October 1997 Archives
31 October 1997
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Telescope on Stilts
A revolutionary solar telescope caught its first rays this week at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Canary Islands. The 45-centimeter Dutch Open Telescope (DOT) could open...
31 October 1997
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Clams Muscle Out Zebra Mussels
Eight years ago, zebra mussels from Russia infested the waters of Lake Erie, glomming onto native clams and suffocating them. Now, scientists report that some clams have survived by burrowing...
31 October 1997
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Clearer Picture of How Pollutants Fuel Smog
Tiny airborne pollutants that scatter sunlight may play a major role in creating smog. The finding, reported in today's issue of Science, could help researchers develop a better understanding of...
31 October 1997
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Two New Moons Around Uranus
There's no moon in the sky tonight for Halloween, but creatures of the night with powerful telescopes have two new targets: A team of astronomers announced today that it has...
30 October 1997
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Buckyballs: The Hottest Game in Town
While the Final Four tournament showcases college basketball's crème de la crème, the Top Four in physical sciences excel at an entirely different game: buckyball. In the latest analysis from...
30 October 1997
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Linking Trees to Tsunamis
Scientists have strong new evidence suggesting that a major earthquake shook the Northwest coast of the United States around 1700, causing a tidal wave that hit the Japanese island of...
30 October 1997
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New Light on the Fate of the Universe
Two groups of astronomers have analyzed light from distant exploding stars to reach a preliminary verdict on the fate of the expanding universe. The longtime rivals have been working independently...
30 October 1997
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Possible Schizophrenia Gene Identified
Scientists have found a human gene that may boost the risk of developing schizophrenia and other mental disorders. The researchers plan to announce their discovery tomorrow morning at the annual...
29 October 1997
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How Hungry is a Black Hole?
X-rays from distant galaxies may reveal the appetites of giant black holes that lurk there. As x-ray astronomers report in the current issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, the intensity of...
29 October 1997
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Live Long and Reproduce
Insect queens have it all: colonies of workers that cater to their every need, security befitting a monarch, and, to top it all off, time to enjoy their royal perks....
29 October 1997
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Breast Cancer Not Linked to PCBs
The largest study yet to examine whether certain "environmental estrogens"--synthetic chemicals that can act like hormones in the body--might be contributing to breast cancer has found no evidence for such...
28 October 1997
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Smoldering Battle Over Saccharin Heats Up
After more than 2 decades under suspicion as a human carcinogen, saccharin--one of the most controversial food additives ever--may be exonerated by the federal government after a hearing later this...
28 October 1997
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Jumbled Organs Lead to One-Sided Discovery
Though an unfertilized egg starts out as a uniform sphere, a vertebrate embryo's genes rapidly go to work to make its head different from its tail, its front different from...
28 October 1997
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Frankenstein Can Wait
Scientists have built the first silicon chip equipped with living nerve cells. The "neurochip," a silicon rectangle about 4 centimeters wide immersed in a petri dish, may be the forerunner...
28 October 1997
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Jaundiced by Conniving Genes
The risk of contracting a serious form of jaundice is three to five times higher in infants carrying two specific genetic mutations, each of which is generally benign when it...
27 October 1997
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Mars Pathfinder Nearing Its End
Pathfinder, the NASA spacecraft that landed on Mars on 4 July, appears to be in a coma, and unless radio contact is reestablished within 2 weeks, the mission must be...
27 October 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Smile While You Sweat
NEW ORLEANS--Like to exercise? That may be key to how much good your workout does you. A neuroscientist reported today at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience here...
27 October 1997
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Like a Laser, Only Better
Two research teams have created laserlike beams of light at wavelengths shorter than any laser. The results, reported in last week's Physical Review Letters (PRL) by a Michigan group and...
27 October 1997
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New Mutations Too Big for BRCA1 Tests
Dutch researchers have identified several new mutations in a gene that predisposes some women to breast cancer. The alterations in the BRCA1 gene, described in the November issue of Nature...
24 October 1997
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A Quick Twist in the Field
Tomorrow is the birthday of Motonori Matuyama, a Japanese geophysicist born in 1884 who discovered that Earth's magnetic poles have flip-flopped throughout history. Matuyama studied traces of Earth's ancient magnetic...
24 October 1997
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Swell Gel Sensors
Scientists have invented plastic gels that, like high-tech litmus paper, change color after encountering a target chemical. The versatile gels, described in this week's issue of Nature, could lead to...
24 October 1997
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Researchers Probe Sex Chromosome's Virgin Territory
The male sex chromosome has long been called our genetic junkyard, a clutter of meaningless DNA surrounding a handful of genes--and those only good for making more men. But after...
24 October 1997
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Fire Damages Gamma-Ray Observatory
Nearly one-third of a brand-new gamma-ray observatory in the Canary Islands was destroyed by a fire on 16 October. Because of the damage, the sensitivity will be cut in half...
23 October 1997
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A Meteoric Career
Ernst Öpik, an Estonian astronomer whose wide-ranging work on meteors led to the development of heat shields for spacecraft, was born on this day in 1893. Öpik studied the erosion...
23 October 1997
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Keeping Tabs on Roving Eyes
Knowing whether a baseball is headed for the strike zone--or wide outside--is no easy task. Now scientists have found the brain region that allows everyone from schoolchildren to major leaguers...
23 October 1997
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A Stay-at-Home Superfluid
Superfluids are immune to many of the forces that constrain ordinary liquids. Because they have no internal resistance to flow, ultracold helium-4 or helium-3 slips through microscopic holes, flows effortlessly...
23 October 1997
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Senators, Societies Back R&D Doubling
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Leaders of dozens of scientific societies and three senators crowded into a small room in the Capitol yesterday afternoon to propose doubling federal spending on civilian R&D over the...
22 October 1997
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Vaccine Has Childhood Diarrhea on the Run
A vaccine against rotavirus drastically reduced the death toll from childhood diarrhea in Venezuela, according to a study published in tomorrow's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. But...
22 October 1997
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DOE Pushes Shoestring Fusion
With prospects fading for construction of the proposed $10 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) anytime soon, the push for cheaper alternatives is gaining strength in the fusion community. This...
22 October 1997
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Physicists Unravel Mystery of Coffee Stains
Why does spilled coffee leave a ringlike stain after it dries? After boggling a team of physicists, this conundrum has finally been solved. The researchers spill the beans in tomorrow's...
22 October 1997
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A Free-Market Fix for Global Warming?
Trying to recast global warming as a "golden opportunity" for the United States rather than a costly catastrophe, President Bill Clinton today unveiled his administration's new "flexible, market-based" plan for...
21 October 1997
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And There Was Light
Thomas Edison unveiled the first incandescent light bulb, which burned for 40 hours, on this day in 1879. Although the idea for converting electricity into light was first investigated in...
21 October 1997
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Clinton Kills Asteroid Mission
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A small Pentagon mission to fire probes into several near-Earth asteroids has been shot down itself. President Bill Clinton last week vetoed the Clementine 2 program, part of the...
21 October 1997
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Thumbs Up for Long-Delayed Gene Ethnicity Survey
Mired in controversy for several years, an ambitious proposal to survey genetic variation in people from all over the world got a nod of approval today from the National Research...
21 October 1997
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Spiral Galaxy Smash-Up
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Astronomers are watching a violent collision of the two spiral galaxies from a ringside seat. Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Antennae galaxies--a pair of colliding...
20 October 1997
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Chemical Engineer to Head Poland
Polish scientists gained a highly placed ally this week when the new Solidarity-led parliament tapped chemical engineer Jerzy Buzek, an active researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of...
20 October 1997
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HIV Blocked by Experimental Molecule
The best drugs against AIDS intervene after HIV infects a cell. But scientists have now found a molecule that prevents HIV from even getting into cells at all, at least...
20 October 1997
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Ocean Magnate
Yesterday was the 80th birthday of Walter Munk, a geophysicist whose work has led to a better understanding of ocean currents, circulation, and tides. During World War II, Munk and...
20 October 1997
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Medical Institute Taps 70
Honored for their lifelong contributions to medical sciences, 60 scientists and health professionals were elected today to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The nonprofit institute convenes committees of IOM members...
17 October 1997
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Why Secondhand Smoke May be Bad for Your Heart
Scientists say they have confirmed a link between secondhand tobacco smoke and an increased risk of heart disease. The findings, reported in tomorrow's issue of the British Medical Journal, also...
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