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Southern California: Dearth of Quakes?

A study of past earthquakes suggests that Los Angeles may be at a lower risk than normal of big quakes during the next 5 to 10 years.

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Lucile M. Jones
U.S. Geological Survey
Pasadena, CA 91106

A new breadth to estrogen's bisexuality

Estrogen, long considered as the quintessential female sex hormone, plays a critical role in normal male sexual behavior.

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Linda S. Birnbaum
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
MD-66
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Sonoko Ogawa
Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior
Rockefeller University
New York, NY 10021
E-mail: ogawa@rockvax.rockefeller.edu

Richard E. Peterson
School of Pharmacy
5293 Chamberlin Hall
425 N. Charter Street
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706

Donald W. Pfaff
Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior
Rockefeller University
New York, NY 10021

New drugs zap cancer cells with radiation

Antibodies can ferry radioactive atoms directly to cancerous cells, killing those cells with little damage to healthy tissue.

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Janet F. Eary
University of Washington Medical Center
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Box 356113
Seattle, WA 98195-6113

David A. Scheinberg
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1275 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Joel M. Tingey
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA 99352

Left-handed excess in meteorite molecules

Amino acids formed in space 4.5 billion years ago and recovered from a meteorite have a small, but significant, excess of the left-handed over the right-handed molecular form, suggesting that a nonbiological process can produce asymmetry.

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Jeffrey L. Bada
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0212

John R. Cronin
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-1604

Radio astronomy gets off the ground

With the launch last week of a radio telescope electronically linked to 40 telescopes on the ground, astronomers sharpen their view of the universe.

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Paul Vanden Bout
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
520 Edgemont Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475

A new direction for microgravity fires

Flames in space behave in unexpected ways, including burning into a breeze and smoldering in strange patterns.

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Takashi Kashiwagi
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Building 224, Room B258
Gathersburg, MD 20899-0001

Kurt Sacksteder
NASA Lewis Research Center
Mail Stop 500-115
21000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44135

David Urban
NASA Lewis Research Center
Mail Stop 500-115
21000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44135

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Overfishing imperils cod reproduction

Only a small percentage of North Sea cod survive to reproduce.

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Robin M. Cook
Marine Laboratory
P.O. Box 101 Victoria Road
Aberdeen Ab11 9DB
United Kingdom

Alan Sinclair
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Gulf Fisheries Centre
P.O. Box 5030
Moncton, NB E1C 9B6
Canada
E-mail: sinclaira@gfc.dfo.ca

Erosion tails tropical trails

Paths can be a significant source of soil loss in tropical rainforests.

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Carol P. Harden
Department of Geography
408 G & G Building
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1420

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A Supernova Turns 10

Birthday of an explosion

Ten years after witnessing the brightest supernova explosion in nearly 400 years, astronomers are still grappling with puzzles about the supernova 1987A.

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Roger Chevalier
Department of Astronomy
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Crab Crackers

Scientists take a harder look at stone crab shells

The light and dark parts of a stone crab's huge claws reflect differences in the microstructure and strength of the constituent materials.

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Theresa M. Bert
Florida Marine Research Institute
100 8th Avenue, S.E.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Darryl L. Felder
Department of Biology
University of Southern Louisiana
300 E. St. Mary Boulevard
Lafayette, LA 70503

Jack Mecholsky
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
256A Rhines Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611

Cynthia Melnick Sloop
300 Sharwood Drive
Naples, FL 34110

Julian Vincent
Centre for Biomimetics
University of Cambridge
#1 Early Gate
Redding, RG6 6AT
United Kingdom

Radical Prostates

Female hormones may play a pivotal role in a distinctly male epidemic

Growing evidence suggests that prostate cancer may be linked to damage to DNA, triggered, at least in part, by estrogen.

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Maarten Bosland
Department of Environmental Medicine
New York University Medical Center
Long Meadow Road
Tuxedo, NY 10987

Shuk-mei Ho
Department of Biology
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
E-mail: sho@emerald.tufts.edu

Joachim G. Liehr
Department of Pharmacology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX 77555-1031

Donald C. Malins
Molecular Epidemiology Program
Pacific Northwest Research Foundation
720 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122
E-mail: dmalins@u.washington.edu

William G. Nelson
Departments of Oncology, Urology, Pharmacology, and Medicine
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Marburg 411
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287-8936