Volume 299 Issue 5881, 23 September 1982

Health service sickness

Academies not international

West German science after Schmidt

• Sarah Tooze

Pentagon blocks open exchange

• Deborah Shapley

Keyworth on fusion: US seeks more foreign links

• Deborah Shapley

University teachers take to the streets

Clinch River fast breeder: Now the crunch

• Stephen Budiansky

SERC in South Africa

• David Millar

French budget: Science pluses

• Robert Walgate

Council of scientific unions: Enter China

• Vera Rich

Biotechnology: Insulin on tap

• Peter Newmark

Indian space effort: Falling flat

NMR tomography

Piltdown jaw confirmed as orang

• JEROLD M. LOWENSTEIN
• THEYA MOLLESON
• SHERWOOD L. WASHBURN

Ball of fire

• J.D. GILLETT

Monstrous outrage

• W. R. BOURNE
• S. HOWE

Which war?

• BERT ATSMA

French Nobels

• ANATOLE ABRAGAM

Proton decays and high-energy speculation

• Louis Lyons

Analysing the mouse T/t complex

• P.W. Andrews
• P.N. Goodfellow

In search of the Hubble parameter

• Sidney van den Bergh

In vitro mutagenesis

• Tim Harris

Crown gall tumours and plant growth regulators — any connection?

• Mike Bevan

100 years ago

The American kestrel as a laboratory research animal

• David M. Bird

Multiple pathways of membrane transport

• Ira Mellman

Five crucial tests of the cosmic distance scale using the Galaxy as fundamental standard

• G. de Vaucouleurs

Time-resolved X-ray diffraction studies of the structural behaviour of myosin heads in a living contracting unstriated muscle

• J. Lowy
• F. R. Poulsen

Left-handed Z-DNA is induced by supercoiling in physiological ionic conditions

• Charles K. Singleton
• Jan Klysik
• Robert D. Wells

Viroid RNAs of cadang-cadang disease of coconuts

• James Haseloff
• Nizar A. Mohamed
• Robert H. Symons

Emission mechanism and source distances of γ-ray bursts

• Edison P. Liang

Neutral hydrogen associated with the planetary nebula NGC6302

• Luis F. Rodríguez
• James M. Moran

Orientation of planetary O⁺ fluxes and magnetic field lines in the Venus wake

• H. Pérez-de-Tejada
• D. S. Intriligator
• C. T. Russell

Intergrown mica and montmorillonite in the Allende carbonaceous chondrite

• Kazushige Tomeoka
• Peter R. Buseck

An unusual layered mineral in chondrules and aggregates of the Allende carbonaceous chondrite

• Kazushige Tomeoka
• Peter R. Buseck

Measurement of Rayleigh–Taylor instability in a laser-accelerated target

• A. J. Cole
• J. D. Kilkenny
• M. H. Key

Density-driven interstitial water motion in sediments

• D. L. Musgrave
• W. S. Reeburgh

Thermal expansion effects in deep-sea sediments

• T. J. G. Francis

Composition of basaltic liquids generated from a partially depleted lherzolite at 9 kbar pressure

• Gautam Sen

Deep structure of the Scottish Caledonides revealed by the MOIST reflection profile

• David K. Smythe
• Alan Dobinson
• Brian Kelk

Oceanic plateaus as meteorite impact signatures

• Garry C. Rogers

Volcanic ash deposits of early Eocene age from the Rockall Trough

• E. J. W. Jones
• A. T. S. Ramsay

Evidence for earlier date of ′Ubeidiya, Israel, hominid site

• Charles A. Repenning
• Oldrich Fejfar

A protective function of the coacervates against UV light on the primitive Earth

• Hiroyuki Okihana
• Cyril Ponnamperuma

Phenotypic evolution in a poorly dispersing snail after arrival of a predator

• Geerat J. Vermeij

A molecular explanation of frequency-dependent selection in Drosophila

• Yousef Haj-Ahmad
• Donal A. Hickey

Analysis of discrimination mechanisms in the mammalian olfactory system using a model nose

• Krishna Persaud
• George Dodd

Corticotropin releasing activity of the new CRF is potentiated several times by vasopressin

• G. E. Gillies
• E. A. Linton
• P. J. Lowry

Oligodendrocyte abnormalities in shiverer mouse mutant are determined in primary chimaeras

• K. Mikoshiba
• M. Yokoyama
• T. Nomura

A Cl⁻ conductance activated by hyperpolarization in Aplysia neurones

• Dominique Chenoy-Marchais

Transplacental transfer of rodent microfilariae induces antigen-specific tolerance in rats

• Azizul Haque
• André Capron

Lithium chloride induces partial responsiveness to LPS in nonresponder B cells

• Shigeaki Ishizaka
• Göran Möller

Random components in mutagenesis

• P. L. Foster
• E. Eisenstadt
• J. Cairns

Unique cell lines harbouring both Epstein–Barr virus and adult T-cell leukaemia virus, established from leukaemia patients

• Naoki Yamamoto
• Tadashi Matsumoto
• Yorio Hinuma

T4 late transcripts are initiated near a conserved DNA sequence

• Alan C. Christensen
• Elton T. Young

The helical hydrophobic moment: a measure of the amphiphilicity of a helix

• David Eisenberg
• Robert M. Weiss
• Thomas C. Terwilliger

BVP models of nerve membrane

• C. J. A. GAME

BVP models of nerve membrane (reply)

• J. L. HINDMARSH
• R. M. ROSE

Trophic structure of a grassland insect community

• K. H. LAKHANI

Thermoluminescence dating of sand dunes

• K. PYE

Thermoluminescence dating of sand dunes (reply)

• A. K. SINGHVI

Traits of empire

• C.R. Brand

A mixed bag of andesites

• Richard J. Arculus

Prospects for imprisoning solar energy

• J.I.B. Wilson

Science in ferment

• S.J. Pirt

Books Received