July 1998 Archives
31 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Budget Watch 1999
Budget Watch 1999 Selected Science Programs For more detailed information, see the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Project home page. Program FY 1998 1999 Request House* Senate* Final in...
31 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Senate Confirms R&D Nominees
WASHINGTON, D.C.--After months of waiting in nominee limbo, Neal Lane can finally take over as head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The Senate today...
31 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Physicist Named Japan's Education Minister
For the first time in recent memory, Japan has a minister of education, science, sports, and culture with hands-on experience as a researcher and educator. On Thursday, physicist Akito Arima,...
31 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
USGS Nominee Breaks With Tradition
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The White House has tapped a new chief for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Department of Interior's science agency. President Clinton yesterday announced his intention to nominate Charles...
31 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
An Out-of-Africa Ape Ancestor?
The earliest human ancestors lived in Africa, and the same was true of the even earlier common ancestor we share with other great apes--or so most researchers believe. But new...
30 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Seeing the Sea Floor
Today is the 78th birthday of Marie Tharp, an oceanographic cartographer whose maps of the world's sea floors helped shape a new view of Earth--plate tectonics--in which crustal plates constantly...
30 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Did Twisted Starlight Set Stage for Life?
In their quest to trace the origins of life on Earth, scientists keep confronting a puzzle: How did vital molecules get their distinct twists? Nearly all the amino acids in...
30 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Bones Boost Whale-Hippo Link
HAYAMA, JAPAN--A whale may be just an overgrown hippopotamus with an unusual lifestyle. A new analysis of early whale fossils reported here last week at the International Symposium on the...
30 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Immune Link to Lyme Disease Arthritis
Many Lyme disease sufferers develop arthritis weeks or months after the tick bite that transmits the disease-causing bacterium. Usually, the condition disappears following antibiotic treatments. But in roughly 10% of...
29 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Atom Waves Could Detect Oil Pools
Gravity may be the law of the land, but the force it applies varies slightly depending on the rocks beneath our feet. In the 3 August Physical Review Letters, researchers...
29 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Drug-Laden Jelly Beads
Swarms of microscopic "pills" may someday deliver large doses of anticancer drugs to tumors. As described in tomorrow's issue of Nature, the capsules are actually tiny polymer beads coated with...
29 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Molecular Microscopy Beats Limits of Light
LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS--Researchers can map single atoms or molecules on surfaces almost as routinely as cartographers map hills and lakes, thanks to instruments like the scanning tunneling microscope. But below...
28 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Aboriginal Clue to Hepatitis
Today is the 73nd birthday of Baruch Blumberg, an American research physician whose work has led to blood screening and a vaccine against hepatitis B. As chief of the geographic...
28 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Airy Trap for Corrosive Compounds
How do you study a liquid so corrosive it will eat through almost any container? Try floating it on a cushion of gas. By doing just that, scientists have found...
28 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Selling Once-Secret, Once-Soviet Science
Russia's beleaguered nuclear scientists are about to get help from a new program to get them into commercially productive research. Announced 24 July in Moscow by U.S. Vice President Al...
27 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Color of Blood
The scientist who discovered the chemical structure of hemin, the iron-laden compound in red blood cells that gives blood its color, was born on this day in 1881. Hans Fischer...
27 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Mission to Antarctic Ice Factory Ends in Fire
A dramatic engine-room fire and explosion on a research vessel has forced scientists to abort a $2 million Antarctic expedition. Last Wednesday's blaze aboard the Aurora Australis, a ship chartered...
27 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rad Lab Launched at Chernobyl
Just before touring the concrete hulk that entombs the ruined Chernobyl reactor, Vice President Al Gore and Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma last week unveiled plans for an International Radioecology Laboratory...
27 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Outside Insider Named to Head EPA Research
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The White House today tapped a veteran Washington insider for the top research post at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a job vacant for over a year. Observers say...
24 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Budget Watch 1999
Budget Watch 1999 Selected Science Programs For more detailed information, see the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Project home page. Program FY 1998 1999 Request House* Senate* Final in...
24 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Flowers Powered Beetle Boom
The beetles boast more species than any other plant or animal group--330,000 in their order, Coleoptera. In today's issue of Science, a researcher makes a strong case that this diversity...
24 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Spin Wizards of the Nanoworld
Molecules are incorrigible fidgeters. Let loose in a gas, they store their heat by zigging and zagging; when trapped in a solid, they wiggle against their neighbors. Now, scientists have...
24 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
She Began a Baby Boom
ScienceNOW wishes a happy birthday to the first test tube baby, Joy Louise Brown, who will be 20 years old tomorrow. Born in England, Brown got her start thanks to...
23 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
How the Brain Adds Depth to the Picture
To the brain, an object's distance seems to be an attribute as basic as its color or shape. Scientists had thought that neurons sensitive to distance would be found mainly...
23 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
X-rays Reveal Signs of Stress
CRYSTAL CITY, VIRGINIA--When metal bends, the stress shoves atoms into long ridges that weaken the material. These stretch marks are notoriously hard to study, for most are hidden deep inside...
23 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Hasty Retreat by Ice Sheet
New radar images hint that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be giving way, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Science. One of the glaciers flowing from the...
22 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
He Broke the Antibiotic Mold
The man who coined the term "antibiotics" and pioneered their development was born on this day in 1888. While studying how plant and animal remains decompose in soil, microbiologist Selman...
22 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Lyme Disease Vaccine Passes Test
Scientists have made the first vaccine that appears to prevent Lyme disease. At least one of the two vaccine versions, described in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine, could be...
22 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cloned Mice Keep Dolly Company
As the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, Dolly was greeted first with awe and, later, with doubts, for some researchers wanted more proof that she was the real...
22 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
2nd Gene for Late-Stage Alzheimer's
Scientists have found a gene that, when mutated, appears to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life. No one knows how many Alzheimer's cases might be linked...
21 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Major Plant Institute to Sprout
The pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced today that it will open a $250 million plant genomics institute outside San Diego next year. Novartis Group, a drug, agriculture, and nutrition company based...
21 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
El Niño's Keeping the Heat on Texas
Long-range weather forecasters are calling for a continued scorching of Texas and the rest of the U.S. Southwest, and they blame it on an old favorite--El Niño. Despite its apparent...
21 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
His Discoveries Made a Splash
Today is the birthday of Thomas Charles Hope, a Scottish chemist born in 1766. Although he considered himself a teacher, Hope is remembered for two original contributions to chemistry. Hope...
20 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Indian Scientists Hit by Bomb Sanctions
NEW DELHI--Indian and Pakistani scientists are beginning to pay a price for last May's atom bomb tests--a price that many believe is unfairly penalizing civilian science. Individual U.S. agencies have...
20 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
French Plan Dramatic Reforms
PARIS--While soccer fans last week were celebrating France's World Cup victory, government ministers here endorsed an ambitious plan to win a similar prize for French science. Over the next 4...
20 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Deep-Sea Smokers Raised
Four "black smokers"--mineral chimneys formed by undersea hot springs--have been hauled ashore for an unprecedented scientific inspection by scientists at the University of Washington and New York's American Museum of...
17 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A Bloody Measure
In search of tiny amounts of antibodies, medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow developed a technique that came up very big for biomedical researchers. Sunday is the 77th birthday of the Nobel...
17 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Building a Better Bug Repellent
Chemical warfare is nothing new to insects--or the researchers who study them. But now it turns out that the pupae of the squash beetle can concoct an arsenal of chemical...
17 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Cell Biologists Blast NASA
WASHINGTON, D.C.--NASA's program to study protein crystallography has made "no serious contributions" to scientific knowledge and should be canceled--along with most other life science research in space. That's the thrust...
16 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Postmortem on Loss of Solar Probe
Faulty computer code compounded by a disastrous command from ground controllers caused the SOHO spacecraft to spin out of control last month, officials reported today. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory--operated...
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