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4 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Fractal Geometry Takes Life's Measure

by Science News Staff

Scientists have devised a computer model that may help solve a long-standing mystery: how physiological factors such as metabolic rate and life-span are related to body size. The model, described...

3 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Scientists Keeping Faith in God

by Science News Staff

Scientists today appear just as inclined to believe in God as their colleagues were in 1916. The findings of a survey, conducted last year and published in today's issue of...

3 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

UV Laser for CDs Could Burn the Competition

by Science News Staff

SAN FRANCISCO--Scientists have created a new type of ultraviolet laser that might be modified to read compact discs. If so, then the invention, reported here yesterday at a meeting of...

3 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

The Nitty-Gritty Details of Air Pollution

by Science News Staff

Hoping to clear up one of the murky mysteries of dirty urban air, scientists have devised a mathematical model to predict how hydrocarbons from gasoline are transformed into tiny, and...

2 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Closing the Regeneration Gap

by Science News Staff

Today is the 70th birthday of Elizabeth Hay, an embryologist at Harvard Medical School who, through pioneering studies on regeneration of amphibian limbs, has shed light on the cellular mechanisms...

2 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Protein Linked to Heart-Attack Risk

by Science News Staff

Elevated levels of a protein produced in response to infection and injury correspond to a higher risk of heart attacks and stroke in men. The finding, reported in tomorrow's New...

2 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Stronger Medicine Than Morphine?

by Science News Staff

Scientists have discovered two compounds in the mammalian brain that appear to be members of a long-sought class of natural painkillers. The proteins, described in tomorrow's issue of Nature, could...

2 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Breast Cancer Trigger?

by Science News Staff

NEW YORK CITY--Scientists have discovered that malignant breast tumor cells have high levels of an enzyme that tells cells to divide. The finding, announced at a press conference here today...

1 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Meteorite Hints at Life on Jupiter Moon

by Science News Staff

Editor's note: It has come to our attention that some of our readers didn't notice that this story was posted on 1 April, and they didn't follow the link at...

1 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Crystal-Ball Center for Climate Change

by Science News Staff

A new sentry is now on the lookout for early signs of floods, droughts, and other potentially devastating weather patterns that may take shape months ahead. The Scripps Institution of...

1 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Russia Steps Into AIDS Research Arena

by Science News Staff

The Russian government is putting together its first AIDS research program: a $15 million effort to develop a vaccine against HIV. The new program, recently approved by the lower house...

1 April 1997 | ScienceNOW

Bird-Brained: A Compliment?

by Science News Staff

The mammals' main claim to fame--besides hair and nipples--is its bulging forebrain, or cerebral cortex, which controls aspects of thought and emotion. Now neurobiologists report in today's issue of the...