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The British research enterprise has escaped yet another radical reorganization, that which would have been entailed in the creation of a single research council. But it may yet be sorry.
These two articles are the latest round In exchanges over the charge that Professor VJ. Gupta is responsible for corruption of the palaeontological literature on the Himalayas. Gupta (p. 307) responds to the allegations of four co-authors of papers with him. Professor J.B. Waterhouse, another co-author, comments below both on those allegations and on the articles by Dr John Talent in which the issue was raised originally. Talent will reply in next week'sNature.
A remarkable series of measurements of the photodissociation of a simple molecule points to a field in which experimentalists will have the advantage for a long time to come.
Addressing the limitations associated with first-generation robotics, the authors describe the emergence of second-generation machines based on an 'open architecture' with more built-in flexibilty.
This week's focus on instruments designed to improve liquid handling tasks range from dual-action thermomixers to complex robotic sample processors and manipulative robot arms.
