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Volume 419 Issue 6909, 24 October 2002

Volume 419 Issue 6909

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Prospects

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Opinion

  • A merger of University College London and Imperial College, the top two research universities in Britain's capital city, may not in itself create a combined institution that is more internationally competitive.

    Opinion
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News

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News in Brief

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Correction

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News Feature

  • Recent controversies over scientific fraud and other disputed findings have raised questions over the way in which journals select papers for publication. Is there a problem? And what more could be done to weed out dubious results? David Adam and Jonathan Knight investigate.

    • David Adam
    • Jonathan Knight
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Correspondence

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Autumn Books

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Concepts

  • Today we are so used to statistical predictions that it is difficult to appreciate the profundity of this retreat into probabilities.

    • Mark Buchanan
    Concepts
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News & Views

  • No ordinary camera can capture the motion of electrons inside an atom. But the advent of ultrafast laser pulses brings the necessary 'shutter speed' for snapping them as they tumble between energy levels close to the nucleus.

    • Louis F. DiMauro
    News & Views

  • Whether a cell lives or dies depends on various local cues. New work reveals that those cues include a cell's spatial relationship with its neighbours and polarized interactions with the adjacent extracellular matrix.

    • Kenneth M. Yamada
    • Katherine Clark
    News & Views

  • Rocks blasted long ago from the surface of Earth and other planets may be preserved on the Moon. Although hard to identify, they could hold a unique record of the chemical history of the planets and even evidence of life.

    • Clark R. Chapman
    News & Views

  • Detailed studies of cellular changes in ageing nematode worms show that they, like humans, suffer progressive muscle deterioration. Randomness of cell damage is another shared hallmark of the ageing process.

    • Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
    • Caleb E. Finch
    News & Views

  • An enzyme-induced conformational change is now implicated in activating the p53 protein, one of a cell's prime movers in preventing tumour development.

    • Kevin M. Ryan
    • Karen H. Vousden
    News & Views

  • A direct quantum equivalent of an electronic NOT gate is impossible. But the best possible approximation to the universal NOT transformation has now been demonstrated using photons.

    • Nicolas Gisin
    News & Views

  • Modelling work with a water flume shows how the alignment of smokestacks with respect to the prevailing wind may affect the behaviour of smoke plumes.

    • Jim Gillon
    News & Views

  • The clock that governs circadian rhythms is based on a molecular feedback loop, which has just become more complex — two more proteins have been identified as likely components of the loop.

    • J. D. Alvarez
    • Amita Sehgal
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Correction

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Brief Communication

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Article

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