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James H. Shaw, professor of Nutrition at the School of Dental Medicine, is being given $32,000 by the candy company M&M-Mars to investigate the cavity-causing potential of certain candies produced by the company so that substitutes may be made to manufacture candies less harmful to teeth...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Fighting cavities with M&M's | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Edgar Rice Burroughs peopled Mars with bosomy princesses and Tarzan-like adventurers. H.G. Wells populated the planet with huge, insectlike creatures. NASA scientists have yet to find either maidens or monsters on the Red Planet, but their epoch-making explorations increasingly suggest that there may be more on Mars than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Looking for the Bodies | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

This week scientists are involved in a new effort to find the answer to this question. Two weeks ago Viking 2 dropped silently out of space and bumped to a landing on Mars' Utopia Planitia (plains of Utopia), some 4,600 miles east-northeast and almost halfway around the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Looking for the Bodies | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Scientists lost no time in studying Viking 2's new surroundings. With signals that took 21 minutes to traverse the 228,670,000 miles from earth to Mars, they swiveled the lander's cameras around for a better look at the Utopia site and the planet's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Looking for the Bodies | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Exotic Chemistry. But the devices that got the most attention were those in Viking 2's biology laboratory, the small (1 cu. ft.) package designed to detect life on Mars. This week the lander is to stretch out its robot arm, scoop up a sample of Martian soil and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Looking for the Bodies | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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