Opinion | 07 December 1978

Science has a word for it

News | 07 December 1978

UK investigates virus insecticides

• A. J. McClelland
•  & Peter Collins

News | 07 December 1978

US has doubts on anti-proliferation proposals

• David Dickson

News | 07 December 1978

Libya bidding to join nuclear club, scientists warn

News | 07 December 1978

Czech chartists claim two died in nuclear accident

• Vera Rich

News | 07 December 1978

Canadian scientists confused by government moves on R & D funding

• David Dickson

News | 07 December 1978

NASA plans a new Venus mission

• David Dickson

News in Brief | 07 December 1978

News in Brief

News in Brief | 07 December 1978

Risk assessment is more than numbers, Swedish seminar concludes

• Wendy Barnaby

Correspondence | 07 December 1978

Rothschild: an antidote to panic

• ROTHSCHILD

Correspondence | 07 December 1978

Rothschild: an antidote to panic

• ROBERT CAHN

Correspondence | 07 December 1978

Solar activity and influenza

• ROY ING

Correspondence | 07 December 1978

Seveso: premature optimism

• L. MANARA
•  & S. GARATTINI

Correspondence | 07 December 1978

Reflections on the occasion of my birthday, by Mr Davy

• John Albery
•  & Peter Barratt

News & Views | 07 December 1978

Intervening sequences in the mitochondrial genome

• Giorgio Bernardi

News & Views | 07 December 1978

Enzyme defects and immune dysfunction

• Fred S. Rosen

News & Views | 07 December 1978

Multipion production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

• J. M. Irvine

News & Views | 07 December 1978

Sinks and sources of plant nutrients

• Peter D. Moore

News & Views | 07 December 1978

Faint images revealed

• F. G. Smith

News & Views | 07 December 1978

More on X-ray bursts

• A. C. Fabian

News & Views | 07 December 1978

Gene conversion in mitochondria

• D. H. Williamson

News & Views | 07 December 1978

The first division

• Clive Lloyd

News & Views | 07 December 1978

Can magnetic order and superconductivity coexist?

• B. R. Coles

News & Views | 07 December 1978

A star called M

• S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Review Article | 07 December 1978

A gene complex controlling segmentation in Drosophila

• E. B. Lewis

Article | 07 December 1978

A new class of radio star

• Martin Ryle
• , Graham Hine
• , John Shakeshaft
•  & J. L. Caswell

Article | 07 December 1978

K–Ar age of the late Pleistocene eruption of Toba, north Sumatra

• D. Ninkovich
• , N. J. Shackleton
• , A. A. Abdel-Monem
• , J. D. Obradovich
•  & G. Izett

Article | 07 December 1978

Asymmetric gene conversion at inserted segments on yeast mitochondrial DNA

• R. L. Strausberg
• , R. D. Vincent
• , P. S. Perlman
•  & R. A. Butow

Article | 07 December 1978

Mycoplasma capping on lymphocytes

• Eric J. Stanbridge
•  & Richard L. Weiss

Letter | 07 December 1978

HEAO Observations of X-ray bursts from MXB1730–335

• J. A. HOFFMAN
• , W. A. WHEATON
• , F. A. PRIMINI
• , P. CAMPBELL
• , C. A. DOBSON
• , S. K. HOWE
• , E. Y. TSIANG
• , A. SCHEEPMAKER
• , W. H. G. LEWIN
• , J. L. MATTESON
• , D. E. GRUBER
• , L. E. PETERSON
• , J. H. SWANK
• , E. A. BOLDT
• , S. S. HOLT
• , R. E. ROTHSCHILD
•  & P. SERLEMITSOS

Letter | 07 December 1978

NGC326—a radio galaxy with a precessing beam?

• R. D. EKERS
• , R. FANTI
• , C. LARI
•  & P. PARMA

Letter | 07 December 1978

Limits on cosmic radio bursts with microsecond time scales

• J. D. O'SULLIVAN
• , R. D. EKERS
•  & P. A. SHAVER

Letter | 07 December 1978

Photographic amplification of faint astronomical images

• DAVID F. MALIN

Letter | 07 December 1978

Possible identification of the 45-µm ice signature in Orion

• R. PAPOULAR
• , P. LÉNA
• , A. MARTEN
• , D. ROUAN
•  & J. WIJNBERGEN

Letter | 07 December 1978

Atomic oxygen emission at 63 µm as a cooling mechanism in the thermosphere and ionosphere

• K. U. GROSSMANN
•  & D. OFFERMANN

Letter | 07 December 1978

Helium gas bubble lattices in face-centred-cubic metals

• P. B. JOHNSON
•  & D. J. MAZEY

Letter | 07 December 1978

Crown ether intercalations with phyllosilicates

• E. RUIZ-HITZKY
•  & B. CASAL

Letter | 07 December 1978

Measurement of thermal maturation of petroleum by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy

• R. ALEXANDER
• , R. I. KAGI
•  & G. W. WOODHOUSE

Letter | 07 December 1978

Oxidation state of plutonium in the Irish Sea

• D. M. NELSON
•  & M. B. LOVETT

Letter | 07 December 1978

Catastrophic events in a surface mixed layer

• T. M. DILLON
•  & D. R. CALDWELL

Letter | 07 December 1978

²³⁰Th/²³⁴U age support of an interstadial sea level of −40 m at 30,000 yr BP

• J. CHAPPELL
•  & H. H. VEEH

Letter | 07 December 1978

Eastwards migration of the Tuscan anatectic magmatism due to anticlockwise rotation of the Apennines

• L. CIVETTA
• , G. ORSI
• , P. SCANDONE
•  & R. PECE

Letter | 07 December 1978

Do aerosol anomalies precede earthquakes?

• HELMUT TRIBUTSCH

Letter | 07 December 1978

Evidence for domestication of the dog 12,000 years ago in the Natufian of Israel

• SIMON J. M. DAVIS
•  & FRANÇOIS R. VALLA

Letter | 07 December 1978

Tumorous head is a maternal-effect homoeotic mutant of Drosophila melanogaster

• N. BOURNIAS-VARDIABASIS
•  & M. BOWNES

Letter | 07 December 1978

Genetic variability and population structure of Poecilia latipinna

• DAN E. SIMANEK

Letter | 07 December 1978

Arginine vasopressin maintains ethanol tolerance

• PAULA L. HOFFMAN
• , RONALD F. RITZMANN
• , RODERICH WALTER
•  & BORIS TABAKOFF

Letter | 07 December 1978

Increased spontaneous activity following substance P infusion into A10 dopaminergic area

• LOUIS STINUS
• , ANN E. KELLEY
•  & SUSAN D. IVERSEN

Letter | 07 December 1978

Denervation supersensitivity in the striatonigral GABA pathway

• JOHN L. WADDINGTON
•  & ALAN J. CROSS

Letter | 07 December 1978

Calcium-dependent exocytosis in bovine adrenal medullary cells with leaky plasma membranes

• P. F. BAKER
•  & D. E. KNIGHT

Letter | 07 December 1978

Depolarising effect of curare on embryonic rat muscles

• LEA ZISKIND
•  & M. J. DENNIS

Letter | 07 December 1978

Effect of tetraethylammonium on noradrenaline release from cat spleen treated with tetrodotoxin

• S. M. KIRPEKAR
•  & J. C. PRAT

Letter | 07 December 1978

Cell adhesion mediated by glycolipids

• RICHARD T. C. HUANG

Letter | 07 December 1978

5,6-Dihydroxyindole is a melanin precursor showing potent cytotoxicity

• JOHN M. PAWELEK
•  & AARON B. LERNER

Letter | 07 December 1978

Do radiation-induced thioguanine-resistant mutants of cultured mammalian cells arise by HGPRT gene mutation or X-chromosome rearrangement?

• ROGER COX
•  & W. K. MASSON

Letter | 07 December 1978

Competition of normal β chains and sickle haemoglobin β chains for α chains as a post-translational control mechanism

• JOSEPH R. SHAEFFER
• , ROBERT E. KINGSTON
• , MELISENDA J. MCDONALD
•  & H. FRANKLIN BUNN

Letter | 07 December 1978

Transfer of the drug-resistance transposon Tn5 to Rhizobium

• J. E. BERINGER
• , J. L. BEYNON
• , A. V. BUCHANAN-WOLLASTON
•  & A. W. B. JOHNSTON

Letter | 07 December 1978

High frequency transfer of nodulating ability between strains and species of Rhizobium

• A. W. B. JOHNSTON
• , J. L. BEYNON
• , A. V. BUCHANAN-WOLLASTON
• , S. M. SETCHELL
• , P. R. HIRSCH
•  & J. E. BERINGER

Letter | 07 December 1978

Dynamics of protein hydration by quasi-elastic neutron scattering

• JOHN RANDALL
• , H. D. MIDDENDORF
• , H. L. CRESPI
•  & A. D. TAYLOR

Erratum | 07 December 1978

Erratum

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Aesthetics and scientific progress

• Martin Pollock

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Metaphor of the mechanical body

• R. K. French

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Tree appreciation

• John N. Gibbs

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Nature's traces

• T. R. Halliday

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Solving the problem of bird identity

• Peter Conder

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Contributions to conservation

• John Andrews

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

[Christmas Books ‘picture story’]

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Conservation addicts

• L. Harrison Matthews

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Protean nature of conservation

• H. N. Southern

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

For herpetological novices

• J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Portraits of the Lepidoptera

• Cyril A. Clarke

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Natural selection in wildflower books

• Peter D. Moore

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Orchid guide

• Peter Collins

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Armchair geology

• Peter J. Smith

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

For budding holographers

• A. Thetford

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Astronomy for the amateur

• David W. Hughes

Christmas Books | 07 December 1978

Portrait of five heroes

• A. Rupert Hall