nelson, Joel Nargeot & Terry P. Snutch
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| | Direct binding of G-protein   complex to voltage-dependent calcium channels 446
Michel De Waard, Hongyan Liu, Denise Walker, Victoria E. S. Scott, Christina A. Gurnett & Kevin P. Campbell
doi:10.1038/385446a0
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| | Traction forces of cytokinesis measured with optically modified elastic substrata 450
Kevin Burton & D. Lansing Taylor
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| | HOX11 interacts with protein phosphatases PP2A and PP1 and disrupts a G2/M cell-cycle checkpoint 454
Takumi Kawabe, Anthony J. Muslin & Stanley J. Korsmeyer
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| | The structure of the GTPase-activating domain from p50rhoGAP 458
Tracey Barrett, Bing Xiao, Eleanor J. Dodson, Guy Dodson, Steven B. Ludbrook, Kurshid Nurmahomed , Steven J. Gamblin, Andrea Musacchio, Stephen J. Smerdon & John F. Eccleston
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| | Crystal structure of colicin Ia 461
Michael Wiener, Douglas Freymann, Partho Ghosh & Robert M. Stroud
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| | New on the Market | |
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| | Biotechnology in brief 465
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