Volume 266 Issue 5605, 28 April 1977

Chemical disarmament still elusive

The microprocessor phenomenon

• Basil Zacharov

Freedom for whales

• Ray Gambell

Now, an implementation problem

• Robert Stein

Profile: Bread-and-butter or exotica?

• Kenneth Owen

USA: From 63 to 400?

• Colin Norman

GEOS: Hope from despair?

• Stuart Sharrock

Quarks out of the bag?

• Stuart Sharrock

In Brief

Pollution economics

• KENNETH MELLANBY

Scottish science

• D. N. M. HAMILTON

Nuclear irrationality

• JAN M. DODERLEIN

Requests for reprints

• F. ECKSTEIN

Formation of planetary atmospheres

• Robert Hutchinson

Redox potentials of iron-sulphur clusters

• A. J. Thomson

New light on old mesons

• Peter J. Litchfield

Picornavirus RNAs are interesting … and unique

• T. J. R. Harris

Magnetostratigraphic pitfalls

• George Kukla
• J. D. A. Zijderveld

Maize in Yugoslavia

• D. O. Hall

Plants and animals interact

• Mary Lindley

Materials science and engineering

• Robert W. Cahn

A hundred years ago

Advising a President

• Edward E. David Jr

Experimenta lucifera

• Erwin Chargaff

Conversations with Haldane

• Eric Ashby

Father of ethology

• Aubrey Manning

Richard of Wallingford

• Richard Lorch

Newton as alchemist

• A. Rupert Hall

Scientific classic of history

• J. D. North

State of the Universe

• Stuart Sharrock

Remarkable progress in astronomy

• Bernard Lovell

Optical astronomy

• Bernard Pagel

Nineteenth century kinetic theory

• N. Feather

Perspectivist tradition leads men of vision

• J. D. Mollon

Mental imagery

• John Krebs

Brain anatomy

• J. Z. Young

Perceptual exploration

• Stuart Sutherland

Technology and food production

• C. R. W. Spedding

Foresight and responsibility in land use

• John Andrews

Baffling disease

• C. H. Andrewes

Climatic pipe dreams

• R. P. Pearce

British weather

• H. H. Lamb

Engineering geology

• J. L. Knill

Dating in archaeology

• Elizabeth Slater

History of the Nile valley

• Gudrun Corvinus

Lake Rudolf Basin

• G. E. Kennedy

Hominid and the bathwater

• W. W. Bishop

Development of bioenergetics

• A. R. Crofts

Molecules in solution

• J. M. Creeth

Darwinism at a cellular level

• Leslie Brent

RNA polymerase

• Walter F. Mangel

Genetic evolution

• Thomas H. Jukes

Somatic cell hybrids

• R. T. Johnson

Interpretation of the Southern California uplift in terms of the dilatancy hypothesis

• Max Wyss

Hydrothermal fluids of seawater salinity in ophiolitic sulphide ore deposits in Cyprus

• E. T. C. Spooner
• C. J. Bray

Subsurface movements of stone artefacts and their implications for the prehistory of Central Africa

• D. Cahen
• J. Moeyersons

Defective interfering particles with covalently linked [±]RNA induce interferon

• Philip I. Marcus
• Margaret J. Sekellick

Q0000–398 is a high-redshift quasar with a large angular size

• MIRJANA R. GEARHART
• ERICH PACHT

Implications of the Viking results for volatile outgassing from Earth and Mars

• S. I. RASOOL
• L. LE SERGEANT

Magnetic observations of the solar eclipse of 23 October 1976 in Australia

• F. E. M. LILLEY
• D. V. WOODS

Magnetic superleaks

• J. M. GOLDSCHVARTZ

Towards a theory of stochastic vorticity-augmentation

• V. C. LIU

Theoretical evidence for metastable cyclic ozone

• PETER G. BURTON
• M. DAWN HARVEY

High absorption efficiency for ingested plutonium in crabs

• SCOTT W. FOWLER
• JEAN-CLAUDE GUARY

When is sex environmentally determined?

• ERIC L. CHARNOV
• JAMES BULL

Monogamy and sex change by aggressive dominance in coral reef fish

• HANS FRICKE
• SIMONE FRICKE

Behavioural divergences between mosquitoes with different inversion karyotypes in polymorphic populations of the Anopheles gambiae complex

• MARIO COLUZZI
• ADRIANA SABATINI
• MARIA ANGELA DI DECO

Control of plant respiration through non-photosynthetic light action

• WILLIAM S. HILLMAN

Viral contamination of bovine foetal serum and cell cultures

• P. A. NUTTALL
• P. D. LUTHER
• E. J. STOTT

Neonatally tolerant mice fail to react against virus-infected tolerated cells

• R. M. ZINKERNAGEL
• G. N. CALLAHAN
• J. KLEIN

Reassembled HVJ (Sendai virus) envelopes containing non-toxic mutant proteins of diphtheria toxin show toxicity to mouse L cell

• TSUYOSHI UCHIDA
• MASARU YAMAIZUMI
• YOSHIO OKADA

T lymphocyte responses to Mls locus antigens involve recognition of H-2 I region gene products

• AMMON B. PECK
• CHARLES A. JANEWAY JR
• HANS WIGZELL

Density-dependent phosphorylation of a specific protein in cultured cells

• JEANNE M. WEHNER
• J. R. SHEPPARD
• ALVIN M. MALKINSON

Connectivity of the monoamine-containing neurones in central nervous system of leech

• C. M. LENT
• B. M. FRAZER

Post-mortem changes implicate adenine nucleotides and pyridoxal-5′-phosphate in regulation of brain glutamate decarboxylase

• L. P. MILLER
• J. R. WALTERS
• D. L. MARTIN

Effects of dietary choline on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in brain

• BARBARA J. MORLEY
• GIL R. ROBINSON
• RONALD J. BRADLEY

Electrophysiological distinctions between the taste and smell of amino acids in catfish

• JOHN CAPRIO

Calcium utilisation during anaerobiosis induced by osmotic shock in a bivalve mollusc

• H. B. AKBERALI
• K. R. M. MARRIOTT
• E. R. TRUEMAN

X-ray microanalysis of freeze-dried ultrathin frozen sections of a regulating epithelium from the snail Otala

• T. C. APPLETON
• P. F. NEWELL

Right-left asymmetry of myelin development in epiretinal portion of rabbit optic nerve

• H. K. NARANG

New type of representation for mapping chain-folding in protein molecules

• R. BALASUBRAMANIAN

Reports and Publications