Nature: International weekly journal of science

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  Año 1999, Vol. 397, Número 6714

  • Promises and threats of the knowledge-based economy

    pág. 1

    

  • US universities create bridges between physics and biology

    Laura Garwin

    pág. 3

    

  • France questions Israeli research deal

    Haim Watzman

    pág. 3

    

  • Eastern Europe still strapped for cash

    Alison Abbott

    pág. 4

    

  • ...but much Hungarian biology is world class

    pág. 4

    

  • Japanese budget boosts science funding

    Asako Saegusa

    pág. 5

    

  • Software problem delays US spacecraft's meeting with asteroid

    Tony Reichhardt

    pág. 5

    

  • World Bank invests in global science base

    Ehsan Masood

    págs. 6-7

    

  • US spirit is willing, but funds are still weak

    Colin Macilwain

    págs. 7-8

    

  • Science moves up Europe's aid agenda

    Alison Abbott

    págs. 8-9

    

  • Technology and tradition clash in India

    K.S. Jayaraman

    pág. 9

    

  • Internet may help bridge the gap

    Declan Butler

    págs. 10-11

    

  • News in brief

    pág. 12

    

  • Eighteen-ninety-nine and all that

    J.L. Heilbron, W.F. Bynum

    págs. 15-18

    

  • Mother and father in surprise genetic agreement

    Mark Pagel

    págs. 19-20

    

  • May the force be with you

    Patrick S. Stayton

    págs. 20-21

    

  • A shrike for mobility

    Peter D. Moore

    págs. 21-22

    

  • Colloidal culprits in contamination

    Bruce D. Honeyman

    págs. 23-24

    

  • Recruitment in space and time

    Peter F. Sale

    págs. 25-26

    

  • New tool for Swiss army knife

    Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid

    pág. 25

    

  • Photosynthesis: making light of a dark situation

    Robert D. Willows

    págs. 27-28

    

  • Starry, starry night

    Owen Gingerich

    pág. 33

    

  • The wizard of Menlo Park

    Willem Hackmann

    págs. 34-35

    

  • Hypnotism and the rise of anaesthesia

    Ruth Richardson

    págs. 35-36

    

  • Mother love and its selective advantage

    Steve Stearns

    pág. 36

    

  • Brown dwarfs: the stars that failed

    C.G. Tinney

    págs. 37-40

    

  • A giant periodic flare from the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR1900+14

    T. Cline, K. Hurley

    págs. 41-43

    

  • Reversing the direction of the supercurrent in a controllable Josephson junction

    A. F. Morpurgo, J.J.A. Baselmans

    págs. 43-45

    

  • Scaling of transition temperature and CuO2 plane buckling in a high-temperature superconductor

    J.D. Jorgensen, O. Chmaissem

    págs. 45-48

    

  • Molecular growth from a Mo176 to a Mo248 cluster

    A. Muller, Syed Q.N. Shah

    págs. 48-50