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Articles in July 6, 1985 issue of Science News

• … and deep drilling holes - 14-kilometer hole to be drilled in West Germany
• Defining a disease; researchers are still trying to figure out the cause and treatment of Kawasaki syndrome
  by Joanne Silberner
• Giotto's perilous probe of comet Halley
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Lightning likes to strike some sites - influenced by local topography and weather
• Metastatic talents of toxic shock germ
  by Jennie Dusheck
• The bugs of rust; researchers are trying to tease out how microorganisms influence the corrosion of metals
  by Janet Raloff
• Family planning: U.S. policy changing?
  by Janet Raloff
• Drugs that fight cancer … naturally - biological response modifiers
  by Dawn D. Bennett
• Cofactor in AIDS?
• Quickly computing quarks - IBM supercomputer
• Right-handers' reduced brain connection
  by Bruce Bower
• Kids and the bomb: apocalyptic anxieties?
  by Bruce Bower
• Supercomputer for rugged environments - SANDAC IV to be used to guide cruise missiles
  by Janet Raloff
• Bank for babies in distress - amniotic fluid bank for use in preventing respiratory distress syndrome
• Quake shakes China
• Getting to the core of climate cycles - Soviet engineers obtain ice core recording swings in climate over last 150,000 years
• Writing on magnetic walls - new type of computer memory
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Microbial foot soldiers - methylotrophs used to control groundwater pollution
• Turnabout in vision: messenger unmasked - cyclic GMP recognized as light sensing chemical in animals' eyes
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Patent about-face - Cetus Corp. resumes patent license with Stanford University
• Pinning down a pole's position - North Pole
  by Stefi Weisburd
• NOAA plans wind profiler array - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• ASAT target was working research satellite - some scientists outraged that functional lab was destroyed by antisatellite weapon
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Possible new assay for cancer
  by Janet Raloff
• Mexican quake update
  by Judith Mathewson
• MS: cooling it chemically - multiple sclerosis treated with 4-aminopyridine
• New daminozide review
• Hyperbaric oxygen bounces back; after years in the shadows, high-dose, high-pressure oxygen administration is making a comeback as a legitimate treatment for certain conditions
  by Joanne Silberner
• Comet Halley begins to show its tail
• Baby walker warning
• 1985 Ad
• Kinderhealth - transmission of disease in day care centers
  by Joanne Silberner
• Olympics asthmatics breathing easy - asthmatic athletes
  by Joanne Silberner
• Paying attention at many levels
  by J.A. Miller
• Sit back, relax and panic - panic attacks during relaxation therapy
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Simple 'learning' in cell culture - experiments on sensitization in simple animals
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Brain selects among sights and sounds
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Galaxies that came in from the cold; in a universe of 90 percent cold matter, hot, bright galaxies can still form
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Coffee and the job: heartfelt insults? - higher rates of heart disease found among coffee drinkers and blue collar workers
  by Diane D. Edwards
• Quiet flights for turboprops - research on reducing propeller interior noise in aircraft
  by Ivars Peterson
• Studies show DNA damage by long UV - longer-wave ultraviolet radiation
  by Janet Ralof
• Watching those calories - room-sized calorimeter being built
  by Janet Raloff
• Soliloquy for a computer's ear - Dragon Systems speech recognition system
  by Ivars Peterson
• Colorectal cancer: calcium a key?
  by Joanne Silberner
• Calcium as antihypertensive agent?
  by Joanne Silbernar
• Not tonight, dear, I'll have a headache - nitrate skin patches to control heart pain can cause headache
• Charging their way toward fusion - Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator II is completed
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• New data resolve stressful problem - stress measurements of North American continental crust
• Unearthing the earth's history - earthquake prediction
  by Judith Mathewson
• A healthy investment - health-care cost savings from combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine
• Alzheimer's disease: source searching - role of acetylcholine
  by Joanne Silberner
• Cretaceous creatures make a comeback
  by Bruce Bower
• Biocorrosion: widespread vulnerability
• Conversing with computers naturally - Natural Access System
  by Ivars Peterson
• Art that makes an impact - use of explosives to form a metal relief mural
• Why doesn't the body reject the fetus? - uromodulin acts as immunosuppressive
  by Joanne Silberner
• Zeroing in on the blackbody - radio microwaves in space
• Washington deals synfuels a big blow
  by Janet Raloff
• On the wings of a dragonfly; the way a dragonfly flies may inspire new aircraft designs - unsteady aerodynamics
  by Ivars Peterson
• Shaking up a protein's tangled world
  by Ivars Peterson
• Chlorine cues to quakes?
• Animals at the hydrothermal vents - animal communities at deep-sea hydrothermal vents
• Childhood origins of Type A behavior
  by Bruce Bower
• New landmarks on human chromosomes
• Tiniest tools probe a cell's molecules
  by Janet Ralof
• Where the daminozide is - plant-growth regulator used on apples and peanuts
• Giant telescope begun - W.M. Keck Telescope
• Fungi prefer UV-treated diet - ultraviolet light
  by Janet Raloff
• Prime time for supercomputers - largest prime number found
  by Ivars Peterson
• X-ray 'ridge' in galactic center
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Cocaine use: disturbing signs
• Radial keratotomy: an unkind cut?
  by Diane D. Edwards
• Herpes babies - cesarean section can't prevent all cases of neonatal herpes
• Some marine science is being sunk - Great Britain fails to join Ocean Drilling Program
  by Stefi Weisburd
• New bite to fossil analysis? - analyzing enamel on fossil teeth
  by Bruce Bower
• The boundary dynamic - surfactant research at General Motors Research Laboratories - advertisement
• Cell transplants into monkey and human brains
  by Julie Ann Miller
• Call for population control - from United Nations
• AIDS announcement raises questions
  by J. Silberner
• Deep core of brain gains respect
  by Julie Ann Miller

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