Word: infant
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From that same sample, the Albany researchers have also learned to determine an unborn infant's sex. Micro scopic examination of carefully cultivated slides, they discovered, reveals the presence or absense of the sex-chromatin body that determines femininity. And in every case in which the sample was adequate, not only did all the researchers agree on their prediction, but in every case they were correct. Enthusiastically they reported that there is no reason why the test should not always be 100% accurate. Then they quickly added a word of caution. Since obtaining a sample of the amniotic fluid...
Evening is often a time of trial for new parents. It brings the dreaded hour when their otherwise happy infant starts screaming its tiny head off. Grandma, of course, knows just what is wrong: the baby has colic. But neither Grandma nor the doctor knows the cause of the trouble. And after years of searching, reports the British Medical Journal, the mystery remains...
...doctors keep trying. Last week still another suggestion cropped up. Medical World News reported that five Chicago doctors suspect that at least some evening crybabies may be suffering from "growing pains." After observing 250 babies carefully, the doctors concluded that the normal plumpness in an infant's face, legs, thighs, buttocks and collarbone parallels quick bone growth in those areas. They also found a correlation between excessive crying and X rays that showed the bone growth to be particularly rapid...
...Infant Star. Armed with this information, observers at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory and California's Mount Palomar Observatory focused their large telescopes on the proper position in the sky. Immediately they spotted their quarry: a blue, starlike object with a magnitude of 12.6. "It was really Giacconi's show all the way," says Mount Wilson and Palomar Astronomer Allan Sandage. "Identification was terribly easy after he provided the precise location...
...diameter. Though it has some of the spectral characteristics of a nova, a star that suddenly flares up, the X-ray-emitting envelope of gas surrounding it is apparently not expanding. This leads Giacconi to speculate that ScoX-1 may be a cloud of gas condensing into an infant star, or an existing stellar system surrounded by a gas cloud. "Or," he says, "we may be looking at an entirely new type of celestial object...