The large boost of funds for British science is an essential means to arrest its decline. Attention now needs to focus on ensuring these funds are distributed fairly.
doi:10.1038/28443
Table of contents
Volume 394 Number 6691 pp303-402
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Opinion
Potential weaknesses in unaccustomed generosity p303
Adult cloning marches on p303
New results on cloning technology increase the urgency for regulations to ensure its responsible use.
doi:10.1038/28445
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News
Gore calls for action on climate change as Congress stalls p305
Indian atomic chief is refused US visa p305
NIH streamlines research grants process p306
Bill tightens law against genetic discrimination by health insurers p306
UK universities get another funding boost p307
New Zealand enjoys science jamboree p307
Plan for government researchers in Japan to work in industry p308
Fraud squad files report to prosecutor in Inserm case p308
France sets high targets for impact factors and patents p309
Congress revives hopes for solar power satellites p309
Accelerator project digs itself into a hole p309
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News Analysis
Hungary pushes for further reform p310
Hungarian science has undergone considerable post-communist reform, but the country's academy of sciences feels that further change is needed to allow it to take tough decisions on spending priorities.
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/28472
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Correspondence
Leading scientists still reject God p313
Dilemma over genetics and population in China p313
Science in the firing line in Argentina p314
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News and Views
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Dolly is a clone — and no longer alone p315
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Nonlinear dynamics: Death by delay p316
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Ras signalling: Caught in the act of the switch-on p317
100 and 50 years ago p319
doi:10.1038/28496
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Earthquakes: Cracking Los Angeles p320
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Palaeontology: An Asian Grande Coupure p321
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Pulsars: A period of change p323
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Molecular motors: Keeping up with the F1-ATPase p324
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Combinatorial chemistry: Connecting with catalysis p325
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Palaeoanthropology: Lucy takes a stroll p325
Daedalus: Wet metallic hydrogen p326
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Science and Image
Wheatstone's waves p327
The nineteenth-century creative genius Sir Charles Wheatstone invented a wave machine and other 'philosophical toys' that had a serious purpose in demonstrating the laws of physics.
Martin Kemp
doi:10.1038/28517
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Scientific Correspondence
DNA microsatellite analysis of Dolly p329
David Ashworth, Matthew Bishop, Keith Campbell, Alan Colman, Alex Kind, Angelika Schnieke, Sarah Blott, Harry Griffin, Chris Haley, Jim McWhir and Ian Wilmut
doi:10.1038/28521
DNA fingerprinting Dolly p329
Esther N. Signer, Yuri E. Dubrova, Alec J. Jeffreys, Colin Wilde, Lynn M. B. Finch, Michelle Wells and Malcolm Peaker
doi:10.1038/28524
A cellulase gene of termite origin p330
Hirofumi Watanabe, Hiroaki Noda, Gaku Tokuda and Nathan Lo
doi:10.1038/28527
Arctic springtime depletion of mercury p331
W. H. Schroeder, K. G. Anlauf, L. A. Barrie, J. Y. Lu, A. Steffen, D. R. Schneeberger and T. Berg
doi:10.1038/28530
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Book Reviews
The joy of secants p333
Carnivores in living colour p334
Instrumental insects p335
Holy prehistory p335
doi:10.1038/28542
Is anybody out there? p336
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Article
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The structural basis of the activation of Ras by Sos p337
P. Ann Boriack-Sjodin, S. Mariana Margarit, Dafna Bar-Sagi and John Kuriyan
doi:10.1038/28548
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Letters to Nature
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A millisecond pulsar in an X-ray binary system p344
Rudy Wijnands and Michiel van der Klis
doi:10.1038/28557
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The two-hour orbit of a binary millisecond X-ray pulsar p346
Deepto Chakrabarty and Edward H. Morgan
doi:10.1038/28561
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Optical alignment and spinning of laser-trapped microscopic particles p348
M. E. J. Friese, T. A. Nieminen, N. R. Heckenberg and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop
doi:10.1038/28566
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High-throughput screening of solid-state catalyst libraries p350
Selim M. Senkan
doi:10.1038/28575
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Unexpectedly high concentrations of molecular chlorine in coastal air p353
C. W. Spicer, E. G. Chapman, B. J. Finlayson-Pitts, R. A. Plastridge, J. M. Hubbe, J. D. Fast and C. M. Berkowitz
doi:10.1038/28584
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Escape tectonics in the Los Angeles metropolitan region and implications for seismic risk p356
Christian Walls, Thomas Rockwell, Karl Mueller, Yehuda Bock, Simon Williams, John Pfanner, James Dolan and Peng Fang
doi:10.1038/28590
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Evidence from the asymmetry of fast-spreading ridges that the axial topographic high is due to extensional stresses p360
Michael A. Eberle and Donald W. Forsyth
doi:10.1038/28596
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Faunal turnovers of Palaeogene mammals from the Mongolian Plateau p364
Jin Meng and Malcolm C. McKenna
doi:10.1038/28603
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Veil architecture in a sulphide-oxidizing bacterium enhances countercurrent flux p367
Tom Fenchel and Ronnie N. Glud
doi:10.1038/28609
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Full-term development of mice from enucleated oocytes injected with cumulus cell nuclei p369
T. Wakayama, A. C. F. Perry, M. Zuccotti, K. R. Johnson and R. Yanagimachi
doi:10.1038/28615
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Defects in somite formation in lunatic fringe-deficient mice p374
Nian Zhang and Thomas Gridley
doi:10.1038/28625
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lunatic fringe is an essential mediator of somite segmentation and patterning p377
Yvonne A. Evrard, Yi Lun, Alexander Aulehla, Lin Gan and Randy L. Johnson
doi:10.1038/28632
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A neuronal ryanodine receptor mediates light-induced phase delays of the circadian clock p381
Jian M. Ding, Gordon F. Buchanan, Shelley A. Tischkau, Dong Chen, Liana Kuriashkina, Lia E. Faiman, Joan M. Alster, Peter S. McPherson, Kevin P. Campbell and Martha U. Gillette
doi:10.1038/28639
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High-frequency firing helps replenish the readily releasable pool of synaptic vesicles p384
Lu-Yang Wang and Leonard K. Kaczmarek
doi:10.1038/28645
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An ancient retrotransposal insertion causes Fukuyama-type congenital muscular dystrophy p388
Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Yutaka Nakahori, Masashi Miyake, Kiichiro Matsumura, Eri Kondo-Iida, Yoshiko Nomura, Masaya Segawa, Mieko Yoshioka, Kayoko Saito, Makiko Osawa, Kenzo Hamano, Youichi Sakakihara, Ikuya Nonaka, Yasuo Nakagome, Ichiro Kanazawa, Yusuke Nakamura, Katsushi Tokunaga and Tatsushi Toda
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Developmental selection of var gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum p392
Qijun Chen, Victor Fernandez, Annika Sundström, Martha Schlichtherle, Santanu Datta, Per Hagblom and Mats Wahlgren
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Crystal structure of the first three domains of the type-1 insulin-like growth factor receptor p395
Thomas P. J. Garrett, Neil M. McKern, Meizhen Lou, Maurice J. Frenkel, John D. Bentley, George O. Lovrecz, Thomas C. Elleman, Leah J. Cosgrove and Colin W. Ward
doi:10.1038/28668
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