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| | No easy route to non-proliferation 1
doi:10.1038/284001a0
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| | News |  |
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| | United Kingdom: Chemical company suppresses dioxin report 2
Alastair Hay
doi:10.1038/284002a0
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| | Unions want 2,4,5-T ban 2
doi:10.1038/284002b0
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| | United States: Patent law changes opposed in the Senate 3
doi:10.1038/284003a0
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| | Third World research institute loses Congressional approval 3
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/284003b0
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| | International exchange: Hamburg forum a success of a kind 4
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/284004a0
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| | US academy suspends exchanges with Soviet Union 4
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/284004b0
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| | United Kingdom: London medical colleges for the chop 5
doi:10.1038/284005a0
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| | LEP by 1986? 5
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/284005b0
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| | ARMS proposes security for 60% of untenured researchers 5
Joe Schwartz
doi:10.1038/284005c0
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| | News in Brief |  |
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| | Spanish science lurches ahead 6
doi:10.1038/284006a0
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| | Canadian research threatened 6
doi:10.1038/284006b0
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| | Pharmaceutical company to rent space at Yale 6
doi:10.1038/284006c0
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| | Stanford announces new centre for electronics 6
doi:10.1038/284006d0
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| | Fusion beam injection success 6
doi:10.1038/284006e0
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| | UK short of basic grade nuclear inspectors 6
doi:10.1038/284006f0
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| | CERN opens data transmission experiment 6
doi:10.1038/284006g0
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| | Features |  |
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| | No technical fix to a political problem 7
THE International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation ended on 29 February with a plenary session that adopted the reports of all the study groups. Hermann Bondi (right) Chief Scientist at the UK Department of Energy and leader of the British delegation to INFCE, assesses its work
doi:10.1038/284007a0
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| | Background and participants 7
doi:10.1038/284007b0
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| | Europe embraces the fast breeder reactor 9
The International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation has given a boost to the fast breeder reactor. But while the US is rejecting the breeder, others are embracing it, writes Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/284009a0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | Dioxin, an emotive word 10
J. DAVID
doi:10.1038/284010a0
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| | World energy needs of the future 10
J. H. CHESSHIRE
doi:10.1038/284010b0
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| | Nuclear energy and the world economy 10
C. MARCHETTI
doi:10.1038/284010c0
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| | Fast reactor safety and the fire at Beloyarsk 10
R.D. SMITH
doi:10.1038/284010d0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | The emergence of modern man 11
Gail Kennedy
doi:10.1038/284011a0
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| | Gyromagnetisation: rocks in a spin 12
R.L. Wilson
doi:10.1038/284012a0
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| | How trypanosomes change coats 13
Mervyn Turner
doi:10.1038/284013a0
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| | More sensitive immunoassays 14
Roger Ekins
doi:10.1038/284014a0
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| | 100 years ago 14
doi:10.1038/284014b0
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| | Methane from ridges 15
Peter J. Smith
doi:10.1038/284015a0
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| | Gondwanaland revisited 15
Don Tarling
doi:10.1038/284015b0
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| | Vibrations of atoms at surfaces 16
John Pendry
doi:10.1038/284016a0
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| | Review Article |  |
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| | The role of hormone receptors and GTP-regulatory proteins in membrane transduction 17
Martin Rodbell
doi:10.1038/284017a0
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| | Cometary collisions on the Moon and Mercury 22
Peter H. Schultz & Leonard J. Srnka
doi:10.1038/284022a0
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| | Sequence of the human insulin gene 26
Graeme I. Bell, Raymond L. Pictet, William J. Rutter, Barbara Cordell, Edmund Tischer & Howard M. Goodman
doi:10.1038/284026a0
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| | Neural regulation of pancreatic hormone secretion by the C-terminal tetrapeptide of CCK 33
J. F. Rehfeld, L.-I. Larsson, N. R. Goltermann, T. W. Schwartz, J. J. Holst, S. L. Jensen & J. S. Morley
doi:10.1038/284033a0
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| | Letters |  |
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| | The unusual supernova remnant CTB80 38
Richard G. Strom, P. E. Angerhofer & T. Velusamy
doi:10.1038/284038a0
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| | Photoelectrochemical properties of metalloporphyrins 40
F. J. Kampas, K. Yamashita & J. Fajer
doi:10.1038/284040a0
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| | Spatial distribution studies of thermoluminescence using a high-gain image intensifier 42
Alan J. Walton & N. C. Debenham
doi:10.1038/284042a0
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| | Surface potentials of ice and thunderstorm charge separation 44
J. M. Caranti & A. J. Illingworth
doi:10.1038/284044a0
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| | Allophane isolated from a podsol developed on a non-vitric parent material 46
A. W. Young, A. S. Campbell & T. W. Walker
doi:10.1038/284046a0
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| | Gyromagnetism and the remanence acquired by a rotating rock in an alternating field 48
Alan Stephenson
doi:10.1038/284048a0
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| | A gyroremanent magnetisation in anisotropic magnetic material 49
Alan Stephenson
doi:10.1038/284049a0
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| | A braidplain facies model for the Westphalian B Coal Measures of north-east England 51
R. S. Haszeldine & R. Anderton
doi:10.1038/284051a0
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| | Silurian or Upper ordovician fossils at Guolasjav'ri Troms, Norway 53
R. E. Binns & R. A. Gayer
doi:10.1038/284053a0
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| | A new hominid fossil skull (L.H. 18) from the Ngaloba Beds, Laetoli, northern Tanzania 55
M. H. Day, M. D. Leakey & C. Magori
doi:10.1038/284055a0
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| | Aggressive tusk use by the narwhal (Monodon monoceros L.) 57
H. B. Silverman & M. J. Dunbar
doi:10.1038/284057a0
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| | Synaptic mechanisms involved in responses of chromaticity horizontal cells of turtle retina 58
Marco Piccolino, Jacques Neyton & Hersch M. Gerschenfeld
doi:10.1038/284058a0
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| | Postsynaptic effects of ethanol at the frog neuromuscular junction 60
Ronald J. Bradley, Klaus Peper & Raimund Sterz
doi:10.1038/284060a0
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| | Stimulation of hypothalamic nuclei has differential effects on lipid synthesis in brown and white adipose tissue 62
Takashi Shimazu & Akira Takahashi
doi:10.1038/284062a0
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| | New class of glutamate agonist structurally related to ibotenic acid 64
P. Krogsgaard-Larsen, T. Honoré, J. J. Hansen, D. R. Curtis & D. Lodge
doi:10.1038/284064a0
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| | Glucagon and glicentin immunoreactivity are topologically segregated in the granule of the human pancreatic A cell 66
Mariella Ravazzola & Lelio Orci
doi:10.1038/284066a0
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| | Metastatic potential correlates with enzymatic degradation of basement membrane collagen 67
L. A. Liotta, K. Tryggvason, S. Garbisa, Ian Hart, C. M. Foltz & S. Shafie
doi:10.1038/284067a0
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| | Terminal differentiation in human promyelocytic leukaemic cells in the absence of DNA synthesis 69
Giovanni Rovera, Nancy Olashaw & Pacifico Meo
doi:10.1038/284069a0
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| | Phorbol ester-mediated stimulation of the synthesis of mouse mammary tumour virus 71
S. K. Arya
doi:10.1038/284071a0
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| | Sister chromatid exchange in cells metabolically coupled to Bloom's syndrome cells 72
Steven Schonberg & James German
doi:10.1038/284072a0
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| | Induction of sister chromatid exchanges by BUdR is largely independent of the BUdR content of DNA 74
Richard L. Davidson, Elliot R. Kaufman, Charlotte P. Dougherty, Anita M. Ouellette, Claudia M. DiFolco & Samuel A. Latt
doi:10.1038/284074a0
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| | Influence of local vascularity on hormone receptors in mammary gland 77
Brian P. Moore & Isabel A. Forsyth
doi:10.1038/284077a0
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| | Novel expression-linked copies of the genes for variant surface antigens in trypanosomes 78
J. H. J. Hoeijmakers, A. C. C. Frasch, A. Bernards, P. Borst & G. A. M. Cross
doi:10.1038/284078a0
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| | US College Textbook Supplement |  |
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| | Bringing physics to life 81
Daniel Zwanziger
doi:10.1038/284081a0
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| | Physics starts here; or here? 82
David J. Miller
doi:10.1038/284082a0
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| | Remote sensing of the environment 83
R.N. Colwell
doi:10.1038/284083a0
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| | Practical organic chemistry 83
J.E. Girard
doi:10.1038/284083b0
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| | Physical chemistry texts 84
David S. Kliger
doi:10.1038/284084a0
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| | Physical chemistry for the life sciences 84
R.M. Harris
doi:10.1038/284084b0
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| | Biology from a human angle 85
M. Edidin
doi:10.1038/284085a0
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| | Primate cytogenetics 86
Dorothy A. Miller
doi:10.1038/284086a0
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| | Basic molecular biology 87
G.C. Walker
doi:10.1038/284087a0
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| | Views of enzymes 87
Dennis Piszkiewicz
doi:10.1038/284087b0
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| | Atmospheric Physics 88
J. V. IRIBARNE & H.-R. CHO
doi:10.1038/284088a0
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| | Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation 88
HANS R. PRUPPACHER & JAMES D. KLETT
doi:10.1038/284088b0
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| | Biochemistry for all occasions 88
Ernst Noltmann
doi:10.1038/284088c0
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| | Basic chemistry 89
James Viers
doi:10.1038/284089a0
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| | Experimental organic chemistry 90
P.F. Schatz
doi:10.1038/284090a0
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| | Basic botany 91
Ralph S. Quatrano
doi:10.1038/284091a0
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| | Modern virology 92
P.C. Kimball
doi:10.1038/284092a0
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| | Basic biology of malignancy 93
Joseph R. Bertino
doi:10.1038/284093a0
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| | History of biology 93
Dov Ospovat
doi:10.1038/284093b0
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| | Historical and physical geology 94
Hermann W. Pfefferkorn
doi:10.1038/284094a0
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| | Igneous petrology 95
S. A. Morse
doi:10.1038/284095a0
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| | Chestnuts of the '40s 95
Brian J. Skinner
doi:10.1038/284095b0
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| | Instrumental analysis 96
J.F. Coetzee
doi:10.1038/284096a0
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| | General chemistry 96
Jerry A. Bell
doi:10.1038/284096b0
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| | Analytical chemistry 97
M.S. Greenberg
doi:10.1038/284097a0
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| | General chemistry texts 98
R.O. Ragsdale
doi:10.1038/284098a0
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| | Soil chemistry 99
P.H. Nye
doi:10.1038/284099a0
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| | How to know 100
Almut G. Jones
doi:10.1038/284100a0
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| | Introduction to phycology 101
M. G. Kelly
doi:10.1038/284101a0
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| | Entomologically speaking 102
R.W. Thorp
doi:10.1038/284102a0
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| | Animal behaviour 104
J.P. Hailman
doi:10.1038/284104a0
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| | Introductory chemistry for the health sciences 104
A.D. Cooper
doi:10.1038/284104b0
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| | Physical chemistry for biologists 105
Verne N. Schumaker
doi:10.1038/284105a0
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| | Introductory biology texts 106
Edward C. Cox & Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/284106a0
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| | Physics for poets 108
A. M. Sachs
doi:10.1038/284108a0
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| | Introductory meteorology 109
Ira W. Geer
doi:10.1038/284109a0
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| | Chemistry for the non-science student 110
A.P. Zipp
doi:10.1038/284110a0
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| | Aquatic insects 110
A.A. Grigarick
doi:10.1038/284110b0
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