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12 November 1997
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Casts of Thousands
Tilly Edinger, a vertebrate paleontologist who pioneered the study of how brains have evolved over the eons, was born on 13 November 1897. The German-born researcher, who immigrated to the...
12 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Tumor's Ticket to Ride
One hallmark of a deadly cancer is its ability to spread like a windblown fire to other parts of the body. Now, scientists have identified an enzyme that may link...
12 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Thieves Bedevil U.S.-Russian Neutrino Detector
MOSCOW--For much of the past year, government officials here have been trying to confiscate 60 tons of ultrapure gallium that forms the heart of a neutrino detector beneath the mountains...
12 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Molecular Tackle Halts Mutation
If faulty DNA were a grenade ready to explode into a genetic disease or birth defect, then researchers have now discovered the brave proteins that smother a ticking bomb to...
11 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mars for Sale
You don't have to be a martian or even Bill Gates to own a piece of Mars. In a full-page ad in the New York Times today, a New York...
11 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Prize Offered for New Fermat Theorem
The story of the most famous problem in mathematics, Fermat's Last Theorem, has all the ingredients of a real-life treasure hunt: a cryptic note left behind by the French mathematician...
11 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Compromise Academy Bill Passes House
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The House approved a bill yesterday that would exempt the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) from strict openness rules involving federal advisory panels, but would still require it to...
11 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Antibody Attack on Pancreatic Cancer
A new therapy for pancreatic cancer reduced the growth rate of tumors in patients in a pilot trial and, in a separate study, kept mouse tumors at bay altogether. The...
10 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Advocates Sandbag White House Appointment
Several breast cancer advocacy groups appear to have won their battle to keep a controversial women's health advocate out of the White House. On Sunday, psychiatrist Susan Blumenthal--until recently director...
10 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Freestyle Neurons
There's not much to love about a lamprey, an eellike parasite that clamps onto other fish and sucks their blood until they die. But physiologists have latched onto the lamprey's...
10 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Last-Minute Compromise Gives NIH 7.1% Raise
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Congress agreed months ago that it wanted to give biomedical research a large raise in next year's budget. Now it has followed through: On 8 November, the Senate passed...
7 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Radiation Pioneer
Marie Curie, a French physicist famous for her research on radioactivity, was born on this day in 1867. Madame Curie and her husband Pierre found that a mineral called pitchblende...
7 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Unzip Your Genes
If you think trying to unzip your coat while wearing mittens is hard, try undoing that most famous of zippered molecules, double-stranded DNA. Now, for the first time, scientists have...
7 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Academy Calls for Program to Divert Bioweaponeers
W ASHINGTON , D.C.--The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a report here today calling on the Department of Defense (DOD) to launch a $38.5 million initiative to fund collaborations...
7 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
X-rays Hint at Space Pirouette
Tiny wobbles in x-rays from matter being pulled toward neutron stars may be a sign that these spinning stars are dragging huge swaths of space with them. The findings, announced...
6 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
RNA Therapy Curbs Lung Damage
By injecting short nucleic acids into rats, researchers have blocked an enzyme linked to swelling and tissue damage in the lungs. The researchers hope to turn this novel compound, described...
6 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Plague's Lethal Injection
When cornered by immune system seek-and-destroy cells called macrophages, Yersinia bacteria--the culprits behind the plague and other diseases--fight back viciously. Like a poisonous snake, the bacteria inject a toxin that...
6 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Digital Penis
The penis may have more in common with other stubby projections--fingers and toes--than most of us might have guessed. Researchers have discovered that the same genes that direct a mammalian...
6 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Heat Rises Between Greenhouse Guru, Naysayer
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A congressional hearing here today to discuss the Clinton Administration's proposal for cutting greenhouse gases turned into a heated exchange between two of the most visible scientists on opposite...
5 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NIH Panel Commends Acupuncture
WASHINGTON, D.C.--After decades of largely being spurned by the U.S. medical establishment, acupuncture seems to be gaining some respectability. Last year, the Food and Drug Administration took the "experimental" label...
5 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Phased by Traffic Jams?
Traffic jams sometimes start for no apparent reason and can last for hours. Now, after observing a notoriously choked stretch of autobahn, two German researchers think they understand better why...
5 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Antibody Found for Pathogenic Prions
Scientists have found an antibody to the aberrant protein found in the dreaded "mad cow disease" and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. The serendipitous discovery, reported in tomorrow's issue of...
5 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Sun's Heat Takes Magnetic Carpet Ride
As weird and illogical as a lake freezing over on a warm summer day, heat from the sun appears to flow from its surface--a mere 6000 degrees Celsius or so--toward...
4 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tough Love for Baby Penguins
If you think your parents ever gave you the runaround, pity the baby Adelie penguins. Before a chick can chow on regurgitated krill, it must pursue its parents for up...
4 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Reluctant Goodbye to Pathfinder
After almost a month of fruitless calls to Pathfinder on Mars, mission engineers are halting their round-the-clock efforts to resuscitate the lander. "I guess it's a reluctant goodbye," said mission...
4 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Autoimmunity Gene Discovered
Scientists have discovered the first example of a gene solely responsible for an autoimmune disease, a type of disorder in which the immune system attacks the body. The finding, announced...
4 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gamma-Ray Halo Intrigues Astronomers
Astronomers have known for years that a powerful energy source at the core of the Milky Way is sending gamma-rays out through the entire galaxy, but now they're puzzling over...
3 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Eye of the Cyclone
Yesterday was the centenary of the birth of Jacob Bjerknes, a Norwegian meteorologist who paved the way for weather forecasting. Bjerknes is known for explaining how cyclones cross the ocean,...
3 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
El Niño May Take Wind Out of Global Warming Sails
El Niño, the periodic warming of the Eastern Pacific, took the rap for two nasty weather events last month: the hurricane that swept Acapulco and the blizzard that dumped up...
3 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Saccharin: Still Potentially Dangerous
After nearly being exonerated as a suspected health hazard, saccharin--the artificial sweetener--is to remain on the government's list of possible human carcinogens. An advisory panel to the National Toxicology Program...
3 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Parting Shot for Cassini
Planetary scientists thought they had seen the last of the Saturn probe Cassini when it roared skyward on 15 October. But thanks to astronomers who usually hunt for asteroids, they...
3 November 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Anticancer Drug Aids Liver Transplants
Livers are so delicate that even the hardiest donor specimens fail if they aren't transplanted within 24 hours. But a fortuitous coincidence has led to the discovery that interferon (IFN)...
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