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Articles in August 5, 1995, issue of Science News

• Do brain cells run out of gas? - mitochondria
  by John Travis
• Tranquilizers mimic Parkinson's symptoms - elderly patients, who are taking medications for dementia and nervous disorders, may incur Parkinson's disease symptoms from the drugs - Brief Article
• A full-fledged Alzheimer's mouse - John D. Gearhart, and other researchers, hope a new litter of mice will supply a model of Alzheimer's disease - Brief Article
• Breast effects of hormonal pollutants - research by Nadine M. Brown and Coral A. Lamartiniere indicates that pollutants that mimic hormones may add to the risk of breast cancer - Brief Article
• Plants recruit oil-detoxifying microbes - Samir Radwan and other biologists discover that wildflowers blooming in the area of the Persian Gulf War demonstrate the ability to attract oil-degrading microbes - Brief Article
  by Janet Raloff
• Saturn ring toss: Hubble finds more moons - Amanda S. Bosh and Andrew S. Rivkin use the Hubble Space Telescope to observe two previously-undiscovered moons orbiting Saturn - Brief Article
  by Ron Cowen
• Dwarfism gene under scrutiny - discovery of genes that cause most cases of dwarfism - Brief Article
• A better way to mange smog - Armistead Russell and other researchers report that a more effective means of reducing air pollution would be to reward polluters for reducing the most potent volatile organic chemicals - Brief Article
• Circuitry simulates genetic networks - physicist Harley H. McAdams and molecular biologist Lucy Shapiro depict the signaling paths of a common bacteriophage by means of a circuit diagram - Brief Article
  by Richard Lipkin
• Ice's age? More than 8 million years - team of scientists discover a portion of a glacier in East Antarctica that is estimated to be at least 8.1 million years old - Brief Article
  by Corinna Wu
• Dowsing expectations: new reports reawaken scientific controversy over water witching - location of water or objects beneath the earth by the use of metal or wooden rods - Cover Story
  by Janet Raloff
• What risk hormones? Conflicting studies reveal problems in pinning down breast cancer risks
  by Lisa Seachrist
• Faulty seals delay shuttle - scorched O-ring seals cause postponement of the space shuttle Endeavour flight - Brief Article
  by Ron Cowen
• Galileo closes in on Jupiter - Galileo spacecraft fired its main engine on July 27, 1995, in preparation for a 2-year tour of Jupiter - Brief Article
• Using peptides to block the flu… - Kazumasa Ogasawara and others have developed a peptide vaccine that is effective in preventing influenza in mice for a two week period - Brief Article
• Conscious memories may emerge in infants
  by Bruce Bower
• Sunny findings from Ulysses and Spartan - spacecraft Ulysses conducts observations of the north polar region of the sun - Brief Article
• … And using bacteria to stymie viruses - researchers find that the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes can trigger the body's immune system defense by producing viral peptides in cells - Brief Article