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11 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Pathogenic Cousins of Mitochondria

by Elizabeth Pennisi

Scientists may have identified the closest living relative of the organism that eventually turned into mitochondria, the organelles that power all eukaryotic cells. The sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen...

10 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Cosmic Voyager for the People

by Science News Staff

Carl Sagan, the astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose books and television shows fired the imaginations of millions of people, was born 9 November 1934. Arguably the greatest science popularizer...

10 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Small Meteors Pound Saturn's Rings

by Dana Mackenzie

When Voyager 1 and 2 flew past Saturn in 1981, the spacecrafts photographed three billowing clouds of dust streaming from one of the planet's outer rings. These puffs went unnoticed...

10 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Major Assault on Blindness Planned

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

WASHINGTON, D.C.--A pharmaceutical company and a charitable foundation will team up to spend $66 million over the next 2 years to prevent blindness among millions of impoverished people worldwide. Pfizer...

9 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Hot Mama

by Science News Staff

Marie Curie, a French physicist famous for her research on radioactivity, was born on 7 November 1867. Madame Curie and her husband Pierre found that a mineral called pitchblende was...

9 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Soft Drink Secrets

by Kevin Boyd

When a clear, fruity soft drink called Orbitz appeared on supermarket shelves 2 years ago, consumers marveled at the dozens of tiny gelatinous spheres suspended in the liquid that spin...

9 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Sounds of Music in the Cerebellum

by Dan Ferber

LOS ANGELES--Music may make the heart sing, but it also exerts a strong tug on the brain. Two studies presented here on Sunday at the annual meeting of the Society...

6 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Runaway Universe Still Around

by James Glanz

CHICAGO--Instead of coasting to a stop under the force of gravity, the expanding universe appears to be picking up speed in its post-Big Bang voyage--a surprising finding reported by two...

6 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Genetic Tooth Fairies

by Gretchen Vogel

Long before anyone told you to drink milk to make your teeth strong, a complex system of genes made sure your molars ended up in the back of your mouth...

6 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Phantoms in the Brain

by Amy Adams

Lost limbs are gone, but not forgotten by the brain. Two studies in this week's Science help explain why this memory persists. The research shows how the brain miswires itself...

5 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Mother of All Cells Captured

by Eliot Marshall

Imagine being able to reach into the freezer, take out a cell culture, treat it with growth factors, and produce almost any tissue in the human body. Sounds like science...

5 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

A Transatlantic Black Hole Merger

by Robert Irion

Scientists in the United States and Germany will merge two supercomputers across nine time zones next week to watch a neutron star crash into a black hole. The project will...

5 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Cosmic Clue to Bard's Identity

by Constance Holden

In a new entry to the enduring controversy over who exactly wrote Shakespeare's plays, a researcher has come up with circumstantial evidence--based on astronomical references in the plays--that favor the...

5 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

New Law Could Open Up Lab Books

by Jocelyn Kaiser

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Tucked into the giant spending bill that Congress passed last month is a tiny provision that has some academic researchers seeing red: Their data may be fair game for...

4 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Teleportation Magic, in a Liquid

by Meher Antia

Scientists have teleported the quantum state of one atomic nucleus to another nucleus. This feat of quantum magic may not be Star Trek, but the researchers not only performed it...

4 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Blue Light as a Feather

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

Ornithologists will be revising a century-long misconception in textbooks with a report upsetting the prevailing view about why some bird feathers appear blue. The work, published in this week's issue...

4 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Another Physicist Goes to Washington

by David Malakoff

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Democrats now have a physicist of their own in the U.S. Congress. In an upset victory yesterday, Rush Holt edged out first-term Republican Mike Pappas to capture New Jersey's...

3 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

The Eye of the Cyclone

by Science News Staff

One hundred one years ago yesterday, Jacob Bjerknes, a Norwegian meteorologist who paved the way for weather forecasting, was born. Bjerknes is known for explaining how cyclones cross the ocean,...

3 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Earliest Animals Old Again?

by Richard A. Kerr and Pallava Bagla

TORONTO--In the past month, the apparent age of the first known animals nearly doubled to a startling 1.1 billion years, then swung back to the conventional figure of 600 million...

3 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Immune Cell Traitors Abet Gene Therapy

by Dan Ferber

Scientists have coaxed the immune system of mice to let down its guard and allow a virus to deliver therapeutic genes. The method, reported in the November issue of Nature...

2 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Monkeys Show Benefits of Eating Less

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

Scientists are edging closer to proving in primates what's been demonstrated dozens of times in rodents since the 1930s: Sharply reducing caloric intake can slow the process of aging to...

2 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

DNA Gets a Chemistry Lesson

by Robert F. Service

Scientists have found a way to make DNA an active, versatile player in chemistry. Experts says the discovery, reported in the current Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, will lead...

2 November 1998 | ScienceNOW

Powerful Cosmic Rays Tied to Far-Off Galactic Turmoil

by Dennis Normile

A pair of astronomers may have solved a long-standing puzzle about the source of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays, particles that slam into the atmosphere with 100 million times the energies...