Volume 330 Issue 6143, 5 November 1987

News

News | 05 November 1987

The end of the American Dream?

The stock-market crash of the past two weeks signals the end of more than a mere bull-market. Even if governments have the wit to avoid a serious depression, United States citizens will be impoverished.
News | 05 November 1987

Japanese industry rallies around superconductors

• New research centre planned • International cooperation hopeful
- David Swinbanks
News | 05 November 1987

Antarctic not the place for sun worshippers
- Alun Anderson
News | 05 November 1987

United opposition to three-tier science in UK higher education
- Simon Hadlington
News | 05 November 1987

United States cheered by its successful Titan launch
- David Lindley
News | 05 November 1987

UK's long-held scepticism of European space plans
- Simon Hadlington
News | 05 November 1987

Nobel error
News | 05 November 1987

Protests in South Africa over threatened subsidy cuts
- Michael Cherry
News | 05 November 1987

Soviets admit improper committal to mental hospitals
- Vera Rich
News | 05 November 1987

Celltech undeterred by crash of '87
- Charles Wenz
News | 05 November 1987

Keck telescope
- Marcia Barinaga
News | 05 November 1987

NOAA at sea: who will be named to take over the helm?
- Joseph Palca
News | 05 November 1987

Czech demand for modern computers
- Vera Rich
News | 05 November 1987

US agents claim success over supercomputers
- Joseph Palca
News | 05 November 1987

Australian scientific know-how commercially exploited
- Charles Morgan
News | 05 November 1987

New science prizes awarded to two Italians, one West German
- Steven Dickman
News | 05 November 1987

Nationalist environmental problems in Soviet Union
- Vera Rich
News | 05 November 1987

India's electronics companies drive back foreign competition
- K. S. Jayaraman
News | 05 November 1987

New lease of life for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Marcia Barinaga
- & Joseph Palca
News | 05 November 1987

India at last gets US supercomputer
- K. S. Jayaraman

Correspondence

Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Boycotting South Africa
- R. J. RAYNER
- & J. C. MASTERS
Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Boycotting South Africa
- RODNEY J. DOUGLAS

News & Views

News & Views | 05 November 1987

New ways with reptating polymers

A surprisingly simple model of polymer molecules moving in a network representing the constraints of others like themselves may be a pointer to a simpler theory of macromolecules in solution.
- John Maddox
News & Views | 05 November 1987

Connections and controversy
- P. N. Johnson-Laird
News & Views | 05 November 1987

Aluminium avoidance avoided
- J. Stebbins
News & Views | 05 November 1987

Getting blood from stone tools
- Paul G. Bahn
News & Views | 05 November 1987

100 years ago SYNTHESIS OF GLUCOSE
News & Views | 05 November 1987

What about protein polarity?
- Arieh Warshel
News & Views | 05 November 1987

Learned specializations of birds
- Jared M. Diamond
News & Views | 05 November 1987

Surface effects on deep flow
- William F. Ruddiman
News & Views | 05 November 1987

Growth and foraging behaviour
- William J. Sutherland
News & Views | 05 November 1987

Signature of quark–gluon plasma seen
News & Views | 05 November 1987

Electron-scattering experiments
- H. Kleinpoppen

Superconductivity

Superconductivity | 05 November 1987

A superconductivity primer

High-temperature superconductors continue to tantalize the experts. Here is an introduction for others to both conventional and novel varieties.
- Philip Campbell

Scientific Correspondence

Scientific Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Earthquake damage
- J. FLORES
- , O. NOVARO
- & T. H. SELIGMAN
Scientific Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Glycine vs GABA receptors
- GABRIELE GRENNINGLOH
- , ECKART GUNDELFINGER
- , BERTRAM SCHMITT
- , HEINRICH BETZ
- , MARK G. DARLISON
- , ERIC A. BARNARD
- , PETER R. SCHOFIELD
- & PETER H. SEEBURG
Scientific Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Aperiodicity of magnetic reversals?
- STEPHEN M. STIGLER
Scientific Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Aperiodicity of magnetic reversals?
- RICHARD B. STOTHERS
Scientific Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Aperiodicity of magnetic reversals?
- P. L. MCFADDEN
Scientific Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Optimization problems
- W. DANIEL HILLIS
Scientific Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Why was the fleece golden?
- PATRICK MOYNA
- & HORACIO HEINZEN
Scientific Correspondence | 05 November 1987

Jets in supernova 1987A?
- Tsvi PIRAN
- & TAKASHI NAKAMURA

Book Reviews

Book Review | 05 November 1987

Heard above the hubbub
- R. W. Guillery
Book Review | 05 November 1987

Communication in silence
- Victoria A. Fromkin
Book Review | 05 November 1987

Genesis of genius
- Chen Ning Yang
Book Review | 05 November 1987

Oral tradition
- Chris Quigg
Book Review | 05 November 1987

No room for loners
- Robert M. May
- & Naomi E. Pierce

Commentary

Commentary | 05 November 1987

The brain as a Darwin Machine

For parallel computers to simulate our brains, we must face the fact that human beings have a better claim on the title Homo seriatim than Homo sapiens – we're more consistently serial than wise.
- William H. Calvin

Articles

Article | 05 November 1987

North Atlantic thermohaline circulation during the past 20,000 years linked to high-latitude surface temperature
- Edward A. Boyle
- & Lloyd Keigwin
Article | 05 November 1987

Contributions of hydrogen bonds of Thr 157 to the thermodynamic stability of phage T4 lysozyme
- Tom Alber
- , Sun Dao-pin
- , Keith Wilson
- , Joan A. Wozniak
- , Sean P. Cook
- & Brian W. Matthews

Letters

Letter | 05 November 1987

Luminous arcs from galactic bow shocks
- Mitchell C. Begelman
- & Roger D. Blandford
Letter | 05 November 1987

A magnetic 'glassy' state in La₂CuO_4–y
- Madoka Tokumoto
- , Yoshikazu Nishihara
- , Kunihiko Oka
- & Hiromi Unoki
Letter | 05 November 1987

Possible role of Cu²⁺–Cu⁴⁺ pairs in the superconductivity of YBa₂Cu₃O_7–x from electron spin resonance observations
- M. D. Sastry
- , A. G. I. Dalvi
- , Y. Babu
- , R. M. Kadam
- , J. V. Yakhmi
- & R. M. Iyer
Letter | 05 November 1987

High-strength ceramics through colloidal control to remove defects
- N. McN. Alford
- , J. D. Birchall
- & K. Kendall
Letter | 05 November 1987

Neodymium and strontium isotope content of microdiorite enclaves points to mantle input to granitoid production
- P. Holden
- , A. N. Halliday
- & W. E. Stephens
Letter | 05 November 1987

Magic-angle-spinning NMR shows the aluminosilicate framework of ultramarine to be disordered
- Jacek Klinowski
- , Stuart W. Carr
- , Stephen E. Tarling
- & Paul Barnes
Letter | 05 November 1987

Isolating individual chains of selenium by incorporation into the channels of a zeolite
- O. Terasaki
- , K. Yamazaki
- , J. M. Thomas
- , T. Ohsuna
- , D. Watanabe
- , J. V. Sanders
- & J. C. Barry
Letter | 05 November 1987

Dwarfism in an adolescent from the Italian late Upper Palaeolithic
- David W. Frayer
- , William A. Horton
- , Roberto Macchiarelli
- & Margherita Mussi
Letter | 05 November 1987

A gene affecting the specificity of the chemosensory neurons of Drosophila
- Kavita Arora
- , Veronica Rodrigues
- , Swati Joshi
- , Shubha Shanbhag
- & Obaid Siddiqi
Letter | 05 November 1987

Co-release of glutamate and aspartate from cholinergic and GABAergic synaptosomes
- Maureen Docherty
- , H. F. Bradford
- & J.-Y. Wu
Letter | 05 November 1987

Mediation of cell volume regulation by Ca²⁺ influx through stretch-activated channels
- Ove Christensen
Letter | 05 November 1987

Retinal pigmented epithelial cells induced to transdifferentiate to neurons by laminin
- T. A. Reh
- , T. Nagy
- & H. Gretton
Letter | 05 November 1987

Cytotoxic T lymphocyte mediated lysis without release of serine esterase
- Hanne L. Ostergaard
- , Kevin P. Kane
- , Matthew F. Mescher
- & William R. Clark
Letter | 05 November 1987

Exocytosis of cytolytic granules may not be required for target cell lysis by cytotoxic T-lymphocytes
- Guido Trenn
- , Hajime Takayama
- & Michail V. Sitkovsky
Letter | 05 November 1987

Interference with HIV-induced syncytium formation and viral infectivity by inhibitors of trimming glucosidase
- Rob A. Gruters
- , Jacques J. Neefjes
- , Matthijs Tersmette
- , Ruud E. Y. de Goede
- , Abraham Tulp
- , Han G. Huisman
- , Frank Miedema
- & Hidde L. Ploegh
Letter | 05 November 1987

Phospho-dephospho-control by insulin is mimicked by a phospho-oligosaccharide in adipocytes
- Susana Alemany
- , Jose M. Mato
- & Peter Strålfors
Letter | 05 November 1987

Two calcium-binding proteins in infiltrate macrophages of rheumatoid arthritis
- Karel Odink
- , Nico Cerletti
- , Josef Brüggen
- , Roger G. Clerc
- , Lajos Tarcsay
- , Gabriele Zwadlo
- , Gerold Gerhards
- , Renate Schlegel
- & Clemens Sorg
Letter | 05 November 1987

Vitamin K-dependent blood coagulation proteins form hetero-dimers
- K. Harlos
- , S. K. Holland
- , C. W. G. Boys
- , A. I. Burgess
- , M. P. Esnouf
- & C. C. F. Blake
Letter | 05 November 1987

Calculation of electrostatic potentials in an enzyme active site
- Michael K. Gilson
- & Barry H. Honig
Letter | 05 November 1987

Prediction of electrostatic effects of engineering of protein charges
- Michael J. E. Sternberg
- , Fiona R. F. Hayes
- , Alan J. Russell
- , Paul G. Thomas
- & Alan R. Fersht

Product Reviews

Product Review | 05 November 1987

Thermal analysis of superconductors
- W. P. Brennan
- , M. P. DiVito
- , R. F. Culmo
- & C. J. Williams
Product Review | 05 November 1987

Superconducting neurons?

Employment

Employment Review | 05 November 1987

Graduate trends — the latest news

The 'shake out' of jobs in the City of London — accentuated by recent events in the stock markets — is one new trend this year.
- Richard Pearson

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