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September 2000 Archives

13 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Patient Plant Breeders Harvest Food Prize

Mexican researchers honored for 3 decades of work on high-nutrition corn
13 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Eagle's Eye in the Sky

Astronomers demonstrate prototype of an extremely powerful x-ray telescope
12 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Howard Hughes Leads Hot Research Charts

Institute researchers dominate new citation analysis of molecular biology and genetics
12 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Vaccine Theory of AIDS Takes a Blow

Study finds no evidence that polio immunization ignited pandemic
12 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Better Treatment of Postdocs Urged

NAS study documents meager wages and low status
12 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Neutron Star Linked to Celestial Runaway

Astronomers think they've found missing half of separated binary star
11 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Salk Institute Names New Head

Researchers hope new president and CEO will keep institute well funded
11 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

French 'Sun' to Shine Near Paris

New synchrotron will probe materials beginning in 2005
11 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Fungus Blights Australian Frogs

Amphibian killer spreads to biodiverse regions, spurs ban on imports
11 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Wen Ho Lee To Be Set Free

Los Alamos physicist to be released in plea bargain
8 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Busted! Couple Imprisoned for Faking Data

Multiyear sentences for drug company exec and nurse for scam to inflate pharmaceutical stock
8 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Extinction Hit by Land and by Sea

New evidence tallies the toll of the Permian-Triassic extinction on plant life
8 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Soundproofing Drowns Out Deep Noise

New technique makes vibrations take a U-turn, blocking transmission of even low frequencies
7 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Ants Welcome at Caterpillar Picnics

Caterpillars offer big reward for tiny bodyguards
7 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Unearthing the Roots of Photosynthesis

The green bacteria turns out to be the oldest sun worshiper
7 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Brain Cells Turning Over a New Leaf

Compounds coax rat cells back to their developmental childhood, into new careers
6 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Electrons and Nuclei Learn to Communicate

Interactions between these standoffish parts of the atom could lead to a new way to store energy
6 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Anasazi Ate Their Enemies

Bones show people were butchered and cooked; feces prove they were eaten
6 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

New Protein Contributes to Alzheimer's

Nicastrin probably works in concert with other proteins to build devastating amyloid plaques
5 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Academies Protest Wen Ho Lee's Treatment

Scientific establishment complains to Attorney General Janet Reno
5 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Happy Landing for Flying Fossil

Philanthropic buyer snaps up Icarosaurus on auction block, returns it to museum
5 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

The Blooming of a Desert

Part of northern Chile's Atacama Desert is so arid botanists call it the Absolute Desert. But researchers have now found evidence for two wet spells in the last 16,000 years....
1 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Chilling Out Could Help Stroke Patients

Method for inducing hypothermia seems safe, might be effective
1 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

India's Vultures Are Declining

Mysterious die-off will be focus of conference
1 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

Spinal Cord Repair Across Species

Charlotte's Web of new pig nerves can avoid immune response in rats
1 September 2000 | ScienceNOW

New Mechanism for Cholesterol Control

Drug has three cholesterol-busting effects
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