Vol. 133 No. 2721, June 2005
Index
- Baby bottles found harmful.
- Contaminated air jeopardizes public health.
- Pre- and postnatal asthma triggers cited.
- A novel technology that can test cells in minutes for responses to any stimulus, including antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, radiation, and chemotherapy, has been developed by scientists at the University at Buffalo (N.Y.).
- Environmental factors, such as attending religious ceremonies with family, affect individuals' religiousness as children, but genes most likely keep them attending and believing as they become adults, according to a study of twins by Laura Koenig of the Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
- Harnessing the strength of a natural process that repairs damage to the human genome, doctors at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, have helped establish a method of therapy that can correct mutations in the IL-2R gene that is associated with the immunodeficiency disease SCID.
- Soil can trap radioactive toxins.
- The Army Chemical Materials Agency.
- The biochemical mechanism that enables animals--likely including humans--to recognize when their diet is deficient in an essential amino acid has been identified for the first time by School of Veterinary Medicine researchers at the University of California, Davis.
- The Tibetan plateau is being compressed between the Indian subcontinent to the south and the solid wall of the North China block, new research indicates.
- Unique follow-up observations carried out with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are providing important supporting evidence for the existence of a candidate planetary companion (five times the mass of Jupiter) to a relatively bright young dwarf star located 225 light-years away in the southern constellation Hydra.
- Where bacteria get their genes.
- Aerosol clouds cool earth.
- Can DNA breaks be repaired?
- Ending reliance on toxic viruses.
- One-step destruction of cancer cells.
- Astronauts susceptible to kidney stones.
- Missing star looks "heavy".
- "Transparency" could spawn new industries.
- Astronomers find gravity's signature.
- Crater mystery of melted rocks.
- Aerodynamics allow trucks to "fly".
- Nanotubes provide power boost.
- Turbulence in the fast lane.
- Calcium good for more than strong bones.
- Mass producing tiny structures.
- Pathway identification imperils disease.
- Synaptic vesicles help relay messages.
- Fear factor function in brain.
- Fooling brain into feeling full.
- Robots that act like rats.
- Can Shamanism really heal patients?
- Hijacking bacterium for energy use.
- "Smoke" detector promises safety.
- Disaster planning still lacking.
- Global warming threat growing.
- Airguns gauge undersea volcanoes.
- Grapefruit aroma enhances youthfulness.
- Sniffing out insect control.
- Damming evidence calls for planning.
- Is American dream a Chinese nightmare?
- Disappearing lakes, shrinking seas.