Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain
the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in
Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles
and JavaScript.
Week-end diplomacy seems to have won Britain a prolongation of its role as a nuclear power, but the time has come to ask when and how this will be attenuated.
A new way of tackling the statistical problems of spin glasses relies on almost forgotten mathematics, but may have a bearing on problems in biology still unsolved.
Could public support for research be cheapened, and made more productive, by following the eighteenth-century precedent of the British government's prize for a means of measuring longitude?
Immunoglobulins may provide a novel source of drugs for the treatment and suppression of allergic reactions and other immunologically-mediated diseases.
