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Articles in Sept 6, 1986, issue of Science News

• NBS report short-circuits energy machine - National Bureau of Standards
  by Ivars Peterson
• SDI: at what cost? - Strategic Defense Initiative
• New quasar most distant object yet
  by Trina Kleist
• Absolutely swimming in bacteria - bacteria in human waste found to survive in ocean
• Second T cell receptor found
  by Joanne Silberner
• Galactic positronium mystery deepens - new observations of antimatter in center or galaxy
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Concern over Chernobyl-tainted birds
  by Lisa Davis
• Vaccinating against cancer
  by Joanne Silberner
• Clue to life's cellular origins - lipid-like chemicals found in Murchison meteorite
  by Janet Raloff
• An electromagnetic measuring stick - liquid-level sensor for nuclear power plants
• At Ruiz: small but ominous eruptions - Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia
  by Mary Murray
• A disbelief in 'cygnets.' - subatomic particles radiating from Cygnus X-3
• Deforestation: major threat to ozone?
  by Janet Raloff
• Spinning mirrors of mercury; a Canadian astronomer tries an age-old idea for making large telescope reflectors
  by Mary Murray
• Tracing corrosion's magnetic field
  by Ivars Peterson
• Computerized mass extinction
• Atomic bonds: seeing the links
• MSG: not all it's cooked up to be
• Coated quartz for detecting toxics - toxic substances in the air
  by Ivars Peterson
• How polluting is commuting? - levels of air pollutants inside commuting vehicles
  by Janet Raloff
• Fiery probe of environmental problems - research on environmental aspects of forest fires
  by Janet Raloff
• Viroids: introns on the run? - smallest infectious particles known
• Bird's-eye view of early primate scene - bird fossils used to estimate climate of 30 million years ago
  by Bruce Bower
• Age, depression, drugs linked to suicide
  by Trina Kleist
• Survival of the fetus; in order for a woman to bear a child, for nine months her body must play host to a parasite
  by Joanne Silberner
• Superconducting waveguide for CEBAF - Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
• Behind the scenes - microbiology research conducted during Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  by Joanne Silberner
• Muscular dystrophy gene cornered
  by Ivan Amato
• On the threshold of Cherenkov astronomy; radiation of extremely high energy from several celestial objects is leading astronomers to extend their science's spectral range yet again
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Pumping up hope for gamma ray laser
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Finding parts for bacterial motors - bacteria movement mechanisms
• New northern sky survey - Palomar Sky Survey
• One-cell origin for atherosclerosis?
  by Joanne Silberner
• Gains from cutting tap-water lead
  by Janet Raloff
• Piecing together the siege of Sardis - archaeology
• Erosion from water in parched lands
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Herpes and cholesterol buildup
  by Joanne Silberner
• Salt balance and thyroid function - research on atrial natriuretic factor hormone
  by Joanne Silberner
• Gene therapy restores mouse fertility
  by Diane D. Edwards
• Toughening up polymer composites
• Probing the earth's crust, deeply - 5-kilometer-deep hole to be drilled in earth's crust
• New process KOs all NOx - chemical process to remove nitrogen oxides from products of combustion
  by Janet Raloff
• Feline hyperthyroidism a mystery
• Seismic journey to the center of the earth
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Something new under the sun - the surface of - solar vibrations
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Alcoholics: where's the treatment? - doctors have negative attitudes toward alcoholics
• Another hazard in undercooked pork - danger of toxoplasmosis
  by Janet Raloff
• Making medium-weight elements now - synthesis of medium-weight elements is now going on in interstellar space
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Plugging up leukemia cells
  by Joanne Silberner
• Artificial reefs
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Sequencing the genome: crusade called off
  by Lisa Davis
• Medical misses on death row - unrecognized psychiatric and neurological disorders found in study of condemned criminals
• Saturn's 'ring rain.'
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Do veterinarians need ethylene oxide?
• Hold that tiger - Asian tiger mosquito
• Pieces of the heavens on earth - meteorite
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Dinosaur bone soup - paleontology
• Augustine volcano erupts quietly - Alaska
  by Trina Kleist
• Putting it on paper permanently - preservation
• Possible visitor from Oort cloud - Comet Wilson
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Luring good bugs to feed on the bad - use of baits that contain predator pheromones to control harmful insects
  by Janet Raloff
• Bee navigation: the eyes have it - photoreceptors in bee's eyes used to navigate
  by Trina Kleist
• Common herbicide linked to cancer
  by Joanne Silberner
• The return of rheumatic fever? - significant increase in cases
  by Joanne Silberner
• Staring at the poles of the sky; a telescope that looked at the North or South Pole for thousands of hours could see things too faint to be practical for ordinary telescopes or even for the Space Telescope - Deep Polar Spectroscopic Survey
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• 1986 Ad
  by Joanne Silberner
• Fine-tuning biotech review, regulation
• Pole's ozone hole: who NOZE? - National Ozone Expedition studies ozone hole in Antarctic
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Stems and seeds: grasses in the fossil record; scientists are beginning to use the broken bits of ancient grasses as important clues in the fossil record
  by Lisa Davis
• Getting the drop on 'giant' rain - discovery of world's largest raindrops in Hawaii
  by Stefi Weisburd
• How the blue jay got blue - color caused by light scattering
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Roach hormone: clue to human ancestry? - leucosulfakinins isolated from cockroaches resemble mammal hormones
  by Janet Raloff
• Personality linked to immunity
  by Bruce Bower
• Fossil finds diversify ancient apes
  by Bruce Bower
• Vaccine compensation passes - no-fault compensation plan for injuries or death related to vaccines needed for school attendance
• Voyager: setting safe sights for Neptune
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Pulsar's companion: a question of age - binary pulsar and white dwarf star
• Blood change linked to cancer
  by Joanne Silberner
• Smoking, heart attack link
  by Joanne Silberner
• Early culture found in New Guinea
  by Bruce Bower