Volume 296 Issue 5854, 18 March 1982

Uneconomic savings

Turkish illiberality

European fusion sustained

• Jasper Becker

Overseas science shake-up in US

• David Dickson

Polish higher education: Reform reversed

• Vera Rich

Industrial lure

• Michael Stein

UK budget: A gentle push

• Judy Redfearn

Gene manipulation watchdog: Too smooth?

UN assists India

• Sunil Saraf

US electronics industry: Pooling effort

• David Dickson

UK-Romania cooperation: One-way street

• Vera Rich

Bio-fund open

• Charles Wenz

Congress tackles 1983 budget

• David Dickson

Glenn speaks out

Professional pride

• J.R.S. FINCHAM

Protein evolution

• A.E. ROUT

A wing and a prayer

• C. DARNBROUGH

Electricity costs

• J.W. JEFFERY

PCBs in rice oil

• WILLIAM Y.B. CHANG

Holmes' lives on

• DOMINIC RECALDIN

An end to creation?

• M. HAMMERTON

Science on the Space Shuttle

• W.M. Neupert
• P.M. Banks
• J.L. Weinberg

How life began

• Preston Cloud

Was Galileo 2,000 years too late?

• David W. Hughes

Molecular recognition and the future of monoclonal antibodies

• David Lane
• Hilary Koprowski

Bounded brainpower?

• Paul Davies

Genetic diagnosis of the fetus

• Stuart H. Orkin

Trace elements and ocean chemistry

• Michael L. Bender

100 years ago

The map sense of pigeons

• James L. Gould

Pancake detonation of stars by black holes in galactic nuclei

• B. Carter
• J. P. Luminet

The rare earth elements in seawater

• Henry Elderfield
• Mervyn J. Greaves

Genome instability in a region of human DNA enriched in Alu repeat sequences

• Bruno Calabretta
• Donald L. Robberson
• Grady F. Saunders

A new model for white dwarf supernovae

• R. Canal
• J. Isern
• J. Labay

A Compton-cooled feedback mechanism for Cygnus X-1

• P. W. Guilbert
• A. C. Fabian

Alkylation of lead (II) salts to tetraalkyllead in aqueous solution

• L. J. Snyder
• J. M. Bentz

Aerosols of high chlorine concentration transported into central and eastern United States

• R. W. Shaw Jr
• F. S. Binkowski
• W. J. Courtney

Thermoluminescence reveals weathering stages in basaltic rocks

• Y. Göksu Ögelman
• S. Kapur

A premonitory pattern of earthquakes in northern Greece

• B. C. Papazachos
• T. M. Tsapanos
• D. G. Panagiotopoulos

Direct evidence of a subducted plate under southern Mexico

• C. Lomnitz

Delineation of the North Central Italian upper mantle anomaly

• G. F. Panza
• St. Mueller
• L. Knopoff

Pb isotopic composition of ophiolitic volcanogenic sulphide deposits, Troodos Complex, Cyprus

• E. T. C. Spooner
• N. H. Gale

Temporal changes in the inorganic carbon system of the southeastern Bering Sea during spring 1980

• L. A. Codispoti
• G. E. Friederich
• D. W. Hood

Variability in the abundance of animal and plant species

• R. M. Anderson
• D. M. Gordon
• M. P. Hassell

A possible case of hypervitaminosis A in Homo erectus

• A. Walker
• M. R. Zimmerman
• R. E. F. Leakey

β-Endorphin is processed differently in specific regions of rat pituitary and brain

• S. Zakarian
• D. G. Smyth

Insulin-like growth factor I stimulates growth in hypophysectomized rats

• Eugen Schoenle
• Jürgen Zapf
• E. Rudolf Froesch

³H-noradrenaline release potentiated in a clonal nerve cell line by low-intensity pulsed magnetic fields

• Richard Dixey
• Glen Rein

Agonist selectivity and second messenger concentration in Ca²⁺-mediated secretion

• D. E. Knight
• T. J. Hallam
• M. C. Scrutton

Monoclonal antibody against human IFN-γ

• H. K. Hochkeppel
• M. de Ley

Absence of significant H–2 and β₂-microglobulin mRNA expression by mouse embryonal carcinoma cells

• Dominique Morello
• Françoise Daniel
• Philippe Kourilsky

Nuclear localization and DNA binding of the transforming gene product of avian myelocytomatosis virus

• Peter Donner
• Irene Greiser-Wilke
• Karin Moelling

Spontaneous fragmentation of actin filaments in physiological conditions

• Albrecht Wegner

The C conformation is a low salt form of sodium DNA

• N. J. Rhodes
• A. Mahendrasingam
• R. A. J. Warren

Transfection of cells from a xeroderma pigmentosum patient with normal human DNA confers UV resistance

• Toshiya Takano
• Makoto Noda
• Taka-aki Tamura

Regulation of DNA ligase activity by poly(ADP-ribose)

• Debbie Creissen
• Sydney Shall

From China with love

• J.D. Bjorken

A cooperative venture in soil science

• Harry Vine

The ins and outs of food production

• K.L. Blaxter

L'animal-machine

• J.E.R. Staddon

The Banksias

Fruits of Australian botany

• David W. Goodall

Volcanology: last of the common ground

• P. W. Francis