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17 April 1997
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Leaping Lizards! A Leggy Snake
Scientists have unearthed a fossil of a primitive snake with stubby legs. The 95-million-year-old specimen, described in today's issue of Nature, may be the long-sought missing link between snakes and...
17 April 1997
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When Primates Went Ape
From a chaotic prehistoric world teaming with 30 different kinds of apes, a single lineage survived to give rise to modern apes and humans. Now, thanks to new fossil finds,...
16 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Why We Turn Up Our Noses
The odor of rotting vegetables disgusts most of us, and for good reason: Eating bad food can make us sick. Now scientists have tracked this inborn disgust back to its...
16 April 1997
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Chromosomal Quirks Might Mean Lung Cancer Risk
Some smokers may be more susceptible to DNA damage from tobacco smoke and thus more likely to develop lung cancer. The preliminary findings from a population study, reported in the...
16 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Couch Potato's Delight
SAN FRANCISCO--Like switching on a miniature furnace in the body, scientists have created a compound that spurs certain fat cells to burn up calories without forcing them to endure jogging,...
16 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Geneticists More Likely to Hide the Goods
Citing examples of data-hoarding by colleagues, some scientists have griped that commercialism and competition are destroying the once-congenial atmosphere of U.S. academic labs. Such complaints are now likely to gain...
16 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
More Plants in Greenhouse Earth
Earth is not only getting warmer; it's getting greener as well, says a group of U.S. researchers in tomorrow's issue of Nature. Their analysis of satellite data shows that there...
15 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
An Instinct for Animal Behavior
Zoologist Nikolaas Tinbergen was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, on this day in 1907. Tinbergen helped found the fledgling field of ethology, the study of how animals behave in...
15 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Wulf Wins Engineering Presidency
WASHINGTON, D.C.--After 2 years of turmoil, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has a new president. William Wulf, a University of Virginia computer engineer, was elected today by the NAE's...
15 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Fleeting Fingerprints May Yield Powerful New Tools
SAN FRANCISCO--The kidnapping and murder of 3-year-old Katie Lynn Lee in 1993 could leave a lasting legacy to law enforcement: methods to obtain children's fingerprints before they evaporate from crime...
15 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Random Numbers Behaving Too Orderly?
Finding a random sequence is as easy as pi--or is it? Mathematicians often depend on irrational numbers like , e (the basis of natural logarithms), and 2 to give them...
15 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Quashed Study Sees Light of Day
Findings suppressed for more than 2 years by a drug company that sponsored the research will finally appear in tomorrow's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)....
14 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tiny Spheres Boost Vaccines
SAN FRANCISCO--A single injection of microscopic plastic capsules could someday eliminate the need for vaccination booster shots. The new technique, described here yesterday at the annual meeting of the American...
14 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Floating Frogs
When pigs fly? That could be sooner than you think. A group of researchers in the Netherlands and in England has made a frog levitate in a magnetic field. Although...
14 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Panel Would Block LHC, Internet Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A House panel wants to delay or defer U.S. plans to participate in Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and upgrade the Internet. The moves are part of a raft...
14 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Preventing Frozen Fish
Fish living in waters near the North and South Poles separately evolved nearly identical antifreeze proteins to keep their blood and organs from freezing. Moreover, the Antarctic species apparently acquired...
11 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Beginnings of a Rout
In one of the greatest moments in modern medical science, American microbiologist Jonas Salk on 12 April 1955 pronounced his newly invented polio vaccine safe and effective in almost 90%...
11 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Northern Light Show Down Low
New Englanders who suffered through a spring blizzard last week came in for an equally rare, but far more delightful, treat last night: the aurora borealis. The spectacular show was...
11 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Europe to Overhaul Vast Research Program
LONDON--The European Commission this week announced its plans for a radical shake-up of the European Union's (EU's) main multibillion-dollar research effort. The commission intends to focus the Framework program on...
11 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Better Recipe Against Parkinson's?
People with too little dopamine in their brains develop the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Now scientists have identified the molecule that helps the brain get just the right amount...
10 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Instrumental to Many's Success
Today is the 97th birthday of American inventor and chemist Arnold Beckman. Asked by California growers to find a way to measure the acidity of lemon juice, Beckman, a young...
10 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Just in From the Storm Desk ...
A cloud of charged particles ejected by the sun smashed into Earth's upper atmosphere this afternoon, several hours later than predicted. The mild magnetic storm doesn't appear to have harmed...
10 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Protons With Lasting Memories
Scientists have invented a computer memory system that uses protons instead of electrons to store data. The new device, described in today's issue of Nature, should be easy to manufacture...
10 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Underwater Volcanoes: The Cradle of Life?
Researchers have long considered the ancient oceans, gently sloshing and full of nutrients, to be a likely birthplace of the first cells. Now it seems that life could have emerged...
9 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mental Blur in the Blink of an Eye
When your eyes dart from the keyboard to the computer screen, then out the window, your brain must recompose the picture for each shift. In two papers in today's issue...
9 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Milky Way's Dark Shell
The galaxy's main ingredient is also its most inscrutable: a cloud of dark matter several times more massive than the visible stars and gas. Astronomers don't know what kind of...
9 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
HIV Stymied by New Molecule
The much-celebrated advances made last year in understanding how HIV wangles its way into cells have led to the discovery of what may be a new way to thwart the...
9 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
An Ocean--and a Possible Home for Life--on Europa
Planetary scientists reported today that they have persuasive evidence for a deep ocean below the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. New images from the Galileo spacecraft show features that...
8 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gallium Row Threatens Neutrino Detector
MOSCOW--Cash-strapped government officials are threatening to confiscate 60 tons of valuable gallium from a neutrino observatory in southern Russia. Physicists involved in the Soviet-American Gallium Experiment (SAGE), however, have vowed...
8 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NYU Hit for $15 Million on Indirect Costs
The New York University (NYU) Medical Center has agreed to pay $15.5 million to the federal government to settle a civil complaint alleging that for 11 years the center overcharged...
8 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
No Go for Reconstituted Dino
Scientists have failed to find any trace of DNA in insects trapped in amber some 30 million years ago. The findings, reported in the 22 April Proceedings of the Royal...
8 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Canada, U.S. Strike Deal on Space Station
Canada will build an important component of the international space station in exchange for free access to its laboratories under a new bilateral agreement announced today in Washington. The agreement,...
7 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Nobel Bondage
One of the most fruitful decades of chemical research began on 6 April 1931, with a landmark paper by Linus Pauling on the relationship between chemical bonds and the magnetic...
7 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rabbit-Test Hormone Suppresses HIV Genes in Mice
A pregnancy hormone appears to protect newborn mice from a wasting syndrome that is similar to a hallmark AIDS symptom. The findings, in the current issue of the Journal of...
7 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
European Treaty Bans Dubious Biotech Research
LONDON--Several European countries have agreed to the first-ever international convention on biomedical ethics. The nonbinding treaty, signed on 4 April at a ceremony in Oviedo, Spain, sets strict limits on...
7 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
High on Genes?
Peer pressure from high school potheads isn't the only reason people start smoking marijuana: A new study suggests that some people inherit an ability to enjoy a marijuana high. The...
4 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Feeling the Heat
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, a German-born British physicist who made key discoveries in the study of heat, was born on this day in 1886. At the age of 25, Lindemann and...
4 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Japan and U.S. Team Up on Theoretical Physics
Strengthening its ties with a new facility at a major U.S. laboratory, the Japanese Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in Tokyo announced yesterday that it plans to spend...
4 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cluster Rises From Ashes
PARIS--Ten months ago, European space scientists saw one of their most important projects go up in smoke when Europe's Ariane 5 rocket, carrying a quartet of satellites called Cluster, exploded...
4 April 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Slow Road for Clean Cars
WASHINGTON, D.C.--An ambitious program to create superefficient automobiles by the year 2000 will not reach a major milestone, predicts a new report from the National Research Council (NRC). The peer-reviewed...
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