October 1996 Archives
31 October 1996
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Activists Shake Up NASA
WASHINGTON--Animal rights protesters rattled NASA headquarters today when they occupied the suite that includes the office of Administrator Daniel Goldin. Seven members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of...
31 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Glacial Retreat Made Earth Shudder
When the ice age glaciers melted away from northern lands some 10,000 years ago, the Earth rebounded, much as a boat bobs upward when its cargo is unloaded. But in...
31 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Fetal Leak Leads to Prenatal Test
Scientists say they have for the first time screened blood from a mother for signs of genetic disease in her fetus. The technique may someday offer an alternative to invasive...
31 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Claim for Martian Life
Three months after a U.S. team announced that they had found hints of ancient life on Mars, a group of British scientists has seconded the claim. The original hints consisted...
31 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Panel Debunks Powerline-Cancer Link
WASHINGTON--An expert panel has found no scientific reason to believe that electromagnetic fields from power lines, appliances, and other everyday sources cause cancer or other health effects. But some panel...
30 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Russian Academy Chooses Familiar 4-Year Plan
MOSCOW--Opting to stay the course--no matter how desperate it may look--the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) at its annual meeting here on October 29 reelected its current president, Yuri Osipov,...
30 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Comets Get a Galactic Boot
Every few years, it seems, scientists identify a new comet. But why comets suddenly swim into view has long remained a mystery. Now a report in the November Astrophysical Journal...
30 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Immune Boost Shows Promise Against AIDS
A new study has raised some hopes that the immune system can be fortified with one of its own chemical messengers to increase the effectiveness of drugs against the AIDS...
30 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dinosaurs: A Meteoric Rise as Well as Demise?
DENVER--Most scientists believe that a meteor or comet wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Now, Gregory Retallack, a geologist from the University of Oregon, Eugene, claims to have...
29 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Making Music Neandertal Style
DENVER--Researchers have found what they believe is the world's oldest musical instrument: a hollow bone fragment that appears to be a flute. Bonnie Blackwell, a geologist and archaeologist at Queens...
29 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Irish Politicians Get Gift of the Science Gab
DUBLIN--The Irish government has unveiled a set of measures to make scientific advice more accessible to its policy-makers. The centerpiece of the government's first "White Paper" on science, published on...
29 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Pinpointing an Intrastellar Sunblock
Somewhere in the cosmos, something is blocking certain wavelengths of starlight from reaching Earth. In a report in the December Astrophysical Journal, scientists say they may have identified the culprit:...
29 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Misconduct Alleged in Major Genetics Lab
WASHINGTON--In a major embarrassment for the genome program, its leader Francis Collins has found it necessary to withdraw all or part of five scientific articles on leukemia research in which...
28 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Clinton Tags $30 Million for Cancer Genetics
WASHINGTON--In a rare campaign gesture supporting basic research, the White House is setting aside $30 million in new money for studies of breast cancer genetics in 1997. President Clinton, surrounded...
28 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Ancient Animals Unearthed
DENVER--Scientists have excavated near the Arctic Circle in Russia what they believe are the oldest fossils of a mollusk-like animal. The fossils, dated between 550 million and 560 million years...
28 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Critical Vote for Russian Science
MOSCOW--Faced with declining funds and plummeting morale, the Russian Academy of Sciences on 29 October will elect a president with the unenviable task of leading the scientific behemoth into the...
28 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
DNA Damage on the Waterfront
Herring gulls nesting in a polluted Canadian harbor have a higher rate of genetic mutation than do gulls in the countryside. The finding suggests that harbor pollutants may damage DNA,...
24 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tunguska: Burn the Evidence
Whatever fell from the sky and exploded in the Tunguska region of central Siberia on 30 June 1908 left thousands of trees charred and blown down over a 2000-square-kilometer area....
24 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
No Link Between Power Lines and Adult Cancers
A study of nearly 400,000 adults living near power lines in Finland--the largest survey of its kind--offers no evidence that exposure to the low-level magnetic fields they generate increases the...
24 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Animal Life's Ancient Origins
Animals appeared on Earth more than a billion years ago--twice as early as previously estimated, according to a provocative study published in the 25 October issue of Science. Paleontologists had...
23 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Virtual Lab for Human Genes
WASHINGTON--The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that it is creating a ``virtual institute'' for human gene sequencing centered at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. Scientists...
23 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Salt Mine Safe for Hot Waste
WASHINGTON--Nuclear weapons waste can safely be stored in a repository carved out of a salt mine in New Mexico, concludes a report released today by the National Academy of Sciences...
23 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Heat Is On Martian Life Claim
Mineral formations cited as remnants of a living organism on a martian meteorite may have been forged at temperatures too hot for known life-forms, according to an analysis presented today...
23 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mad Cow, Human Disease Linked
LONDON--A team of British scientists today announced new evidence linking a fatal degenerative brain disease that has killed 10 people in Britain since 1994 with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a...
22 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Anxiety for the Masses
WASHINGTON--Calm down, anxiety isn't being overlooked at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). At a press conference here today, NIMH director Steven Hyman announced the launch of an Anxiety...
22 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Monkey Space Mission Uncertain
The controversial U.S.-Russian space biology project known as Bion faces delays because of problems with finding a launch vehicle in Russia. ``The fate of Bion is hanging in midair,'' says...
22 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Max Planck to Shutter Institutes?
BERLIN--German scientists are reeling at news that the prestigious Max Planck Society may close four of its research institutes in western Germany under a cost-cutting plan announced yesterday by the...
22 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Nicotine and Alzheimer's
WASHINGTON--Nicotine prevents the formation in the test tube of protein clumps linked to Alzheimer's disease, scientists announced at a press conference today. The finding may provide a useful starting point...
22 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Computer Jocks Crack Encryption Standard
Ensuring computer security has just become much harder. In a message on the Internet, Adi Shamir, an eminent cryptographer, has revealed a new way to crack the most popular schemes...
21 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
SSC Going to Pieces
What to buy a bit of scientific history? There's a lot of it available in Waxahachie, Texas. Three years to the day after Congress killed funding for the Superconducting Super...
21 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Protein Linked to Hypertension in Blacks
A potent protein that constricts blood vessels is four times more prevalent in African Americans with high blood pressure than in whites, says a report in this month's Hypertension. The...
21 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dinosaurs: Our Fine Feathered Friends?
A fossil dinosaur in China appears to have had a mane of feathers running down its neck, back, and tail--making it the first known feathered dinosaur and giving scientists compelling...
21 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Planet Orbits Sun Look-Alike
BALTIMORE-- The new planet orbits 16 Cygni B, a star that's more like our sun in size and composition than any other star studied to date. But the planet appears...
18 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Lab to Tackle Nuclear Nightmare
The daunting job of cleaning up the nation's nuclear weapons complex is about to get some sorely needed scientific muscle: The Department of Energy (DOE) is nearing completion of a...
18 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Better Wheat Through Science?
The world could face a crisis in wheat production unless agricultural scientists learn how to breed better varieties of wheat, warns a new report from a leading international agricultural research...
18 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dole, Clinton Square Off on Science
The major party presidential candidates sound out on science policy in today's issue of Science. In response to questions posed by Science, the candidates list the same priorities: protecting basic...
18 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Nerves Beat to Own Uneven Drum
You might think there's little that's random about the start of a 100-meter race. But the time it takes an individual sprinter to react to the starting gun can vary...
17 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
No Meeting of Minds on Science Cuts
Although science funding held its own in the 1997 budget bills recently signed by President Clinton, the long-term view is gloomier. Congress and the Clinton Administration both are calling for...
17 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Science Caught in Trade War Crossfire
WASHINGTON--Trade disputes could harm international scientific cooperation unless governments open high-tech markets and encourage balanced cooperation, according to a report* released today by the National Research Council (NRC). The report,...
17 October 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mothers' Smoking May Harm Lungs of Unborn
A mother who smokes during pregnancy may impair the lungs of her unborn child, reports a study in the 19 October issue of The Lancet. In the past, some experts--including...
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