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Abstracts: Forecasting Andean rainfall and crop yield from the influence of El Nino on Pleiades visibility. Predictability of El Nino over the past 148 years
Abstracts: Foreign contributors hold fate of two SSC detectors. Clinton accepts court's ruling on Antarctica. Terms of Scripps-Sandoz agreement may be more common than its critics believe
Abstracts: Forensic team digs up Haiti's deadly past. EPA science 'overburdened by Congress'. US cancer body calls for ideas from all disciplines
Abstracts: Foreshadowing the glacial era. The great ice mystery. Respiration in the balance
Abstracts: Foreshock sequences and short-term earthquakes predictability on East Pacific Rise transform faults. Decay of aftershock density with distance indicates triggering by dynamic stress
Abstracts: Foresight wins bouquets and brickbats from watchdog. Internal fight threatens future of Strangeways laboratory in Britain
Abstracts: Forest and landscape structure as predictors of capercaillie occurrence. Flight-initiation distance in birds is dependent on intruder starting distance
Abstracts: Forest canopy closure and juvenile emigration by pool-breeding amphibians in Maine. POwer to detect trends in waterbird abundance with call-response surveys
Abstracts: Forest canopy productivity index. El Nino-like climate change in a model with increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations
Abstracts: Forest fire prediction and prevention in the Brazilian Amazon. Rethinking tropical forest conservation: Perils in parks
Abstracts: Forest fires cause pollution crisis in Asia. New Chinese premier takes on the reins of scientific reform. Internet struggles to connect around the Asia-Pacific rim
Abstracts: Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon. Conservation Threat of Increasing Fire Frequencies in the Western Ghats, India
Abstracts: Forest Fragmentation Increases Nest Predation in the Eurasian Treecreeper. Population persistence and offspring fitness in the rare bellflower Campanula cervicaria in relation to population size and habitat quality
Abstracts: Forest preserved. Devils of the forest: elusive mandrills lead pursuers in circles. The Swiss tropics: a rain forest alternative to the Alps
Abstracts: Forest stand characteristics and reproduction of northern spotted owls in managed north-coastal California forests
Abstracts: Forest Stewardship Council forest certification. The joint effort of timber certification. Biologists and timber certification
Abstracts: Forgotten plights. Nobels in dubious causes. All change as Argentina's science leader keeps his job
Abstracts: Form and flow: A sculptural approach to the heart. Body doubles. Ocean currents mediate evolution in island lizards
Abstracts: Form and function instructions. Folding at the speed limit. Context-dependent contributions of backbone hydrogen bonding to beta-sheet folding energetics
Abstracts: Formation and branch migration of Holliday junctions mediated by eukaryotic recombinases. Water worlds in the making
Abstracts: Formation and manipulation of a metallic wire of single gold atoms. Manipulation of atoms across a surface at room temperature
Abstracts: Formation of amyloid-like fibrils in COS cells overexpressing part of the Alzheimer amyloid protein precursors
Abstracts: Formation of asteroid satellites and doublet craters by planetary tidal forces. Possible long-lived asteroid belts in the inner Solar System
Abstracts: Formation of dwarf galaxies in tidal tails. Phoenix galaxies. Starbursts in the nuclei of shell galaxies
Abstracts: Formation of fold-and-thrust belts on Venus by thick-skinned deformation. Policy by default: the British government will soon have an energy policy thrust upon it
Abstracts: Formation of haematopoietic microenvironment and haematopoietic stem cells from single human bone marrow stem cells
Abstracts: Formation of nitric oxide-derived inflammatory oxidants by myeloperoxidase in neutrophils. Targeted disruption of the mouse transforming growth factor-beta-1 gene results in multifocal inflammatory disease
Abstracts: Formation of olfactory memories mediated by nitric oxide. Impaired odour discrimination on desynchronization of odour-encoding neural assemblies
Abstracts: Formation of zirconium metallic glass. Hydrogenation and cleavage of dinitrogen to ammonia with a zirconium complex
Abstracts: Forming galaxies spotted? Dim view of past clashes. Dark matter maps reveal cosmic scaffolding
Abstracts: Formulation of a Roman cosmetic. Demonstration of an all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate. A polymer/semiconductor write-once read-many-times memory
Abstracts: Forty years of molecular information. Patterns of pattern formation. Molecular neurology comes of age
Abstracts: Forum to advance trials for AIDS therapies. 'Better adherence vital in AIDS therapies'. 'Beware of hype,' AIDS conference told
Abstracts: Forum to advance trials for AIDS therapies. FDA seeks to close xenotransplant gap. Panel calls for fair deal for US postdocs
Abstracts: Forward planning. Air force had early warning of pulsars. Expert witness: The scientists who testified against intelligent design
Abstracts: For whom the male calls: an effect of audience on contact calls rate and repertoire in budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus
Abstracts: Fossil dealer charged over Russian cache. European physicists split on new magnet. Frond memories
Abstracts: Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos. Combing the primate record
Abstracts: Fossil finders in tug of war over analysis of hobbit bones. Saving the agave. Push to protect whales leaves seafloor research high and dry
Abstracts: Fossil muzzles and other puzzles. Earliest known Old World monkey skull. Did our ancestors knuckle-walk?
Abstracts: Fossils, genes and the evolution of animal limbs. Insignificance. Chance and necessity: the evolution of morphological complexity and diversity
Abstracts: Fossils of large terrestrial arthropods from the Lower Devonian of Canada. End of the 'Uniramia' taxon
Abstracts: Foundations funding biomedical bodies 'should shift focus.' ...But seeks 'practical' gene therapy deals. Mediation sought on biotechnology disputes
Abstracts: Founding father: Almost two hundred years ago Thomas Jefferson was alleged to have fathered a child by his slave Sally Hemings. The charges have remained controversial
Abstracts: Four factors modifying the effect of competition on carnivore population dynamics as illustrated by African wild dogs
Abstracts: Four sure ways to undermine a good idea ... and hurt endangered species. AZA Species Survival Plan profile: red wolves
Abstracts: Four years on, no transgenes found in Mexican maize. Recruitment of entomopathogenic nematodes by insect-damaged maize roots
Abstracts: Fowl sequence. Quality assessment of the human genome sequence. Six is seventh
Abstracts: Foxp3-dependent programme of regulatory T-cell differentiation. Genomic defence with a slice of pi
Abstracts: Foxp3 occupancy and regulation of key target genes during T-cell stimulation. Polycomb complexes repress developmental regulators in murine embryonic stem cells
Abstracts: Foxp3 occupancy and regulation of key target genes during T-cell stimulation. part 2 Evolution of alternative transcriptional circuits with identical logic
Abstracts: Fractal modes in unstable resonators. The large-scale smoothness of the Universe. Branched fractal patterns in non-equilibrium electrochemical deposition from oscillatory nucleation and growth
Abstracts: Fractal resistance in a transistor. Chaos reduces species extinction by amplifying local population noise. Amplifying quantum signals with the single-electron transistor
Abstracts: Fractures as the main pathways of water flow in temperate glaciers. Water-repellent legs of water striders
Abstracts: France changes guard? The Mitterrand government seems to be nearing its end, but the president himself may soldier on
Abstracts: France eyes role in US mission to retrieve rocks from Mars. Opinion divided on images of Martian 'ocean'. Going underground
Abstracts: France: Gaullist legacy casts a long shadow. Jury still undecided on French reforms. France is urged to loosen ban on embryo research
Abstracts: France joins Italy in mouse gene store bid. Italy widens peer review of health research. Italy frees research council from 'baroni'
Abstracts: France may break ranks over space station. Space agency reform plans under scrutiny. France shifts research focus on to new regional centers
Abstracts: France seeks revised role in space station. Costs curtail but do not kill European space laboratory. Italian space scientists win round in funding
Abstracts: France takes control of genome programme. France faces large bill over its space station agreement. Drastic changes called for in French space programme
Abstracts: France takes on Google in scanning race. France and Japan lock horns in battle to host research react. France purges space programme in bid to survive budget crisis
Abstracts: France: too much analysis leads to paralysis? France to strengthen regional centres... France re-focuses nuclear research body
Abstracts: France urged to head 'Rubbiatron' efforts. Head of French leukaemia inquiry quits after partisan remarks. Claims of hidden agenda on French waste
Abstracts: Fraternal twins. Oxygen at life's boundaries. Going against the flow
Abstracts: Fraud claims shake German complacency. Brussels rewrites mission of 'Eurolabs'. Prospects of power prompt rethink for German Greens
Abstracts: 'Fraud police' face dilemma over warning medical boards. Growing pains. Uncomfortable truths
Abstracts: Freaks of nature? Joint suits aim to weed out agencies' red tape. Geneticists play the numbers game in vain
Abstracts: Frederick Blackmar Mumford, 1868-1946: a brief biography. John Baptiste Francioni, Jr., 1891-1977: a brief biography
Abstracts: Free-electron-like dispersion in an organic monolayer film on a metal substrate. Organic crystals at large
Abstracts: Free food or earned food: a review and fuzzy model of contrafreeloading. The measurement and meaning of inclusive fitness
Abstracts: Free histidine as a metal chelator in plants that accumulate nickel. Role of metal-reducing bacteria in arsenic release from Bengal delta sediments
Abstracts: French anger over plan to back British synchrotron. Oil back on the global agenda. Cranial surgery dates back to the Mesolithic
Abstracts: French increase ties with industry but researchers still face hurdles. Europe agrees to boost Internet networks used by researchers
Abstracts: French ministries in argument over release of asbestos report. Chirac downgrades science in re-shuffle of ministries
Abstracts: French move past Genethon to gene-therapy research. Drastic changes called for in French space programme. French court upholds use of animals, fines activists for theft of baboons
Abstracts: French museum 'in decay' fights for its life. Anthropology museum fights art gallery plan. Renovation of Paris museum leaves collection in disarray
Abstracts: French report seeks to slow fusion project. France seeks scientific entrepreneurs. France seeks to tighten its control over life sciences
Abstracts: French research budget wins increase, but few new posts. French clone provides support for Dolly. Research and the Internet connection
Abstracts: French researchers kick up a storm over CNRS 'reforms'. French researchers reject reform plans... French ministry in climbdown over reform
Abstracts: French researchers oppose biomedical reform plan. Autonomy by stealth for French universities. Pasteur Institute to abandon departmental structure?
Abstracts: French science head faces cash crunch.... Innovation 'stifled' in France, says report. France's scientists rally to oppose Allegre's reforms
Abstracts: French study sparks debate on informed consent laws. Prospective studies urged of health risks. BioMed Central boosted by editorial board
Abstracts: Frequency-dependent food selection in locusts: a geometric analysis of the role of nutrient balancing. Food distance and its effect on nutrient balancing in a mobile insect herbivore
Abstracts: Frequency-dependent survival in natural guppy populations. The games lizards play. A robust view of biochemical pathways
Abstracts: Frequency variations of the Earth's obliquity and the 100-kyr ice-age cycles. Stabilization of the Earth's obliquity by the Moon
Abstracts: Fresh angle on the polar seesaw. Grape ripening as a past climate indicator. The Atlantic heat conveyor slows
Abstracts: Fresh catch. Trapped! Small but mighty
Abstracts: Fresh flowers. Artists on a mission. Marine undercurrents: An installation by Ellen Gallagher builds on some little-known work by Sigmund Freud
Abstracts: Fresh pathways to follow. Inhibition of HIV-1 protease in infected T-lymphocytes by synthetic peptide analogues
Abstracts: Fresh start for photonics. Finer features for functional microdevices. On the threshold of success
Abstracts: Freshwater snails alter habitat use in response to predation. A predatory snail distinguishes between conspecific and heterospecific snails and trails based on chemical cues in slime
Abstracts: Fringe-dependent separation of dorsal and ventral cells in the Drosophila wing. Fringe is glycosyltransferase that modifies Notch
Abstracts: Froghopper insects leap to new heights. Insects breathe discontinuously to avoid oxygen toxicity. Scent secrets of insects
Abstracts: Frog loggers: looking for love in all the wet places. Improving net results: for conservation-minded fishermen, that means catching fewer seabirds
Abstracts: Frogs reabsorb glucose from urinary bladder. Reducing dog and cat overpopulation requires earlier neutering. Cane toads vs. native frogs
Abstracts: From aircraft engineer to FBI suspect. The search for structure. In the shadow of war
Abstracts: From angiogenesis to neuropathology. Accessing a transporter structure. Cell survival guide
Abstracts: From bench to bedside ... research makes the translational transition. Flexibility the key for neuroscientists
Abstracts: From cell line to brain. Genetic evidence that relative synaptic efficacy biases the outcome of synaptic competition
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