The "Getaway Special" is NASA's semiofficial program for low-budget researchers, who can arrange bookings for their own space experiments on regular flights of the space shuttle. Information about arranging for NASA to take individual experiment packages is presented. (LBH)

Science activities or experiments described are: (1) plant cloning, (2) determining the cost-effectiveness of gas and electric heating, and (3) a physics project competition. (MDR)

Presents some ideas and demonstrations in college chemistry. (HM)

Describes four cases for which simulation techniques can be used to analyze the kinetics of the chemical system. Included are series first-order and enzyme kinetics. (MA)

Reported here are brief descriptions of a common grading and scaling formula for large multi-section courses, an ion exchange amino acid separation and thin layer chromatography identification experiment, a conservation of energy demonstration, a catalyst for synthesizing esters from fatty aids, and an inexpensive method for preparing platinum…

Derives the precessional period of a Foucault pendulum without using small oscillation amplitudes. Shows that if the path of the pendulum passes through the origin, the periods for differing amplitudes are essentially the same. (GA)

Describes four demonstrations of the Leidenfrost phenomenon; floating of liquid drops on their own vapor above a hot surface, delayed quenching of red-hot brass by water, explosion of vessels containing suspended liquid droplets, and momentary incombustibility of living tissue immersed in boiling oil. (Author/GA)

Describes an apparatus for investigating the behavior of photoelectrons in a uniform magnetic field in either a vacuum or a low-pressure gas. Presents data and discusses some basic features of the photoelectric effect and the diffusion of free electrons in a gas. (GA)

Examines American and British policies concerning DNA research and gene transplantation. (CP)

Discusses Zeeman's experiment of the Fiyea effect for the speed of light in a moving medium and existing measurement errors. (SL)

Describes a science activity which allows secondary level students to discover the law of refraction. (SL)

Reviews articles and papers published in 1975 relating to chemistry and presents a number of chemistry experiments, demonstrations,and activities. (SL)

Analyzes the physical explanation accounting for tendency of Laboratory spring-mass oscillators to swing sideways. (SL)

Describes demonstrations, some apparently paradoxical, which can be performed with commercially available magnetic stirrers. (SL)

Presents a triple pendulum used to demonstrate normal modes. Also discusses the mathematical similarity of the equations of three coupled quantum mechanical levels. (SL)