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17 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Fossil Links Birds and Dinos
Paleontologists digging in the sandstone of Madagascar have uncovered an ancient, raven-sized bird with a slashing claw fit for a Velociraptor. The 65-million- to 70-million-year-old fossil is one of the...
16 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Summing Up the Kyoto Accord
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The diplomat who deftly rescued the climate change treaty negotiations from collapse last December in Kyoto, Japan, told a group of reporters here this morning that he harbors no...
16 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Hopes for CO2-Thirsty Forests Sink
New findings throw cold water on the view that the world's forests will dampen global warming by soaking up rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. According to...
16 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
HIV's Alternative Modus Operandi?
PARK CITY, UTAH--Since the early 1980s researchers have known that the AIDS virus wreaks havoc on the body's defenses by destroying immune system cells called CD4 T lymphocytes--so-called because of...
13 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Genius, Relatively Speaking
Tomorrow is the birthday of legendary physicist Albert Einstein, born in Germany in 1879. Einstein took science by storm with his special and general theories of relativity, which dethroned Isaac...
13 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Downside of Northern Exposure
Point Barrow, Alaska, may not seem like a place where you should worry about too much exposure to the sun. But fair-skinned residents of this northernmost U.S. town may have...
13 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gore Dreams of Channel Earth
Vice President Al Gore wants to launch a small satellite to snap live pole-to-pole pictures of Earth that would be continuously available on television and the Internet. Gore said at...
13 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Gene That Builds Strong Bones
Researchers in North Carolina believe they have linked a mutation carried by descendants of a Scottish sea captain to an extremely rare genetic disorder that makes bone iron-hard but weakens...
12 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Asteroid Won't Hit Earth
Doomsday asteroid watchers can relax. A reanalysis of the orbit of a large asteroid headed for a close encounter with Earth in 30 years (ScienceNOW, 11 March) predicts no chance...
12 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Earlier Origin of Southwest Farmers
Large farming villages with stone terraces may have been established in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico 3000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. A prehistoric northern Mexican...
12 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Most Precocious Galaxy
Astronomers have taken a picture of a galaxy at a record-breaking distance. Discovered at the world's largest telescope, the 10-meter Keck on Mauna Kea, the galaxy lies so far out...
11 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Sequencers Endorse Immediate Data Access
What's right for humans is also right for microbes: A group of top genome researchers has agreed that everyone sequencing genomes should follow the example set by those decoding the...
11 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Biosensing Within the Cell
A microscopic sensor can size up the inner workings of a living cell. The sensor, unveiled last week in New Orleans at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied...
11 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The First Seafarers
Our early ancestor Homo erectus may have been smart and social enough to build seafaring rafts. This flattering portrait of these early humans is reinforced by new dates for stone...
11 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Asteroid Headed for Earth
Astronomers are tracking an asteroid, at least 1 kilometer wide, that could hit Earth in 2028. The orbit of the massive asteroid, known as 1997 XF11, was posted today on...
10 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Search in the Blink of a Photon
Quantum computers are a long way off, but scientists are already busy dreaming up software for them. One such algorithm, for example, could factor a thousand-digit number in about half...
10 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
USAID Steps Up Battle on Deadly Bugs
ATLANTA--The global fight against tuberculosis and other infectious diseases got a shot in the arm yesterday. At the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases here, the U.S. State Department's Agency...
10 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cosmic Compass Points to Light Photons
Light is very light. That is the conclusion of a table-top experiment to weigh light's fleet-footed courier, the photon. The report, appearing in a last week's Physical Review Letters, indicates...
10 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Fat Hormone Needed for Puberty
Scientists have the first solid evidence that leptin--the hormone famous for making fat mice thin--also affects sexual development in humans. In a remote Turkish village, researchers have located a family...
9 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tuning In to a Distant Planet
The French astronomer who co-discovered the planet Neptune, Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, was born on this day in 1811. Based on hints that Uranus veered slightly from the orbit predicted...
9 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Top 10 Hot Papers for 1997
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, was the dominant theme among the top 10 hot papers for 1997, beating out even Dolly, the cloned lamb, in the citation count. All the...
9 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
In Beer, Bitter Medicine for Cancer?
SEATTLE--From the birthplace of the microbrew come new clues that beer may contain something far more healthful than just a big dose of carbohydrates. Researchers reported here last week at...
6 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Partners in Slime
The first eukaryotic cells--the complex cells dotted with organelles that make up all "higher" organisms--may have arisen from bacteria with an appetite for the waste products of their neighbors. The...
6 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Hard Times for Island Wolves
The delicate balance between wolves and moose in Michigan's Isle Royale National Park has been a case study in ecology textbooks for years. Now that famous predator-prey relationship may be...
6 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
AIDS Cocktail Boosts Immune System
The most successful drugs for suppressing HIV--protease inhibitors--can strengthen damaged immune systems in the face of resurging HIV. The surprising finding, reported in tomorrow's issue of The Lancet, suggests that...
5 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Muscle Bred in the Bone
Molecular and developmental biologists have discovered a potentially useful source of replacement muscle for people suffering from muscular dystrophy. As reported in today's issue of Science, experiments in mice show...
5 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Lawsuit Targets Yellowstone Bioprospectors
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Three environmental organizations announced here that they took legal action today to stop Yellowstone National Park from entering into a formal agreement with a San Diego-based biotech company that...
5 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Wise Young Owls
The young brain is a sponge for knowledge, primed to soak up skills and information with an ease that it will never match again. And those skills may last a...
5 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Water on the Moon
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A spacecraft has found "significant deposits of water ice at both poles of the moon," scientists announced at a press conference here today after analyzing data from the first...
4 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tuberculosis Contained
The serendipitous pursuit of a rapid outbreak of virulent tuberculosis shows how the disease can be stopped in its tracks, according to a report in tomorrow's New England Journal of...
4 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Seeing Red in the Outer Solar System
Large, cometlike objects that wander in the dark chill beyond Neptune may come in two colors, an unexpected dichotomy that may provide clues to the forces that shaped the outer...
4 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Assisted Suicide May Help Transplants Survive
Transplanted organs rarely get a hero's welcome in their new home--in fact, they are often attacked viciously by the host's immune system. Researchers have long known that a follow-up infusion...
3 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Sweet Cancer Vaccine
In the war on cancer, vaccines designed to teach immune cells to seek out proteins on cancer cells and swoop in for the kill have delivered less scintillating results than...
3 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Boom and Bust at R Leonis
For the first time, astronomers have watched a variable star swell and shrink. The star, called R Leonis, brightens and dims on a year-long schedule, and an innovative array of...
3 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dutch Pull the Plug on Cow Cloning
AMSTERDAM--In an unprecedented move, the Dutch minister of agriculture has put a stop to cloning experiments carried out by Pharming, a company based in Leiden, the Netherlands, that specializes in...
2 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Spotting the Sun
This image within an image is the latest--and perhaps most stunning--view of last week's total solar eclipse. The blotchy orange portion is the solar surface and lower atmosphere as seen...
2 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
How Lithium Quells a Manic Riot
Although lithium chloride has been the drug of choice for treating manic depression for nearly a half-century, nobody has known how the drug acts to quell the turbulent mood swings...
2 March 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Therapy Orders Cells to Fix Their Own DNA
A new gene therapy technique that appears to harness a cell's own genetic repair mechanism to rewrite its DNA sequence has shown remarkable success in rats. The findings, in this...
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