Volume 335 Issue 6192, 20 October 1988

Nuclear options ahead

Surprising new ozone data from NASA satellite

• David Lindley

Britain's ozone research lags a long way behind the rest

• Christine McGourty

Congress passes bill to fight AIDS

• Alun Anderson

Pharmaceuticals trio a popular choice for Nobel awards

• Peter Newmark

Numbers game is of prime importance to spies

• Marcia Barinaga

Curien advocates a long-term strategy for civil research

• Peter Coles

Competition for Soviet research funds

• Vera Rich

New Hungarian union

• Vera Rich

Mutual friends

• Joseph Palca

Polio outbreak

• L. P.

Banking on commerce

• Christine McGourty

Secret weapons labs

• Joseph Palca

British export

• Christine McGourty

Nuclear enrichment for Japan despite growing worries

• David Swinbanks

Sea transport of plutonium approved despite Congress

• Alun Anderson
• David Swinbanks

Battle of the research councils shows no sign of abating

• Peter Newmark

Mill Hill centre promotes innovation

• Peter Newmark

Endangered species

• Elizabeth Berendt

Nuclear start-up procedures revised in wake of failures

• Joseph Palca

Peaceful approach to Northwest Passage

• Alun Anderson

Polish government allows tentative steps towards academic autonomy

• Vera Rich

Leicester makes bid for space eminence

• Christine McGourty

Shroud a good forgery

• Steven Dickman

The debate continues

• FAROUK SHAKIB

The debate continues

• H. P. VON HAHN

The debate continues

• JACK P. SHOUP

The debate continues

• DAVID DUNTHORN

The debate continues

• LEIGH M. VAN VALEN

Availability of theses

• D.N. WOOD
• GARTH FRANKLAND

Is the literature about to be readable?

• John Maddox

Trapping folding intermediates

• Christopher M. Dobson
• Philip A. Evans

Astrophysical effects of planets

• Charles Alcock

100 years ago

Tampering with territories

• Robert M. May
• Paul H. Harvey

Quisqualate receptor antagonists

• Alan C. Foster

The pulsar remains hidden

• Paul Murdin

Deep geology out in the open

• John Percival

Character dissection

• Richard W. Michelmore
• Douglas V. Shaw

Photons reveal magnetic effects

• Stephen Lovesey

Attacking the vapours

• David Jones

Relationships among isolates of HIV

• ANDREW LEIGH BROWN
• PETER BALFE

Calculating just how small a whale can be

• JERRY F. DOWNHOWER
• LAWRENCE S. BLUMER

Pollution by toxic metals on agricultural soils

• KEN E. GILLER
• STEVE P. MCGRATH

Estimating the Maunder minimum from auroral data

• W. SCHRÖDER

Hot from the laboratory

• Robert M. Hazen

Breast feeding, birth spacing and their effects on child survival

• Shyam Thapa
• Roger V. Short
• Malcolm Potts

How eukaryotic transcriptional activators work

• Mark Ptashne

Intermediate-term prediction of occurrence times of strong earthquakes

• V. I. Keilis-Borok
• L. Knopoff
• C. R. Allen

NMR evidence for an early framework intermediate on the folding pathway of ribonuclease A

• Jayant B. Udgaonkar
• Robert L. Baldwin

Structural characterization of folding intermediates in cytochrome c by H-exchange labelling and proton NMR

• Heinrich Roder
• Gülnur A. Elöve
• S. Walter Englander

Counter-rotation in dust-lane ellipticals and the implications for accretion events in galaxies

• F. Bertola
• L. M. Buson
• W. W. Zeilinger

Evidence from mesocosm studies for biological removal of dissolved aluminium from sea water

• S. Bradley Moran
• Robert M. Moore

Radiocarbon age of last glacial Pacific deep water

• N. J. Shackleton
• J.-C. Duplessy
• J. Cartlidge

Seismic delineation of upthrust Archaean crust in Kapuskasing, Northern Ontario

• A. V. Boland
• R. M. Ellis
• R. A. W. Haddon

Geochemical and climatic effects of increased marine organic carbon burial at the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary

• Michael A. Arthur
• Walter E. Dean
• Lisa M. Pratt

Extracting environmental information from planktonic foraminiferal δ¹³C data

• Howard J. Spero
• Douglas F. Williams

Traditionality of mating-site preferences in a coral reef fish

• Robert R. Warner

Resolution of quantitative traits into Mendelian factors by using a complete linkage map of restriction fragment length polymorphisms

• Andrew H. Paterson
• Eric S. Lander
• Steven D. Tanksley

Novel anti-inflammatory peptides from the region of highest similarity between uteroglobin and lipocortin I

• Lucio Miele
• Eleonora Cordella-Miele
• Anil B. Mukherjee

Positive selection of antigen-specific T cells in thymus by restricting MHC molecules

• Pawel Kisielow
• Hung Sia Teh
• Harald von Boehmer

Spatial distribution of cellular protein binding to retinoic acid in the chick limb bud

• M. Maden
• D. E. Ong
• F. Chytil

Increased protein degradation results from elevated free calcium levels found in muscle from mdx mice

• Paul R. Turner
• Tim Westwood
• Richard A. Steinhardt

Functional replacement of the HIV-1 rev protein by the HTLV-1 rex protein

• Laurence Rimsky
• Joachim Hauber
• Warner C. Greene

Stabilization of protein structure by interaction of α-helix dipole with a charged side chain

• Das̆a S˘ali
• Mark Bycroft
• Alan R. Fersht

Thyroid hormone receptor α isoforms generated by alternative splicing differentially activate myosin HC gene transcription

• Seigo Izumo
• Vijak Mahdavi

T-cell antigen receptor genes and T-cell recognition

• Mark M. Davis
• Pamela J. Bjorkman

The molecular genetics of embryonic pattern formation in Drosophila

• P. W. Ingham

Sensory transmitters regulate intracellular calcium in dorsal horn neurons

• M. D. Womack
• A. B. MacDermott
• T. M. Jessell

Global fire at the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary

• W. S. Wolbach
• I. Gilmour
• R. R. Brooks

A protein sequence/structure database

Computing science

• Carol Ezzell