November 8, 1997
News of the Week:
Tighter controls on greenhouse gas emissions may save hundreds of thousands of lives annually by cutting toxic exposures to more conventional pollutants.
Dallas Burtraw
Devra Lee Davis
Tord Kjellstrom
C. Arden Pope III
Richard Wilson
Climate Protection Saves Lives Now
Sources:
Resources for the Future
1616 P Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: burtraw@rff.org
World Resources Institute
1709 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health
World Health Organization
1211 Geneva
Switzerland
142 FOB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Gamma-ray glow bathes Milky Way
A mysterious halo of gamma rays, not associated with any known celestial object, extends thousands of light-years from the core of the Milky Way.
David L. Bertsch
David D. Dixon
Researchers have synthesized a molecular rectifier, in which electric current flows more easily from one side of the molecule to the other than in the reverse direction.
Ari Aviram
James C. Ellenbogen
Robert M. Metzger
Mark A. Reed
A new therapy for schizophrenia, which teaches individuals how to cope with stress and function socially, helps patients who are stable enough to live with their families.
William T. Carpenter Jr.
Gerard E. Hogarty
Repeating DNA linked to schizophrenia
An unusual type of genetic mutation, already known to cause Huntington's disease and some other brain disorders, may increase susceptibility to schizophrenia.
J. Jay Gargus
Michael J. Owen
Obesity poses cancer risk for older women
An extensive survey finds a strong link between obesity and breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
Zhiping Huang
SOHO craft helps solve a solar mystery
Satellite observations reveal that the visible solar surface is carpeted with tens of thousands of magnetic field bundles that loop upward into the corona and may account for its high temperature.
Mandy Hagenaar
Alan M. Title
Mighty mouths: How whales keep the heat
An array of heat-exchanging veins and arteries in their massive tongues enable gray whales to conserve heat.
John E. Heyning
Ann Pabst
Sources:
Goddard Space Flight Center
Mailstop Code 661
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Department of Physics
University of California
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521
One-way molecules channel electric current
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IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Nanosystems Group
The MITRE Corporation
Mailstop W635
1820 Dolley Madison Boulevard
McLean, VA 22102
Laboratory for Molecular Electronics
Chemistry Department
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0336
Center for Microelectronic Materials and Structures
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8284
New schizophrenia therapy shows promise
Sources:
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
P.O. Box 21247
Baltimore, MD 21228
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
3811 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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University of California, Irvine
346-D Medical Science I
Irvine, CA 92697-4560
Department of Psychological Medicine
University of Wales, Cardiff
P.O. Box 920
Cardiff CF1 3XP
United Kingdom
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Department of Epidemiology
Harvard University School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
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Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research
607 Marion Place
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research
607 Marion Place
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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Section of Vertebrates
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Department of Biological Sciences
Center for Marine Science Research
University of North Carolina
Wilmington, NC 28403
Research Notes:
Behavior
AA's motivated benefits
Drug abuse treatment based on the 12-step, self-help model seems to work for much the same reasons as other types of treatment, such as giving confidence in one's ability to resist drug use in various social situations.
Jon Morgenstern
Getting a read on the brain
Language areas in the brain work with additional neural regions to foster understanding of written sentences.
Daphne Bevalier Biology
Hot stuff: A receptor for spicy foods
The cell protein that responds to capsaicin, the spicy agent in hot peppers, also acts as a heat sensor.
David E. Clapham
David Julius
New genes debut on the Y chromosome
Investigators have discovered a dozen new genes on the Y chromosome, ones likely to contribute to male fertility or essential cellular duties.
Bruce T. Lahn
David C. Page
Just do it (but only if you want to)
Unlike healthful, voluntary workouts, compulsory exercise appears to suppress the immune system.
Monika Fleshner
What do platypuses dream of?
The platypus experiences REM sleep, challenging theories that this type of slumber evolved relatively recently.
Jerome M. Siegel
Thanks, Ma, my brain needed that
Infant mice deprived of their mother's attention for a single day experience more brain cell death than is normal during development.
Mark A. Smith Physics
Ringing up a coffee stain
Capillary flow while the liquid evaporates within a coffee droplet spilled on a surface leads to a characteristic ring of powdery residue.
Sidney R. Nagel
Chemical analysis with atom tweezers
Scanning tunneling microscopy combined with mass spectrometry allows identification of atoms at particular positions on a surface.
Uwe Weierstall
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Department of Psychiatry
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
P.O. Box 1230
One Gustave L. Levy Place
New York, NY 10029-6574
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Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University
3970 Reservoir Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20007
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
320 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0450
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Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
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Department of Kinesiology
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
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Veterans Affairs Medical Center-University of California School of Medicine
Neurobiology Research 151A3
16111 Plummer Street
Sepulveda, CA 91343
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Central Nervous System Diseases Research
DuPont Merck Research Laboratories
Wilmington, DE 19880
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James Franck Institute
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
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Department of Physics and Astronomy
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 871504
Tempe, AZ 85287-1504
Articles:
Return of the Tuatara
A relict from the age of dinosaurs gets a human assist A colony of the rare, lizardlike tuatara is being reestablished on an island off New Zealand.
Charles H. Daugherty
Louis J. Guillette Jr.
Nicky Nelson Competing technologies for downsizing the transistor To create sufficiently small features on an integrated-circuit chip, the semiconductor industry must develop advanced lithography methods that are viable on the factory floor.
Richard R. Freeman
J. Murray Gibson
Lloyd R. Harriott
Richard H. Stulen
Sources:
School of Biological Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 600
Wellington
New Zealand
Department of Zoology
University of Florida
223 Bartram Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
School of Biological Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 600
Wellington
New Zealand
Sources:
Virtual National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808
Livermore, CA 94551
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Bell Laboratories
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Sandia National Laboratories
Mail Stop 9161
Box 969
Livermore, CA 94550
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