August 1997 Archives
29 August 1997
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Rivers Under the Sun
WASHINGTON, D.C.--"Rivers" of solar material are flowing beneath the surface of the sun, researchers announced yesterday at a NASA press conference. Data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft...
29 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Stress and No Sex for Wimpy Fish
When a male cichlid fish captures a piece of prime real estate, his gonads go wild. In the 15 August Journal of Neuroscience, scientists report another bonus: his stress hormones...
29 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Physics Journals Cost Study Ruled Fair
Two U.S. physics societies are celebrating victory in a long-running court battle over whether their journals are a better bargain than a competitor's. A federal judge ruled this week that...
29 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Brand-New Test Tube World
ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS--A test tube teeming with strangely shaped bacteria suggests that diversity rapidly blooms in a world of untapped resources. Experts say the experiment, described here this week at...
28 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Ozone Pioneer
Today is the birthday of Robert Strutt, an English physicist born in 1875 who discovered Earth's ozone layer. In 1916, Strutt and his colleague Alfred Fowler confirmed the existence of...
28 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
California Law Curbs Science Outreach Programs
Proposition 209, California's new anti-affirmative action law, appears to mean bad news for efforts to recruit minority students into science. At least one state-sponsored outreach program is scrapping criteria based...
28 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Nanoparticles Get Wired
Scientists have succeeded in the delicate feat of trapping a single metal particle, just 17 nanometers (billionths of meter) wide, and measuring its electrical properties. The handy technique, to be...
28 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Yeast's Clue to Aging
Researchers studying a rare genetic form of accelerated aging in humans have reproduced the phenomenon in yeast. The work, published in tomorrow's issue of Science, may help researchers trace out...
27 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Fertile Chemist
Today is the birthday of Karl Bosch, a German chemist born in 1874 whose research led to industrial production of chemical fertilizers and explosives. Building on the work of chemist...
27 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Does sAPP Zap Neurons in Alzheimer's?
A protein that amasses in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease may help cause the massive die-off of neurons by triggering a destructive inflammatory response, a study to appear...
27 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Lifestyles of the Big and Brainy
ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS--Natural selection can reshape the mammalian brain as well as change its size, a researcher announced here this week at the biennial meeting of the European Society for...
27 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rabbit Virus Strikes New Zealand
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--An outbreak of rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) in New Zealand was confirmed yesterday by the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture (MAF). Officials suspect the virus may have been intentionally...
26 August 1997
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Japanese Science Bureaucracy Tries to Slim Down
TOKYO--Two fierce rivals in the world of Japanese science funding, the Science and Technology Agency (STA) and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture (Monbusho), may have to learn...
26 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Primitive Archezoa Dethroned
CHAFFEY'S LOCKS, ONTARIO--Since ancient fossils are scarce, scientists trying to understand the early evolution of life turn to single-celled organisms that appear very primitive. Now it turns out that two...
26 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Way Cleared for "Path of the Jaguar"
Nicaragua has become the first nation to establish part of a proposed 1900-kilometer-long corridor of wildlife habitat in Central America. Yesterday, President Arnoldo Aleman signed a $7.1 million funding agreement...
25 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Kind of Cancer Mutation Found
Scientists have discovered a new way for genetic mutations to lead to cancer--by rendering neighboring stretches of DNA more likely to be mutated. The serendipitous finding, reported in the September...
25 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Setting the Embryological Record Straight
Generations of biology students have been convinced--in part because of drawings done 123 years ago by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel--that vertebrate embryos of different animals pass through an identical...
25 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
No Soft Serve From This Physicist
As top-ranked tennis players begin competing today at the U.S. Open, they bring to the court years of experience and lucrative endorsement contracts, but probably not much training in physics....
22 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Green Revolutionary
Today is the 62nd birthday of Gurdev Khush, an Indian plant geneticist whose work was a cornerstone of the Green Revolution, which allowed a doubling of world rice production from...
22 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Physicians Call for Live HIV-Vaccine Test
An AIDS vaccine that has had more success in monkey experiments than any other approach has never been tested in humans. The reason: Many researchers believe the vaccine, based on...
22 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Chile Ponies up for Telescope Project
Chile is on the brink of reclaiming its status as a full partner in a United States–led consortium to build twin, 8-meter telescopes in Hawaii and Chile. A holdup in...
22 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Weevil Side of Biological Pest Control
A Eurasian weevil imported by U.S. and Canadian scientists to help kill invading thistles also threatens native thistles. Ecologists say the finding, reported today in Science , highlights the ecological...
21 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Catching Supernovas in a Grain of Salt
An international team of physicists hopes to go almost a kilometer deep into the earth to see into the hearts of exploding stars. These researchers are laying plans to convert...
21 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Navy To Disclose Arctic Seafloor Records
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Depth charts of the Arctic Ocean, once the prowling grounds of nuclear submarines, will soon be declassified and in the hands of scientists. At a press conference held by...
21 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Cousin to Cell Security Guard
Scientists have identified the first gene with a strong resemblance to the p53 gene, an important tumor suppressor linked to almost half of all human cancers. Researchers hope that the...
21 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Golden Way to Detect DNA
Chemists have constructed a sensor, made from a web of DNA and gold particles, that turns from red to blue when it detects a precise strand of DNA. This easy-to-read...
20 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Presto! Light Creates Matter
As nuclear bombs and many physics experiments show, turning matter into light, heat, and other forms of energy is nothing new. Now a team of physicists has demonstrated the inverse...
20 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Alzheimer's Accelerated by Faulty Gene
A particular variant of an immune system gene can hasten the onset of Alzheimer's, according to a study published today in Neurology. Patients with this allele tended to lose their...
20 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Groovy Way to Beat Drag
Roughing up a surface sounds like an unpromising approach to making it glide more easily though air and water. But sometimes intuition can be completely wrong. In tomorrow's issue of...
20 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Vaccine Beats Blood-Sucking Grub
A team of Australian researchers has demonstrated that a vaccine could help farm animals fight off parasitizing insects. If the approach works, it may cut down on the use of...
19 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Catalogue of Stars
Today is the birthday of John Flamsteed, an English astronomer born in 1646 who produced important star catalogues. As the first Astronomer Royal at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, he...
19 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Japan May Triple Genetics Research
Japan's genetics-related research budgets could triple to $130 million next year if the government approves proposals set to be unveiled this week. Big increases are being considered at several ministries,...
19 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A World War on Malaria
HYDERABAD, INDIA--A plan to launch an international attack on malaria is beginning to pick up steam. The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) can bank on $2 million this year from...
18 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Home for Scientific Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers who accuse their peers of scientific misconduct may soon get some full-time support--from a Michigan-based organization calling itself Whistleblowers for Integrity in Science and Education (WISE). The outfit, which...
18 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Buckyballs Safeguard Nerves
Nerve cells threatened by stroke or degenerative diseases may have a surprising new ally--microscopic spheres of carbon called buckyballs. A study published in tomorrow's Proceedings of the American Academy of...
18 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Biotech Firm Wades into Yellowstone's Hot Springs
Prospectors are lining up to exploit the famous hot springs of Yellowstone National Park--not for minerals, but for the rugged microbes they contain, called thermophiles. Yesterday, while Vice President Al...
15 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Putting Plants on the Map
Today is the birthday of Sir Arthur George Tansley, an English botanist born in 1871 who was a trailblazer in ecology. Beginning in the 1920s, Tansley published a number of...
15 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Are Small Comets Dampening the Atmosphere?
The controversial theory that fluffy, house-size comets are pummeling the outer reaches of the atmosphere enjoyed a boost last week when a satellite instrument detected signs of as much as...
15 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Stress Test for the Spotted Owl
Sitting in the woods waiting for an owl to poop might seem like an unrewarding research assignment. But such tedious field work has enabled researchers to show that logging and...
14 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Worm's Secret to Long Life
The biological clock of the worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans ticks fast, but these clever nematodes have a way to put aging on hold. In times of stress, such as...
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