Volume 358 Issue 6389, 27 August 1992

Wang goes bust

Darwin's detractors

Rising toll from AIDS in Japan prompts big jump in spending

• David Swinbanks

Ways to keep Mars 'clean'

• Ian Mundell

NSF's proposed conflict-of-interest rules place burden on applicant and institution

• Christopher Anderson

Australia increases funds for grants and applied research

• Mark Lawson

NASA ponders "faster, cheaper" way to send scientific mission to Pluto

• Tony Reichhardt

Court-appointed scientists provide technical expertise

• Traci Watson

CHINA BRIEFS

• You Qin Li

Japanese open infectious disease lab despite local and national protests

• David Swinbanks

In brief

• Jeffrey Mervis

In brief

• Jeffrey Mervis

Research groups to leave Hunterian Institute

• Ian Mundell

He's not heavy, he's my fossil

A national primate centre?

• George Fink

Sheep count

• Ian Davldson

AT&T research

• C. K. N. Patel

Catching AIDS

• William Trusten

Air pollutants and lung cancer

• John R. Goldsmith

Electoral ploy?

• Paolo Amati

Indian bureaucracy

• A. K. Lal

Energy levels by path integration

• John Maddox

A welcome animal model

• Francis S. Collins
• James M. Wilson

Another protein out in the cold

• John Armstrong

Diminishing oxygen

• Wallace S. Broecker
• Jeffrey P. Severinghaus

Grave guardians with a difference

• R. P.

Arithmetic in the cradle

• P. E. Bryant

No contractile obligations

• R. Lakes

Surviving subduction

• William M. White

Poles together

Crystals with a light touch

• Andrew Steane
• Christopher Foot

The wages of sin

• David Jones

Yeast retrotransposon revealed

• Daniel F. Voytas
• Jef D. Boeke

Alternative blood substitutes

• Kenneth C. Lowe
• Clive Washington

Decaying neutrino theory

• Dennis W. Sciama
• Paolo Salucci
• Massimo Persic

Book Review

The end of geohistory?

• Gordon L. Herries Davies

Chocolate kookies

• Peter A. Lawrence

To the heart of the matter

• David Weatherall

Understanding historical climate

• William F. Ruddiman

Book Review

Bedside manners

• Robert G. Petersdorf

Seasonal and interannual variations in atmospheric oxygen and implications for the global carbon cycle

• Ralph F. Keeling
• Stephen R. Shertz

Crystal structures explain functional properties of two E. coli porins

• S. W. Cowan
• T. Schirmer
• J. P. Rosenbusch

Starbursts in the nuclei of shell galaxies

• Lars Hernquist
• Melinda L. Weil

Acceleration of the rate of nitrite oxidation by freezing in aqueous solution

• Norimichi Takenaka
• Akfriro Ueda
• Yasuaki Maeda

Thermal skin effect of the surface ocean and its implications for CO² uptake

• J. E. Robertson
• A. J. Watson

Phytoplankton productivity in the North Pacific ocean since 1900 and implications for absorption of anthropogenic CO₂

• Paul G. Falkowski
• Cara Wilson

Experimentally produced oscillatory zoning in the (Ba, Sr)SO₄ solid solution

• Andrew Putnis
• Lurdes Fernandez-Diaz
• Manuel Prieto

Evidence from ultra-high-pressure marbles for recycling of sediments into the mantle

• Harry Becker
• Rainer Altherr

Addition and subtraction by human infants

• Karen Wynn

A test of reciprocal X–Y interactions as a cause of hybrid sterility in Drosophila

• Norman A. Johnson
• Daniel E. Perez
• Chung-I Wu

Cytosolic free calcium mediates red light-induced photomorphogenesis

• P. S. Shacklock
• N. D. Read
• A. J. Trewavas

Mixed parvocellular and magnocellular geniculate signals in visual area V4

• Vincent P. Ferrera
• Tara A. Nealey
• John H. R. Maunsell

Uncoupling of hypomyelination and glial cell death by a mutation in the proteolipid protein gene

• Armin Schneider
• Paul Montague
• Klaus-Armin Nave

Processing of mutant cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator is temperature-sensitive

• Gerene M. Denning
• Matthew P. Anderson
• Michael J. Welsh

Predominant naturally processed peptides bound to HLA-DR1 are derived from MHC-related molecules and are heterogeneous in size

• Roman M. Chicz
• Robert G. Urban
• Jack L. Strominger

The structure of ribosomal protein S5 reveals sites of interaction with 16S rRNA

• V. Ramakrishnan
• Stephen W. White

Convergence of 9-cis retinoic acid and peroxisome proliferator signalling pathways through heterodimer formation of their receptors

• Steven A. Kliewer
• Kazuhiko Umesono
• Ronald M. Evans

Prediction of the structure of a receptor–protein complex using a binary docking method

• Barry L. Stoddard
• Daniel E. Koshland Jr