March 1998 Archives
31 March 1998
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Shaking Up Soot Research
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must revamp its air-pollution research and monitoring program to support an expensive clampdown on fine soot emissions, according to a report released here today...
31 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gene Therapy for Mosquitoes
Like flying syringes, mosquitoes excel at pricking your skin and drawing blood. But some species also inadvertently spread diseases, like malaria. Now researchers have taken an important step toward genetically...
31 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Ancient Ruins Found in Antarctica
DURAK, ARGENTINA--Scientists have uncovered the remains of a massive stone structure and other artifacts, estimated to be 4000 years old, in a remote corner of Antarctica. The find, announced at...
31 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
ESA Dreams of Industry Ties
A plan to breathe life back into the European Space Agency (ESA) by forging new partnerships with aerospace industry was unveiled last week at a meeting of ESA's Council at...
30 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Killer Bees Bare Their Genes
Researchers have located regions in the DNA of bees that appear to harbor one or more genes that make so-called "killer bees" so aggressive. But experts say the finding, reported...
30 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Hubble Spies Ghostly Ring in Space
Astronomers have spotted a near-perfect circle of light whose eerie shape was produced by a galaxy acting like an enormous lens. This "Einstein ring" is the first to be seen...
30 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mutations Buff Up Drug-Resistant Bugs
Antibiotic resistance has been a mixed blessing for bacteria, as the mutations that enable a bug to survive a drug also often disable some key cellular function or slow its...
30 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
PET Scan Personalizes Cancer Treatment
DALLAS--Radioactive tracers can reveal whether a breast tumor is shrinking in response to the drug tamoxifen, according to results from a pilot trial announced here yesterday at a national meeting...
27 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Intel to Sponsor Science Talent Search
Computer chip manufacturer Intel Corp. is the new sponsor of the prestigious Science Talent Search, a national competition for high school seniors. Intel succeeds Westinghouse Corp., which, after restructuring itself...
27 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Lizards Take Convergent Evolution to Extreme
If evolution started all over again, would it repeat itself? In today's issue of Science, a real-life version of this thought experiment suggests that the answer may be yes--at least...
27 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Last of the Mesons
Physicists say they have finally unearthed the last member of a set of subatomic particles called mesons. The discovery of the Bc meson, announced recently at a seminar at the...
26 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Nerve-Wracking Discovery
Today is the 87th birthday of Sir Bernard Katz, a German-born English physiologist who elucidated how nerve cells transmit signals. Although it was known that neurons release acetylcholine at their...
26 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Earth Shakes Without Quakes
Tiny pulsations set off by something other than earthquakes are rippling Earth, according to a new analysis of gravity records reported in tomorrow's issue of Science. The oscillations, akin to...
26 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Keeping Genes Out of Pollen
Researchers have found a way to stick a gene into tobacco plants that protects them against a herbicide, with little risk of the foreign gene spreading to neighboring weeds. The...
26 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Unsteady Crust Below Yucca Mountain?
The crust beneath Yucca Mountain--the site of a proposed U.S. repository for highly radioactive waste--appears to be deforming at least 10 times faster than expected. The satellite-based observations, reported in...
25 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NSF Board Lauds Goodall, NOVA
Chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall and public television's NOVA science series will take home the National Science Board's first Public Service Awards for their efforts to improve public understanding of science...
25 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Space Tourism Near, Study Says
The day is fast approaching when thrillseekers hot for high G's, weightless nights, and an unobstructed view of the stars will be taking rockets to orbital hotels, according to a...
25 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dino Guts Made Lasting Impression
Researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of a dinosaur with some internal tissues intact, including what may have been the animal's gut and liver. The well-preserved specimen, described in tomorrow's...
25 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
AIDS Deaths Dropped Dramatically
Potent drug cocktails cut the death rate a whopping 75% among AIDS patients in a large health trial. The finding, reported in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine, underscores the...
24 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Chemist to Lead China's New Science Ministry
BEIJING--The Chinese government has established a new Ministry of Science and Technology and promoted a polymer chemist, Zhu Lilan, to head it. Zhu, 59, is one of only two women...
24 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Darwin's House to Reopen
LONDON--The house and grounds where Charles Darwin spent the last 40 years of his life--and where he drew together his crucial theoretical work on evolution--will open to the public next...
24 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Hunt for Drug-Resistant Microbes
Alarmed by the growing threat of pathogens able to survive drugs meant to kill them, a grassroots network of scientists has sprung up to track a mostly ignored well of...
23 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dropping Charges
Yesterday was the birthday of Robert Millikan (born in 1868), the physicist who first measured the charge of an electron--an experiment repeated every year by physics students around the world....
23 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Giant Tesla Coil Unveiled
SAN FRANCISCO--Bolts of artificial lightning more than 10 meters long shot up into the night sky here Friday when a local electrical engineer switched on the world's largest tesla coil,...
23 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
First Alzheimer's Samples Found
Ending a 2-year search, German scientists have uncovered a piece of science history: brain samples from Auguste D., the first Alzheimer's patient ever to be described in medical literature. The...
20 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Indian Physicist Gets Top Science Post
NEW DELHI, INDIA--India's new prime minister has named a former physics professor and senior party official to oversee the twin posts of science and technology and human resources, which includes...
20 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Bare Bones of Catalysis
Researchers have used test-tube evolution to create a new, smaller enzyme that still performs the function of its natural counterpart. This strategy of stripping an enzyme or other protein to...
20 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Big Dwarf and Heavy Metal
Massive stars eventually collapse under their own weight and explode as supernovae. Smaller stars, like our sun, simply fizzle into so-called white dwarfs. Scientists are keen to know just where...
20 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Chromosome That Got Away
Mathematically, tumors should not exist: In theory, cells do not mutate fast enough to overcome the genetic checks and balances that prevent damaged cells from reproducing out of control. Now,...
19 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Radio Astronomers and Motorola Sign Pact
Quelling concerns in the astronomy community, the world's largest radio observatory will not be drowned out by round-the-clock cell phone chitchat. Yesterday the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which operates...
19 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Magnetic Deep Freeze
LOS ANGELES--Refrigerator magnets are best known for holding shopping lists and old postcards onto refrigerator doors. But in a few years, much more powerful magnets could be the key to...
19 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Prehistoric Dating: Caves Spill Secrets
Caves and fashion models share one thing in common: They're notoriously hard to date. Now geologists have found a way to get coy caves, at least, to reveal their true...
19 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gene Linked to Heart Spasms
Scientists have found a gene that predisposes some people to potentially fatal heart spasms. The discovery, reported in today's issue of Nature, could lead to a genetic test and perhaps...
18 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Engine of Progress
German engineer Rudolf Diesel, the inventor known for his durable engine, was born on this day in 1853. When he was 40, Diesel published ideas for an engine that he...
18 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Warming Sparks Greener Pastures
A new green movement is under way. According to a series of studies presented this week at the joint Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems and Land Use/Cover Change Conference in...
18 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Polymers Stretch Efficiency of Displays
If you have a laptop computer, chances are that it has a liquid crystal display (LCD). And chances are that you have bemoaned the short battery life that results from...
18 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Biomedical Budget Riding High in Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Biomedical research was singled out for remarkably high growth yesterday in the first 1999 spending proposal introduced by a Republican leader in Congress. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
17 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Path of Life
A watershed in biochemistry--Melvin Calvin's scientific paper detailing the complete biochemical pathway through which plants convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into carbohydrates--was published 36 years ago, in the 16...
17 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Nerves Sprout New View of Brain
Scientists have found that the brains of adult primates are not a dead end for nerve growth, as popularly thought, but in fact are able to grow new nerve cells....
17 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Korea Inks Pact With Vaccine Institute
WASHINGTON, D.C.--An international effort to strengthen vaccine research and usage in East Asia took an important step forward with the signing here today of an agreement between the International Vaccine...
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