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3 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Canada Splurges on Research

by Wayne Kondro

OTTAWA--Flush with revenues from an unprecedented economic boom, the Canadian government this week unveiled a series of budget initiatives that favor research. High-energy physics, genomics, and environmental technologies research are...

3 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Death Triggers Regrowth of Some Neurons

by Gretchen Vogel

Say what you like about birdbrains, they're actually quite sophisticated. Researchers have known for some time that certain patches of avian neurons grow and shrink with the seasons. Now a...

3 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

How Pokemon Shifts Brain Into Overdrive

by Michael Hagmann

TV can be bad for you: Three years ago some 700 Japanese children watching a Pokemon cartoon suffered epileptic seizures. Now scientists have discovered what sorts of visual patterns are...

3 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Supersmall Structures Created by Holography

by Alexander Hellemans

If you want to catch light, you need a mighty small cage. One option is carefully constructed material with segments almost as small as a wavelength of light. Even though...

2 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Detecting Cancer With Light

by Anna Davison

Shining some light on skin lesions and measuring the reflection may help dermatologists identify the most dangerous form of skin cancer more easily, according to a new study. The technique...

2 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Tools Reveal Ancient High-Tech China

by Ann Gibbons

About 800,000 years ago, a massive meteorite sent up a spray of molten debris and ignited fires throughout what's now the Guangxi Zhuang region of southern China. The conflagration incinerated...

2 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Gimme That E.T. Religion

by Charles Seife

Has the mission to communicate with alien civilizations taken on a missionary tinge? Not exactly, but a social scientist at the SETI Institute is working on a way to explain...

2 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

HIV Bodyguard Discovered

by Jon Cohen

HIV may well be the most studied virus of all time, yet the steps between its introduction into the body by sexual intercourse and an established infection still remain mysterious....

1 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Vatican Regrets Burning Cosmologist

by Charles Seife

Even as the flames licked his feet, the polymath Giordano Bruno refused to recant. Now, at least he's gotten an expression of remorse from the Catholic Church. On 17 February--the...

1 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Network to Log World Forest Loss

by Jocelyn Kaiser

WASHINGTON, D.C.--In a new strategy to monitor the world's forests, conservationists have created a global network that keeps tabs on where trees are coming under the saw. Global Forest Watch...

1 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

Organic Refuge Limits Superpests

by Trisha Gura

Environmentalists and others have voiced worries that genetically modified crops might stimulate a boom in superpests. Now, in the first field test of its kind, researchers directly pitted a crop...

1 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

NASA Biology Research Under Fire

by Andrew Lawler

NASA managers say their plans to grow protein crystals and cells in zero gravity are a big reason for building the $100 billion international space station. But a National Research...