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Articles in June 18, 1994 issue of Science News

• Do EMFs pose breast cancer risk? - exposure to low-frequency electromagnetic fields
  by Kathy A. Fackelmann
• Update on intake: calcium consumption low - National Institutes of Health report on the danger of too little calcium consumption - Brief Article
  by Gigi Marino
• Another look at TB vaccine: should the United States use BCG widely? - bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccine
  by Damaris Christensen
• New views of a neighbor - completion of 3-by-7-foot seamless image of the Andromeda galaxy by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Brief Article
  by Ron Cowen
• Some dogs are not a child's best friend - biting dogs that should not be kept in homes with children - Brief Article
• Implants almost exonerated - Mayo Clinic research reveals no difference in the development of connective-tissue disease between women with or without silicon-gel breast implants - Brief Article
  by Janet Raloff
• Great quake in Bolivia rings Earth's bell - June 8, 1994 earthquake's depth has far-reaching impact for seismological research
  by Richard Monastersky
• High clouds may soon light U.S. sunsets - prediction that noctilucent ice clouds may appear farther south than northern latitudes in the 21st century due to accumulation of greenhouse gases in earth's atmosphere - Brief Article
• Cooling off Hubble's camera troubles - problems with Hubble Space Telescope's light detectors in the wide-field and planetary camera - Brief Article
  by Ron Cowen
• New plan could trigger renewed logging - Judge William Dwyer's decision to allow timber sales in Northwest forest habitat of the spotted owl - Brief Article
• Therapeutic vaccine fights herpes - gD2, a combination of alum and glycoprotein in testing stage by the University of Washington, Seattle and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland - Brief Article
  by Tina Adler
• Subduing with tenacious, tacky tendrils - Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, testing of foam that immobilizes violent or fleeing criminals - Brief Article
  by Janet Raloff
• Desert Storm's medical quandary: do Iraqi chemical and biological agents explain Gulf War syndrome? - Cover Story
  by Tina Adler
• Schizophrenia: promising drug … and infectious clues - antipsychotic drug risperidone and impact of influenza in pregnant women on fetal brain development, leading to potential for schizophrenia in their children
• Global warming has plants on the move - gradual ascension of plants in the Alps to higher elevations due to global warming - Brief Article
• Babies head toward budding vocabulary - research into infants' awareness of words to which they respond - Brief Article
  by Bruce Bower
• Hubble eyes disks that may form planets - Hubble Space Telescope's photographs dust and gas foundations that can form new planets in a few million years - Brief Article
  by Ron Cowen
• Are gamma-ray bursts standard candles? - analysis of energy level of photons that are diminished by expansion of the universe; NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory research - Brief Article
  by Ron Cowen
• Just what the doctor didn't order - misuse of antibiotics in Nagpur, India - Brief Article
• Quiet times in iron-walled quantum corrals - research into standing-wave patterns generated by electron waves bouncing within quantum corrals or similar enclosed structures - Brief Article
  by Ivars Peterson
• Conductive ceramics grow in a solution - ability to make highly conductive ceramic, called a defect chemistry superlattice, from layers of thallium oxide - Brief Article
  by Richard Lipkin
• New theory tells how Earth grows skin - research that explains formation of abyssal hills form underneath the Pacific Ocean - Brief Article
• A massive star lights its surroundings - Milky Way star AG Carinae is in luminous blue variable - Brief Article
  by Ron Cowen
• Birds sing praises of old-growth trees - research indicates preference for old growth forests in Great Smoke Mountains National Park by higher number of bird species - Brief Article