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The Maastricht Treaty (if ratified) would give the European Communities coordinating powers in education: what hope is there that the outcome will be a better system of universities?
It is nearly 10 years since the first attempts were made to grow better protein crystals in the low gravity environment of space. Can the enormous cost of these experiments be justified by the results?
Participants at Nature's conference on "The brain in well-being and disease" (12–13 November) were excited that hitherto intractable problems are now beginning to crack under the impact of powerful new techniques.
