June 1997 Archives
30 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Russia to Get New TB Center
After taking a several-month hiatus from the Russian science scene, philanthropist George Soros is at it again: The billionaire financier has ponied up $3 million to create two new labs...
30 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Making Supernovas Look Like Mere Firecrackers
Titanic explosions that dwarf even the brightest supernovas, one scientist says, may account for mysterious gamma-ray bursts that flash once a day or so from random directions in the sky....
30 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Is Breast Cancer Blind to Skin Color?
Medical researchers have taken a big step toward erasing what had appeared to be a puzzling racial difference in the outcomes of black women and white women with breast cancer....
30 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Slimming Mathilde
LAUREL, MARYLAND—Adorned with incredibly deep, shadowed craters, Mathilde may look like your average asteroid. But to the surprise of researchers, she's a lightweight: The 52-kilometer asteroid has only a third...
27 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Reversal of Misfortune
On this day in 1970, U.S. virologist David Baltimore published a breakthrough paper in Nature describing reverse transcription. The process enables some viruses to insert their genetic material into the...
27 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Primitive Fish Hold Key to Healing Spinal Cords?
The sea lamprey, unlike a person or any other higher vertebrate for that matter, can repair its spinal cord when it is severed. Now researchers have a hint of where...
27 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Monkey Mono
Kiss the wrong person and you might get mononucleosis, which could mean days laid up in bed with swollen glands and fatigue. For monkeys, however, the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) responsible...
27 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Protective AIDS Mutation: A Double-Edged Sword?
A genetic mutation that can delay the onset of AIDS in people infected with HIV may hasten death after symptoms of the disease appear. A report in tomorrow's Lancet suggests...
26 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Accident Clouds U.S. Future on Mir
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The gash ripped in the Mir space station yesterday may deflate more than just the science module that served as living quarters and laboratory for U.S. astronauts: A delicate...
26 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Faulty Gene Behind Parkinson's?
Scientists have pinpointed the gene that, when defective, causes a hereditary form of Parkinson's disease in a large Italian family. The gene, described in tomorrow's issue of Science,* will probably...
26 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Scientists Stumble Across New Alzheimer's Plaque
An ill-behaved brain protein that escaped notice for over 90 years has unexpectedly emerged as a major possible cause of Alzheimer's disease. The unidentified protein forms a previously unknown variety...
26 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Don't Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It!
Compared to heroin and cocaine, many people--scientists and teenagers alike--consider marijuana a relatively benign substance. Two new studies in tomorrow's issue of Science* demonstrate, however, that marijuana's effects on the...
25 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Chemical Agents in Bug Warfare
NOW wishes a happy birthday to Thomas Eisner, 68, considered the founder of chemical ecology. An entomologist at Cornell University, Eisner has earned renown for discovering many of the intricate...
25 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Pioneering Ocean Explorer Dies
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, ocean explorer, television personality, and co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung, died early today in Paris after a long illness. He was 87. Cousteau hosted the TV series The Undersea...
25 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Europeans Sour on Biotechnology
LONDON--The more Europeans know about biotechnology, the less they like it, according to a new multinational survey. And when they ponder potential applications, they worry more about moral issues than...
24 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rapid Collapse Gave Giant Planets Gas?
Some of our solar system's "gas giant" planets may have formed when clumps of gas and dust in the early solar system collapsed precipitously, in 1000 years or less, a...
24 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Swiss Bank On X-Rays
VENICE, ITALY--The Swiss government has given the green light to construction of a machine that is expected to produce the world's brightest and most coherent x-ray beam. The Swiss Light...
24 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Getting Heroin Junkies on the LAAM
Heroin addicts can cut their drug use up to 90% with a medication more convenient than the standard treatment, according to a report in tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical...
24 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Commercial Gene Kingdom Splits Up
WASHINGTON--William Haseltine and J. Craig Venter, who graced the cover of Business Week as the "Gene Kings" in 1995, announced yesterday that they are going their separate ways. The breakup...
23 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
First Computer Whiz
fAlan Turing, an English mathematician who was a trailblazer in computer theory, was born on this day in 1912. Turing is best known for a classic paper he published in...
23 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Oldest Fetal Dino Unearthed
Portuguese scientists say they have discovered the world's oldest dinosaur embryo. Found in 140-million-year-old sediments, the Jurassic period fossil is the first dino embryo to be found in Europe, and...
23 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Sifting Junk for Clues to Down Syndrome
A genetic desert on chromosome 21 may harbor a sinister oasis: a series of genes that might include one or more that lead to mental retardation in Down syndrome. The...
23 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gene Defects Tied to Rare Human Obesity
After a long, frustrating hunt, two groups of scientists have finally nabbed genetic defects responsible for obesity in some people. One team has found in two children mutations in the...
20 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NASA Solar System Chief Killed in Accident
Just weeks before a sophisticated probe reaches Mars and only months before launch of a major probe to Saturn, NASA's science program director for solar system exploration was killed on...
20 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rainforest Margins May Spawn Species
With millions of life-forms crawling, flying, and slithering about, the world's rainforests seem a cauldron of diversity. Now a study in this week's issue of Science* suggests that many of...
20 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Ear's How to Divide Your Attention
Anyone watching two things at once is bound to miss something. Now research in this week's issue of the journal Nature reveals that your attention, when caught up in a...
20 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Radiation Leak at Russian Reactor
A burst of radiation has seriously injured a physicist in one of Russia's restricted research cities, some 350 kilometers east of Moscow. The accident took place Tuesday in an underground...
19 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
High-Powered Chemist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, a British physical chemist who shed light on how chemicals react, was born 100 years ago on this day. Hinshelwood, a professor at Oxford University, studied...
19 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Superphénix Tagged for Scrap
In his maiden policy pronouncement in Paris today, new French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said that the troubled French Superphénix nuclear reactor would be "abandoned." Jospin's Socialist-led government includes members...
19 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Varmus Reprimanded Over 'Renegade Researcher'
WASHINGTON, D.C.--As the sole witness for 3 hours of questioning on embryo research, Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), endured a grilling on Capitol Hill today...
19 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
HIV's Helping Hand?
PARIS--A common virus may help the AIDS virus to infect some types of cells and wreak havoc on the immune system. The findings, reported in tomorrow's issue of Science,* imply...
19 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cancer by Remote Control?
Researchers have fingered a virus as the culprit behind a bone marrow tumor called multiple myeloma. While viruses already have been linked to other cancers, the modus operandi of this...
18 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mellifluous Superfluid
It may not sound as pretty as a harp, but a new instrument that picks up on vibrations in liquid helium is setting the laws of quantum mechanics to music....
18 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Remote Wheeling in Chile
PITTSBURGH--A four-wheel-drive robot named Nomad, one of a new generation of robots designed to explore the moon and Mars, embarked today on a 200-kilometer test drive through a barren desert...
18 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Earth's Population Growth Slowing Down
The odds are that the world's population won't double in the next century--but that its proportion of elderly people will, according to a new forecast. The findings, reported in tomorrow's...
18 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
El Niño Comes Roaring Back
It's official--El Niño is back in the tropical Pacific, and it's big. It's so big so early in the year that "we think this is shaping up into an extraordinary...
17 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Space Science Hits the Jackpot
Profits from the British lottery are going to help pay for construction of a National Space Science Center (NSSC) in Leicester, United Kingdom. The lottery-funded Millennium Commission announced today that...
17 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Alzheimer's Researcher to Head Drug Company Program
Alzheimer's Researcher to Head Drug Company Program For several years, the British drug company Glaxo Wellcome has been buying into U.S. biotech firms as part of a push into genetics,...
17 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Microsoft Puts Down Roots in Cambridge
LONDON--Cambridge University and the software giant Microsoft hastily convened a news conference today to confirm mounting rumors that they had struck a deal to site Microsoft's first foreign research center...
16 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Jumping Genes
American geneticist Barbara McClintock, who challenged the prevailing theory that genes were stable components of chromosomes with her discovery of "jumping genes," was born on this day in 1902. McClintock...
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