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11 December 1997
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Mind-Altering Parasites
Parasites that cause skin rashes in people and infest ducks can commandeer DNA in the brains of snails and order the unwitting mollusks to give up sex. The findings, in...
11 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Symbiosis: The Spark of Life?
For the first time, scientists have produced a system of self-replicating molecules with a symbiotic relationship. The discovery, reported in today's Nature, illustrates how nonliving molecules could have organized into...
10 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Asbestos-Eating Foam
A new chemical foam can break down asbestos fibers in materials once used to fireproof homes, schools, and offices. The foam, announced at a press conference today by the chemical...
10 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A High-Flying X-Ray Mystery
SAN FRANCISCO--X-rays powerful enough to penetrate an inch of aluminum pulse through Earth's upper atmosphere, geophysicists reported today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The bursts strike...
10 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Mutation for Allergies
Scientists have found a genetic flaw that appears to make some people more susceptible to allergies than others. The discovery, reported in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine, may allow...
10 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Behold the Quantum Teleporter
In the quirky world of quantum mechanics, a concept that Star Trek fans have long dreamed about is now a reality. Anton Zeilinger and his team at the University of...
9 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Fish Surveys Not Accurate--NRC
To protect commercially important fishes from being overharvested, regulators need better ways to count them, says a report to be released tomorrow by the National Research Council. The NRC's blue-ribbon...
9 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gene Therapy That Lasts
Researchers have genetically engineered a virus that might overcome one of the big problems facing gene therapy: how to ferry therapeutic genes into target cells and keep them functioning. The...
9 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Snowball Fight Over Small Comets
SAN FRANCISCO--The provocative idea that thousands of house-sized comets disintegrate daily in Earth's atmosphere came under heavy fire by skeptics here at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union....
8 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
U.S. Signs On to CERN Collider
WASHINGTON, D.C.--International cooperation in science received a boost today at a White House ceremony solidifying U.S. participation in a $6 billion multinational project. After 4 years of sometimes difficult negotiations,...
8 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Big Quakes With a Gentle Touch
SAN FRANCISCO--Sediments amplify ground motions during an earthquake, so that structures built on soil shake harder than those perched on bedrock. However, a new study shows that for large quakes,...
8 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Still Splicing After All These Years
ScienceNOW wishes a happy 50th birthday to Thomas Cech, a biochemist who helped discover catalytic RNA. In the process, Cech and his colleagues overturned conventional wisdom about the interactions between...
8 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Outbreak in Hong Kong
Two more cases of a new and deadly influenza virus have been diagnosed in Hong Kong. On Saturday, public health authorities announced that a 54-year-old man and a 13-year-old girl...
5 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Inscrutable Atoms
Today would have been the 96th birthday of Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist who founded the field of quantum mechanics. In 1925, Heisenberg came up with the first precise mathematical...
5 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Laptop Bebop
Scientists grooved to the sounds of a versatile new jazz artist yesterday at the Acoustical Society of America conference in San Diego: A computer program called GenJam that can play...
5 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Molecular Inspector
Like any production line, a cell's protein-forming machinery occasionally makes mistakes. When it does, molecules called ubiquitins mark the duds for destruction. A paper in today's Science describes a protein...
5 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cool Sounds at 200 Decibels
The loudest controlled manmade sounds in history were produced this week--not by a rock band, but by a physicist. At the Acoustical Society of America meeting, Timothy Lucas of MacroSonix...
4 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Vanishing X-rays Betray Black Hole
Many galaxies and quasars are thought to have a giant black hole at their center that sucks in matter and occasionally ejects high-speed streams of ultrahot gas. Now, a "microquasar"...
4 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mars Life or Microscope Artifact?
The squiggly little forms in martian meteorite ALH48001 have been flashed around the world as evidence of extraterrestrial life. But in this week's Nature, a group of three meteoriticists argues...
4 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Journal of NIH Research, RIP
The hard hand of capitalism has struck down the struggling Journal of NIH (National Institutes of Health) Research, a monthly news and features magazine for biomedical researchers. Started in 1989,...
4 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Inflammatory Enzyme's Bare Bones
Enzymes called lipoxygenases stoke the fires of inflammatory diseases such as asthma, atherosclerosis, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel disease. In today's issue of Nature Structural Biology, researchers describe the first clear...
3 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Spying With the Ocean's Roar
SAN DIEGO--When submarines search for enemy vessels or dolphins look for prey, they can use high-pitched pings to view their surroundings. But sonar may not be the only way to...
3 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Shockingly Versatile Vaccine
For vaccines to teach the body to recognize a pathogen, they must insert a diagnostic fragment into macrophages and other cells of the immune system. Viruses can do the job,...
3 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Sizing Up a Deadly Crater
The massive meteorite impact that may have doomed the dinosaurs apparently blasted out a crater much smaller than some scientists had thought. New measurements of the buried crater, reported in...
3 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
"Female" Hormone Critical for Male Reproduction
Estrogen is known as the "female hormone," but a study in tomorrow's issue of Nature suggests that it's not so fussy about gender. Researchers showed one way in which estrogen...
2 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
European Ministers Back Biopatents
Europe moved a step closer to adopting continent-wide rules for the patenting of biotech inventions last week. The European Union's Council of Ministers backed a draft directive supported by the...
2 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
El Niño Clue to Malaria Outbreaks
Scientists may soon be able to predict some malaria outbreaks by monitoring sea surface temperatures. In tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers report that malaria epidemics in Venezuela...
2 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Spiked Lab Coffee Prompts Police Inquiry
It's enough to make a scientist swear off coffee. Last month, six researchers at the University of California, San Diego, Medical Center fell ill after swigging coffee at a lab...
1 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Bouncing Sand That Made Waves
Yesterday was the birthday of Ernst Chladni, a German physicist born in 1756 who helped found the science of acoustics. Chladni, who was a lawyer and music lover as well...
1 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NIH of the West?
SAN FRANCISCO--The world's second largest AIDS research organization was born today when the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) consolidated its more than 1000 HIV and AIDS researchers into a...
1 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gene for Deaf Syndrome Uncovered
In one of the first direct results of the Human Genome Project, scientists have found the gene for a disease that causes congenital deafness. Researchers report in the December issue...
1 December 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tick-Tock, Fruit Flies Have Multiple Clocks
If you thought the ticking of your biological clock was only in your head, brace yourself. While the brain has long seemed the master timekeeper for biological rhythms--controlling everything from...
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