Scientists reenact Daedalus flight with graphite aircraft
A 10 member team from MIT and the Smithsonian plans a spring 1987 replica flight from Crete to Greece using a graphite epoxy foam craft pedated by an athlete. The 69 mile test, three times longer than the Gossamer Albatross, costs about 750000 and aims to advance light aircraft tech and study pilot endurance. The project ties to myth where Icarus perished after soaring too near the sun.
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Daedalus
Crete
Greece
MIT
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C
Cambridge
Einglish Channel
Icarus
Laser guides beam pulses in SDI test at Los Alamos
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers in New Mexico used a laser beam to steer a sequence of intense particle beam pulses as part of a test tied to the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. By filling an evacuated 11 foot pipe with benzene gas, positive ions formed along the laser path and attracted fast electrons, keeping the beam tightly focused toward a distant target.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
New Mexico
Reagan
Strategic Defense Initiative
SDI
Los Alamos
Study Links Alcohol Exposure to Birth Defects in 11 Children
A follow up on 11 American children born to chronically alcoholic mothers shows persistent growth deficiency and fetal alcohol syndrome related anomalies. Two of the original group have died, one cannot be located, and the remaining eight still show physical and mental impairments including half with mental retardation. New York Tunes.
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New York
Champlain lamprey hearings planned with state and federal help
Fisheries biologists propose an eight year Champlain lamprey control program in Lake Champlain to cut lamprey populations by treating 18 tributaries and five delta areas. Public hearings are set for Oct. 17 in Plattsburgh and Willsboro with input sought from residents and organizations.
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Paul Neth
New York State Department of Environmental
Wolf Road
Albany
N.Y
Researchers to hunt Antarctic fossils in summer season
Scientists plan 87 science projects in Antarctica this season involving 320 researchers. A central Transantarctic Mountains fossil site may reveal amphibian evolution from 280 to 210 million years ago. A meteorite hunt is also planned in the same region, supported by the National Science Foundation.
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Scientista
Antarctica
Transantarctic Mountains
South Pole
National Science Foundation
United Press Internationsl
Mexico quakes mark Ring of Fire activity and tectonic strain
A powerful 7.8 quake struck along the Middle America Trench near Michoacan, Mexico, as part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. U S Geological Survey officials explain subduction dynamics, aftershocks, and surface damage risks, noting Mexico City sits on soft lakebed sediments that worsened destruction.
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Washington
Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Dave Russ
U.S. Geological Survey
Russ
Moint St. Helens
Japan
Alaska
Chile
Pacific
Ring of Fire
Middle America Trench
Cocos Plate
Canada
United States
Playa
Central America
Nazca Plate
Michoacan Gap
Mexico City
Aftershocks surprise experts after Mexico quake strike
National Earthquake Information Center specialists in Golden, Colorado, note the Friday aftershock of magnitude 7.3 surprised them, though the initial 7.8 quake in Mexico had already weakened many structures. Seismologists compare aftershock energies and discuss historical precedents, while Dr. Barry Raleigh of Columbia University cautions that precise causes require location data.
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New York
National Earthquake Information Center
Golden
Colo
Mexico
Waverly
Colorado
Chile
Tangshan
China
Barry Raleigh
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Columbia University
Palisades
N.Y
Growth hormone may halt aging muscle loss
SU biologist James Florini identifies somatomedin, a liver hormone, as the body's key muscle growth stimulant. In aged rats, injections slowed muscle decline and hinted at improved quality of life, with potential uses in surgery recovery, muscular diseases, agriculture, and cattle meat efficiency amid limited hormone supply.
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Syracuse University
Holierne
James Florini
Florini
Fiorini
Ually
Lederle Laboratories
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