March 1997 Archives
31 March 1997
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NSF Taps Two Supercomputing Centers
When it comes to the number of supercomputing centers it wants to support, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided that less is more. Under a new program called Partnerships...
31 March 1997
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Mouse Morning-After Drug Might Fight Human Disease
Blocking the formation of new blood vessels in female mice can disrupt their reproductive cycles, including their ability to become pregnant. The finding, reported in the April issue of Nature...
31 March 1997
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Bacterial Trojan Horse Against Fatal Disease
Scientists have devised a clever form of bug-to-bug combat to fight Chagas' disease, a potentially fatal muscle infection transmitted by the aphidlike kissing bug. The new weapon is a bacterium,...
31 March 1997
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New Tool for Identifying Crash Victims
When a Russian passenger jet crashed in Norway last fall, forensic scientists had the gruesome task of identifying victims from sometimes minuscule body parts. A Norwegian team was able to...
28 March 1997
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He Diverted London's Filth
Today is the birthday of Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, an English civil engineer born in 1819 who created a new drainage system for the city of London, greatly improving public...
28 March 1997
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Guppy Evolution Fast Forwards
Although natural selection is often viewed as a slow pruning process, a dramatic new field study suggests it can sometimes shape a population as fast as a chain saw can...
28 March 1997
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Ancient Galaxy Walls Look Eerily Familiar
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA--Giant walls of galaxies, hundreds of millions of light-years long, may have crisscrossed the universe when it was just 15% of its present age. If confirmed, the finding, revealed...
28 March 1997
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Gender-Bending Suspects Not Cooperating?
The mere thought that long-term exposure to a pesticide might subtly erode your manhood or womanhood sounds chilling enough, but what if two such chemicals combined were hundreds or thousands...
27 March 1997
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X-ray Visionary
On this day in 1845, German physicist Wilhem Roentgen, the discoverer of x-rays, was born. Roentgen studied the flashes that occur in cathode ray tubes when electricity passes through a...
27 March 1997
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Gene Knows It Like the Back of a Hand
Have you ever wondered how your palm became different from the back of your hand? Scientists now think they have a clue to the answer: They have found the genes...
27 March 1997
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NCI Does U-Turn on Mammograms
BETHESDA, MARYLAND--The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has once again endorsed breast cancer testing for women in their forties. The action brings NCI recommendations in line with those of the American...
27 March 1997
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Key Gene Behind Deadly Cancers Nabbed
Scientists have discovered a gene, the inactivation of which may help take the brakes off the development of several major cancers, including those of the brain and prostate. The stunning...
26 March 1997
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A Nerve-Wracking Discovery
Today is the 86th birthday of Sir Bernard Katz, a German-born English physiologist who elucidated how nerve cells transmit signals. While it was known that neurons release acetylcholine at their...
26 March 1997
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Black Sea Damned by Danube Dam
A massive dam straddling the river Danube in Romania has altered nutrient levels--and perhaps led to algal blooms--hundreds of kilometers away in the Black Sea. The findings, reported in tomorrow's...
26 March 1997
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Genetic Link for Some Jittery Hearts
Scientists have the first solid evidence that atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat that affects as many as 2 million Americans and is a major cause of strokes, is inherited in...
26 March 1997
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Upgraded Hubble Runs Into Trouble
NASA engineers are unable to focus a camera on an instrument installed last month on the Hubble Space Telescope. The blurred vision is expected to delay a number of studies,...
25 March 1997
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Jump Start for Russian R&D Businesses
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Russian government is about to launch two programs aimed at feeding the flames of an already-hot cottage industry: science-based businesses. The initiatives were announced here at a conference...
25 March 1997
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Detecting Minute--But Potentially Lethal--Genetic Errors
Genes vary from person to person in a lot of little ways, much as two cars of the same model can come with different options. But in genes, differences as...
25 March 1997
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Opening Gambit in Italy's Year of Reform
VENICE--Italy's chief research funding agency, the National Research Council (CNR), has a new head: informatics engineer Lucio Bianco, a relatively unknown academic. Bianco is expected to steer the council toward...
25 March 1997
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Report Jolts Japan's Earthquake Program
Japan's 32-year-old earthquake-prediction research program has failed to meet its goal of warning the public of impending earthquakes and has overstated the chances of developing accurate forecasts. So says a...
24 March 1997
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Wonder Drug Wunderkind
Yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist Daniel Bovet, whose discoveries helped give rise to the modern pharmaceutical industry. As a young researcher in the 1930s,...
24 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Asexual Reproduction Catches On
Asexual reproduction is usually considered a way of life--an evolutionary choice a species makes when the drawbacks of sex outweigh its long-term benefits. But recent research has shown that in...
24 March 1997
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Reports Warn of R&D Cuts
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Scientists should be skeptical of the White House claim that R&D has been protected from the headlong rush to cut the federal deficit. That's the underlying message in reports...
24 March 1997
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Flu Virus Nipped in the Bud
For many viruses, infiltrating a cell and replicating is only half the battle. Copies of the virus must then escape to infect other cells. Some viruses explode out of a...
21 March 1997
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Dropping Charges
Tomorrow is the birthday of Robert Millikan (born in 1868), the physicist who first measured the charge of an electron--an experiment repeated every year by physics students around the world....
21 March 1997
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How Tumors Fight Back
The immune system works remarkably well for most threats, but not against cancer. Many kinds of tumors can evade detection, and others fight back. Now Swiss researchers may have uncovered...
21 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Engineers Heighten Their Sensitivity
This week, a team of mechanical engineers set a new record for sensitivity: They announced that they can now measure forces as tiny as the weight of a single protein....
21 March 1997
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Killer Flu Virus Found
Molecular sleuthing by military pathologists has exhumed the first fragments of the genetic blueprint of the virus behind the flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 20 million to 40 million...
20 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New European Space Chief
PARIS--The European Space Agency (ESA) has found a new person to lead it into the 21st century. ESA's governing board today tapped as the agency's next Director-General Antonio Rodota, a...
20 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Brain Racket and Epilepsy
Background noise can do more than distract. In certain situations--like the firing of neurons--noise can enhance a signal. Now researchers have shown for the first time that the coordinated activity...
20 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Advice on Thwarting Genetic Discrimination
WASHINGTON, D.C.--After Christine DeMark told her boss she was getting a test for a gene defect linked to Huntington's disease, her employer "did everything they could to force me to...
20 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Bacterial Muck on Mars?
HOUSTON--The authors of the life-on-Mars paper that rocked the world last summer (Science, 16 August 1996, p. 924) say they have found further evidence of past life in the famed...
19 March 1997
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Second Childhood Glaucoma Gene Nailed
For the second time in 2 months, scientists have reported the discovery of a gene linked to childhood glaucoma. This time, it's a gene for primary congenital glaucoma, a condition...
19 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
From Gout Culprit to MS Treatment?
Gout and multiple sclerosis (MS) may seem worlds apart, but researchers may have found a beneficial connection between the two disorders. A new study indicates that uric acid--a compound that...
19 March 1997
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Glaciers in the Tropics
The warm surf of tropical islands offers a pleasant escape from the snowy north. Not so before the dawn of travel agents. In tomorrow's issue of Nature, U.S. and South...
19 March 1997
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Physicians Flunk Genetic Testing
As more and more tests for genetic disorders enter medical practice, patients and physicians are increasingly confronted with information that can be extraordinarily difficult to interpret. A report in tomorrow's...
18 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Engine of Progress
German engineer Rudolf Diesel, the inventor known for his durable engine, was born on this day in 1853. When he was 40, Diesel published ideas for an engine that he...
18 March 1997
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DNA Cliffhanger
It's not up for an Oscar, but a flick from a performer new to the silver screen is winning rave reviews. The 8-second clip, aired in Kansas City, Missouri, today...
18 March 1997
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Cabinet Shake-Up Boosts Russian Science
MOSCOW--Russian President Boris Yeltsin yesterday resurrected his science ministry and appointed an engineer to spearhead a drive to reform Russian science. The ongoing Cabinet reorganization should give Russian scientists a...
18 March 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Primordial Eye Within Sight
Human eyes, fly eyes, and horseshoe crab eyes, to name a few, differ so greatly that it would seem nature invented eyes dozens of times across the animal kingdom. A...
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