May 1998 Archives
29 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Earth Joins Fossil Record
The only popular magazine devoted to "the science of our planet" will be laid to rest after its next issue. Earth magazine, which delivered news and features on topics ranging...
29 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Flu Vaccine Copies Itself
A new DNA vaccine can pump out unprecedented amounts of flu protein into the bloodstream of mice, rendering them resistant to the flu virus. The experimental vaccine, described in next...
29 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
'First Light' for Giant Sky Survey
The largest and most inclusive survey of the heavens ever undertaken captured its first light earlier this month. The $80 million project, called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, will gather...
29 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Transmuting Light Into X-rays
Despite advances in laser technology, one dream remains elusive: a table-top instrument that can pump out a beam of high-intensity, coherent x-rays. Such a device would give researchers Superman-like eyes...
28 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Genes That Keep Clocks Ticking
Fruit flies, like people, follow a daily schedule of eating, resting, and other activities. Now neurogeneticists have discovered two genes that appear to be long-sought missing pieces in the biological...
28 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Astronomers Spy Possible Planet
Scientists believe they have for the first time eyeballed a planet outside our solar system. A team headed by Susan Terebey of the Extrasolar Research Corporation in Pasadena, California, spotted...
28 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Pakistan Fires Back With Nuclear Tests
Pakistan has replied to India's recent round of nuclear tests with five underground explosions today in the desolate Chagai region in Baluchistan province barely 50 kilometers from the Iranian border....
27 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Father of Taxonomy
Today is the 291th anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanical taxonomist who was the first person to formulate and adhere to a uniform system for defining...
27 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Biggest Telescope Takes a Gander
AMSTERDAM--The world's largest optical telescope is wowing astronomers even before it is finished. At a press conference here today, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) unveiled the first images from the...
27 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Flares Touch Off Sunquakes
Quakes constantly rock the sun, triggered as convecting gas patches rise and shake the solar surface. Now astronomers report in tomorrow's issue of Nature that huge flares of x-rays can...
27 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Young Ages for Australian Rock Art
Two years ago, archaeologists caused an international stir with their dates for a remote rock shelter called Jinmium in the Northern Territory of Australia. The dates of 116,000 to 176,000...
26 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Colwell Confirmed as NSF Director
Microbiologist Rita Colwell has been confirmed as the 12th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). But she won't start work immediately: Neal Lane, the current director, is still waiting...
26 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Putting Antimatter on the Scales
One of the bearing walls of modern physics is that particles of antimatter and matter are perfect counterparts, down to their mass. That wall is standing strong, according to new...
26 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Gear in Mouse Clock?
New proteins found in the eye may explain how mammals keep their internal clocks in synch with the sun, according to a paper in this week's Proceedings of the National...
22 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Spotlighted Minorities' Cancer
Today is the 68th birthday of LaSalle Leffall Jr., an American oncologist who has brought attention to the problem of high cancer death rates among minorities, particularly African Americans. Leffall...
22 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Star That's All Awhirl
Astronomers have discovered a "missing link" that could explain the formation of the bizarre celestial beacons called millisecond radio pulsars. These neutron stars spin hundreds of times a second and...
22 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Can Great Earthquakes Reach Across the Globe?
Earthquakes were once thought to keep to themselves, striking a particular fault without regard to what other faults were doing. Now a group of geophysicists is suggesting that big quakes...
22 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Transgenic Calves Cloned
Scientists have cloned three calves that carry a foreign gene. The success, described in today's Science, opens the field for herds of transgenic cows that could produce copious amounts of...
21 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Global Warming Could Clog CO2 Sink
Many scientists have proposed that Earth's oceans and forests might be able to take the edge off global warming by absorbing some of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere....
21 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Superaspirin Easy on Stomach
Researchers have made a new aspirin-like compound that promises to provide the same pain relief as aspirin, but without upset stomachs or the risk of kidney damage. The compound, described...
21 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Genetic Risk for Cervical Cancer
Women carrying two copies of a variant of the p53 gene are seven times more likely to develop cervical cancer than patients with only one copy. The finding, reported in...
20 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Microbial Masons
ATLANTA--Bacteria may play an important role in helping to harden some desert rock formations, according to research presented here today at the American Society of Microbiology's annual meeting. The findings...
20 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Magnetic Quakes Shake Neutron Stars
Neutron stars, superdense balls of neutrons that already rank among the most extreme objects in the universe, just got weirder. The strongest magnetic field ever detected may encase one such...
20 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Neuron Complexity Predicts Seizures
Scientists have crafted a tool for predicting epileptic seizures with equations from chaos theory. The finding, reported next month in Physical Review Letters, could provide an early warning system and...
19 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
An Original Green Thumb
Yesterday would have been the 95th birthday of Frits Went, a Dutch-born American botanist who discovered the role of the plant hormone auxin and paved the way for the development...
19 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Carrier Cuts Into Immunity
Vaccines that share common proteins can be less effective when they are given to children in combination, according to a report in this month's Infection and Immunity. The reduced protection...
19 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
TB Protein May Aid Drug Delivery
ATLANTA--A cell-piercing protein from the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) could serve as a delivery system for future medicines. At the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting here researchers reported...
18 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Hypertensive Kids Risk Enlarged Hearts
An enlarged heart boosts the likelihood of death from heart disease in adults. Now it appears that 8% of children and teens with high blood pressure--perhaps one in 1250 in...
18 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Two Particles Married by Proxy
Two particles that have never interacted with each other can be forced to become "entangled"--a peculiar quantum condition that inextricably weds particles so that nothing can be said about either...
18 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Antibody Shrinks Breast Tumors
Artificial antibodies can shrink the tumors of women with advanced breast cancer, researchers announced yesterday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Los Angeles. Experts says it's...
15 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Building Blocks From the Primordial Soup
Forty-five years ago today, American chemist Stanley Miller gave a jolt to the debate on the origins of life with the publication in Science of his famous paper, "A Production...
15 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Colds Up Risk of Heart Attack
A cold can make your head ache--and maybe your heart too. The odds of suffering a heart attack skyrocket for cold and flu victims, researchers report in tomorrow's Lancet. For...
15 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Ocean Whirlpools Swirl Above Hot Vents
Giant swirling plumes of warm seawater that form above volcanic vents in the deep sea can persist for a year, according to oceanographers who for the first time have tracked...
15 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Supernovas Light Up Cosmic Growth Spurt
Our corner of the universe may be expanding slightly faster than the universe as a whole, according to unpublished work described in a Research News story in today's Science. By...
14 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Viral Couriers
A virus is like a smart bomb, its protein shell a warhead containing DNA or RNA that can subvert a cell's genetic machinery. Now researchers describe in today's issue of...
14 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Quakes That Really Shake
Two earthquakes of the same magnitude won't necessarily shake the ground with the same oomph. What makes a big difference, it turns out, is whether the earthquake is caused by...
14 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
British Sequencing Funds Doubled
LONDON--The Wellcome Trust, one of the world's largest private funders of biomedical research, said here yesterday that it will double its spending on efforts to sequence every gene in the...
13 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
About-Face for Ancient Humans
Compared to a Neandertal's jutting mug, a modern human face is flat--tucked under its brain case in a vertical line. Now a researcher says this facial makeover stemmed from a...
13 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
India Says Five Is Enough
India conducted a second round of nuclear testing today, exploding two sub-kiloton warheads at an underground facility in the Thar desert. The latest explosions, which according to a government statement...
13 May 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Pathway to Addiction
Researchers have the first strong evidence that a brain chemical called serotonin plays an important role in drug addiction. A report in tomorrow's Nature shows that genetically engineered mice whose...
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