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Articles in July 5, 1986 issue of Science News

• Looking back at Uranus: strangeness confirmed
  by Jonathan Eberharst
• Fossilized magnets and fickle rocks - magnetic polarity of seamounts used to study plate tectonics
• Rocket report cards: no two alike - investigations of 3 rocket failures
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Sowing antiviral seeds - phototoxic plant compounds
• New look at Titanic with a robot's 'eye.' - Jason Jr. robot
  by Bruce Bower
• Custom-designing drug doses to fit the genes - includes related article on metabolism and disease
  by Lisa Davis
• Monitoring Soviet tests - nuclear weapons tests
  by Trina Kleist
• Why the Southeast is sweltering
  by Mary Murray
• Shaping up your mind - research on physical training to ease stress and mild depression
  by Bruce Bower
• Lungs hurt most by ozone-acid synergy
  by Janet Raloff
• Single-file electrons - Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
  by Mary Murray
• Speciation by a wandering river
  by Amazon River
• Unlocking secrets of antibody binding
  by Lisa Davis
• Mold linked to esophageal cancer
• Tying up proteins for drug delivery
  by Joanne Silberner
• Plasma physics breaks stones - kidney and gallstones
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• TV coverage linked to teen suicides
  by Bruce Bower
• Toxic showers and baths - danger of inhalation exposure to water pollutants
  by Janet Raloff
• Steady cocaine use linked to seizures
  by Bruce Bower
• NASA sets shuttle launch date, schedule
  by Jonatahn Eberhart
• Brain architecture, neoclassical style - anatomy of sonar-using animals
• Radio interferometry steps off the earth - receiver placed on orbiting satellite
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• No AIDS via mosquitoes
  by Joanne Silberner
• 1986 Ad
  by Richard Monastersky
• Checking out a theoretical superconducting transition
  by Ivars Peterson
• The search for unlit stars - brown dwarfs
  by Mary Murray
• Rolling with coal - possibility that railroads will return to domestic coal as fuel, includes related article on romance of railroads
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Firefly gene sets tobacco plants aglow - glowing genetic tag uses firefly enzyme luciferase
  by Richard Monastersky
• High-radon homes may be widespread
  by Janet Raloff
• Oscillating to a copper beat - oscillating chemical reactions
• First fossil of slime bacteria discovered
  by Stefi Weisburd
• How plants say 'no' to fungus - by producing enzyme called chitinase
  by Ivan Amato
• Vitamin A effects of PCBs and dioxins
• Sulfite drug warnings
• Smoking out B-vitamins' role in lungs
• Hanford reactor's safety is questioned - Hanford Nuclear Reactor
  by Janet Raloff
• Africa: then came the locusts
• Test blaze goes off - prescribed burning of California chaparral
• Ionoquakes from groundshakes - earthquakes trigger waves in ionosphere
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Par for radioastronomy - radiotelescope in Delaware, Ohio, saved from expansion of golf course
• New homes for chemistry tomes - American Chemical Society program to find uses for used books
• A new glimpse of old life - fossil exhibit at Smithsonian Institution
  by Stefi Weisburd
• El Nino's Atlantic counterpart
  by Mary Murray
• For those who don't read Japanese - U.S. to monitor Japanese technical activities
• A star is born in the Milky Way
  by Trina Kleist
• Networking AIDS - immune system research
  by Joanne Silberner
• Biotech rules receive scrutiny
  by Trina Kleist
• Babies' 'interfaces' go beyond mom
• Going back and forth on neutrino oscillations
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Nerve, immune link found on membranes
  by Joanne Silberner
• Schrodinger goes to Monte Carlo; the 'adaptive Monte Carlo' method seeks solutions for chemical and condensed-matter structures
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Endorphins: a role in heart disease?
  by Janet Raloff
• Sound diagnosis of arthritis
• Cameroon: death by suffocation - lethal cloud from lake
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Terrorists, up close and personal
  by Bruce Bower
• Cameroon: the first wave of clues - poisonous gas accident
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Games mathematicians play; mathematical puzzles, games and other pastimes both enlighten and amuse - includes related article on Eugene Strens Recreational Mathematics Collection at University of Calgary
  by Ivars Peterson
• Dioxin's 'fingerprint' lingers for decades - dioxin contamination remains in body fat
  by Janet Raloff
• Pictures of a sniffle stopper at work - synchrotron and supercomputer used to study antiviral agents
• Largest melt from lightning strike - largest known fulgurite found in Michigan
  by Stefi Weisburd
• A shining theory of ozone depletion - 'odd nitrogen' compounds produced by high solar activity
• The Cordell Bank rediscovered; a tiny underwater island rises from obscurity to pose for some unusually detailed sonar maps
  by Stefi Weisburd
• When antipsychotic drugs can be lethal - neuroleptic malignant syndrome
  by Bruce Bower
• A satellite for Machu Picchu - ancient agricultural city found in Peru
• Heavy drinking increases stroke risk
  by Joanne Silberner
• Blackbody swallows laser light
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• How lithium helps manic depression
  by Ivan Amato
• New addition to herpes family - human B-lymphotropic virus
• Spinning a large telescope from glass
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Progress in the African locust wars
• AIDS virus protein coat lethal
• Enormous stellar shell raises theoretical questions
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Leech swimming: the neural story - research on leech's nervous system
  by Ivan Amato
• Atoms of the mesocosm - research in semiconductors
• New hazard in leaded gas? - halogenated compounds found in exhaust
• Diminished returns for cancer therapy
  by Joanne Silberner
• A polymer to burn - autocombustible polymer
• On the AIDS front - recent research
• AIDS studies suggest new directions, therapies
  by Joanne Silberner
• Fishy fear of the known - research on teaching salmon to fear cod

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