September 1997 Archives
30 September 1997
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Particle Man
Today is the birthday of Hans Geiger, born in 1882, a German physicist known for the techniques he developed for detecting and counting charged particles. Geiger investigated the charge and...
30 September 1997
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Scientific Leaders Press for Climate Treaty
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Hoping to build momentum for a strong commitment to addressing the threat of global climate change at December's climate treaty meeting in Kyoto, Japan, more than 1500 prominent scientists--including...
30 September 1997
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India Launches Hefty Satellite
NEW DELHI--The Indian space program took a big step toward competing in the international arena yesterday with the successful launch of another remote-sensing satellite (IRS-1D) aboard its own Polar Satellite...
30 September 1997
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Males Mutate More Than Females
Old fathers may be a genetic liability for their offspring. By analyzing a gene found on both the male and female sex chromosomes of birds, Swedish researchers have found evidence...
29 September 1997
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Scandal Claims Science Minister
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--A multifaceted review of the country's R&D policies may be delayed by the resignation last Friday of Science Minister Peter McGauran, who got caught up in a governmentwide scandal...
29 September 1997
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Odd Visitor From the Oort Cloud
A 10-kilometer object that looks like an asteroid may have come from the Oort cloud, a spherical shell of frozen bodies far beyond the orbit of Pluto that is thought...
29 September 1997
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BSE and vCJD: The Same Disease?
One of the most worrying consequences of Britain's outbreak of "mad cow disease"--that humans might have been infected by consuming contaminated beef--appears to be confirmed by research to be published...
26 September 1997
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His Research Ran Deep
Tomorrow would have been the 77th birthday of Henry Stommel, an American oceanographer who studied the Gulf Stream and other ocean currents. Stommel applied simple mathematical models to the study...
26 September 1997
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Solitary Neutron Star Reveals Its True Colors
Astronomers have taken their first direct look at a lone neutron star in visible light. Because they are normally found paired with other, much brighter stars, which complicate interpretation of...
26 September 1997
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Head of Rice Research Lab Steps Down
Already struggling with massive staff layoffs, one of the world's major agricultural research centers also lost its director this week. On Wednesday, the head of the International Rice Research Institute...
26 September 1997
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Ocean Floor Laid Bare in New Map
A team of geophysicists has produced the most detailed three-dimensional map of the ocean floor so far by using ship soundings to correct new and recently declassified satellite data. The...
25 September 1997
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Pollution-Eating Bacteria that Dress for Success
Bacteria have long promised to be a powerful ally for cleaning up sites contaminated by pesticides and chemical weapons. But the bacterial enzymes that can break down the toxic chemicals...
25 September 1997
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Watching Cravings in the Brain
Researchers have for the first time watched what happens in the human brain as an addictive drug--cocaine--creates first its "high" and then intense cravings for more of the drug. The...
25 September 1997
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Too Bright Future for Global Climate?
The sun may be getting brighter, according to a report in tomorrow's Science*. If the controversial analysis is correct--and if the change signals a long-term trend--a brightening sun could be...
24 September 1997
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Today is the birthday of Ivar Pavlov, a Russian physiologist born in 1849 who is best known for his studies of the conditioning of dogs. Between 1890 and 1900, Pavlov...
24 September 1997
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A More Violent Moon Birth?
It took an even bigger cataclysm to form the moon than researchers had thought, a new study suggests. The moon is thought to be the legacy of a jarring collision...
24 September 1997
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Brain Retains Facility for Faces
In 1988, a 27-year-old man identified as CK sustained head injuries in an auto accident that left him with a strange impairment: He has normal eyesight and cognition, but he...
23 September 1997
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China Elevates Scientists to Party Posts
Prominent scientists and engineers are increasingly visible in the new leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, which is also better educated than its predecessor. Five members and alternates of the...
23 September 1997
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Genetics, Vitamin A Win Laskers
This year's Albert Lasker medical research awards, each worth $25,000, go to two scientists who have done pioneering work in genetics and to a physician who brought vitamin A therapy...
23 September 1997
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NIF Faces New Legal Challenge
LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA--The threat of a court-ordered halt looms again over the Department of Energy's (DOE's) $1.2 billion National Ignition Facility (NIF). Yesterday, a national coalition of 39 environmental and antinuclear...
23 September 1997
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Reactor Nears Self-Sustaining Fusion Goal
Researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET), the European fusion test reactor in Abingdon, United Kingdom, announced today that they have come closer than ever before to achieving self-sustaining fusion,...
22 September 1997
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King Faraday
On this day in 1791, Michael Faraday, a renowned English physical chemist and popularizer of science, was born. Faraday is considered the most brilliant experimentalist of the 1800s for his...
22 September 1997
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The Secret to a Firm, Flexible Grip
The mussels that cling obstinately to seaside rocks and piers use hundreds of strong but rubbery hairs, called byssal threads, to strengthen their grip. In the latest issue of Science,...
22 September 1997
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Elusive Kaon Finally Corralled
Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed an exceedingly rare decay of a particle called a charged kaon, ending a 15-year quest. The decay, which occurs just once for every...
19 September 1997
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Grappling With Graptolites
Tomorrow is the 155th anniversary of the birth of Charles Lapworth, an English geologist famous for his work with marine fossils called graptolites. By fastidiously collecting the tiny, colonial sea...
19 September 1997
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Biologists Adopt Cloning Moratorium
Hoping to ease public fears about human cloning and ward off overreaching legislation, the country's largest coalition of biologists announced yesterday that it had adopted a voluntary moratorium on creating...
19 September 1997
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Flies, Mice Share Timekeeping Gene
As jet-lag sufferers know, the body's 24-hour clock delivers a powerful timekeeping signal. In recent years, clock researchers have uncovered some of the gears and springs that keep this circadian...
19 September 1997
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Oldest Earthen Mounds Heighten Mystery
Millennia before the arrival of Europeans, early Native Americans went on a construction binge, dotting the eastern side of the continent with thousands of vast earthen mounds. Now, as reported...
18 September 1997
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UN to Grapple With HIV Ethics
The United Nations' AIDS program, UNAIDS, next week plans to hold a closed meeting in Geneva that will begin to sort out thorny new questions about the ethics of conducting...
18 September 1997
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Details of a Death Warrant
When DNA is damaged beyond repair, cells commit suicide rather than run the risk of becoming cancerous. The p53 tumor-suppressor gene--so-called because it is lost or damaged in many cancers--issues...
18 September 1997
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Man Keeps HIV in Check Without Drugs
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND--An HIV-infected German man has "undetectable" levels of the virus in his blood 9 months after he stopped taking a powerful combination of drugs to tackle the infection. This...
18 September 1997
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Trouble With Blind Dates
Murky water may be causing fish extinctions in Africa's Lake Victoria by making it impossible for female fish to recognize and mate with the brightly colored males. Ecologists say the...
17 September 1997
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Plant Plumbing
Today is the 320th anniversary of the birth of Stephen Hales, an English clergyman known for his careful biological research, particularly on the physiology and growth of plants. Hales conducted...
17 September 1997
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A Twinkling Fireball
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA--Astronomers have sized up what appears to be a giant fireball, billions of light-years away, and clocked it expanding at near the speed of light. The findings, which will...
17 September 1997
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Slow-Brained Night Owls
If you seem to have trouble thinking straight late at night, don't put all the blame on long hours of work or lack of sleep. According to a new study,...
17 September 1997
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Magnetic Mars
NASA's Global Surveyor has detected a magnetic field around Mars. While it's unlikely that the geologically inactive planet is generating a field the way Earth does, the discovery may lend...
16 September 1997
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The First Vitamins
Today is the 110th anniversary of the birth of Marguerite Davis, an American chemist who co-discovered vitamins A and B. Davis worked at the University of Wisconsin with Elmer Vernon...
16 September 1997
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Dialing for Diagnoses
A computer that can diagnose common psychiatric disorders could become a helpful aid to busy physicians and make screening for mental disorders much more common. And for some disorders, patients...
16 September 1997
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Design Your Own Child
The full-page ads proclaimed: Children made to order. Prospective parents could choose from a checklist of traits, including skin color, perfect eyesight, and protection against premature baldness, for their offspring....
16 September 1997
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Green Groups Fight EPA Over Transgenic Crops
A coalition of farmers and environmental groups petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today to suspend approval and develop tougher guidelines for genetically engineered crops that produce an insect-killing...
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