Volume 266 Issue 5599, 17 March 1977

Assessing the Oklo phenomenon

• Alvin Weinberg

Grow your own grass

• David Spurgeon

Scottish science and devolution

• Martin Goldman

USA: Maintaining momentum

• Colin Norman

Sweet sorrow

• Colin Norman

USSR

• Vera Rich

Britain

• Chris Sherwell

Britain: Potential energy

Quake patterns

In Brief

Monster debate

• THOMAS H. JUKES

The toxicity of plutonium

• D. RAMSDEN
• T. F. JOHNS

Registering Russian mail

• P. A. DAVENPORT

Marburg and Ebola: viruses in search of a relation

• David I. H. Simpson
• Arie J. Zuckerman

Trypanosome antigens

• F. E. G. Cox

Prenatal detection of thalassaemia

• Sue Malcolm

Polarity time scale extended by 2 Myr

• Peter J. Smith

Earthquake prediction

• E. R. Lapwood

Optical fibres at Williamsburg

• J. Baker

Short range nuclear forces

• P. E. Hodgson

A hundred years ago

Some recent developments in remote sensing

• P. Schagen

The observability of possible atmospheric removal processes for chlorfluorocarbons 11 and 12

• Robert J. Gelinas
• David K. Hall
• Robert G. Nelson

Direct demonstration of β-globin mRNA in homozygous Ferrara β₀-thalassaemia patients

• S. Ottolenghi
• P. Comi
• F. Conconi

5′-Terminal structure and mRNA stability

• Yasuhiro Furuichi
• Alba LaFiandra
• Aaron J. Shatkin

Radio counterpart of the X-ray source 3U0901–09

• R. WIELEBINSKI
• H. WALDTHAUSEN
• C. G. T. HASLAM

Spectroscopic evidence for interstellar grain clumps in meteoritic inclusions

• A. SAKATA
• N. NAKAGAWA
• N. C. WICKRAMASINGHE

Prebiotic molecules and interstellar grain clumps

• F. HOYLE
• N. C. WICKRAMASINGHE

Gravitational radiation detector observations in 1973 and 1974

• J. WEBER

Radiometric measurement of stratospheric HCl

• J. R. EYRE
• H. K. ROSCOE

Mantle helium in the Red Sea brines

• J. E. LUPTON
• R. F. WEISS
• H. CRAIG

The continental crust northeast of Newfoundland and its ancestral relationship to the Charlie Fracture Zone

• RICHARD T. HAWORTH

Preliminary palaeomagnetic results from Makapansgat and Swartkrans

• A. BROCK
• P. L. MCFADDEN
• T. C. PARTRIDGE

New aspects of Middle Palaeolithic variability in western Europe

• N. ROLLAND

‘Modern’ lizard from the Upper Triassic of China

• ROBERT L. CARROLL
• PETER M. GALTON

Adaptive reduction in permeability of avian eggshells to water vapour at high altitudes

• GARY C. PACKARD
• PAUL R. SOTHERLAND
• MARY J. PACKARD

Virus-like particles in the nematode Romanomermis culicivorax (Mermithidae)

• GEORGE O. POINAR JR
• ROBERTA HESS

Nitrogenase activity of endophyte suspensions derived from root nodules of Alnus, Hippophaë, Shepherdia and Myrica spp.

• J. VAN STRATEN
• A. D. L. AKKERMANS
• W. ROELOFSEN

Adenylate cyclase activity oscillations as signals for cell aggregation in Dictyostelium discoideum

• W. ROOS
• C. SCHEIDEGGER
• G. GERISCH

Bacterial tumble regulator may be inactivated by methylation

• JEAN-MARIE FRÈRE

Mucosal penetrability enhanced by serum-derived antibodies

• PER BRANDTZAEG
• KÅRE TOLO

Endplate current fluctuations reveal only one channel type at frog neuromuscular junction

• V. E. DIONNE
• R. L. RUFF

Selective activation of sympathetic ganglia in young spontaneously hypertensive rats

• KEIJI NAKAMURA
• KAZUO NAKAMURA

Colour-coding properties of sustained and transient channels in human vision

• D. J. TOLHURST

Solubilisation and partial purification of auxin-binding sites of corn membranes

• MICHAEL A. VENIS

Relationship between amount of Epstein–Barr virus-determined nuclear antigen per cell and number of EBV–DNA copies per cell

• I. ERNBERG
• M. ANDERSSON-ANVRET
• D. KILLANDER

Proton pump coupled to cytochrome c oxidase in mitochondria

• MARTEN K. F. WIKSTROM

Non-allelic variants of histones 2a, 2b and 3 in mammals

• SAMUEL G. FRANKLIN
• ALFRED ZWEIDLER

Formation of amino acids from elemental carbon by contact glow discharge electrolysis

• KAORU HARADA
• SHINNICHIRO SUZUKI

Enzyme hydration may explain catalytic efficiency differences among lactate dehydrogenase homologues

• GEORGE N. SOMERO
• PHILIP S. LOW

Calculated forbidden band gap in periodic protein models indicating them to be insulators

• M. KERTESZ
• J. KOLLER
• A. AZMAN

Erratum

Erratum

Erratum

Estimation of heritability from IQ data on twins

• ATAM VETTA

Estimation of heritability from IQ data on twins

• C. O. CARTER

Estimation of heritability from IQ data on twins

• HARVEY GOLDSTEIN

Estimation of heritability from IQ data on twins

• C. R. BAGLEY

Estimation of heritability from IQ data on twins

• HAZEL FRANCIS

Estimation of heritability from IQ data on twins (reply)

• B. ADAMS
• M. GHODSIAN
• K. RICHARDSON

Mechanism of stomatal movement

• V. S. R. DAS
• I. M. RAO
• A. S. RAGHAVENDRA

Mechanism of stomatal movement (reply)

• D. J. F. BOWLING

Scrotal asymmetry

• J. E. GRAY

Caricature of Darwinism

• R. C. Lewontin

Compendium of physiology

• R. V. Coxon

Isotachophoretic analysis

• Frank Hampson

Carcinological fauna of Japan

• Isabella Gordon

ISIS bibliography

• Arnold Thackray

Underwater optics

• J. H. S. Blaxter

GABA

• Brian Meldrum

Polymerisation

• K. J. Ivin

Wax esters and non-polar lipids

• F. D. Gunstone

T. D. Lysenko

• C. D. Darlington

S. B. Pessôa

• P. C. C. Garnham