January 1997 Archives
31 January 1997 |
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BBC Puts Its Science Eggs in One Basket
LONDON--The BBC, the United Kingdom's giant public service broadcaster, is about to create the largest science broadcasting center in the world. As part of a major reorganization, on 1 April...
31 January 1997 |
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The Fly Eyes Have It: A Second Master Gene?
In a startling experiment reported 2 years ago, Swiss biologists caused surplus eyes to sprout on fruit flies' wings, legs, and antennae--all by manipulating a single gene. Now researchers have...
30 January 1997 |
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True Bug Aficionado
Today is the birthday of Charles De Geer, a Swedish entomologist born in 1720. De Geer was an ardent observer of insects, describing 1446 species. He was known for the...
30 January 1997 |
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Kessler to Bow Out Next Month, Friedman to Temp
WASHINGTON, D.C.--FDA Commissioner David Kessler told staff in a memo today that he will leave the agency late next month. Because his departure will likely come before a successor is...
30 January 1997 |
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Specter Pledges (Again) to Boost NIH
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) appeared today before a biomedical lobby group to reiterate a pledge he made last week to boost the budget of the National Institutes of Health...
30 January 1997 |
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U.K. Backs Off From Lab Fire Sale
Researchers have identified a gene that, when mutated, appears to cause the juvenile form of glaucoma, an aggressive form of the disease that can strike teenagers. The finding, in tomorrow's...
29 January 1997 |
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How to Avoid Running Out of Steam
Underground steam is a great alternative source of energy with a huge drawback: It's hard to judge the size of a geothermal field before power plants start losing steam. Now,...
29 January 1997 |
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Human-to-Human Spread of Argentine Hantavirus?
Researchers in Argentina may have found the first known cases of person-to-person transmission of hantavirus, an often lethal infectious agent normally transmitted only by rodents. The cases are part of...
29 January 1997 |
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The Nervous System's Fountain of Youth?
If neurons could somehow be made young again, damage to the central nervous system (CNS)--such as actor Christopher Reeve's severed spinal cord--might be reversible. Now scientists at the Massachusetts Institute...
28 January 1997 |
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$1.6 Million Fraud Award Overturned
University officials are applauding a federal appeals court decision throwing out charges by a former graduate student that her school defrauded the federal government by wrongly taking credit for her...
28 January 1997 |
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Longtime Monkey Virus Fears Rebutted--Again
BETHESDA, MARYLAND--Recent reports that the DNA of a monkey virus called SV40 lurks in some rare types of human cancers has reignited a nearly 40-year-old controversy over the safety of...
28 January 1997 |
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Yale Medical School Courts Kessler
WASHINGTON, D.C.--ScienceNOW has learned that David Kessler, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has been offered the deanship at Yale University's School of Medicine. In 6 hectic years...
28 January 1997 |
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A Cure for the Flu?
WASHINGTON, D.C.--There may be a magic bullet after all. Scientists at a small California biotech company announced at a press conference here today that they have developed a drug that...
27 January 1997 |
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The Elements Were His Element
Victor Goldschmidt, the father of modern geochemistry, was born on this day in 1888. A Swiss-born Norwegian chemist, Goldschmidt was fascinated by the elements, their origins, and their relationships in...
27 January 1997 |
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Scientists Push for Live HIV Vaccine Test in People
WASHINGTON, D.C--Unsuccessful attempts to unravel how a vaccine against the monkey version of the AIDS virus actually works have led to renewed calls for testing a similar--but potentially risky--vaccine in...
27 January 1997 |
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Smaller Probes Mean Smaller Work Force at JPL
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA--With no major scientific spacecraft left to build, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) intends to turn over more work to private industry and scale back its staff over the...
27 January 1997 |
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First Atomic Laser
Physicists have created a new laser in which a beam of atoms march in lockstep, like the photons of a light laser. The remarkable achievement, reported in the 31 January...
24 January 1997 |
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Start of the Nuclear Era
Sunday will mark the 58th anniversary of one of the most remarkable--and certainly one of the most fateful--scientific achievements of the 20th century: nuclear fission. Renowned physicist Niels Bohr announced...
24 January 1997 |
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Dating the Scum of the Earth
By 2.7 billion years ago, the cooling Earth had formed a crust of continental rock about as thick as today's terra firma. The finding, reported in today's Science,* appears to...
24 January 1997 |
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Cholera Vaccine Protects in Vietnam
An inexpensive cholera vaccine has performed well in a pilot trial in Vietnam. The finding, reported in tomorrow's issue of The Lancet, is a big advance in the long and...
24 January 1997 |
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AIDS Deaths Plummet in the Big Apple
WASHINGTON, D.C.--In another tantalizing sign that the AIDS epidemic is abating in the United States, dramatic data presented here today reveal a sharp drop in AIDS-related deaths in New York...
23 January 1997 |
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Activists Threaten to Disrupt AIDS Conference
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The most influential annual AIDS meeting in the United States kicked off here last night under tight security in response to threats from activists to interrupt the gathering. Activists...
23 January 1997 |
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Tribute to Pluto's Discoverer
A memorial service was held today at New Mexico State University for Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto. Tombaugh died on 17 January at his home in Las Cruces....
23 January 1997 |
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NIH Panel Assailed on Breast Cancer Screening
WASHINGTON--A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assess whether women in their 40s should receive mammograms has ducked the contentious issue of whether such a...
23 January 1997 |
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Cutting Cancer's Supply Lines
Traditional cancer treatments attack the malignant cells directly, with surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. But two studies to be reported tomorrow advance a promising new strategy: cutting off the blood vessels...
23 January 1997 |
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Potent New AIDS Drug in Pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Scientists from Abbott Laboratories announced here today that they have begun clinical trials on a new anti-HIV drug that they claim is 10 times more potent than one of...
22 January 1997 |
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A Deadly Peek at Fungal Medusa
If looks can kill, why not try look-alikes? Scientists have used a molecular imprint--something akin to a plaster cast--of a fungus-killing compound produced by yeast to make a protein that...
22 January 1997 |
ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Magnetic Storm Cloud Tracked From Start to Finish
WASHINGTON--On 11 January, Earth got a visitor from space: a gigantic cloud of magnetized solar gas. This visitor may have arrived unnoticed to most people, but it didn't slip past...
22 January 1997 |
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Heart-Felt Chaos
In almost every episode of the TV hospital drama ER, doctors rush to a gurney, yell "Vfib!" and slap electric paddles onto a patient's chest. It's a drama that occurs...
22 January 1997 |
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The First Tool Kit
Scientists have discovered stone tools in Ethiopia that appear to be 2.6 million years old, making them the "oldest known artifacts from anywhere in the world," says Rutgers University paleoanthropologist...
21 January 1997 |
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Tracing Cholesterol's Origins
Today is the 85th birthday of Konrad Bloch, the German-born American chemist who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in medicine for figuring out the biochemistry and metabolism of cholesterol. Bloch,...
21 January 1997 |
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Beijing's First Settlers Unearthed
BEIJING--Chinese scientists here have unearthed the first evidence of prehistoric human activity in present-day Beijing. The discovery of stone tools and other artifacts, estimated to be 20,000 years old, is...
21 January 1997 |
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Counterpoint to Electron's Punctual Existence
Physicists once held three electron truths to be self-evident: The particle is indivisible, has a fundamental negative charge, and is "pointlike"--that is, concentrated in an infinitely small space. But one...
21 January 1997 |
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Genetic Link May Explain Some Schizophrenia Symptoms
A genetic defect that makes it hard for the brain to screen out background noise may underlie some symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations and hearing voices, researchers report in today's...
17 January 1997 |
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He Shot Down the Tiny Adult Theory
Tomorrow is the birthday of German surgeon and physiologist Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, born in 1733. Regarded as the founder of embryology, Wolff published in 1759 a revolutionary work called Theoria...
17 January 1997 |
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Quantum Computer in a Cup of Joe?
Researchers have come up with a way to turn coffee and other mundane liquids into primitive quantum computers. The findings, reported in today's Science and in an upcoming issue of...
17 January 1997 |
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An Icy World Looks Livelier
Washington--The latest images of Jupiter's moon Europa, released here today at a NASA press conference, have planetary geologists in a tither. To team members poring over images returned by the...
17 January 1997 |
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U.K. Gives Pig-to-Human Transplants Guarded Support
LONDON--The British government yesterday gave an amber light to the quest to transplant organs from pigs to humans as a means of countering the chronic shortage of human organs. The...
16 January 1997 |
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NSF Prepares to Dish Up New Telescope
For more than a dozen years, astronomers have been designing a unique new telescope: an oval-shaped ring of 40 antennas that would open up a little-explored part of the spectrum...
16 January 1997 |
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Mouse Model for Inherited Coronary Clogging
Scientists have bred a new kind of mouse that suffers from atherosclerosis when fed a high-fat Western diet. The finding, reported in tomorrow's Science,* offers a model for probing the...
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