June 1998 Archives
30 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Three Steps Forward on Alzheimer's
It's been almost a century since Alois Alzheimer first found fibrous plaques infesting the brains of people with senile dementia, but scientists still don't know for sure how--or even if--the...
30 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mice From Dust: Just Add Water
What can be stored in the pantry for months then made whole just by adding water? Evaporated milk, instant coffee, Tang--and freeze-dried mouse sperm. In a first, scientists report in...
30 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
HIV's Elusive Powers Growing
Cracks are widening in the frontline defense against the AIDS virus--drugs that inhibit essential viral enzymes called proteases and reverse transcriptases. At the 12th World AIDS conference in Geneva, Switzerland,...
30 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cheap Chemistry Journal
The first fruit of a collaboration between libraries and scientific publishers to rein in soaring journal costs will be a journal tentatively called Organic Chemistry Letters, the American Chemical Society...
29 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Reversal of Misfortune
On 27 June 1970, U.S. virologist David Baltimore published a breakthrough paper in Nature describing reverse transcription. The process enables some viruses to insert their genetic material into the DNA...
29 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
UFOs Get Respectful Hearing
Few scientists give much thought to UFOs, but UFO tales received a serious 4-day hearing by nine senior physical scientists at a workshop late last year. In a report released...
29 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Heroin Relapse Ups Overdose Threat
Heroin users appear to run a higher risk of dying if they abstain from taking the drug for a few months then resume shooting up. Experts say the finding, reported...
29 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Shaped for Success
Size may not matter to female insects, but shape certainly does. Researchers have found that genitalia are much more diverse in species in which the females couple with several males...
26 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
1999 Budget
Coming soon, ScienceNOW will feature a regularly updated table tracking the 1999 budgets of federal agencies with science programs. In the meantime, check out these links for in-depth budget analysis:...
26 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
An Organization Man
Hans Spemann, a pioneer in developmental biology, was born on 27 June 1869. His work helped scientists understand that cells in developing embryos influence the fate of their neighbors. As...
26 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Virulent E. coli Stick Together
A bout with a virulent strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli is something most people would go to great lengths to avoid. But last year, 60 brave souls at Stanford...
26 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Earth to SOHO, Come in Please
Ground controllers have lost contact with SOHO, the premier sun-watching satellite. Controllers were putting SOHO--the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory--through routine maneuvers on Wednesday when a safeguard program kicked in unexpectedly....
26 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Bake-It-Yourself Basalt
Making rock doesn't always require immense tectonic forces or eons to pass by. The ancient Mesopotamians, in fact, cranked out custom-made rocks in a couple of days, according to a...
25 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Chemical Agents in Bug Warfare
ScienceNOW wishes a happy birthday to Thomas Eisner, 69, considered the founder of chemical ecology. An entomologist at Cornell University, Eisner has earned renown for discovering many of the intricate...
25 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Clearer Sounds From Picky Ears
Consonants are critical for telling words apart, and everyone occasionally mishears them--sometimes with comical results. But such confusion is no laughing matter for the 3.5 million children in the United...
25 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Balmy Days in the Outer Solar System
Global warming isn't happening only on Earth: A moon of Neptune, some 4.4 billion kilometers further from the sun, also is seeing the mercury rise. New observations show that the...
25 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Clinging to Life in Antarctic Ice
Primitive life has surfaced in one of the harshest settings yet seen: pockets of water trapped in the ice of an Antarctic desert. Single-celled organisms in the frigid bubbles barely...
24 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Big Stars Get Dusty Too
Scientists have discovered a dust ring around a hot, massive star--raising the possibility that planets might exist around giant stars. The tentative finding, which remains unpublished and unconfirmed, could explain...
24 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tiniest Carbon Sphere Sparks Big Reaction
Researchers have isolated a pint-sized spherical carbon molecule, or fullerene, that could turn out to be far more useful than its bigger cousins. Experts say the new fullerene, described in...
24 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Bum Enzymes Cut Cigarette Cravings
Some people who try smoking cigarettes never become addicted. Now scientists have found that these people are less susceptible to tobacco addiction because their bodies break down less of its...
24 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Six Strange New Worlds
Scientists are claiming to have discovered six new planets around stars outside the solar system, almost doubling the number known. The putative planets, each having roughly the mass of Jupiter,...
23 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
First Computer Whiz
Alan Turing, an English mathematician who was a trailblazer in computer theory, was born on this day in 1912. Turing is best known for a classic paper he published in...
23 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Bristles to Butterflies
Fluttering butterflies may seem far removed from the buzz of hairy, pesky bugs, but their wings betray them: The relatively large, colorful scales appear to have evolved from the minute...
23 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Feathered Dinosaurs Discovered
Dinosaurs didn't die out completely, but instead took wing and evolved into what we now call birds. That's the conclusion of most experts who have seen new fossils of turkey-sized...
22 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Comets to Shower Pennies from Heaven
Amateur astronomers could find comet-spotting a lucrative pastime, thanks to a $20,000 annual prize established this month by the estate of a deceased Kentucky businessman. Ironically, however, the contest has...
22 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tar as Sunscreen for Early Life?
Gooey polymers may have protected the Earth's first life-forms from damaging ultraviolet rays. The finding, published in tomorrow's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that a skein of...
22 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Successful Flies Make Love, Not War
VANCOUVER--In the battle between the sexes, centuries of dueling over female fruit flies has produced in males a nasty chemical weapon: toxic semen that helps kill off their mates sooner...
19 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
High-Powered Chemist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, a British physical chemist who shed light on how chemicals react, was born 101 years ago on this day. Hinshelwood, a professor at Oxford University, studied...
19 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Making Holographic Data Rock Hard
Storing data as a holograph can pack massive amounts of information into a tiny light-sensitive crystal, but so far there has been no simple way to retrieve the data without...
19 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Early Life Begins to Glitter
Most fossils look rather dull: Like old bones, of course, or dark lines and smudges imprinted in rock. Now a zoologist has discovered that some fossils, while drab themselves, have...
19 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dementia Protection Up in Smoke
For several years, smokers could point to a faint silver lining to their vice: studies suggesting a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's. But now that appears to be a false...
18 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Clinton Picks New DOE Chief
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Ending months of speculation, President Bill Clinton today said he would nominate U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson to head the Department of Energy (DOE). Richardson would...
18 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Billion Years of Starvation
The question of what caused bacteria to evolve into single-celled plants and animals--which they did more than a billion years ago--has long puzzled scientists. Now geologists claim to have evidence...
18 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Females Pick Frog Princes
Finicky females have long mystified both suitors and evolutionary biologists, particularly when the female tends to pick the most flamboyant male--even if he doesn't appear to have any other redeeming...
18 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Talking Up Risky Behavior to Ward Off HIV
Educating people at high risk for HIV infection succeeds in getting them to engage in safer sex. Experts say the finding, reported in tomorrow's issue of Science, bodes well for...
17 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Hush of Forbidden Bands
Those tall concrete walls that line many a stretch of urban highway don't do a very good job of confining noise to the roads, and they're ugly to boot. Now...
17 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Picturing HIV's Passkey to Infection
After almost a decade of effort, crystallographers have achieved a major goal in AIDS research: They have determined the detailed structure of the protein HIV uses to infect immune cells...
17 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Bypassing the Bypass
Heart attack victims, their families, and their doctors often turn to drastic techniques and the latest in high-tech equipment to prolong life. But male patients are less likely to have...
16 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Smart, Social Ant
Scientists have assumed that some ant species are smart, while others are social--never both at the same time. Now one group has turned this conventional wisdom on its head: They...
16 June 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Academic Gets Top-Level Japanese Council Job
TOKYO--A leading academic has been named to help run the country's highest scientific advisory body. Endocrinologist Hiroo Imura, former president of Kyoto University, last week was appointed to one of...
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