February 1998 Archives
27 February 1998
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Invisible Transplants
Designer antibodies may help transplanted organs sneak by the body's defenses. The molecules, reported in the March Nature Biotechnology, prevent mouse immune cells from recognizing some foreign molecules, but leave...
27 February 1998
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The Slow Dance of Climate
Researchers studying deep deposits of muck on the sea floor have dug out a detailed history of climate that extends nearly 2 million years into the past, confirming that throughout...
27 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Parkinson's, Part II
Scientists have found a second genetic link to Parkinson's disease (PD). The discovery, described in the March Nature Genetics, strengthens the theory that genes play a role in the neurodegenerative...
26 February 1998
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Antigravity Force Pumps Up the Cosmos
Seemingly in defiance of common sense, the cosmos appears to be permeated by a repulsive force that is counteracting gravity on large scales. That is the reluctant conclusion of an...
26 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Dial-Up Reality
The lenient laws of quantum mechanics permit a lone electron to be in two places at once--as long as it strictly avoids any contact with its surroundings. Now, for the...
26 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Herpes's Blinding Deceit
A strain of herpesvirus may use a kind of molecular mirror to sabotage cells in the eye, resulting in a common autoimmune disease that can lead to blindness. The finding,...
25 February 1998
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Campus Licensing Deals Taking Off
Relations between academia and industry--which went into a deep chill during the 1960s and 1970s--have grown warm and cozy in the 1990s. The best evidence of the warming trend may...
25 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Clark Satellite Scrapped
NASA has canceled its remote-sensing Clark satellite, citing cost overruns and launch schedule delays. The long-expected decision, announced today, is a setback for NASA's new emphasis on fast and cheap...
25 February 1998
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Old Parents for New Planets?
Astronomers have discovered the ingredients of planets in an unusual locale: the dusty disk surrounding an ancient binary star system. The finding, reported in tomorrow's Nature, is a surprise, because...
25 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Canada Restores Funding Cuts for Research
OTTAWA--After 3 years of cutting science budgets more severely than any government in Canadian history, the governing Liberals have moved to restore to 1995 levels the budgets of the country's...
24 February 1998
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Bacteria May Have Escaped Hospital
Drug-resistant bacteria that usually attack only hospital patients may now have jumped into broader circulation in the general population, according to a study in tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical...
24 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Going for the Jugular Against Parkinson's
A potential therapy for Parkinson's disease may lie in an unusual location: the carotid body, a small organ in the neck. In the February issue of Neuron, José López-Barneo and...
24 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Top U.S. Students Lag in Math and Science
U.S. high school seniors have flunked the latest international science survey. The students performed near the bottom in general science literacy, were second to last in advanced mathematics, and brought...
23 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dyes, Planets, and Peas
Editor's Note: Today we revisit three ScienceThens, first posted last year. A Discovery to Dye For Tuesday, 24 February: Today is the birthday of Carl Graebe, a German organic chemist...
23 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Science Friction?
Scuff across the floor, and you'll excite tiny sound waves that quickly whimper away as heat. Those waves cause most friction, some physicists say, but in certain cases, the resistance...
23 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Secret Rhapsody in Infrared
Computers may someday have a new way of transmitting secret information--by scrambling it with chaotic static. In an experimental technique, physicists sent a series of infrared laser pulses through a...
20 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Voice of the Mind's Ear
Put on glasses that distort the world, and your brain quickly adapts so that you can still find objects correctly. Now a pair of scientists reports that the brain can...
20 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Appetite-Boosting Peptides Discovered in Rats
Researchers have discovered a potential new target for appetite-altering drugs. In today's issue of Cell, a team led by Masashi Yanagisawa of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in...
20 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Bad Mix: Radon and Smoking
The latest report from the National Research Council (NRC) on the hazards of radon exposure has more bad news for smokers: If you are living in one of the 6%...
19 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Atom Smasher Urged
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Physicists should lay plans for a new, more powerful accelerator to investigate fundamental questions such as why particles have mass, according to a National Research Council (NRC) report released...
19 February 1998
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Munched Radishes Get Defensive
Animals that chomp on young plants may actually be doing them a favor, according to a study in this week's Science. Wild radishes that are nibbled early in their lives...
19 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Space Science Leader to Leave NASA
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Wesley Huntress, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science, announced yesterday that he will leave the agency before the end of the year. Huntress, who has managed NASA's programs in...
19 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Malaria Strains Team Up Against the Immune System
Two closely related strains of the malaria parasite appear to have evolved a surprising and insidious tactic to defeat their victims' immune defenses: cooperation. The findings, reported in tomorrow's issue...
18 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Custom Molecule Enhances Radiation Therapy
PHILADELPHIA--A molecule known for its Texas-sized girth now appears to be a promising new weapon against cancer. A pilot trial of the new heavy metal-bearing compound, described here Saturday at...
18 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Pain in the Immune System
PHILADELPHIA--Immune system cells in the spinal cord may help trigger excruciating, hard-to-treat pain. The finding, reported last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of...
18 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Secret of Resistant Leukemia
A rare, untreatable type of leukemia appears to be due to a mutant cell receptor that binds one signaling molecule so tightly that it is deaf to the signals that...
18 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cheap AIDS Therapy Reduces Infection at Birth
A yearlong ethical controversy over AIDS clinical trials seemed headed toward a resolution today, as the U.S. government unveiled data from Thailand showing that short-term therapy with the antiviral drug...
17 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Digital Libraries Put to Work
Efforts to make the Internet's digital flood as useful and easy to navigate as bookstacks in a good old-fashioned library will get a big boost sometime in the next few...
17 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tugging at a Cell's Heartstrings
PHILADELPHIA--Researchers have observed cells hastily setting up factories for producing proteins when the surface of the cell is pulled or twisted. The findings, reported Friday evening at the annual meeting...
17 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
EU Bodies on Collision Course Over Research Budget
LONDON--While U.S. research and development is slated for record boosts, Europe's multibillion-dollar Framework research program appears headed for a flat budget. Last week, the EU's Council of Research Ministers agreed...
13 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
All Wound Up Over DNA
PHILADELPHIA--DNA is a contortionist extraordinaire: As much as a meter can twist into a bundle small enough to squeeze inside a cell's nucleus. Now researchers have wound a stretch of...
13 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Global Warming Could Spawn Super Typhoons
Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to raise sea surface temperatures, which in turn will trigger more powerful hurricanes in the western Pacific, according to a...
13 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Of Mice and Moths--and Lyme Disease?
Ecologists have unraveled an intricate skein of interactions among forest species that may govern upsurges of Lyme disease and tree-ravaging gypsy moths. In a 3-year study described in today's Science,...
13 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Clinton Names New Science Adviser, NSF Director
PHILADELPHIA--President Clinton has named Neal Lane, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), to be his science adviser and head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Lane will...
12 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Russians Foil Space Station Grab
MOSCOW--Russia's intelligence agency appears to have foiled a robbery that could have jeopardized the country's participation in the international space station. Last month, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSS) says it...
12 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Figs Like to Go the Distance
Long a symbol of life and fertility in Eastern cultures, the fig tree has now shown that its sexual prowess is tops in the plant kingdom, at least in one...
12 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NASA Zooms in on Famous Ancient Temple Complex
WASHINGTON, D.C.--New aerial radar views of ancient Angkor reveal previously undocumented ruins in the famous temple complex, built by the Khmer people in northern Cambodia between the 8th and 13th...
12 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Method in Ebola's Madness
Researchers have a new clue about just what makes the Ebola virus such a quick and gruesome killer. Findings reported in tomorrow's Science suggest that the virus--which kills more than...
11 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Satcher Gets Surgeon General Post
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Senate's approval of David Satcher for U.S. Surgeon General here yesterday will fill a void in biomedical policy-making and reclaim the nation's bully pulpit for public health, vacant...
11 February 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Light Squeeze
Researchers have found that light can slip through holes up to 10 times narrower than its wavelength. The finding, reported in tomorrow's issue of Nature, contradicts the traditional view that...
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