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Volume 408 Issue 6813, 7 December 2000

Opinion

  • Although much of Russia struggles to survive, other former Soviet countries are building new research systems with varying success. A critical need is to avoid western domination of their programmes.

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News

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News in Brief

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News Feature

  • Changes in the extent and thickness of sea ice could alter ocean circulation and so disrupt the climate. Jon Copley considers one of the big unknowns in the global warming debate.

    • Jon Copley
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Correspondence

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Commentary

  • One hundred years ago, a simple concept changed our world view forever.

    • Anton Zeilinger
    Commentary
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Book Review

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Millennium Essay

  • The upper reaches of academe remain stubbornly inaccessible to women.

    • Christine Wennerås
    • Agnes Wold
    Millennium Essay
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Futures

  • Take care who sits next to you at conferences. . .

    • Joan D. Vinge
    Futures
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News & Views

  • Variation in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is usually taken to be the main cause of climate change on geological timescales. The apparent exceptions to the link threaten to undermine that view.

    • Lee R. Kump
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  • The most thorough analysis yet of the divergence of sequences in human mitochondrial DNA has been carried out. The results support the view that modern humans originated in Africa.

    • S. Blair Hedges
    News & Views
  • Tiny crystals that interact strongly with certain frequencies of light can be used to make semiconductor lasers. They can now be stimulated electrically, and thus be integrated with conventional electronic devices.

    • Richard De La Rue
    • Chris Smith
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  • For two centuries, a natural experiment has been showing how increasing atmospheric CO2 affects plants. Laboratory work provides pointers as to how they will respond in the future.

    • Laura Serna
    • Carmen Fenoll
    News & Views
  • The origin of the 'EM-1 signature' evident in certain basalt rocks is a long-standing puzzle. Comparison of data from Pitcairn Island and Sardinia may shed some light on the enigma.

    • Barry B. Hanan
    News & Views
  • The mammalian protein that triggers an innate immune response to bacterial DNA has been identified. This discovery may help in understanding and improving DNA-based vaccines.

    • Robert L. Modlin
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News and Views Feature

  • Quantum theory is 100 years old and still going strong. Combininggeneral relativity with quantum mechanics is the last hurdle to be overcomein the 'quantum revolution'.

    • Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
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Brief Communication

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Addendum

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Review Article

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Article

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Letter

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Erratum

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Correction

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New on the Market

  • Looking at living cells, and looking at cell death, in a cell biologyselection.

    New on the Market
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Careers and Recruitment

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