Table of contents
Volume 398 Number 6725 pp269-351
In this issue (25 March 1999)
Opinion
Poor planning threatens centres of excellence p269
A proposal to convert some of Japan's best basic research institutes into autonomous agencies is fine in principle but could be disastrous without far more thought about the nature of their activities.
doi:10.1038/18495
Don't ignore dual careers p269
The dangers of doing so are all too vivid in the physics community.
doi:10.1038/18497
News
Nuclear waste store could be built within 25 years, say Lords p271
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/18499
Gaps remain in knowledge of waste behaviour p271
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/18502
Unease mounts over Japan's reform plan p272
Asako Saegusa
doi:10.1038/18504
Libraries offer incentive for web-based rivals to 'costly' journals p272
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/18506
Husbands a drag to high-flying physicists p273
Natasha Loder
doi:10.1038/18508
California approves $1.5 billion campus p273
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/18511
Dispute erupts over Nazi research claims p274
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/18513
Embattled French science agency says it is holding its own p274
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/18516
CERN plan to train science entrepreneurs p275
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/18518
'Don't try to change embryo research law' p275
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/18521
Weapon lab security may hit foreign visits p276
Wil Lepkowski
doi:10.1038/18523
Trade unions campaign for lifelong learning p276
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/18526
Minister slams 'mismanaged' universities p277
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/18528
UK life scientists seek wider Foresight role p277
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/18531
Correspondence
Researchers face 'Catch-22' grants trap p280
Carlos F. Ibáñez
doi:10.1038/18536
It's time to stop counting beans p280
David A. Watson
doi:10.1038/18538
Franklin recalled p280
Brenda Maddox
doi:10.1038/18541
Commentary
Is science dangerous? p281
Does society need protecting from scientific advances? Most emphatically not, so long as scientists themselves and their employers are committed to full disclosure of what they know.
doi:10.1038/18543
News and Views
At the roots of the mammalian family tree p283
Timothy Rowe
doi:10.1038/18546
X-ray diffraction: Table-top picosecond sources p284
Justin Wark
doi:10.1038/18549
Olfaction: Good reception in fruitfly antennae p285
Yitzhak Pilpel and Doron Lancet
doi:10.1038/18552
100 and 50 years ago p285
doi:10.1038/18556
Cosmology: The pulling power of galaxy clusters p288
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/18558
Climatology: Europe's winter prospects p289
Yochanan Kushnir
doi:10.1038/18560
Neurobiology: The eyes have it! p291
Karl Gegenfurtner
doi:10.1038/18563
Seismology: Free oscillations illuminate the mantle p292
R. Widmer-Schnidrig
doi:10.1038/18567
Oceanography: Phytoplankton death in the sea p293
David L. Kirchman
doi:10.1038/18570
Turbulence: The elusive 'ultimate state' of thermal convection p294
Joël Sommeria
doi:10.1038/18572
Fungal biology: Coming up for air and sporulation p295
Nicholas J. Talbot
doi:10.1038/18575
Daedalus: Press-fit chemistry p296
Many catalysts provide a passive surface or cavity on which reacting molecules can sit in the right position to react together. Daedalus is now dreaming up a more active type of catalyst.
David Jones
doi:10.1038/18579
Scientific Correspondence
A spelling device for the paralysed p297
N. Birbaumer, N. Ghanayim, T. Hinterberger, I. Iversen, B. Kotchoubey, A. Kübler, J. Perelmouter, E. Taub and H. Flor
doi:10.1038/18581
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Insect antenna as a smoke detector p298
Stefan Schütz, Bernhard Weissbecker, Hans E. Hummel, Karl-Heinz Apel, Helmut Schmitz and Horst Bleckmann
doi:10.1038/18585
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Rings of single-walled carbon nanotubes p299
Richard Martel, Herbert R. Shea and Phaedon Avouris
doi:10.1038/18589
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Taxon sampling revisited p299
Steven Poe and David L. Swofford
doi:10.1038/18592
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Book Reviews
Historical transformations p301
William McGinnis and Peter A. Lawrence review Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story by Walter J. Gehring
doi:10.1038/18595
A homeotic nightmare p301
doi:10.1038/18598
Painting a picture of development p302
John Maynard Smith reviews The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves by Enrico Coen
doi:10.1038/18601
Surfing a chaotic sea p303
J. D. Meiss reviews Physics of Chaos in Hamiltonian Systems by G. M. Zaslavsky
doi:10.1038/18603
Rhythms of the human heart p303
doi:10.1038/18605
A bloody business p303
Fred S. Rosen reviews Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr
doi:10.1038/18608
Storm-chaser reaps the whirlwind p304
Roger A. Pielke, Sr reviews Tornado Alley: Monster Storms of the Great Plains by Howard B. Bluestein
doi:10.1038/18610
Letters to Nature
Josephson-junction qubits with controlled couplings p305
Yuriy Makhlin, Gerd Scöhn and Alexander Shnirman
doi:10.1038/18613
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Evidence against 'ultrahard' thermal turbulence at very high Rayleigh numbers p307
James A. Glazier, Takehiko Segawa, Antoine Naert and Masaki Sano
doi:10.1038/18626
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See also: News and Views by Wark
Picosecond–milliångström lattice dynamics measured by ultrafast X-ray diffraction p310
Christoph Rose-Petruck, Ralph Jimenez, Ting Guo, Andrea Cavalleri, Craig W. Siders, Ferenc Rksi, Jeff A. Squier, Barry C. Walker, Kent R. Wilson and Christopher P. J. Barty
doi:10.1038/18631
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See also: News and Views by Wark
Directed nucleation of calcite at a crystal-imprinted polymer surface p312
S. M. D'Souza, C. Alexander, S. W. Carr, A. M. Waller, M. J. Whitcombe and E. N. Vulfson
doi:10.1038/18636
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Ubiquity of quasi-horizontal layers in the troposphere p316
Reginald E. Newell, Valerie Thouret, John Y. N. Cho, Patrick Stoller, Alain Marenco and Herman G. Smit
doi:10.1038/18642
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Oceanic forcing of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation and European climate p320
M. J. Rodwell, D. P. Rowell and C. K. Folland
doi:10.1038/18648
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See also: News and Views by Kushnir
Distortion of isochronous layers in ice revealed by ground-penetrating radar p323
David G. Vaughan, Hugh F. J. Corr, Christopher S. M. Doake and Ed. D. Waddington
doi:10.1038/18653
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A Chinese triconodont mammal and mosaic evolution of the mammalian skeleton p326
Ji Qiang, Luo Zhexi and Ji Shu-an
doi:10.1038/18665
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See also: News and Views by Gegenfurtner
Strong effects of weak interactions in ecological communities p330
E. L. Berlow
doi:10.1038/18672
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Anticipation of moving stimuli by the retina p334
Michael J. Berry, II, Iman H. Brivanlou, Thomas A. Jordan and Markus Meister
doi:10.1038/18678
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A new cellular mechanism for coupling inputs arriving at different cortical layers p338
Matthew E. Larkum, J. Julius Zhu and Bert Sakmann
doi:10.1038/18686
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Signalling through CD30 protects against autoimmune diabetes mediated by CD8 T cells p341
Christian Kurts, Francis R. Carbone, Matthew F. Krummel, Karl M. Koch, Jacques F. A. P. Miller and William R. Heath
doi:10.1038/18692
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Effects of altered gene order or orientation of the locus control region on human 
-globin gene expression in mice p344
Keiji Tanimoto, Qinghui Liu, Jörg Bungert and James Douglas Engel
doi:10.1038/18698
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Chaperone-like activity of the AAA domain of the yeast Yme1 AAA protease p348
Klaus Leonhard, Alexandra Stiegler, Walter Neupert and Thomas Langer
doi:10.1038/18704
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