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13 June 1997
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Complements to the Host
Jules Bordet, a pioneer in immunology, was born on this day in 1870. The Belgian scientist is best known for figuring out how to detect immunity to bacteria or viruses....
13 June 1997
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New Chief for Brookhaven
There's at least one scientist who's willing to wade into the troubled waters at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. The board of Associated Universities Inc. (AUI), which operates...
13 June 1997
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Arecibo Reprise
After sleeping for 5 years in a mountaintop sinkhole, the world's most powerful radar and radio telescope--spiffed up after a $27 million upgrade--is about to spring back to life. In...
13 June 1997
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Growth Hormone Turns a Blind Eye
The most frequent cause of blindness is the explosive growth of blood vessels near the retina, and scientists may have fingered a key culprit in this process: growth hormone. The...
11 June 1997
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Mercury Poisoning Kills Lab Chemist
In a tragic end to a story that began last summer, an internationally known research chemist at Dartmouth College, Karen Wetterhahn, died on Sunday of poisoning from a few drops...
11 June 1997
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Tumor-Squelching Gene Nabbed at Last
Researchers have finally been able to make the charges stick against a long-suspected tumor suppressor gene. The gene, called NF1, was pinpointed in 1990 as the culprit in neurofibromatosis (NF),...
11 June 1997
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Earth's Pet Rock
At first sight, it looked like an ordinary asteroid. It is anything but. In tomorrow's issue of Nature, three astronomers report that a 5-kilometer-wide rock follows Earth around the sun...
11 June 1997
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Is Women's Intuition in the Genes?
LONDON--Women with a single copy of the X chromosome from their mothers are more likely than those with a copy from their fathers to have problems coping with social situations,...
10 June 1997
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NIH Turns Up the Heat on Malaria
BETHESDA, MARYLAND--The U.S. government is ratcheting up its attack on malaria, a disease that kills up to 1.5 million people a year. According to Anthony Fauci, director of the National...
10 June 1997
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NRC Backs Census That Samples America
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Rather than try to count each and every American for the 2000 census, the U.S. Census Bureau should use sampling techniques to estimate the number of people not tallied...
10 June 1997
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Deficit Plan Squeezes Japan's Big Science
TOKYO--A pledge to reduce Japan's serious budget deficit could put the hurt on several big-science projects, including the $10 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), as well as delay an...
10 June 1997
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The Case of the Superbright Supernova
Puzzled by a star that seemed to stay too bright in the sky too long after it had exploded, astronomers turned to their ultimate gumshoe, the Hubble telescope. Now they...
9 June 1997
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The Man Behind the Mole
On this day in 1776, Amedeo Avogadro, an Italian scientist known as one of the founders of physical chemistry, was born. Avogadro studied the properties of electricity and liquids, but...
9 June 1997
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A Bloodstained T. rex?
Just as The Lost World hits the theaters with its bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs, scientists say they have turned the tables by extracting blood--or at least one of its key components, hemoglobin--from...
9 June 1997
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President Proposes Human Cloning Ban
President Clinton announced today that he will send Congress a bill that would outlaw the cloning of humans. Clinton made the announcement immediately after he received a report from his...
9 June 1997
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Debate Over Blood Supply Safety
A retrovirus that causes leukemia in humans may be slipping into blood supplies undetected, claim researchers in tomorrow's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. But other...
6 June 1997
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Submarine Hideout for Ancient Life
EAST MALVERN, AUSTRALIA--Battling cold, disorientation, and claustrophobic conditions, underwater cavers have located what may be the missing link between two major caves in the spectacular Jenolan Caves system, beneath the...
6 June 1997
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Soot and Death
Scientists have linked two key air pollutants with increased death rates in 12 European cities. The findings, published in tomorrow's issue of the British Medical Journal, are sure to fuel...
6 June 1997
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Aluminum Foiled
Scientists have engineered tobacco and papaya plants to resist one of the world's least known enemies of agriculture: aluminum. The findings, reported in today's issue of Science,* could lead to...
6 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Death in the FSU
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Hard-drinking Russian men may be dying young these days, but Russia's much-hyped recent downward spiral in life expectancy obscures what may be a more disturbing trend: Life expectancy in...
5 June 1997
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Fresh Eye on the Lens
Allvar Gullstrand, a Swedish ophthalmologist who discovered how the eye bends light to form images, was born on this day in 1862. When Gullstrand began his work, the optics of...
5 June 1997
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Healthy Exposure to Malaria?
In some regions of Africa where the incidence of malaria is relatively low, children tend to get much sicker from the disease. The finding, reported in the 7 June issue...
5 June 1997
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Recounting a Flawed Past
Scientists have found evidence that the brain has separate centers for understanding the rules of grammar and for understanding exceptions to the rules. The provocative findings, reported in today's issue...
5 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Born to Be Wise
Whether we become dotards or quick-witted retirees appears to have more to do with our genes than years of schooling or experience. That startling conclusion, reported in tomorrow's issue of...
4 June 1997
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Normal Birth-Defect Rate Among Gulf War Vet Babies
One of the most troubling questions surrounding the health of soldiers who served in the Persian Gulf War has been whether they are at high risk of having children with...
4 June 1997
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New French Science Minister Appointed
France's new prime minister, Lionel Jospin, announced today that his longtime science and education adviser, geochemist Claude Allegre, will become minister of science and education. French scientists hope that the...
4 June 1997
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Our Solar System Is Getting Crowded
Astronomers have discovered a new class of the icy bodies left over from the formation of the solar system, inhabiting a region of space once thought to be barren. A...
3 June 1997
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First Blood Banker
Charles R. Drew, an African-American surgeon whose research on the storage and shipment of blood plasma revolutionized blood banking, was born in Washington, D.C., on 3 June 1904. As late...
3 June 1997
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Houseflies Give You Ulcers?
The housefly is a vile creature whose nasty habits--eating feces, regurgitating, and defecating on our skin--can infect us with organisms responsible for salmonella and other diseases. Now scientists have evidence...
3 June 1997
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Microsoft and Cambridge Talk Up Research Complex
LONDON--Billionaire Bill Gates, founder of the software giant Microsoft, is negotiating with the U.K.'s Cambridge University to set up a joint multimillion-dollar software research complex at the university. Gates is...
3 June 1997
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Second Gene for Deafness
Scientists have found a second gene that, when mutated, can cause hearing loss but leave a person otherwise normal. The findings, reported in this month's issue of Nature Genetics, may...
2 June 1997
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Tracking Dangerous Radicals
Like a notorious suspect able to stay one step ahead of the law, corrosive oxygen compounds called free radicals are implicated in many diseases but leave little hard evidence of...
2 June 1997
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NIH Launches Autism Assault
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is initiating an all-out effort to uncover the genetic and neurobiological roots of autism, a mysterious developmental disorder that affects about 400,000 Americans. Although...
2 June 1997
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Shock Therapy for Parkinson's Patients
Tiny electrical zaps to the brain appear to soothe the herky-jerky movements of people with Parkinson's disease. Findings from a pilot experiment, described in this month's issue of Nature Medicine,...
2 June 1997
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Business and the Bible Don't Mix
MELBOURNE--An Australian court here today shot down a novel attack on a creationist's claim to have found Noah's Ark. Judge Ronald Sackville ruled that ArkSearch Inc., the organization promoting exploration...
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