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Show SCIENCE SKETCHES SOME MOTHS are switching from their old diet of wool and 1 have developed a taste for plas- s tics and now nibble on polyethe- ij lene, polystyrene and nylon cloth- j ing. One species of water moth is often found snacking on plas- tic linings of wading pools. j 1 EVIDENCE that a huge natural satellite broke up in the atmos-r phere about 5,800 years ago has been discovered. Large fragments frag-ments of the moon were found in northern Argentina. UNIQUE CARDOX smoVetlon of fire. extinguishing systems. The ceiling-mounted detector triggers a warning warn-ing when small amounts of smoke pass through it. Then when the smoke increases, it activates an extinguishing system. |