December 1997 Archives
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31 December 1997
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"Dino" Eggs Laid by Big Bird?
A new fossil find in the south of France suggests that many of the "dinosaur" eggs found in the region may actually have been laid by ostrichlike birds. The large...
31 December 1997
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Drugs at Nature's Call
The birth of Dolly, the infamous Scottish cloned sheep, got a lot of ink earlier this year as commentators fretted about the implications for cloning people. But a more immediate...
31 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Closing In on a Giant Black Hole
A new analysis of x-rays streaming from the bright center of a galaxy has strengthened the case that a supermassive black hole lurks there. The x-rays imply that their source,...
30 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Red Rocket Man
The man who masterminded the Soviet Union's early triumphs in military and civilian rocketry was born today in 1906. Sergei Korolyov launched his first liquid-fueled rocket in 1933 and helped...
30 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NIH Settles in Affirmative Action Suit
Opponents of affirmative action are claiming a legal victory against a federal effort to attract more minority students into biomedicine and health careers. On 11 December, lawyers for the Washington,...
30 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Epilepsy Genes Found
A team of researchers has pinpointed two genes that, when mutated, can each cause epilepsy in infants. Although these mutations are relatively rare, their discovery, reported in the January issue...
29 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Vaccine Shows Promise Against Ebola
Researchers have developed a candidate vaccine against Ebola, one of the world's deadliest viruses. The vaccine, reported in January's Nature Medicine, has so far been tested only in mice and...
29 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
DNA Rings of Death
Ordinarily when we think of aging, it's the outward signs that come to mind: wrinkles, graying hair, and withering muscles. But time may leave a much more telling mark in...
24 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Evidence for Genetic Link to Alzheimer's Disputed
A link between Alzheimer's disease and mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) arose from a flawed lab procedure, according to two reports in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of...
24 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Fetching Fido's Genes
Scientists have produced a rough map of the genetic blueprint of dogs. The map, published in the current issue of Genomics, should be a useful guide for veterinary researchers to...
23 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Detailed Look at Molecular Railway Ties
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Biophysicists have solved the structure of a protein that makes up the cell's internal rail system, transporting everything from proteins to DNA. The new structure, unveiled here last week...
23 December 1997
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Earlier Arrival for Earliest Americans
Asian people first flocked to North America in a single wave as long as 40,000 years ago, some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. The...
23 December 1997
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Toxic Microbe Befuddles Rats
To the victims of Pfiesteria, a toxic marine microorganism that has killed scads of fish and sickened some people from Delaware to the Gulf of Mexico, add laboratory rats. In...
22 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Chimps in Your Living Room
The documentary "Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees" first aired on U.S. television on this date in 1965. The film brought widespread acclaim to British primatologist Jane Goodall and a...
22 December 1997
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Astrophysicist Dies in Plane Crash
David Schramm, a leading authority on the birth of the universe, died on 19 December, after the private airplane he was piloting crashed outside Denver. Schramm, a 52-year-old astrophysicist and...
22 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Korea Adopts Plan to Strengthen R&D
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA--Despite an economy on the brink of bankruptcy, South Korea has given a strong vote of confidence to increased public funding for research. On 12 December, a panel...
22 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
TB's Lethal Blueprint Laid Bare
LONDON--Researchers have unraveled the complete genetic sequence of one of the world's worst scourges: the tuberculosis bacterium. The achievement, announced here last week, could usher in new diagnostic tests and...
19 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Death Potion Withers Muscles
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Whether you're a body builder or 98-pound weakling, by the time you turn 45 your muscles will naturally begin to wither. Now, scientists have a provocative new theory that...
19 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Three Win Japan Prize
A Japanese physicist and two Belgian geneticists have won the 1998 Japan Prize, one of the world's richest science awards. The researchers were hailed for basic research achievements that led...
19 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Feds Dish Salmon Protection to State
Federal officials have withdrawn plans to use the Endangered Species Act to protect Maine's dwindling stocks of wild Atlantic salmon. This abdication leaves Maine officials in charge of protecting the...
19 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Leader for CERN
The governing board of CERN, Europe's premier particle physics lab, today tapped Italian physicist and board chair Luciano Maiani as CERN's next director-general. Maiani succeeds Christopher Llewellyn Smith, who will...
18 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Radio Head
The father of FM radio was born on this day in 1890. In the 1920s, radio broadcasting used only amplitude modulation (AM), in which a signal is transmitted by variations...
18 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
'Sieving' Prime Numbers From Thin Ore
Like prospectors, mathematicians who study prime numbers would like to know how these unusual numbers are scattered through the ore of other integers. Now they have a new prospecting tool....
18 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cancer Cells With No Future
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Scientists have discovered a gene that destines certain cancer cells to a limited lifetime. Experts hope that the finding, reported here this week at the American Society for Cell...
18 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Star Death, With Style
Striking new photos from the Hubble Space Telescope are giving astronomers insights into the deaths of ordinary stars like our sun. The images, released yesterday at a news conference at...
17 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Trick of the Eye
Jan Purkinje, a histologist and physiologist whose findings led to important insights into how the body works, was born on this day in 1787. Purkinje is famous for explaining visual...
17 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Jousting With Space Junk
NASA should do more to prevent potentially catastrophic collisions between the space shuttle and orbiting chunks of space junk, says a report released today by the National Research Council (NRC)....
17 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Blood Cells Linked to Brain Disease
White blood cells could play a critical role in the development of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD), the fatal human version of so-called "mad cow disease," Swiss scientists report in tomorrow's Nature....
16 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
German Fraud Prevention Urged
An international panel set up by Germany's basic-science granting agency, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), has recommended that future grants be denied to universities and research institutes that fail to adopt...
16 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Clinton Ducks Future R&D Spending Issue
WASHINGTON, D.C.--President Bill Clinton praised science innovations today as the engine behind what he calls "the new economy" of growth, and he also proposed $94 million in new defense and...
16 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Museum's Live Research Shuttered
A science exhibit that put active research on public display has failed. The Hall of Exploration at the Columbus Center, a high-tech marine science museum separated by plate-glass windows from...
16 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
HIV's Early Warnings
A new study in India shows that people newly infected with the AIDS virus experience fever, joint pain, and night sweats weeks before conventional blood tests can detect the infection....
15 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Faux Virus
Thirty years ago yesterday, biochemists Arthur Kornberg and Mehran Goulian announced the creation of an artificial copy of DNA that was biologically active and could infect cells. The achievement opened...
15 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rotavirus Vaccine Gets FDA Nod
A vaccine against rotavirus, a highly contagious bug that causes life-threatening diarrhea in young children, was deemed safe and effective by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel...
15 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Yosemite's Supersonic Blast
SAN FRANCISCO--A huge slab of granite that fell from a cliff at Yosemite National Park last year created a supersonic blast of air when it hit the ground, according to...
12 December 1997
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The Chemistry of Champagne Fizz
Raise a toast to William Henry, the British chemist. Born on this day in 1774, Henry is best known for his studies of the solubility of gases in liquids. In...
12 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
No Reprieve for Greenwich Observatory
BRISTOL, UNITED KINGDOM--A last ditch plan to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) has failed. Citing high risk and costs, the institution's funder, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council...
12 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Africa's Fickle Climate
SAN FRANCISCO--The Sahara Desert's rapid advance in northern Africa is no fluke: Scientists have found evidence that the continent's rainfall and average temperatures suddenly plunged or rose dozens of times...
12 December 1997
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Missile Damages Telescope Computers
An Air Force cruise missile crashed into a trailer of computer equipment for cosmic ray telescopes at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds, about 70 miles southwest of Salt Lake...
11 December 1997
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Do Stress Waves Kick Off Quakes?
SAN FRANCISCO--Massive earthquakes along deep-sea trenches may spawn slow-moving "stress pulses" under the ocean floor that trigger other quakes decades later and thousands of kilometers away, scientists said here yesterday...
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