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Industries Tally Air Pollution Poorly

Companies' reports of how much ozone-forming pollution they spew bear little semblance to reality.

Sources:

Steve Bromberg
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
MD-14
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Glen Cass
Environmental Engineering Science Department
California Institute of Technology
Mail Stop 138-78
Pasadena, CA 91125

Ronald C. Henry
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Southern California
3620 S. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531

Charles W. Lewis
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
NERL
MD-47
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Jim Price
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
MC-165
P.O. Box 13087
Austin, TX 78711-3087

Parkinson's disease gene mutation found

A mutant gene that causes Parkinson's disease may also have a link to Alzheimer's disease.

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Michael H. Polymeropoulos
Laboratory of Genetic Disease Research
National Human Genome Research Institute
NIH
Bethesda, MD 20892-1430

Marijuana's effects tracked in rat brains

Marijuana's active ingredient produces effects on rat brains much like those observed for alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.

Sources:

Michael J. Brownstein
Laboratory of Cell Biology
Section on Genetics
National Institute of Mental Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Building 36, 3A31
Bethesda, MD 20894

Fernando Rodriguez de Fonseca
Instituto Complutense de Drogodependencias
Departmento de Psicobiologia
Facultad de Psicologia
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
28223 Madrid
Spain

Gianluigi Tanda
Department of Toxicology and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Center for Neuropharmacology
University of Cagliari
Viale A. Diaz 182
09126 Cagliari
Italy

Rudy E. Vuchinich
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849

AZT shows promise as breast cancer fighter

AZT, the anti-AIDS drug, works against breast cancer in laboratory rats.

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Carston Wagner
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Robert Yarchoan
HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892

Channeling quantum information efficiently

By carefully choosing how a message is encoded and decoded, it's possible to approach the theoretical maximum for transmitting information via photons or other quantum particles.

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Benjamin Schumacher
Department of Physics
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH 43022

Charles H. Bennett
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

Picky protozoa may sense poison in prey

Algae may deter protozoan predators by producing a toxin when eaten.

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Diane Stoecker
Horn Point Environmental Laboratory
University of Maryland
P.O. Box 775
Cambridge, MD 21612

Peter G. Verity
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
University System of Georgia
10 Ocean Science CIrcle
Savannah, GA 31411

Gordon V. Wolfe
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University
Oceanography Administration Building 104
Corvallis, OR 97331-5503

Astronomers get new spin on black holes

The first measurements of spin of black holes reveal a link between the rotation and the emission of high-speed jets of debris.

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Shuang N. Zhang
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, AL 35812

Genes induce human obesity

Scientists have finally found genetic mutations that cause obesity in people, though such mutations are probably quite rare.

Sources:

Stephen O'Rahilly
University of Cambridge
Department of Medicine
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Hills Road
Cambridge CB2 2QR
United Kingdom

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Stalking the Ancient Dog

Man's best friend may go way back

Analyses of canine DNA suggest that dogs may have been domesticated from wolves much earlier than researchers had thought.

Sources:

I. Lehr Brisbin, Jr.
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
University of Georgia
P.O. Drawer E
Aiken, SC 29802

Carles Vila
Department of Biology
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Return to the Red Planet

Tiny rover set to explore Mars

The Mars Pathfinder is scheduled to parachute onto the Red Planet on July 4 and release a small, six-wheeled rover to explore soil and rock near the spacecraft.

Sources:

Matthew P. Golombek
California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109