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July 2001 Archives

Satellite Shutdown Stirs Controversy

Ten-year stream of climate change data to end next week

Cowbirds Hijack Forest Nests

Forest nests suffer more than those in fields

Japan to Allow Stem Cell Research

Guidelines expected to be approved this week

What About a Smart Banana?

Poll questions Brits about biotech products

College Fined Over Virus Risk

Researchers at Imperial College created a potentially deadly hybrid virus

Now You See Element 118, Now You Don't

Berkeley Lab retracts 1999 report of heaviest element

Skulls Suggest Two New World Migrations

Measurements attempt to trace ethnic origins, timing of migrations

Sad Poets' Society

Abundance of the word 'I' in poetry matches suicidal tendencies

Segmentation Gets Pieced Together

Two new studies help clear up a universal process in the animal world

Pi Keeps 'Em Guessing

Mathematicians inch toward proving that the digits are truly random

Of Faces and Races

Neuroscientists link a well-known social phenomenon to an area in the brain

Ice Man Was Killed From Behind

New scan reveals arrowhead, suggesting a drawn-out and painful death

Lionesses Are Democrats

Long-term study shows that female lions in a pride have equal numbers of cubs

Proteomics Takes a Leap

New protein chips analyze thousands of proteins simultaneously

New Peptides Pack More Punch

Self-assembling antimicrobials pierce bacterial cell walls

The Stammering Brain

Anatomy sets stutterers apart

A Bug in a Bug in a Bug

It has long been known that some insects house bacteria. But researchers peering inside one of these bugs have found that, like a Russian doll, the bacterium can have yet...

Yellowstone's Geologic Recycling Program

New study suggests rocks are "reused" in regular giant eruptions

India Invites Pakistani Scientists

Gesture at eve of summit hoped to help improve relationships

Particle Physicists Chart the Future

Plans for $6 billion electron-positron collider reach critical mass at Snowmass

World Starts Taming the Greenhouse

In marathon session, 178 countries reach agreement on Kyoto Protocol

Our Left-Handed Cousins

Genes, developmental anomalies play a role in chimps' handedness

Ubiquitin Strikes Again

Omnipresent and versatile protein may act as "DNA stopwatch"

Study Stresses Genes' Role in Cancer

New analysis disputes major study that showed no great genetic effect

New Clues to Malaria's Origin

Study traces parasite's origins to the dawn of agriculture

New S. pneumoniae Genome Published

Comparison with two earlier, incomplete sequences may yield clues to drugs, vaccines

All the President's Pills

Mercury-laden depression drug may have poisoned Lincoln

Banana Genome Eyed

Researchers want full sequence by 2006, but some say the field is not ripe

Most Trials at Hopkins Shut Down

Government halts all federally funded clinical studies after finding major lapses

Pentagon May Drop AIDS Research

Department seeks to transfer "nontraditional" program to National Institutes of Health

Fierce Flash, Strange Star

"Quark stars" may explain unusually bright gamma ray flash

What Keeps Girls Out of Science

New report says cultural barriers to blame for dearth of women researchers

Teflon May Cause Trouble

Widely used compound breaks down to form persistent plant toxin

NIH Sees "Enormous Promise" in Stem Cells

Key senator favors using federal funds for controversial research

Stem Cell Expert Leaves U.S.

UCSF fertility researcher transfers to Britain, spurring fears of brain drain

Flood Experiment Built Beaches

Long-term benefits seen from Colorado River deluge study

Japan's Push for Strategic Science Decried

Fourteen top lab chiefs urge more basic research

Panel Named to Reorganize Smithsonian

Diverse group of scientists to chart course for institution's research

How Cigarette Chemical Kills Eggs

Mechanism might explain early menopause, poor fertility

Autumn Leaves, a Secret Sign?

Brilliant foliage may advertise trees' resistance to pests
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