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| | The importance of coherent defence strategies 421
Astronomers served by the European Space Agency run the risk of undermining their own future by undue criticism of it, and by underestimating the obstacles to imitating NASA.
doi:10.1038/386421a0
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| | Will Japan's money for science be short lived? 421
Japan's scientists should take note of criticism of the Japan Key Technology Centre.
doi:10.1038/386421b0
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| | Planning rejection leaves British nuclear waste plans in disarray 423
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/386423a0
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doi:10.1038/386423b0
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| | Japanese technology fund faces ministry criticism 424
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/386424a0
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| | Pay rises eat into South African budget 425
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/386425a0
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| | Developing world wired up to molecular data 425
doi:10.1038/386425b0
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| | France urged to head 'Rubbiatron' efforts 426
Eric Glover
doi:10.1038/386426a0
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| | Closure looms for Hungarian institutes 426
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/386426b0
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| | New challenge to nuclear test facility 427
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/386427a0
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| | White House science office 'needs more focus', says panel 427
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/386427b0
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| | MPs warn of threat to the science base 428
doi:10.1038/386428a0
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| | US National Science Board seeks a wider role in policy-making 428
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/386428b0
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| | News in brief 429
doi:10.1038/386429a0
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| | Advantage of knowing nature's secrets 431
Michael J. Taggart
doi:10.1038/386431a0
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| | Advantage of knowing nature's secrets 431
Mike Fainzilber
doi:10.1038/386431b0
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| | Advantage of knowing nature's secrets 431
Francis Galibert, Jacqueline Godet, Jean-Claude Kader & Jean-Antoine Lepesant
doi:10.1038/386431c0
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| | Advantage of knowing nature's secrets 431
Giles Shaw & Jeremy Bray
doi:10.1038/386431d0
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| | Advantage of knowing nature's secrets 431
Sidney Strickland
doi:10.1038/386431e0
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| | Unfair treatment 432
V. D. R. Nathan
doi:10.1038/386432a0
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| | Unfair treatment 432
Hernan Terenzi
doi:10.1038/386432b0
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| | Unfair treatment 432
Christine Clayton
doi:10.1038/386432c0
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| | Life imitating art? 432
Charles M. Strom
doi:10.1038/386432d0
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| | Not too old at 30 433
Gina Clayton
doi:10.1038/386433a0
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| | Scientists are still keeping the faith 435
Although the suggestion eighty years ago that four in ten scientists did not believe in God or an afterlife was astounding to contemporaries, the fact that so many scientists believe in God today is equally surprising.
Edward J. Larson & Larry Witham
doi:10.1038/386435a0
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| | Cutting complexity down to size 437
The proteasome is the most complex eukaryotic macromolecular assembly yet seen in fine detail. The structure reveals completely unexpected mechanisms by which the proteasome neatly chops up unwanted proteins for disposal or display to the immune system.
David I. Stuart & E. Yvonne Jones
doi:10.1038/386437a0
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| | SN1987A enters its second decade 438
Richard McCray
doi:10.1038/386438a0
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| | Patterns of stress in crumpled sheets 439
Gerhard Gompper
doi:10.1038/386439a0
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| | Scaling ridges 441
Gerhard Gompper
doi:10.1038/386441a0
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| | Another opiate for the masses? 442
David Julius
doi:10.1038/386442a0
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| | The origin of maize branches out 443
Rob Martienssen
doi:10.1038/386443a0
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| | Diagnostics of the power supply 445
Willem A. Baan
doi:10.1038/386445a0
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doi:10.1038/386445b0
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| | Viral decoy vetoes killer cell 446
Klas Kärre & Raymond M. Welsh
doi:10.1038/386446a0
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| | Water, Water everywhere 447
David Jones
doi:10.1038/386447a0
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| | Robert Henry Dicke (1916−97) Physicist whose work led to the discovery of the cosmic microwave background 448
P. J. E. Peebles & D. T. Wilkinson
doi:10.1038/386448a0
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| | Source of volcanic glass for ancient Andean tools 449
Sarah Osgood Brooks, Michael D. Glascock & Martín Giesso
doi:10.1038/386449a0
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| | Infanticide caused by hunting of male bears 450
Jon E. Swenson, Finn Sandegren, Arne Söderberg, Anders Bjärvall, Robert Franzén & Petter Wabakken
doi:10.1038/386450a0
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| | A plant cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor gene 451
Hong Wang, Larry C. Fowke & William L. Crosby
doi:10.1038/386451a0
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| | Determining cortical landscapes 452
Jack W. Scannell
doi:10.1038/386452a0
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| | The policy intellectual 453
Howard P. Segal reviews David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal
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Steven M. Neuse
doi:10.1038/386453a0
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| | Darwin on the brain 454
Steven Rose reviews Evolutionary Psychiatry: A New Beginning
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Anthony Stevens & John Price
doi:10.1038/386454a0
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| | New in paperback 454
doi:10.1038/386454b0
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| | Back to the roots of botany in China 455
Mark F. Watson reviews A Botanical Ploneer In South West China
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Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti & David Winstanley
doi:10.1038/386455a0
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| | A revolution in evolution 456
Svante Pääbo reviews Patterns in Evolution: The New Molecular View
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Roger Lewin
doi:10.1038/386456a0
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| | Easter eggs 456
doi:10.1038/386456b0
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| | Mind over matter 456
Philip W. Anderson reviews The Large, the Small and the Human Mind
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Roger Penrose
doi:10.1038/386456c0
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| | Maximal sustained energy budgets in humans and animals 457
Kimberly A. Hammond & Jared Diamond
doi:10.1038/386457a0
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| | Structure of 20S proteasome from yeast at 2.4Å resolution 463
Michael Groll, Lars Ditzel, Jan Löwe, Daniela Stock, Matthias Bochtler, Hans D. Bartunik & Robert Huber
doi:10.1038/386463a0
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| | A starburst origin of the OH-megamaser emission from the galaxy Arp220 472
C. J. Skinner, H. A. Smith, E. Sturm, M. J. Barlow, R. J. Cohen & G. J. Stacey
doi:10.1038/386472a0
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| | Individual single-wall carbon nanotubes as quantum wires 474
Sander J. Tans, Michel H. Devoret, Hongjie Dai, Andreas Thess, Richard E. Smalley, L. J. Geerligs & Cees Dekker
doi:10.1038/386474a0
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| | Control of spatial orientation and lifetime of scroll rings in excitable media 477
Michael Vinson, Sergey Mironov, Scott Mulvey & Arkady Pertsov
doi:10.1038/386477a0
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| | Distribution and cycling of terrigenous dissolved organic matter in the ocean 480
Stephen Opsahl & Ronald Benner
doi:10.1038/386480a0
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| | Effect of mechanical interactions on the scaling of fracture length and aperture 482
C. E. Renshaw & J. C. Park
doi:10.1038/386482a0
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| | The evolution of apical dominance in maize 485
John Doebley, Adrian Stec & Lauren Hubbard
doi:10.1038/386485a0
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| | A common precursor for primitive erythropoiesis and definitive haematopoiesis 488
Marion Kennedy, Meri Firpo, Kyunghee Choi, Charles Wall, Scott Robertson, Neil Kabrun & Gordon Keller
doi:10.1038/386488a0
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| | More hippocampal neurons in adult mice living in an enriched environment 493
Gerd Kempermann, H. Georg Kuhn & Fred H. Gage
doi:10.1038/386493a0
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| | Deactivation and reactivation of somatosensory cortex after dorsal spinal cord injury 495
Neeraj Jain, Kenneth C. Catania & Jon H. Kaas
doi:10.1038/386495a0
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| | A potent and selective endogenous agonist for the µ-opiate receptor 499
James E. Zadina, Laszlo Hackler, Lin-Jun Ge & Abba J. Kastin
doi:10.1038/386499a0
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| | Protease-activated receptor 3 is a second thrombin receptor in humans 502
Hiroaki Ishihara, Andrew J. Connolly, Dewan Zeng, Mark L. Kahn, Yao Wu Zheng, Courtney Timmons, Tracy Tram & Shaun R. Coughlin
doi:10.1038/386502a0
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| | A second serine protease associated with mannan-binding lectin that activates complement 506
Steffen Thiel, Thomas Vorup-Jensen, Cordula M. Stover, Wilhelm Schwaeble, Steen B. Laursen, Knud Poulsen, Anthony C. Willis, Paul Eggleton, Søren Hansen, Uffe Holmskov, Kenneth B. M. Reid & Jens C. Jensenius
doi:10.1038/386506a0
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H. E. Farrell, H. Vally, D. M. Lynch, P. Fleming, G. R. Shellam, A. A. Scalzo & N. J. Davis-Poynter
doi:10.1038/386510a0
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| | The class I MHC homologue of human cytomegalovirus inhibits attack by natural killer cells 514
Hugh T. Reyburn, Ofer Mandelboim, Mar Valés-Gómez, Daniel M. Davis, Laszlo Pazmany & Jack L. Strominger
doi:10.1038/386514a0
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| | Viral FLICE-inhibitory proteins (FLIPs) prevent apoptosis induced by death receptors 517
Margot Thome, Pascal Schneider, Kay Hofmann, Helmut Fickenscher, Edgar Meinl, Frank Neipel, Chantal Mattmann, Kim Burns, Jean-Luc Bodmer, Michael Schröter, Carsten Scaffidi, Peter H. Krammer, Marcus E. Peter & Jürg Tschopp
doi:10.1038/386517a0
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| | Ras signalling linked to the cell-cycle machinery by the retinoblastoma protein 521
Daniel S. Peeper, Todd M. Upton, Mohamed H. Ladha, Elizabeth Neuman, Juan Zalvide, René Bernards, James A. DeCaprio & Mark E. Ewen
doi:10.1038/386521a0
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| | Notes for contributors 522
doi:10.1038/386522a0
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Here are a few items that may be exhibited at the annual FASEB meeting being held in New Orleans this month − a new expression detection system, a CO2 incubator, a protein sequencing system and conductive pipettes.
doi:10.1038/386523a0
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