News & Views in 1978

Solar energy storage and conversion by hydrogen cycle

• Robert W. Cahn

Synchrotron radiation at York

• G. V. Marr
• I. H. Munro

Damn the dogma

• John C. Allen

Clutch size in plants

• Robert M. May

Laser annealing of semiconductors

• D. Weaire
• J. I. B. Wilson

Status of biocontrol in medical entomology

• A. A. ARATA
• H. C. CHAPMAN
• D. W. ROBERTS

Ice-Age palaeo-oceanography of the Mediterranean

• N. J. Shackleton

Sickle cell: a metastable disease

• Robin Briehl

A star called M

• S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Can magnetic order and superconductivity coexist?

• B. R. Coles

Gene conversion in mitochondria

• D. H. Williamson

Enzyme defects and immune dysfunction

• Fred S. Rosen

More on X-ray bursts

• A. C. Fabian

The first division

• Clive Lloyd

Intervening sequences in the mitochondrial genome

• Giorgio Bernardi

Multipion production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

• J. M. Irvine

Faint images revealed

• F. G. Smith

Sinks and sources of plant nutrients

• Peter D. Moore

Phase transitions in spin glasses

The cladistic revolution–can it make the grade?

• L. B. Halstead