November 1996 Archives
29 November 1996
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Enticing Order Out of a Chaotic Laser
Chaos may sound like anarchy, but the chaos that scientists know can be tamed--and now, it seems, even put to work. In a Report in this week's issue of Science,...
29 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Gene for the Uptight and Edgy
Ever wonder why some people are more nervous than others? At least part of the answer, says a Report in the 29 November issue of Science, may lie in a...
27 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Crowding at the Top of U.K. Research
LONDON--=The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge still have gold-plated reputations in British science, but they do not have a monopoly on the hot papers, according to figures to be published...
27 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Galactic Collision Spawns Megacomets
The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed massive balls of gas reeling like comets around a galaxy's center. These whirling dervishes may help scientists better understand the strange physics of galactic...
27 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mythic Interstellar Quarry Spotted
A fugitive on the lam in the heavens for years has finally been nailed. In tomorrow's issue of Nature, scientists announce that they have glimpsed an unusual three-proton hydrogen ion,...
25 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Highest Bidders Win Einstein's Dirty Laundry
A collection of Albert Einstein's letters, including some eyebrow-raising ones to his first wife, and a 1913 manuscript on relativity theory were sold at auction today for about $1.3 million...
25 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Blindness Disease Gene Isolated
Scientists have isolated a gene that causes Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA), a disorder that destroys its victims' vision within the first few months of life. The finding could someday lead...
25 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Pottery Reveals Polynesia's Settlers
Archaeologists working in a remote corner of Papua New Guinea have found evidence that the some of the legendary seafarers who first settled Polynesia 3600 years ago were from the...
25 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Shedding Light on the Sun's Cancer Threat
Sunlight may use a one-two punch to trigger skin cancer. Ultraviolet (UV) rays damage a key gene in skin cells involved in fighting off tumors, and at the same time...
22 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Fermilab Ups the Anti(hydrogen)
Thanks to Star Trek, almost everybody has heard of antimatter. So when an experiment at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics in Geneva, produced the first antiatoms last January--nine...
22 November 1996
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White House Weighs In On Hormonelike Pollutants
WASHINGTON, D.C. --One of the hottest environmental issues around--whether hormonelike pollutants are causing reproductive and other health problems in humans--got some attention today from the White House, which issued a...
22 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Aspirin Soothes Overexcited Rat Nerves
Aspirin appears to protect against damage to rat nerve cells inflicted by the amino acid glutamate, which has been implicated in some chronic degenerative diseases. But some experts are skeptical...
22 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Hope to Prevent Bacterial Baby-Killer
A new vaccine may prevent dangerous infections in infants and their mothers. A vaccine against group B streptococcus (GBS)--which causes serious infections in nearly two of 1000 newborns and kills...
21 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Asia and Europe Tops in Science Studies
WASHINGTON--A new international assessment of student achievement in science and mathematics has found that seventh- and eighth-grade students in Asia and Eastern Europe, as a group, lead the world in...
21 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Faulty Protein Linked to Lou Gehrig's Disease
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Scientists have discovered two mutations that may be major contributors to the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. The finding, presented here today at the...
21 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
In Vitro Fertilization: Often a Bad Egg
The odds that a woman will give birth after a fertilized egg is artificially introduced into her uterus appear to be much lower than fertility clinics tend to imply, according...
21 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Homing In On a Gene for Prostate Cancer
Scientists have found a small region on a human chromosome harboring a gene that substantially increases the risk of prostate cancer, says a Report in the 22 November issue of...
20 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Life After Mars '96
Three days after their Mars '96 mission plunged into the Pacific Ocean, Russian space scientists say they have a good idea what probably went wrong. And they will make a...
20 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Thinning Protein Has Sex Appeal
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A protein that seems to regulate hunger and weight loss may also trigger an entirely different kind of appetite: one's sex drive. Findings presented here yesterday at the Society...
20 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Another Fatal Shooting Rocks Russian Science
MOSCOW--The director of a computer-science institute in western Russia yesterday shot dead four colleagues, his wife, and himself. Sources suggest the tragedy stems from the institute's desperate financial straits: Recently,...
20 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Assembly Line for Immune Model T's?
During its teenage years, the human body permanently shuts down production of T cells--a crucial immune defender against infection--like a country shutting down an ammunition factory during a war. Although...
19 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Walter Cronkite Joins the Firmament
Legendary TV journalist Walter Cronkite's most memorable impact on society may actually happen eons in the future. A California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer announced today that she has named...
19 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Hubble Sees Quasars in Diverse Abodes
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The latest pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, unveiled here today at NASA headquarters, reveal that the enigmatic cosmic lighthouses known as quasars reside in many more kinds of...
19 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Time to Get Tough on STDs
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Prompted by alarming statistics on the incidence and costs of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States, a blue-ribbon medical panel today called for a national campaign against...
19 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Jaw Sheds Light on Early Humans
Scientists have discovered in Ethiopia what may be the earliest known fossil from a member of our own genus, Homo: an upper jaw dated at about 2.33 million years old....
18 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Sunny Forecast for Industrial R&D
WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. companies are planning to boost R&D spending in 1997--but at a slightly slower pace than they have done this year, a new survey has found. And companies around...
18 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Russian Planetary Science Sinks With Mars '96
WASHINGTON, D.C., and MOSCOW--When the Mars '96 spacecraft slammed into the Pacific Ocean yesterday, it was not only the charred remnants of 6 tons of instruments, radioactive fuel, and other...
18 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Potential Drug to Improve Memory
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A pill that boosts memory power may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. Ampakines, a class of compounds that make nerve cells more sensitive to the amino acid...
15 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rare Disease Penetrates Baltimore
As if America's inner cities aren't troubled enough, now they have a newly recognized problem to contend with: leptospirosis. A report in today's Annals of Internal Medicine has shown that...
15 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Russia Ready for Red Planet
The Russian-led Mars '96 spacecraft is scheduled to launch tomorrow, carrying with it 24 scientific instruments and the future of the Russian exploration of Mars. The ambitious payload includes experiments...
15 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Faculty Sues USC Over Tenure
Seventeen medical school professors at the University of Southern California (USC) filed suit against the university on 14 November charging breach of contract in response to university plans to lower...
15 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dangerous Quick-Change Artists
Bacteria have a penchant for reinventing themselves, speedily adapting to new hosts, new conditions, and new antibiotic countermeasures. Now scientists have uncovered what may be a secret of that versatility,...
14 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Biotech Bean Blockade
The hullabaloo over genetically engineered soybeans that has erupted in Europe in the past few weeks has spilled onto American soil. Earlier today, Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the deck...
14 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Europe Launches Massive Brain-Disease Program
LONDON--The specter of a fatal disease that eats away brain tissue has scared up serious new money for European scientists. The European Commission today announced a $64 million research program...
14 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Anti-Obesity Protein Hits Possible Snag
One of the hottest biotech properties--a potential drug to treat obesity--may have encountered a stumbling block. A protein that makes obese mice lose weight also interferes with insulin in cultured...
14 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Zeroing In On a Parkinson's Gene
A century-old question--whether Parkinson's disease can be passed down from generation to generation--appears to be solved. In a report in the 15 November issue of Science, researchers present compelling evidence...
13 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cybersummit on Deformed Frogs
You've probably seen the pitiful photos of frogs with legs sticking out of their backs--born malformed, say some researchers, because of pollution. Now's your chance to leap into an open...
13 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Secret Language of Scents
Like wartime operatives sending messages encrypted with secret plans, the brain has a language all its own to represent scents, from the aroma of buttered popcorn to the stench of...
13 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
An American Original: Cancer Deaths Decline
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A stalemate that has gripped the longest and most expensive war in modern times--the war on cancer--may finally have eased. The cancer death rate in the United States fell...
13 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gulf War Syndrome Hits Land Mine
WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. soldiers who served in the Persian Gulf in 1990 are just as healthy on average as those who stayed home, say two new reports involving medical records of...
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