Volume 324 Issue 6096, 4 December 1986

Opinion

Europe runs before it walks

The European Commission threatens dire consequences if it is not given a bigger budget for research. But its case is fragile, at best

Opinion 04 Dec 1986

Advertisement
Licensing the spooks

The British and US governments are both embarrassed by the doings of their undercover people.

Opinion 04 Dec 1986
Action against AIDS

Governments are moving quickly on publicity about AIDS; should they be doing more?

Opinion 04 Dec 1986

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News

French universities: Student protests succeed in postponing new law

Robert Walgate
News 04 Dec 1986
Hermes to win approval soon?

Bill Johnstone
News 04 Dec 1986
Chemical weapons: Study reflects Atlantic divisions

Tim Beardsley
News 04 Dec 1986
National Science Foundation: New centres for biotechnology

Carol Ezzell
News 04 Dec 1986
Telecommunications: Fight for Japanese network

David Swinbanks
News 04 Dec 1986
India creates biosphere reserve

Radhakrishna Rao
News 04 Dec 1986
Hepatitics B: Cheap vaccine for wide use?

Tim Beardsley
News 04 Dec 1986
US biotechnology: Research centre gets fixed home

Joseph Palca
News 04 Dec 1986
Information technology: New institute

Bill Johnstone
News 04 Dec 1986
Alaskan environment: Long row ahead on oil leases

Joseph Palca
News 04 Dec 1986
Laboratory fraud: Another damned by publications

Robert Locke
News 04 Dec 1986
Science teachers: British attempt solutions

Bill Johnstone
News 04 Dec 1986
Biotechnology companies: One falters, another forms

Peter Newmark
News 04 Dec 1986
Eastern Europe: Widespread shortage of energy

Vera Rich
News 04 Dec 1986
US defence: Biological war still a threat

Joseph Palca
News 04 Dec 1986

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Correspondence

Nuclear risk assessment

HERBERT TIEDEMANN
Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
Avalanche dowsing

ROLF MANNE
Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
Wrong dose

T. L. KELLOGG
Correspondence 04 Dec 1986

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News & Views

Images in and of the brain

It is beginning to be possible to produce images of the brain in action, but interpretation of the pictures obtained remains uncertain.

Jennifer Altman
News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Mathematics: One hundred per cent proof

Ian Stewart
News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Cancer chemotherapy: Progress in understanding multidrug resistance

George R. Stark
News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Developmental physiology: Hard-wired local triggering of intestinal enzyme expression

Jared M. Diamond
News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Discovery of waisted axes in New Guinea

News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Albert Szent-Györgi (1893 – 1986)

John T. Edsall
News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Evolutionary ecology: Toxins and grazing resistance

Peter D. Moore
News & Views 04 Dec 1986
100 years ago

News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Galactic evolution: Do globular clusters belong?

Virginia Trimble
News & Views 04 Dec 1986
News & Views 'Picture Story'

News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Clinical pharmacology: New hopes for the treatment of coronary heart disease

Gilbert Thompson
News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Astrophysics: Big, repulsive boson stars

Robert Walgate
News & Views 04 Dec 1986
Plant molecular biology: Tailoring crop improvement

Chris Lamb
Leona Fitzmaurice
News & Views 04 Dec 1986

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Scientific Correspondence

BSF-2 is not just a differentiation factor

A. BILLIAU
Scientific Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
Plant tumour induction

CHARLES H. SHAW
ALISON M. ASHBY
MARTIN D. WATSON
Scientific Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
An alternative view of the origin of life

NARENDRA G. MEHTA
Scientific Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
The kingdoms of organisms

T. CAVALIER-SMITH
Scientific Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
How many reactor accidents?

A.W.F. EDWARDS
Scientific Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
Stunning whales

DAVID C. JOLLY
Scientific Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
Body temperature and the specific heat of water

WILLIAM A. CALDER III
Scientific Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
Body temperature and the specific heat of water

JACK D. DUNITZ
STEVEN A. BENNER
Scientific Correspondence 04 Dec 1986
Reproductive failure in common seals

Scientific Correspondence 04 Dec 1986

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Book Review

What is supersymmetry?

Michael Atiyah

Collection:

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
Book Review 04 Dec 1986
Webs of intrigue

J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson
Book Review 04 Dec 1986
Debatable physics

Michael Redhead
Book Review 04 Dec 1986
Captured in clay

Book Review 04 Dec 1986
Change in the field

Subir K. Banerjee
Book Review 04 Dec 1986
Other sides of the astronomer

Robert S. Westman
Book Review 04 Dec 1986

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Commentary

US Supreme Court to review Louisiana appeal

An alliance of scientists and educational and religious leaders has converged to defend evolution from determined attack by the creationist lobby.

Thomas H. Jukes
Commentary 04 Dec 1986

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Article

A thyromimetic that decreases plasma cholesterol levels without increasing cardiac activity

A. H. Underwood
J. C. Emmett
V. P. Shah
Article 04 Dec 1986
The Tetrahymena ribozyme acts like an RNA restriction endonuclease

Arthur J. Zaug
Michael D. Been
Thomas R. Cech
Article 04 Dec 1986

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Letter

Is CO₂ responsible for the outbursts of comet Halley?

P. D. Feldman
M. F. A'Hearn
T. N. Woods
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Rocket ultraviolet spectroscopy of comet Halley and abundance of carbon monoxide and carbon

T. N. Woods
P. D. Feldman
D. J. Sahnow
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Far-ultraviolet spectral images of comet Halley from sounding rockets

R. P. McCoy
C. B. Opal
G. R. Carruthers
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Post-perihelion observations of water in comet Halley

H. A. Weaver
M. J. Mumma
D. S. Davis
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Identification of [Fe III] in the solar ultraviolet spectrum

C. Jordan
J.-D. F. Bartoe
K. P. Dere
Letter 04 Dec 1986
A hierarchical O(N log N) force-calculation algorithm

Josh Barnes
Piet Hut
Letter 04 Dec 1986
The 400-km seismic discontinuity and the proportion of olivine in the Earth's upper mantle

Craig R. Bina
Bernard J. Wood
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Natural and anthropogenic causes of lake acidification in Nova Scotia

Eville Gorham
John K. Underwood
J. Gordon Ogden III
Letter 04 Dec 1986
A 40,000 year-old human occupation site at Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

Les Groube
John Chappell
David Price
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Reproductive failure in common seals feeding on fish from polluted coastal waters

Peter J. H. Reijnders
Letter 04 Dec 1986
A common mammalian plan of accessory optic system organization revealed in all primates

H. M. Cooper
M. Magnin
Letter 04 Dec 1986
A cell surface molecule distributed in a dorsoventral gradient in the perinatal rat retina

Martha Constantine-Paton
Andrew S. Blum
Colin J. Barnstable
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Differentiation state-dependent surface mobilities of two forms of the neural cell adhesion molecule

G. Elisabeth Pollerberg
Melitta Schachner
Jean Davoust
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Endfeet of retinal glial cells have higher densities of ion channels that mediate K⁺ buffering

Helen Brew
Peter T. A. Gray
David Attwell
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Cyclic GMP is involved in the excitation of invertebrate photoreceptors

Edwin C. Johnson
Phyllis R. Robinson
John E. Lisman
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Characterization of single pacemaker channels in cardiac sino-atrial node cells

Dario DiFrancesco
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Atrial natriuretic peptide causes pre-glomerular vasodilatation and post-glomerular vasoconstriction in rat kidney

M. Marin-Grez
J. T. Fleming
M. Steinhausen
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Pancreastatin, a novel pancreatic peptide that inhibits insulin secretion

Kazuhiko Tatemoto
Saud Efendić
Jack D. Barchas
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Glucocorticoid receptors lacking hormone-binding activity are bound in nuclei of ATP-depleted cells

Dirk B. Mendel
Jack E. Bodwell
Allan Munck
Letter 04 Dec 1986
A new subunit of the human T-cell antigen receptor complex

Allan M. Weissman
Lawrence E. Samelson
Richard D. Klausner
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Athymic mice express a high level of functional γ-chain but greatly reduced levels of α- and β-chain T-cell receptor messages

Yasunobu Yoshikai
Marciano D. Reis
Tak W. Mak
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Homology between P-glycoprotein and a bacterial haemolysin transport protein suggests a model for multidrug resistance

James H. Gerlach
Jane A. Endicott
Victor Ling
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Mature murine B lymphocytes immortalized by Kirsten sarcoma virus

A. H. Lichtman
D. S. Reynolds
A. K. Abbas
Letter 04 Dec 1986
Erratum: Energy conversion catalysis using semiconducting transition metal cluster compounds

N. Alonso Vante
H. Tributsch
Letter 04 Dec 1986

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Matters Arising

Stratigraphic record of earthquake incidence

ALFRED G. FISCHER
Matters Arising 04 Dec 1986
Primary structure of the histidine-rich protein of Plasmodium lophurae

DAVID O. IRVING
GEORGE A. M. CROSS
Matters Arising 04 Dec 1986

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Product Review

Quantitative receptor autoradiography

Quantifying receptor autoradiography is a useful tool, and one becoming increasingly popular, but potential errors exist in the interpretation of results.

M.D. Hall
A.P. Davenport
C.R. Clark
Product Review 04 Dec 1986
International exhibits

Highlights from the Salon du Laboratoire and Interchemie '86 in Paris, and from the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in Washington, DC

Carol Ezzell
Product Review 04 Dec 1986

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Employment Review

Strategy for higher education

Modest increases in government spending on universities announced recently do nothing to fulfil the urgent need for a long-term strategy for higher education.

Richard Pearson
Employment Review 04 Dec 1986

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