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Details the study of stranded marine mammals in Assateague, Virginia. Availability of funds; Tension with marine conservationists; Reasons for animal stranding. INSET: Why Do Marine Mammals Strand?, by David Malakoff..

Reports on the possibilty that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Bates Linear Accelerator could be closed down by the end of the 1990s and that other nuclear physics experiments will be abandoned if the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation do not boost funding. Competition the Bates Accelerator has with the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia.

Focuses on the decision of the United States' Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia to terminate research on neutron structure by nuclear physicists due to safety concerns. Initial intention of experiment to chart the distribution of charged particles, or quarks, that make up neutrons; Subsequence of decision to an accident that heightened tensions between visiting researchers and managers at the facility.