July 1997 Archives
31 July 1997
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Tutoring With Baby Talk
The singsong speech adults use when talking to infants seems to get a baby's attention and even bring a smile. But a report published in today's issue of Science* suggests...
31 July 1997
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An Icy Paradox
The thundering collapse of ice from towering glaciers off the Antarctic Peninsula highlights their vulnerability to the warming trend there in recent decades. Does this presage the ultimate fate of...
31 July 1997
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Breast Cancer Survivors: Reassurance for Would-Be Moms
Women who have had breast cancer are often told they should think twice about having a child because pregnancy could worsen their disease. But a major study by a Danish...
30 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Seeing the Sea Floor
Today is the 77th birthday of Marie Tharp, an oceanographic cartographer whose maps of the world's sea floors helped shape a new view of Earth--plate tectonics--in which crustal plates constantly...
30 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NSF Names Physical Sciences Head
A nuclear physicist has been promoted to lead the largest research directorate at the National Science Foundation. NSF announced today that Robert Eisenstein will become assistant NSF director for Mathematical...
30 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Big Splat on a Small Planet
BOSTON--Astronomers are used to seeing plenty of planetary mayhem, but the discovery of a 450-kilometer impact crater on the asteroid Vesta, which is only 525 kilometers in diameter, has them...
29 July 1997
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Living High Pays Off in the Fast Lane
Live high, train low--that's the guide to faster footwork, according to a paper published this month in the Journal of Applied Physiology. The study found that runners can shave crucial...
29 July 1997
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British Journal Editors Form Misconduct Panel
Frustration with the United Kingdom's lack of policies on scientific misconduct has spawned a grassroots effort to deal with the problem. The editors of nine prestigious British medical journals have...
29 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
No Small Potatoes
Vegetables with genetically engineered pest resistance are already appearing on supermarket shelves, but scientists have had a much harder time controlling the sizes and crop yields of many vegetables. Now...
28 July 1997
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Aboriginal Clue to Hepatitis
Today is the 72nd birthday of Baruch Blumberg, an American research physician whose work has led to blood screening and a vaccine against hepatitis B. As chief of the geographic...
28 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cells Pumping Iron
Scientists have known for decades that the human body requires iron to function properly. But exactly how this crucial nutrient gets from food into the body has been a long-standing...
28 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Help Map the Moon
Early rising sky watchers can help map the moon's edge with their camcorders. Tomorrow morning, beginning on the East Coast of the United States at about 5:30 a.m., the crescent...
25 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
She Began a Baby Boom
ScienceNOW wishes a happy 19th birthday to the first test tube baby, Joy Louise Brown, who was born in England on this day in 1978. Brown got her start thanks...
25 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
More Than Hot Air on Global Warming?
Seven prominent researchers had the rare honor of conducting an hour-long seminar yesterday for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on the scientific bases for global change. But...
25 July 1997
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Molecular Eruptions in Water's Weird Cousin
The crystalline ice of snowflakes and winter ponds is a rare commodity in the universe. In the cold reaches of interstellar space, most water probably exists in a strange frozen...
25 July 1997
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Vaccine Fortifies Milk to Build Immunity
BOZEMAN, MONTANA--Antibodies in mother's milk help protect newborn mammals against many infectious diseases in the critical first few weeks of life. Now scientists report their first success in boosting these...
24 July 1997
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British University Reform Would Buff Up Research Labs
The British government must spend more on scientific infrastructure to begin reversing a decade of chronic underfunding, says a major new report. The report, published yesterday, also recommends sweeping changes...
24 July 1997
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The Nucleus of Phobias
In frightening situations, behavior is directed from deep within the brain by the amygdala. Now a study published in this week's Nature shows that this almond-sized structure orchestrates two different...
24 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Net Hogs Slow the Web
Any regular reader of ScienceNOW has experienced the spates of congestion that afflict the Internet. As computers send volumes of data from server to server, phone lines fill up, causing...
23 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Stronger Bulwarks in the War on Cancer
Pledging to beef up two areas of cancer research--prevention and behavioral studies--the nation's general in the war on cancer, Richard Klausner, today announced a new plan that raises the stature...
23 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Feeling Proteins Wiggle
There's a new way to watch proteins shimmy and dance as they carry out their biological tasks. Researchers traditionally follow these shape changes spectroscopically, deducing them from changes in the...
23 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
No Subtleties in Baby Talk
During the first year of life, babies can recognize surprisingly small differences in the sounds of similar syllables. But in tomorrow's issue of Nature, researchers report that infants ignore these...
22 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Helping the Body Fight Prostate Cancer
Scientists have shown for the first time that a mouse's immune system can completely destroy cancerous prostate cells. Experts say the finding, published in today's issue of the Proceedings of...
22 July 1997
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Congress Gives Science Funding a Boost
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), chair of a spending panel that oversees the National Institutes of Health (NIH), kept to his word today, delivering a 7.5% increase for the agency's 1998...
22 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Stamping Out Breast Cancer?
Advocates of breast cancer research, known as trailblazers for their hugely successful fund-raising efforts, are again going where no disease lobby has gone before: They're hoping Congress will authorize sale...
21 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
His Discoveries Made a Splash
Today is the birthday of Thomas Charles Hope, a Scottish chemist born in 1766. Although he considered himself a teacher, Hope is remembered for two original contributions to chemistry. Hope...
21 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Wetter Polar Winds
A NASA satellite has recorded a surprisingly large flow of water out of Earth's atmosphere. The results, reported in the current issue of Science,* should shed light on the forces...
21 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Most Domestic Research Ignores India's Health
NEW DELHI--Industrialized nations tend to focus their medical research on diseases generally associated with a high standard of living, such as heart disease. But a study in the latest issue...
21 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Helping the Body Fight Prostate Cancer
Scientists have shown for the first time that a mouse's immune system can completely destroy cancerous prostate cells. Experts say the finding, published in today's issue of the Proceedings of...
18 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Bloody Measure
In search of tiny amounts of antibodies, medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow developed a technique that came up very big for biomedical researchers. Tomorrow is the 76th birthday of the Nobel...
18 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Major Lab Bacterium Sequenced
The first genome sequence of a commercially and scientifically valuable group of bacteria has been completed by an international team led by researchers in the European Union (EU). The complete...
18 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Predators Maintain the Balance
When the same kind of animal comes in different colors, the reason is usually the environment. But red and green pea aphids live side by side in the same alfalfa...
18 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Comet and Asteroid Specialist Shoemaker Killed in Collision
Eugene Shoemaker, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that crashed into Jupiter 3 years ago, died today in a two-car accident in central Australia. He was 69. His wife and...
17 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Yeast Protein Bolsters Prion Hypothesis
Several fatal neurological diseases--including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and scrapie in sheep--are marked by the accumulation of protein deposits in the brain. Many researchers believe that prions or "infectious...
17 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Chaos of the Fall
For centuries, physicists have had no trouble predicting the paths of cannonballs, but figuring out how a feather falls had them stumped. Now, a team of researchers has figured out...
17 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Monkeypox on African Rampage
Infectious-disease researchers are hoping to return to the Democratic Republic of Congo soon to try to pick up the trail of an exotic infection that is alarming some public health...
16 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NIH Budget Easily Clears the First Hurdle
Biomedical researchers got some good news late yesterday: A key House appropriations subcommittee voted unanimously to give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a raise of 6% in 1998. If...
16 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Coping With Change, Coral-Style
At first glance, the colonies that make up coral seem like a harmonious household. Tiny invertebrates provide steadfast shelter for microscopic algae which, in return, share the food they photosynthesize....
16 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Woman Physicist Named to Top French Science Post
PARIS—France's new Socialist government made history today by naming physicist Catherine Bréchignac as the first woman director-general of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The CNRS is France's...
15 July 1997
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Antibiotics Cut Heart Attack Risk
Killing off a pneumonia-causing bacterium in infected cardiac patients reduced the risk of a second heart attack, cardiologists have found. The provocative results from a pilot trial, described in the...
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