Volume 266 Issue 5604, 21 April 1977

Geos: Europe's satellite for science

• Stuart Sharrock

A partial triumph

• Vera Rich

USA: Geophysics stakes its claim

• Colin Norman

Netherlands: Dutch go ahead on DNA

• Casper Schuuring

Europe: Wanted: a science policy

• Chris Sherwell

West Germany: The cost of maintenance

• Werner Gries

Sweden: A catalytic note

• Wendy Barnaby

In Brief

Consumer revolt

• THOMAS H. JUKES

Rights of scientists

• GOSTA WRANGLEN

The Tacoma Bridge collapse

• A. C. WALKER
• P. G. SIBLY

Another optical pulsar

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Corrigendum

Synaptic memory in the hippocampus

• Shin-Ho Chung

Anti-anxiety receptors in the brain?

• Leslie Iversen

A hundred years ago

SIN and the muon-electron puzzle

• F. E. Close

Spin waves in superfluid ³He

• P. V. E. McClintock

Complementary genetics

• M. J. Hobart

Progress in coronaviruses

• David J. Garves

Accretion torques in X-ray pulsars

• S. Rappaport
• P. C. Joss

Formation of intense magnetic fields near the surface of the Sun

• D. J. Galloway
• M. R. E. Proctor
• N. O. Weiss

Discovery of the Hadrynian Polar Track and further study of the Grenville problem

• W. A. Morris
• J. L. Roy

Detection of optical pulses from the Vela pulsar

• P. T. WALLACE
• B. A. PETERSON
• G. W. WELLGATE

Search for γ-ray bursts with coincident balloon flights

• T. L. CLINE
• U. D. DESAI
• B. J. TEEGARDEN

Possible γ-ray line from the Crab Nebula

• M. LEVENTHAL
• C. J. MACCALLUM
• A. C. WATTS

Interpretation of observed cosmic microwave background radiation

• HANNES ALFVEN
• ASOKA MENDIS

Radiative acceleration of gas above a luminous disk

• VINCENT ICKE

Magnetic field amplification in interstellar collisionless shock waves

• ROGER A. CHEVALIER

Lack of dust in quasar absorption line systems

• M. JURA

Relationship between atmospheric electricity and microwave radio propagation

• D. P. HAWORTH
• N. J. McEWAN
• P. A. WATSON

Decomposition of silicate glasses in alkaline solutions

• T. M. EL-SHAMY
• C. G. PANTANO

A near perfect shape-memory ceramic material

• K. E. SCHURCH
• K. H. G. ASHBEE

The use and misuse of pure water PVT properties for lake waters

• CHEN-TUNG CHEN
• FRANK J. MILLERO

Raman scattering and the characterisation of atmospheric aerosol particles

• H. ROSEN
• T. NOVAKOV

Fluctuations of seismicity before major earthquakes

• F. F. EVISON

Muon production of ^92,94Nb in the Earth's crust

• DONALD D. CLAYTON
• JOHN A. MORGAN

Particulate organic carbon in Atlantic surface waters

• S. KRISHNASWAMI
• D. LAL

Nickel in komatiites

• R. GRANT CAWTHORN
• J. R. MCIVER

Rhythm perception in early infancy

• LAURENT DEMANY
• BERYL MCKENZIE
• ELIANE VURPILLOT

The whalebill is a stork

• ALAN FEDUCCIA

Early viral functions of in (ts)-1501 temperature-sensitive SV40 mutant

• MICHAEL P. LOCKWOOD
• HENRY ROTHSCHILD
• MERLIN WILSON

Contiguity to male foetuses affects morphology and behaviour of female mice

• RONALD GANDELMAN
• FREDERICK S. VOM SAAL
• JUNE M. REINISCH

Mutagenicity and toxicity of visible fluorescent light to cultured mammalian cells

• MATTHEWS O. BRADLEY
• NANCY A. SHARKEY

Skin fibroblasts from a D-deletion type retinoblastoma patient are abnormally X-ray sensitive

• RALPH R. WEICHSELBAUM
• JOHN NOVE
• JOHN B. LITTLE

Inhibition by sera and soluble antigens of T-cell-mediated cytotoxicity against leukaemia-associated antigens

• CHOU-CHIK TING
• MICHAEL J. ROGERS

Active site of bovine factor XI (plasma thromboplastin antecedent)

• TAKEHIKO KOIDE
• MARK A. HERMODSON
• EARL W. DAVIE

Depression: a new animal model sensitive to antidepressant treatments

• R. D. PORSOLT
• M. LE PICHON
• M. JALFRE

Benzodiazepine receptors in rat brain

• RICHARD F. SQUIRES
• CLAUS BRAESTRUP

Axotomy causes loss of muscarinic receptors and loss of synaptic contacts in the hypoglossal nucleus

• A. ROTTER
• N. J. M. BIRDSALL
• G. RAISMAN

Specific long-lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in hippocampal slices

• P. ANDERSEN
• S. H. SUNDBERG
• H. WIGSTRÖM

Heterosynaptic depression: a postsynaptic correlate of long-term potentiation

• G. S. LYNCH
• T. DUNWIDDIE
• V. GRIBKOFF

Ethanol reduces excitatory postsynaptic current duration at a crustacean neuromuscular junction

• D. J. ADAMS
• P. W. GAGE
• O. P. HAMILL

Asymmetrical currents and sodium currents in Ranvier nodes exposed to DDT

• J. M. DUBOIS
• C. BERGMAN

Effect of transplantation of pancreas on development of hypothalamic obesity

• SHUJI INOUE
• GEORGE A. BRAY
• YOKO S. MULLEN

Comparable complex rearrangements involving 8;21 and 9;22 translocations in leukaemia

• VALERIE LINDGREN
• JANET D. ROWLEY

Derepression of E. coli trp operon on interfamilial transfer

• KENJI NAGAHARI
• YUMIKO SANO
• KENJI SAKAGUCHI

Correlation between the X-ray structure of melanostatin and its conformation in solution

• ROXANNE DESLAURIERS
• R. L. SOMORJAI
• EVELYN RALSTON

Erratum

Erratum

Corrigendum

The 17-d periodicity of Cygnus X-3

• A. J. OWENS

The 17-d periodicity of Cygnus X-3 (reply)

• S. S. HOLT

No new limit on size distribution of γ-ray bursts

• T. L. CLINE
• W. K. H. SCHMIDT

No new limit on size distribution of γ-ray bursts (reply)

• J. C. CARTER
• A. J. DEAN
• D. RAMSDEN

Nutrition and the developing brain

• John Dobbing

Electrons in liquid ammonia

• Neil R. Kestner

Human immunology

• Michael Edidin

Volcanic picture book

• J. E. Guest

Membrane enzymes

• Roger Coleman

Disease resistance in plants

• J. A. Bailey

Atmospheric chemistry

• R. A. Cox

Ion cyclotron resonance spectrometry

• K. R. Jennings

Recent scientific and technical books

Sir Gerard Thornton

• P. S. Nutman

D. E. Wheeler

• D. W. Adamson

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