Table of contents
Volume 335 Number 6190 pp479-574
In this issue (6 October 1988)
Also this week
Opinion
Has Mrs Thatcher turned green? p479
The British prime minister has acknowledged that greenhouse gases are an environmental hazard. But how soon should something be done?
doi: 10.1038/335479a0
News
United States back in space again p480
David Lindley
doi: 10.1038/335480a0
United States back in space again p480
David Lindley and David Swinbanks
doi: 10.1038/335480b0
US role alleged in cover-up of researchers guilty of war crimes p481
Steven Dickman
doi: 10.1038/335481a0
SDI chief quits as funds are cut p481
Seth Shulman
doi: 10.1038/335481b0
New rules for US research grants prove a popular choice p482
Martha Cleveland
doi: 10.1038/335482a0
Olympic dope-test net misses Poles p482
Vera Rich
doi: 10.1038/335482b0
US places further regulations on pesticide manufacturers p482
Carol Ezzell
doi: 10.1038/335482c0
Call for total ban of production and use of chlorofluorocarbons p483
Carol Ezzell
doi: 10.1038/335483a0
FDA urged to review wonder "smokeless" cigarette for safety p483
Seth Shulman
doi: 10.1038/335483b0
Du Pont had nuclear reactor problems p483
Joseph Palca
doi: 10.1038/335483c0
No fallout likely from Cosmos 1900 p483
David Lindley
doi: 10.1038/335483d0
UK government's plans to split teaching and research p484
Christine McGourty
doi: 10.1038/335484a0
Margaret Thatcher's U-turn on support of basic research? p484
Christine McGourty
doi: 10.1038/335484b0
Placebos prompt new protocols for AIDS drug tests p485
Marcia Barinaga
doi: 10.1038/335485a0
Medvedev promoted in Soviet shake-up p485
Vera Rich
doi: 10.1038/335485b0
Observation satellite planned for the 1990s p486
David Swinbanks
doi: 10.1038/335486a0
French government approves abortion pill for commercial use p486
Peter Coles
doi: 10.1038/335486b0
Rocky start for new biology building on Californian campus p487
Joseph Palca
doi: 10.1038/335487a0
British charity deal with Japan on anti-cancer drug technology p487
David Swinbanks
doi: 10.1038/335487b0
Correspondence
Canada's science funding p488
E. R. BOOTHROYD
doi: 10.1038/335488a0
Graduate salaries p488
H. M. KEIR
doi: 10.1038/335488b0
UK science teaching p488
ROLAND DIXON
doi: 10.1038/335488c0
conference report
Who knows how the brain works? p489
Three hundred scientists gathered in Cambridge, Massachusetts to listen, reflect and argue over how science is proceeding in answering questions about mind and brain. Alun Anderson and Joseph Palca report on Nature's 11th international conference.
doi: 10.1038/335489a0
News and Views
New horizons in contraception p492
R. J. Aitken and M. Paterson
doi: 10.1038/335492a0
Order in disorder p493
Robert W. Cahn
doi: 10.1038/335493a0
Developmental decisions and pattern formation p494
Miranda Robertson, Biology Editor of Nature
doi: 10.1038/335494a0
Surprises of different kinds p495
J. R. Cann and M. R. Strens
doi: 10.1038/335495a0
A violent birth for Mercury p496
Glen R. Stewart
doi: 10.1038/335496a0
Paired helical filaments and the cytoskeleton p497
Brian H. Anderton
doi: 10.1038/335497a0
A trade not for gentlemen p498
Richard Hodges
doi: 10.1038/335498a0
Signs of variable nucleon size p499
A. W. Thomas and J. E. Thomas
doi: 10.1038/335499a0
Deep green power p500
David Jones
doi: 10.1038/335500a0
Scientific Correspondence
Was Taung human or an ape? p501
MlLFORD H. WOPOFF, JANET M. MONGE and MICHELLE LAMPL
doi: 10.1038/335501a0
Ozone destruction by algae in the Arctic atmosphere p501
RON WEVER
doi: 10.1038/335501b0
Further analysis of multiexponential functions p501
E. YERAMIAN
doi: 10.1038/335501c0
Antifreeze polypeptides come out of the cold p502
S. MANN and B. R. HEYWOOD
doi: 10.1038/335502a0
Antifreeze polypeptides come out of the cold p503
D. S. C. YANG, M. SAX, A. CHAKRABARTTY and C. L. HEW
doi: 10.1038/335503a0
Evolution of new tRNA-synthetase classes p503
PATRICK P. LESTIENNE
doi: 10.1038/335503b0
Book Reviews
Tales of future past p505
Henry Gee, editorial staff of Nature.
doi: 10.1038/335505a0
p506
doi: 10.1038/335506a0
Founding father p506
Robert Temple
doi: 10.1038/335506b0
Moving on the spot p507
Peter D. Moore
doi: 10.1038/335507a0
Pandora's black box: 'mosaic' thermodynamics p507
S. Roy Caplan
doi: 10.1038/335507b0
A shock to the system p508
Peter D. Marshall
doi: 10.1038/335508a0
Review Article
Distinct dental development patterns in early fossil hominids p509
A. D. Beynon* and M. C. Dean†
doi: 10.1038/335509a0
Articles
Chemistry of hot springs on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge p514
A. C. Campbell*, M. R. Palmer*, G. P. Klinkhammer*, T. S. Bowers*, J. M. Edmond*, J. R. Lawrence†, J. F. Casey†, G. Thompson‡, S. Humphris‡, P. Rona§
and J. A. Karson
doi: 10.1038/335514a0
Function of c-mos proto-oncogene product in meiotic maturation in Xenopus oocytes p519
Noriyuki Sagata*, Marianne Oskarsson*, Terry Copeland*, John Brumbaugh† and George F. Vande Woude*
doi: 10.1038/335519a0
Letters to Nature
Structural ordering in a calcium silicate glass p525
M. C. Eckersley*, P. H. Gaskell*, A. C. Barnes† and P. Chieux†
doi: 10.1038/335525a0
15N-depleted N2O as a product of nitrification p528
Naohiro Yoshida*
doi: 10.1038/335528a0
Climatically forced organic carbon burial in equatorial Atlantic and Pacific Oceans p529
Mitchell Lyle
doi: 10.1038/335529a0
Loihi Seamount, Hawaii: a mid-plate volcano with a distinctive hydrothermal system p532
D. M. Karl*†, G. M. McMurtry*†, A. Malahoff*† and M. O. Garcia*
doi: 10.1038/335532a0
Late Archaean terrane accretion in the Godthåb region, southern West Greenland p535
C. R. L. Friend*, A. P. Nutman† and V. R. McGregor‡
doi: 10.1038/335535a0
British bird species distributions and the energy theory p539
John R. G. Turner, Jack J. Lennon and Jane A. Lawrenson
doi: 10.1038/335539a0
Spatial clumping of sexually receptive females induces space sharing among male voles p541
Rolf Anker Ims
doi: 10.1038/335541a0
Fully effective contraception in male and female guinea pigs immunized with the sperm protein PH-20 p543
Paul Primakoff, William Lathrop, Laura Woolman, Ann Cowan and Diana Myles
doi: 10.1038/335543a0
The Caenorhabditis elegans lin-12 gene encodes a transmembrane protein with overall similarity to Drosophila Notch p547
John Yochem, Kathleen Weston*† and Iva Greenwald
doi: 10.1038/335547a0
Lateral inhibition during vulval induction in Caenorhabditis elegans p551
Paul W. Sternberg
doi: 10.1038/335551a0
Insulin stimulation of glucose uptake can be mediated by diacylglycerol in adipocytes p554
Peter Strålfors
doi: 10.1038/335554a0
Trans-spliced leader RNA exists as small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles in Caenorhabditis elegans p556
Kevin Van Doren and David Hirsh
doi: 10.1038/335556a0
Trans splicing involves a novel form of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles p559
James P. Bruzik*, Kevin Van Doren†, David Hirsh† and Joan A. Steitz*
doi: 10.1038/335559a0
GAL4-VP16 is an unusually potent transcriptional activator p563
Ivan Sadowski*, Jun Ma*, Steve Triezenberg† and Mark Ptashne*
doi: 10.1038/335563a0
Structure of antibody hypervariable loops reproduced by a conformational search algorithm p564
Robert E. Bruccoleri*, Edgar Haber*
and Ji
í Novotný*
doi: 10.1038/335564a0
Product Reviews
Designing and planning a laboratory p569
S. McKenney
doi: 10.1038/335569a0
Abstract | | PDF (261K)
Lab week roundup p570
doi: 10.1038/335570a0
Abstract | | PDF (752K)
employment
Foreign support for US education p574
Richard Pearson
doi: 10.1038/335574a0
Abstract | | PDF (122K)
