Science News back issues from December 1995:
Gene for rare disease gives cancer clues. (blm gene implemented in Bloom's syndrome)(Science News of the Week)
Dec 02, 1995; ... Cancer plays an intimate role in the lives of Bloom's syndrome patients. From as early as childhood, cancers of all kinds strike repeatedly before stealing the victims' drastically shortened lives.Although this inherited disease occurs with a scarcely detectable frequency-only 184 ...
Brain scans set sights on mind's eye. (mental imagery may rely on areas of the brain used for visual processes)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... The mind's eye, which creates mental images of objects and scenes from the outside world, has winked elusively at scientists who have tried to trace its location in the brain-until now. A new study finds that people who visualize various objects experience blood flow surges, signaling ...
Dinosaur DNA claim dismissed as a mistake. (rather than dinosaur DNA, Scott R. Woodward detected human DNA that had contaminated the sample)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... Strands of DNA identified last year as belonging to a dinosaur actually come from contaminating bits of human genes, conclude molecular evolutionists from several different laboratories.Scott R. Woodward of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, reported a year ago that he had ...
Oldest Lyme-carrying microbes found. (Lyme bacteria found in 19th-century ticks)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... Scientists have found early accounts of ring-shaped rashes and other symptoms of Lyme disease in Germany. But these case reports, one dating as far back as 1882, don't isolate the agent responsible, leaving open the questions of whether the curlicued bacteria that cause Lyme disease (smaller ...
Quantum unity from packaged cold atoms. (Bose-Einstein condensate generated from supercold atoms)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... A third group has now succeeded in creating a Bose-Einstein condensate out of a cloud of ultracold atoms. Instead of clumping together while maintaining separate quantum states, as in normal condensation, these atoms end up in a single quantum state and so act as a coherent entity. ...
New glass could store unused plutonium. (alkali-tin-silicate glass)(Science News of the Week)
Dec 02, 1995; ... Since the demise of the Soviet Union, the nuclear nations have been dismantling weapons. So far, however, they haven't solved the problem of long-term storage of the highly radioactive materials, particularly plutonium, in these weapons.The most toxic element known to man, ...
Mutation location may predict cancer type. (location of mutation on gene BRCA1 results in different types of breast and ovarian cancers)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... Some mutations stop genes cold, preventing them from producing proteins; others force genes to create abbreviated or misshapen molecules that function incorrectly. Consequently, different mutations in the same gene can lead to radically disparate outcomes.Researchers now have ...
When not to photocopy. (appellate court ruling further defines when photocopying violates fair use clause of copyright law)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995 ... On Oct. 28, 1994, a U.S. appellate court ruling-twice amended, most recently this July-found that researchers at Texaco photocopied too much from the scientific journals routed around the office. The court argued that routinely archiving photocopied papers instead of the journals themselves ...
Galileo probe poised to plunge into Jupiter.(Science News of the Week)
Dec 02, 1995; ... For 4 months, scientists have monitored the progress of a 339-kilogram body hurtling toward Jupiter. On Dec. 7, traveling 50 times faster than a bullet, the massive object will dive into the giant planet's atmosphere.Unlike Shoemaker-Levy 9, which crashed into Jupiter last year, ...
Much ado over brew: linking drink to shape. (beer drinking empirically linked to development of 'beer belly')(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995 ... Yes, Virginia, there really is a beer belly. A study of more than 12,000 U.S. adults has verified that those who drink at least six beers a week are more rotund than their nondrinking peers. In contrast, those who in bibe an equivalent amount of alcohol in the form of wine tend to have ...
Black-eyed peas go to Mars; tales of new destinies for plants. (new crop development)(Cover Story)
Dec 02, 1995; ... A banquet served at an Indiana airport hotel for people at an agriculture conference might well include chicken and a vegetable, or some variation thereof.Well, how's this for variation?Amaranth (a high-protein grain) rollsSalad with arugula and hull-less ...
Africa's ancient cultural roots. (cultural innovations such as tool-making may have appeared much earlier than 40,000 years ago)(Anthropology)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... Human ancestors in Africa exhibited a flair for complex cultural behaviors, such as sophisticated tool making, symbolic artwork, and the exploitation of far-flung resources, as early as 240,000 years ago, contends Sally McBrearty of the University of Connecticut in Storrs. An African find ...
Small-scale survivors of big blasts. (small, egalitarian societies more likely than large societies to survive volcanic eruptions and recover)(Anthropology)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... Major volcanic eruptions periodically rained destruction on ancient societies in southern Mexico and Central America. Emerging data indicate that small, egalitarian groups coped much better with these crises than large societies characterized by political and social hierarchies. ...
A treatment plant-fish hatchery in one. (salmon spawns in East Chicago Sanitary District Wastewater Treatment Plant)(Biology)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995 ... Chinook salmon are spawning in the East Chicago Sanitary District Wastewater Treatment Plant near Lake Michigan, scientists announced in October.This is the first reported case of salmon spawning in a treatment plant, Peter S. Baranyai of the sanitary district and his colleagues ...
Courtship style: blame it on his genes. (male ruff's mating behavior inherited from father)(Biology)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995 ... Some dates bring flowers and whisk you off to the theater. Others arrive late and turn on the television. Veterans of dating must ponder the cause of such differences.Scientists have a special interest. Many animal species have two types of males, which differ considerably in their ...
Breathing a bit askew in SIDS babies. (breathing rigidity linked to sudden infant death syndrome)(Biology)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... In the 1980s, scientists in the United Kingdom recorded the breathing patterns of nearly 7,000 infants ranging in age from 2 days to 65 days. The still-unexplained phenomenon of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) later killed 16 of those infants. Although examination of the breathing ...
Young rats fill in holes in the brain. (rats regrow injured brain)(Biology)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995 ... When investigators remove part of the brain of rats slightly more than a week old, the young rodents grow new nerve cells, or neurons, and recover almost completely, claim Canadian researchers. "It tells us it's possible in the mammal to regrow an injured brain," asserts Bryan Kolb of the ...
HIV mars heart development. (all babies of HIV-infected mothers more prone to heart problems)(Biomedicine)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... Researchers know that babies infected with HIV at birth suffer a host of heart problems. Now, it appears that simply being born to a mother infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, predisposes a child to developmental heart problems-even a child who remains uninfected.Steven ...
Wine, beer, liquor benefit the heart. (flavonoids in alcohol responsible for raising concentrations of HDL cholesterol in blood)(Biomedicine)(Brief Article)
Dec 02, 1995; ... They call it the French paradox: Despite a diet high in saturated fats, the French suffer far less heart disease than do their U.S. counterparts. In studying the phenomenon, researchers noted that the French drink more red wine than people in the United States do.Armed with that ...
Playing by the rules; how and why organisms turn nasty. (virulence research)
Dec 02, 1995; ... We left Vashe Noire at 6. . . . I was so weak that I was unable to sit on the little seat. . . . I suffered that night, but a 20 km jaunt in a camion to another evacuation hospital was so much worse that there was no comparison. . . . We were then taken by ambulance to Crepy, where they ...
Body's proteins suppress AIDS virus.(Science News of the Week)
Dec 09, 1995; ... After a frustrating, almost decade-long quest for HIV-fighting molecules naturally secreted by the body's immune cells, investigators have finally found a quartet of proteins that suppresses the replication of the deadly AIDS virus in infected cells. The discoveries represent a major ...
DNA tests identify hoatzin's cousins. (cuckoos identified as closest relative of blue-faced South American bird)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995; ... The closest relatives of the hoatzin, a blue-faced South American bird, are neither turkeys nor chickens, as many bird experts had assumed; they are cuckoos, a new study concludes. The finding shows that 220 years of research on the hoatzin was no wild-goose chase.Since describing ...
Disorder to nudge order out of chaos. (introducing chaos into some disordered systems can facilitate organization)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995; ... Introducing random variability into certain types of systems can help tame their otherwise chaotic behavior. It's a little like adding noise to an audio recording to turn grossly distorted sound into a discernible melody.This surprising result comes out of computer simulations ...
First portrait of a brown dwarf. (GL229B is larger than Jupiter, but not large enough to be a star)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995 ... When it comes to heavenly featherweights, astronomers have detected low-mass stars and they have detected planets, but they have found nothing that has a mass in between. Now, researchers say they have discovered the missing link-an object considerably heavier than Jupiter but far less ...
U.N. treaty to aid 'international' fish. (United Nation's treaty to protect fish not yet regionally managed)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995; ... The United Nations began accepting signatures this week for a treaty to protect some 20 percent of the world's fishes. It covers not only those pelagic giants-such as sharks, tuna, and marlins-that can migrate throughout the ocean, but also the stocks of smaller, less migratory fish whose ...
Hormone triggers cells to turn to fat. (type of prostaglandin)(Science News of the Week)
Dec 09, 1995; ... Two groups of investigators have discovered a natural hormone that triggers the production of fat cells. While the finding could provide new strategies for the battle of the bulge, understanding the hormone's activities may also lead to new antidiabetes drugs.The hormone, a type of ...
CIA studies fan debate over psi abilities. (paranormal phenomena)(Science News of the Week)
Dec 09, 1995; ... Scientific debate over the existence of at least some types of paranormal, or psi, phenomena took a strange twist last week. The federal government revealed that it had funded over the past 20 years a $20 million research effort concerned largely with remote viewing, the alleged ability of ...
Viruses can move: tale of a telltale tail. (vaccinia viruses use tails assembled from intracellular actin filaments to propel themselves from one cell to the next)(Science News of the Week)
Dec 09, 1995; ... Viruses are nature's great hijackers. They take over a host cell's biochemical machinery to make their own proteins as well as new genetic material. Now, scientists report that when viruses are poised to infect something new, they sometimes also make use of protein filaments from the host to ...
Tamoxifen use limited. (National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project research results indicate tamoxifen ineffective or harmful in breast cancer patients after 5 years)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995; ... Officials at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., last week recommended that doctors treat breast cancer patients with the drug tamoxifen for no more than 5 years. After that period, the drug provides no benefit and may actually cause harm.The National Surgical Adjuvant ...
Researchers access secret seismic data. (seismologists gain access to data gathered through International Seismic Monitoring System, set up for monitoring compliance to nuclear weapon bans)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995; ... International negotiators are making headway on a treaty to ban all tests of nuclear weapons. Yet even before countries reach a final agreement, expected next year, seismologists are benefiting from access to a new network of sensitive listening posts established to enforce the treaty ....
Vegemania: scientists tout the health benefits of saponins. (disease-fighting nutrient in vegetables and legumes)(Cover Story)
Dec 09, 1995; ... It sounds like a plot-a vegetarian conspiracy against a carnivorous, burger-chomping public. As if fiber and antioxidants weren't enough, chemists studying the healthful properties of plants now say that vegetables contain yet another class of disease-fighting nutrients.These ...
Testing genes: physicians wrestle with the information that genetic tests provide.
Dec 09, 1995; ... Over the past decade, scientists have unearthed a dizzying number of genes responsible for human ailments. Now, as widespread genetic testing is poised to become a reality, many physicians find themselves conveying information that they don't fully understand. "Docs know what it means to ...
Our atmospheric moon. (lunar atmosphere may extend twice as far as previously believed)(Astronomy)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995 ... New observations reveal that the moon's tenuous atmosphere extends twice as far above the lunar surface as previous observations had shown. The new images, taken during a lunar eclipse, also suggest that sunlight striking the moon probably generates its thin atmosphere.Michael ...
Future visit to a comet. (Stardust spacecraft to fly past Wild-2 comet in 2004)(Astronomy)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995 ... Comet Wild-2 has spent most of its life in the deep freeze of the outer solar system. But 2 decades ago, Jupiter's gravity brought the comet in from the cold. In late November, NASA approved plans for a flyby to this pristine emigre from the solar system's outer reaches.Five years ...
Watching fractures form. (computer model SPASM developed to study how cracks progress through crystalline materials)(Materials Science)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995; ... Snaking and branching through a concrete pillar, a bridge support, or a window, cracks follow fascinating paths. Often invisible when they form, cracks typically appear in materials under tension or stress.To understand more fully the progress of cracks through crystalline ...
Itty-bitty carbon rods. (nanorods developed)(Materials Science)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995; ... Among materials scientists, the watchword is "nano"-the Greek prefix meaning one-billionth. They're chatting about nanowires, nanotubes, nanospheres. . . and now nanorods.Charles M. Lieber, a chemist at Harvard University, and his colleagues are cooking up batches of rods that ...
Single genes control flower production. (genes leafy and apetala 1 can trigger flower development)(Biology)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995 ... Scientists have known that genes, including leafy (LFY) and apetala 1 (AP1), help determine the development of meristems, the tips of stems where either flowers or shoots for new leaves and stems form. Now, investigators find that LFY and AP1, each on its own, can trigger flower development ....
'Seeds, who needs 'em?' foresters say. (new cloning technique developed for producing hardwood trees)(Biology)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995 ... Researchers have refined a new technique, which doesn't require seeds, for producing commercial stands of genetically similar hardwood trees, Scott A. Merkle of the University of Georgia in Athens and his colleagues report.The International Paper Co., which funded Merkle's work, ...
Cancer and heart risks of dioxins. (workers heavily exposed to dioxins or furans show increased risk of dying from heart disease or cancer)(Biomedicine)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995 ... Several studies have indicated an apparent increased risk of death from cancer among individuals heavily exposed to dioxins and such close chemical cousins as furans (SN: 9/4/93, p.149). A new study now looks at men who worked at a pesticide plant in Hamburg, Germany, at any time between ...
New support for tea's heart-y benefits. (polyphenols in tea inhibit LDL oxidation, lowering heart disease risk)(Biomedicine)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995 ... In the generation of heart disease, the oxidative transformation of cholesterol-carrying low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) in the blood leads to the buildup of artery-clogging plaque. Two years ago, Dutch scientists found evidence that tea drinking protects against heart disease, a result they ...
Selenium's role in weight control. (diets enriched with selenium may boost weight)(Biomedicine)(Brief Article)
Dec 09, 1995 ... Enriching diets with selenium, an antioxidant mineral, may boost weight gain, according to a small study by Wayne C. Hawkes and Nancy L. Keim of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in San Francisco.For 4 months, they fed 11 healthy men, age 20 to 45, ...
New phylum found residing on lobsters. (Danish researchers discovered a new phylum of metazoans called Symbion pandora on the lips of Norwegian lobsters)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995; ... Even the most sophisticated lobster lovers probably give little thought to the creatures' lips. If they only knew what they were missing.On the mouths of Norwegian lobsters lives a tiny invertebrate that fits into none of the animal kingdom's 35 or so broad taxonomic groups called ...
San Andreas looms larger in L.A.'s future. (a computer simulation of earthquakes in the Los Angeles, CA, area)
Dec 16, 1995; ... When the San Andreas fault eventually unleashes the Big One, it will batter Los Angeles with waves of seismic energy far greater than seismologists had ever imagined, according to a ground-breaking computer simulation-the largest yet attempted for a San Andreas quake."We're looking ...
U.N. to oversee methyl bromide phaseout. (industrial nations agreed to phase out use of the gaseous pesticide by the 2010 because of the damage it causes to the ozone layer)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995; ... In Vienna last week, representatives of some 110 countries voted to strengthen the Montreal Protocol, a United Nations treaty to protect Earth's stratospheric ozone layer. On Dec. 8, industrial nations agreed to phase out their use of methyl bromide by 2010. The bromine released by this ...
DNA manipulation goes large-scale. (experiments on mice)
Dec 16, 1995; ... Geneticists have scored another victory on the playing field of the mouse genome. In what they call chromosome engineering, researchers have succeeded in deleting, inverting, or rearranging not single genes but large, selected blocks of mouse DNA.In genetic engineering, ...
Timing attack beats cryptographic keys. (Paul C Kocher's research indicates that computer security based on cryptosystems may be more vulnerable than previously thought)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995; ... To foil eavesdroppers, banks and other businesses handling electronic transactions have turned to various forms of cryptography to scramble and hide sensitive information.Now, a researcher has identified a potentially serious vulnerability in certain widely used cryptosystems. This ...
Schizophrenia: data point to early roots. (three different studies indicate that schizophrenia may be linked to prenatal or early-age brain abnormalities)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995; ... Three new studies lend support to the theory that many cases of schizophrenia stem from derailments of brain development that begin early in life, perhaps in the womb.The findings, published in the December American Journal of Psychiatry, add to recent efforts to illuminate ...
Vaccine triggers cocaine mop-up in rats. (Scripps Research institute scientists have developed a vaccine that helps block cocaine absorption in rats' brains)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995; ... For all the millions of dollars spent to find a way to halt cocaine abuse, physicians still lack a useful medicine to break the drug's addictive power. The exact site and chemistry of addiction remain a puzzle. Moreover, many of the brain pathways influenced by cocaine coincide with paths ...
Hubble finds an off-center black hole. (research collected by the Hubble Space Telescope indicates that galaxy NGC 4261 may have a black hole that is slighty askew)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995; ... Over the past few years, astronomers have gathered compelling evidence that black holes lurk at the heart of several galaxies. However, the latest finding has caught researchers by surprise: The newest unseen monster lies slightly askew.Instead of residing at the exact center of ...
Heart drug busts brain clots from stroke. (new research indicates that tissue plasminogen activator helps prevent brain damage from strokes cause by blood clots)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995; ... A clot-busting drug commonly used to treat heart attacks also curtails brain damage caused by the most prevalent type of stroke.A collaborative study of people who suffered strokes caused by blood clots in the brain indicates that patients treated with tissue plasminogen activator ...
Infertility's dark moods. (a study of 339 women found a link between depression and infertility)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... Couples who try but repeatedly fail to conceive a child can end up exploring the far reaches of anguish. A new study suggests, in a reversal of this sequence, that women who experience bouts of depression in the months or years before trying to get pregnant have a substantially greater ...
Depressed kids in China. (research on 261 Chinese youth indicate that 10% are depressed; the figures correspond to Western rates of depression)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... About 1 Chinese child in 10 displays symptoms of severe depression, a proportion that closely matches depression estimates for U.S. youngsters, scientists report in the December Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.As in the West, depressed children in China-especially ...
Ovulation heralds end of fertile period. (a study of 221 women found that the five days preceding ovulation were the most fertile; fertility drops to almost zero the day after ovulation)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... The timing of ovulation has taken on a new significance for couples who are trying to get pregnant. While the release of an egg from a woman's ovary still marks the peak time for fertilization, it's also the start of a rapid decline in a woman's ability to become pregnant, according to a new ...
IL-12 studies back on track. (the FDA allowed Genetics Institute to resume human trials of leukin-12 in Nov 1995; the drug is being tested on cancer and AIDS patients)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... Last June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration halted a test of the promising anticancer and anti-AIDS drug interleukin-12 (IL-12) after two patients died and several others suffered severe side effects from dosages previously demonstrated to be safe. At the time, scientists at the company ...
A new view of earth: seeing the seafloor from space. (newly-released satellite data of the ocean floor)(Cover Story)
Dec 16, 1995; ... After years of craving better seafloor charts, marine geologists are now feasting on a rich diet of data from a recently declassified U.S. satellite and a separate European spacecraft. The measurements strip away the watery shroud hiding two-thirds of Earth's surface, revealing hitherto ...
Some like it hot; puzzling over the origin of a roasting planet. (research on star 51 Pegasi indicates that a large planet is orbiting it)
Dec 16, 1995; ... Call it a misfit, label it an oddball. It's the right planet, but it's in the wrong place.In October, researchers reported that after tracking the velocity of a nearby star, 51 Pegasi, for more than a year, they had found the fingerprints of an unseen, Jupiter-mass object orbiting ...
Modeling the effects of tiger poaching. (researchers have determined via computer modeling that small increases in poaching drastically increase the threat of tiger species extinction)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... It can take just a little increase in poaching to threaten a whole tiger population, scientists have learned from a new computer model.Tigers, already an endangered species, faced a new threat in the early 1990s, when poachers from Siberia to India started killing the animals in ...
Test-tube gorilla baby doing well. (the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden reports that a female gorilla conceived via test-tube fertilization was born on Oct 9, 1995)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... Rosie, a captive lowland gorilla also known as Mata Hari, gave birth Oct. 9 to a 1.4 kilogram female, the first endangered primate to result from test-tube fertilization, zoo officials announced. Scientists had implanted three gorilla embryos in Rosie in March (SN: ...
New rumble resounds through Pacific. (researchers began the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate experiment off the coast of California on Dec 2, 1995, after delays due to environmental concerns)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... Oceanographers this month added a new sound to the deep sea in an effort to gauge the Pacific's temperature and to investigate global warming. The experiment, known as Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC), started after 18 months of delays triggered by environmental groups worried ...
The year of the hurricane. (there were 19 tropical storms over the Atlantic Ocean during 1995, the largest number since the late 1800s; 11 of the storms reached hurricane status)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... The Atlantic Ocean served up a roaring roster of hurricanes and tropical storms this year, making the 1995 hurricane season the second-busiest since the late 1800s. Meteorologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration blame the surfeit of storms on a combination of ...
Fishing: what we don't keep. (research indicates that 15% of groundfish caught off the coast of Alaska are thrown back; new laws may help limit the damage this does to fish populations)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... As any angler knows, fish thrown back-because they're too small, the wrong type, or hunted only for sport-often don't survive. Because of the trauma they undergo when they are hauled in the net and taken out of the water for sorting, virtually all fish that commercial trawlers throw back are ...
Reproductive changes from overfishing. (researchers fear the decreasing spawning age of stressed fish such as cod, flounder and haddock may threaten health of fish populations)(Brief Article)
Dec 16, 1995 ... Before the collapse of cod fisheries off Canada's maritime provinces recently, annual harvests often removed 60 percent of the older adults. That was three times the recommended amount to sustain healthy stocks, notes Edward A. Trippel of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in St ....
Inside Jupiter: probe's early results. (Galileo space probe)(Science News of the Week)
Dec 23, 1995; ... Astronomers have for the first time explored the hidden depths of the largest planet in our solar system. The data recently gathered by a robotic probe may shed light on Jupiter's past as well as its present.On Dec. 7, the small, instrument-laden emissary from Earth plunged ...
Team nabs second breast cancer gene. (team headed by Michael R. Stratton isolates BRCA2)(Science News of the Week)(Brief Article)
Dec 23, 1995; ... Last year, when an international team ended a 4-year quest for the gene responsible for inherited breast cancer, the researchers announced that they and another team, working together, had discovered a second breast cancer gene somewhere on the long arm of chromosome 13.Now, that ...
Glowing doughnuts flash high above storms. (light emissions above thunderstorms)(Science News of the Week)
Dec 23, 1995; ... Scientists have discovered a new kind of lightning that flares in the shape of a vast, 400-kilometer-wide doughnut at the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere. These fleeting flashes-too quick to be seen with the naked eye-join an ever-growing roster of electric fireworks detected in the ...