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Articles in Jan 19, 1985 issue of Science News

• West Coast shuttle delay - space shuttle
• Ceramic channels for cell culture
• IRAS satellite to be 'revived' for tests - Infrared Astronomy Satellite
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• …and the potassium - high potassium diet protects against strokes
  by Joanne Silberner
• NASA: fine tuning of momentum - National Aeronautics and Space Administration budget
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• DOE: defense up, civilian down - Department of Energy budget
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Cereus bacteria go for the gold - guidepost for mineral deposits
  by Stefi Weisburd
• A cloud veiled in mystery - mushroom-shaped cloud observed off coast of Japan
• Trillion-unit 'hero' of fiber optics - record-breaking experiment reaches 1.37 trillion bit-kilometers per second
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Eclipses by and of Pluto's moon - unofficially named Charon
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Chelation therapists: charlatans or saviors?
  by Dawn D. Bennett
• AIDS blood screen approved
  by Joanne Silberner
• Lighting up the lives of the depressed - bright light used in therapy
• Mutagens in air: they may be a gas - interaction of chemical pollutants in presence of sunlight
  by Janet Raloff
• T cells as a cause of autoimmunity
• D.C. danger patrol - mental patients that display bizarre behavior at White House or other public building
• The fivefold way for crystals - icosahedral crystals of new aluminum-magnesium alloy
  by Ivars Peterson
• Deep source of magnetic stripes - magnetic properties of ocean floor
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Relief for refuge's selenium problem - Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge
• Perils of fat: cancer role assayed
  by Joanne Silberner
• Automation in motion - computer-assisted video systems for motion analysis
• As the world turns, time flies - Global Positioning Satellites send signals to earth timing stations
  by Susan Welch
• Gauge the Galapagos with a younger age - new estimates of islands' ages
• Powerful climb toward fusion power
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Oncogenes and cancer aggressiveness - neuroblastoma
  by Joanne Silberner
• Caution: emotions at play; researchers are looking at how emotions affect the ways in which children think and interact with others
  by Bruce Bower
• Was it a comet, or merely the solar wind?
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Visible waves are viable - ground waves following earthquake
  by Stefi Weisburd
• CO2 makes carbon monoxide more toxic
  by Janet Raloff
• Sperm sort: on the road to sex selection - livestock breeding
  by Julie Ann Miller
• EDB's long-lasting legacy - degrading ethylene dibromide
  by Janet Raloff
• Oxygen and multiple sclerosis
• Emotional scars near Mount St. Helens - increased mental problems in nearby communities
  by Bruce Bower
• Establishing a link - between Epstein-Barr virus and cancer
  by Joanne Silberner
• Depression in the family
• Hybrid grass roots out soil salinity
  by Janet Raloff
• Medicine capsules - recent research
• Clocks test Einstein vs. Mach - Albert Einstein, Ernst Mach
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Mammal-like reptile skull from Mexico
• Shuttle: 4 for 4 and SDI too - space shuttle deploys 4 satellites and tests Strategic Defense Initiative
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Invasion of the ecosystem - effects of introducing new species to an ecosystem
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Planet X and the killer comets
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Two centers yoked together in one galaxy - galaxy 3C75
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Interstellar comets?
  by Dietrick Thomsen
• The compleat breeder? - integral fast reactor
  by Janet Raloff
• Tiny tacks - used in surgery for detached retina
• Urban methane - leakage of natural gas in urban areas
• On the AIDS trail: work continues on test, cure, vaccine
  by Joanne Silberner
• Galling stones: fill 'er up - methyl tert-butyl ether used to dissolve gallstones
• Sulfide searchers - larvae attracted to sulfides
  by Stefi Weisburd
• A 'lost and found' city in Peru gets new perspective - Gran Pajaten
  by Bruce Bower
• Research foul-ups and blunders - criticism of techniques used in research in personality and social psychology
• Frost-free bacteria lawsuit - genetic engineering
• Milk curbs osteoporosis
• A curving path toward faster factoring - new factoring algorithm
  by Ivars Peterson
• Ringing in a world record - newly invented flying ring toy, Aerobie
• Antibodies in cow's milk - found to prevent rotavirus in newborn infants
• Coffee: grounds for concern? - correlation found between elevated cholesterol and coffee consumption
• Subcellular life in the fast lane - transportation within nerve cells
  by Julie Ann Miller
• News updates - reduction in lead allowed in gasoline, ruling against sport hunting of wolves in Minnesota
• To honey bees, a picture is worth a thousand line angles
  by Dawn D. Bennett
• Climate clues glued to rocks - rock varnish
• Machines as health hazards - faulty batteries in heart-shocking devices, fatal accident involving robot-operated machine
• Cancer phototherapy: illuminating blood
  by Joanne Silberner
• Self-reversing minerals make a comeback - includes related article explaining titanohematite reversal
  by Stefi Weisburd
• The trouble with technical data - Department of Defense tries to protect classified information presented at scientific symposium
  by Ivars Peterson
• Source terms: the new reactor safety debate - revised predictions of radioactive releases from damaged nuclear plant
  by Janet Raloff
• Mummy DNA intact after 2,400 years
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Quake depths differ in eastern U.S
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Human ancestors make evolutionary changes - Homo erectus
  by Bruce Bower
• Soaring pterosaur! - plans to build full-scale, radio-controlled flying replica of largest animal ever to fly
• Ocean drilling: banking on the Bahamas for a leg to stand on - Ocean Drilling Program
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Traces of soft-bodied beasties - fossils of soft-bodied animals found
• Greenhouse gases en masse rival CO2 - greenhouse effect
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Gene-splice patent showdown - Cetus challenges validity of Stanford's patents
• Indigestion's basis as a plant defense
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Getting into Einstein's brain - research on minute pieces of Albert Einstein's brain
  by Bruce Bower
• More nails in smoking's coffin
  by Joanne Silberner
• Raising sensitivity to acidity trends - monitoring acidity of precipitation and fresh water
• Court blocks Army testing laboratory - aerosol toxin laboratory
  by Julie Ann Miller

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