Volume 265 Issue 5591, 20 January 1977

Overdue: another scientific revolution

• J. Tuzo Wilson

Space: a new phase?

• Keith Runcorn
• Paul Coleman

The experimental programme

USA: Ford's parting gifts

• Colin Norman

Sweden: Reforming the Councils

• Wendy Barnaby

USSR

• Vera Rich

Satellite plans

• Casper Schuuring

In Brief

Peer review

• THOMAS H. JUKES

Earthquake risk

• D. J. BLUNDELL

Significant journals of science

• MICHAEL M. BENARIE

Rapid publication

• H. A. M. DE KRUIJF

He's repented

Immunological networks

• Martin Raff

Volcano spacing in East Africa

• Peter J. Smith

Ultrasonic assessment of arterial pathways

• C. D. Field

Diamond platelets are interstitial carbon

• John Walker

Exploiting exotic plants

• Robert M. May

Nucleon coalescence

• P. E. Hodgson

A hundred years ago

Homoeotic genes, compartments and cell determination in Drosophila

• Gines Morata
• Peter A. Lawrence

Configuration of tobacco mosaic virus RNA during virus assembly

• P. J. G. Butler
• J. T. Finch
• D. Zimmern

A model for superlight velocities of extragalactic radio sources

• Richard I. Epstein
• Margaret J. Geller

A simple physical model for X-ray burst sources

• P. C. JOSS
• S. RAPPAPORT

Detection of change in rotation measure of the Vela pulsar

• P. A. HAMILTON
• P. M. MCCULLOCH
• M. M. KOMESAROFF

Observational consequences of synchrotron self-Compton models of compact extragalactic X-ray sources

• R. F. MUSHOTZKY

Absolute scale of thermoelectricity

• R. B. ROBERTS

Fission/α analysis of the U, Th families

• DAVID E. FISHER

Light-driven, carrier-mediated electron transfer across artificial membranes

• JOHN J. GRIMALDI
• SYLVIE BOILEAU
• JEAN-MARIE LEHN

Yes, Kakangari is a unique chondrite

• ANDREW M. DAVIS
• LAWRENCE GROSSMAN
• R. GANAPATHY

Microbiota under Antarctic ice shelves

• JERE H. LIPPS
• WILLIAM N. KREBS
• NICHOLAS K. TEMNIKOW

First Devonian platyspermic seed and its implications in gymnosperm evolution

• W. G. CHALONER
• A. J. HILL
• W. S. LACEY

Mouth gaping as an effective thermoregulatory device in alligators

• JAMES R. SPOTILA
• KENNETH M. TERPIN
• PETER DODSON

22-kHz calls by isolated rats

• R. L. FRANCIS

Specific alterations in phosphorylation of cytosol proteins from differentiating neuroblastoma cells grown in culture

• YIGAL H. EHRLICH
• ERIC G. BRUNNGRABER
• KEDAR N. PRASAD

Regulation of cyclic GMP in cerebellum by a striatal dopaminergic mechanism

• G. BIGGIO
• A. GUIDOTTI

Excitatory action of TRH on spinal motoneurones

• ROGER A. NICOLL

Saturation of a retinal cone mechanism

• J. D. MOLLON
• P. G. POLDEN

ATP-dependent calcium storage in presynaptic nerve terminals

• NANCY C. KENDRICK
• MORDECAI P. BLAUSTEIN
• RONALD W. RATZLAFF

Chemical properties of human Ia antigens

• LARS KLARESKOG
• LENA SANDBERG-TRÄGÅRDH
• PER A. PETERSON

Recognition of a naturally occurring idiotype by autologous T cells

• MICHAEL H. JULIUS
• ANDRÉ A. AUGUSTIN
• HUMBERTO COSENZA

Altered expression of human monocyte Fc receptors in malignant disease

• JOHN RHODES

Serological evidence for H–Y antigen in Sxr, XX sex-reversed phenotypic males

• DOROTHEA BENNETT
• BONNIE J. MATHIESON
• BRUCE M. CATTANACH

Time and mode of fusion of human fibroblasts treated with polyethylene glycol (PEG)

• G. PONTECORVO
• P. N. RIDDLE
• ANNE HALES

Loss of duplicate gene expression after polyploidisation

• STEPHEN D. FERRIS
• GREGORY S. WHITT

Common precursor pathways of Herpes DNA and of repair synthesis in ultraviolet irradiated cells

• JACQUES COPPEY

Maternal histidine metabolism and its effect on foetal development in the mouse

• HENRIK KACSER
• KHIN MYA MYA
• MARY F. LYON

Survival of dinoflagellate blooms in the western English Channel

• R. D. PINGREE
• P. M. HOLLIGAN
• R. N. HEAD

Local reactivation of Triton-extracted flagella by iontophoretic application of ATP

• CHIKAKO SHINGYOJI
• AKIRA MURAKAMI
• KEIICHI TAKAHASHI

New approach to screening drugs for activity against African trypanosomes

• ALAN H. FAIRLAMB
• FRED R. OPPERDOES
• PIET BORST

Feeding of Daphnia on Chlamydomonas and Chlorobium

• MOSHE GOPHEN

Chromophore mobility in bacteriorhodopsin

• WARREN V. SHERMAN
• S. ROY CAPLAN

Three-chain merokeratin from wool may be a fragment of the microfibril component macromolecule

• S. S. LOTAY
• P. T. SPEAKMAN

Brain tryptophan in rats on a high fat diet

• JOHN D. FERNSTROM
• HAMISH N. MUNRO
• RICHARD J. WURTMAN

Brain tryptophan in rats on a high fat diet (reply)

Dating earthquakes by mud profiles of lake sediments

• IAAKOV KARCZ
• DAVID NEEV
• ISRAEL ZAK

Dating earthquakes by mud profiles of lake sediments (reply)

• BEN MENAHEM

Machiavelli with a computer

• Eric Ashby

Autonomic nervous system

• R. H. Johnson

Noctilucent clouds

• Eigil Hesstvedt

Drosophila genetics

• Forbes W. Robertson

Marine pollution

• G. C. Carney

Bare outlines of medicine

• G. V. R. Born

Contemporary immunology

• A. J. S. Davies

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