Volume 384 Issue 6610, 26 December 1996

Goldin wants more NASA biologists as Gore is briefed on space plans

• Colin Macilwain

NIH drops plan for multiyear grants

• COLIN MACILWAIN

Canada's HIV blood inquiry turns poisonous

• David Spurgeon

'Ban tourists' call to save glacier source of the Ganges

• K. S. Jayaraman

Staff face pay cuts as CERN prepares to tighten its belt

• Alison Abbott

Science park future for UK nuclear lab

Britain launches two Studies Advances of 'Gulf War syndrome'...

• Claire O'Brien

...as minister apologizes for 'misleading'

• C. O'B.

Advances encourage Nobel winner to head AIDS vaccine effort

• Meredith Wadman

Improbable museum seeks irrelevant items

• Steve Nadis

Hopes rise for agreement on greenhouse gas targets

• Colin Macilwain

News in brief

Beyond the language barrier

• Paul R. Sanberg
• Cesario V. Borlongan
• Hitoo Nishino

Closure explained

• Donald S. Lopez

Genome patents

• P. B. Joly
• M. A. de Looze
• R. Coronini

Smokescreen on insect flight

• R. McNeill Alexander

The future is looking blue

• Pauline Rigby

Wet transport proteins

• Jared M. Diamond

Nanoparticles behaving oddly

• Steven G. Louie

Same clock, different works

• Paolo Sassone-Corsi

Winter's icy grip

• David Jones

The birds and the bees

• Dave Kelly
• Jenny J. Ladley
• David C. Smith

Chiral sculptured thin films

• K. Robbie
• M. J. Brett
• A. Lakhtakia

Fault lines in verse

• David R. Oldroyd

The beginning of the end

• Harriet Coles

New in paperback

Gravitational scattering as a possible origin for giant planets at small stellar distances

• Stuart J. Weidenschilling
• Francesco Marzari

Quantum-size effects in the thermodynamic properties of metallic nanoparticles

• Y. Volokitin
• J. Sinzig
• I. I. Moiseevi

Vegetation and soil feedbacks on the response of the African monsoon to orbital forcing in the early to middle Holocene

• J. Kutzbach
• G. Bonan
• S. P. Harrison

Leading-edge vortices in insect flight

• Charles P. Ellington
• Coen van den Berg
• Adrian L. R. Thomas

Altered segmental identity and abnormal migration of motor neurons in mice lacking Hoxb-1

• Michéle Studer
• Andrew Lumsden
• Robb Krumlauf

CD22 regulates thymus-independent responses and the lifespan of B cells

• Kevin L. Otipoby
• Kristin B. Andersson
• Edward A. Clark

NMR structure and mutagenesis of the Fas (APO-1/CD95) death domain

• Baohua Huang
• Matthias Eberstadt
• Stephen W. Fesik

The CBP co-activator is a histone acetyltransferase

• Andrew J. Bannister
• Tony Kouzarides

Structural basis for selective inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 by anti-inflammatory agents

• Ravi G. Kurumbail
• Anna M. Stevens
• William C. Stallings

Erratum: Positional cloning of a global regulator of anterior–posterior patterning in mice

• Armin Schumacher
• Cynthia Faust
• Terry Magnuson

Erratum: A transcriptional partner for MAD proteins in TGF-β signalling

• Xin Chen
• Melissa J. Rubock
• Malcolm Whitman