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16 July 1998
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A Fruitful Scoop for Ancient DNA
In the movie Jurassic Park, a collector snapped up hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes preserved in amber for DNA they had sucked from dinosaurs. In the real world, however, amber...
16 July 1998
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Syphilis Genome Sequenced
A new assault on the syphilis pathogen has yielded the entire sequence of this microbe's genetic code. The genome, reported in tomorrow's Science, is already revealing clues to what makes...
15 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Breast Implants Deemed Safe in U.K.
In the third such report in 7 years, a scientific panel appointed by the British government announced yesterday that there is no evidence that silicone gel breast implants cause disease....
15 July 1998
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Curtains Part on Ancient Star Nurseries
Star birth, which transformed primordial gas into the countless starry galaxies of the present day universe, surged to high levels much earlier than astronomers had thought. Two teams of observers...
15 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Widespread Assault by Alien Species
Seeing a familiar bird in Hawaii may make someone from the mainland United States feel more at home. But such species that invade new habitats also can displace native species....
15 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Missile Threat Looming, Panel Says
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The threat of ballistic missiles from countries such as Iran and North Korea could materialize with little warning, a congressional panel of defense experts reported today. That conclusion differs...
14 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
DNA on the Chopping Block
On this day in 1970, molecular biologist Hamilton Smith broke new ground for biotechnology. In two papers published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, he described a new class of...
14 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Plant Biologists Score a Major New Facility
Plans to create a plant-research powerhouse are expected to be unveiled later this month by an unusual U.S. public-private consortium. The $146 million center, to be located in St. Louis,...
14 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Gore Rips Congress Over Climate Change
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A riled-up Vice President Al Gore sharply criticized Congress's stance on the global warming issue today, protesting at a press conference what he called a "gag order" on the...
13 July 1998
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Untangling Gordian Proteins
Scientists have for the first time found a way to revive proteins damaged by heat or chemicals. The test tube finding, reported in the current Cell, could help explain the...
13 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
User Fee for Protein Database
Plagued by a funding crunch and inundated with new data, SWISSPROT, a widely used amino acid database, will soon start charging a fee to industrial users. SWISSPROT contains sequences and...
13 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Britons Beef Up Science
LONDON--British scientists received welcome news today with the release of the government's budget plans: $1.75 billion of new funds over the next 3 years that "will transform the science and...
10 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Putting Medicine to the Test
Claude Bernard, a French researcher credited with founding the field of experimental medicine, was born on 12 July 1813. While conducting experiments on an animal fed a sugar-free diet, Bernard...
10 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Electric Tongue Takes First Licks
Cameras mimic eyesight, and tape recorders mimic hearing. Now even the sense of taste has gone electronic. A rudimentary electronic tongue, described in the 1 July issue of the Journal...
10 July 1998
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Epidemiologist Named CDC Director
An industry epidemiologist with 22 years in the federal government--Jeffrey Koplan--has been chosen to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Donna Shalala, Secretary of...
10 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
First Images Show Monkey Brains at Work
Looking for a challenge? Try getting a monkey to sit perfectly still and perform a thought task inside a claustrophobic banging magnet that scans brains. Now the success of two...
9 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Big Signal from a Small Molecule
Drug companies would love to find small compounds that mimic the effects of protein drugs yet evade breakdown in the digestive tract. Now scientists have taken a first step by...
9 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Early Fire Doused
Archaeologists have long thought that the first campfire was lighted by Homo erectus some 500,000 years ago, in a cave near Zhoukoudian, China. But a reanalysis of the cave, reported...
9 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
His Invention Is Still Current
Nikola Tesla, a Croatian-American physicist and engineer who pioneered the use of alternating current electricity, was born at the stroke of midnight on this day in 1856. Believing he could...
8 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Precambrian "Jell-O"
The identity of Earth's first multicellular creatures, called Ediacarans, has long mystified scientists. The only evidence of the little floppy sea creatures, which lived about 600 million years ago, are...
8 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Panel Urges More Public Input at NIH
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The public should have a more direct say in how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) develops strategies for disease research, concludes an independent review. NIH leaders should also...
8 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dust Hints at Nearby Solar System
A ring of dust, probably kicked up by a swarm of comets, has been spotted around Epsilon Eridani, the nearest sunlike star, just 10 light-years away. "What we see looks...
8 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Antibody Softens Hard Arteries
Like a one-two punch, a fatty diet and the body's own immune system conspire to bring on heart disease. Fat and cholesterol clog arteries and block blood flow, starving the...
7 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Tick-Tock, a Super Atom Clock
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Physicists have made the first clock based on the quantum ticks of balls of atoms known as Bose-Einstein condensates. The unusual timepiece is extremely primitive, but similar devices could...
7 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Carpetbagging in Rainforest Ruins
The saplings that sprout up in denuded rainforest might seem to herald a recovery. But a report in the current Science says that a few trees dominate the regrowth, reducing...
7 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Wiring Buckyballs With DNA
In a clever bit of engineering that exploits the structure of one molecule and the strength of a second, chemists have melded DNA strands with buckminsterfullerenes, the soccer ball-shaped molecules...
7 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Nerve of Him!
Camillo Golgi, an Italian physician famed for his microscopic studies of the nervous system, was born on this day in 1843. When he was 30, Golgi invented a technique for...
6 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Marijuana May Guard Neurons
A chemical in marijuana might protect against brain damage from a stroke, according to a report in tomorrow's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The compound, called cannabidiol, in...
6 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
First Glimpse of the Last Neutrino?
Of the 12 elementary particles thought to make up all the matter of the universe, physicists have spotted 11. Now the last hold-out, the tau neutrino, may finally be in...
6 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Bacteria to Blame for Kidney Stones?
Scientists have fingered tiny bacteria as possible culprits behind kidney stones and abnormal calcium deposits in other tissues. The bacteria, described in tomorrow's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...
2 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Field Guide to Species
Ernst Mayr, a German-born biologist known for his insights into evolution, will celebrate his 94th birthday on Sunday, 5 July. In the early part of his career, Mayr studied birds...
2 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Eight Millennia of Footwear Fashion
From the bear-fur shoes that once graced the feet of Japanese samurai to the sleek platform sandals that strut down runways today, people have long garbed the humblest part of...
2 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Bye Bye Beach House: Omens of a Flood
Glaciologists have long cast a worried eye on the waning West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS). If it were to melt away in a greenhouse-warmed world, the world's oceans would swell...
2 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Goal: To Double Known Human DNA by 2000
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) yesterday awarded $60.5 million to seven centers across the United States to scale up their efforts to sequence the human genome. By September...
1 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Introducing the Carbon Nano-Nose
Some microscopes aren't just a window to a world invisible to the naked eye--they allow scientists to probe a bumpy molecular landscape by feel. Now a new kind of microscope,...
1 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Immune Cells Regrow a Rat's Spinal Cord
Scientists have got a rat's severed spinal cord to regrow after injecting it with certain immune cells. The results, reported in the July Nature Medicine, have sparked hope that the...
1 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New Chief for Rockefeller
Drawing rave reviews from the scientific community, Rockefeller University announced yesterday that Arnold J. Levine, a cancer biologist at Princeton University, will be its next president. He will take over...
1 July 1998
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Americans on Science: Interested and Ignorant
The American public is more interested in new technologies and scientific discoveries than it has been in nearly two decades, but less than half know that the Earth circles the...
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