April 2002 Archives
30 April 2002
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National Academy Elects New Members
Exclusive club grows by 72, plus 15 foreign associates
30 April 2002
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NIH Nominee Breezes Through Hearing
Zerhouni avoids controversy on his way to a Senate vote
30 April 2002
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Celera Founder to Create Two Institutes
Venter confirms rumors that genome project used his DNA
30 April 2002
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How Penguins Avoid the Bends
A slowed ascent might mimic divers' decompression stops
30 April 2002
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Astronomers Show Off New Hubble Camera
Deepest views yet of the universe unveiled today
29 April 2002
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Shape-Shifting Sutures
Smart plastic fibers seal wounds automatically, could lead to novel implants
29 April 2002
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BioBank Aims to Link Lifestyle, Genes
New project will amass data on health in Britain--but some question industry ties
29 April 2002
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Birds From Broken Homes
Where birds nest may determine how hard they're hit by forest fragmentation
26 April 2002
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Pulsar Nibbles Helium Dwarf
Astronomers discover the second known fast pulsar that actively eats its partner
26 April 2002
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Six Die in Indian Missile Lab Fire
Two chemists killed in accident involving new solid fuel rocket
26 April 2002
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Nanotubes Show Flash of Talent
A camera flash sets high-tech carbon fibers ablaze
25 April 2002
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The Sibling of All Placentals
Fantastic fossil helps close data gap
25 April 2002
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Volcanic Chill Implicates a Climate Villain
An eruption provides test of a major player in global warming
25 April 2002
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Bouncing Branes
Enormous, colliding membranes may have created the universe--over and over again
24 April 2002
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Jason's New Sugar Daddy
Elite advisory group, dumped by one Pentagon agency, shacks up with another
24 April 2002
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Beauty Tip for Vultures: Eat Dung
Egyptian vultures risk parasites to get sexy pigment from feces
24 April 2002
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Foul Play Suspected in Neanderthal Case
But the jury's still out on exactly how a 36,000-year-old skull got cracked
24 April 2002
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Trash-Surfing Aliens Invade
Plastic garbage in the ocean helps invasive organisms colonize new worlds
23 April 2002
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Cosmic Rays Phone Home
Tantalizing hints point to possible birthplaces of the most energetic particles
23 April 2002
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New Anthrax Vaccine Gets a Green Light
U.S. government seeks bids for development of vaccine to protect civilians
23 April 2002
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Stress Isn't Bad Just for Ewe
Lambs born to stressed moms may be prone to high blood pressure
22 April 2002
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Elusive Neutrinos Reveal Their Secrets
New measurements resolve decades-old paradox, shed new light on particle's nature
22 April 2002
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Viral Intruder Caught in the Act
A cancer-causing virus builds an attack vehicle out of the cell's own components
22 April 2002
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Demystifying Menstrual Migraines
Brain peptide may be the link between plummeting hormone levels and headaches
19 April 2002
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Pachauri to Head IPCC
Indian engineer and economist to chair leading international body on climate-change research
19 April 2002
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Paradoxical Membranes
Wider mesh catches big molecules, lets small ones through
19 April 2002
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Bioprospecting Rules Announced
Scientists expect new U.N. guidelines to ease access to useful species
19 April 2002
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Can't Beat the Heat
New models forecast a warm start to the 21st century--no matter what we do
18 April 2002
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Video Games Score High for Attention
Players have better peripheral attention and other visual-spatial skills
18 April 2002
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Motherhood and the Single Finch
A female finch won't flinch when her mate leaves her with the kids
18 April 2002
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Branch Added to Insect Tree
Newly found order speaks to the diversity of life
17 April 2002
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Chinese Take on Misconduct
Beijing University adopts sweeping policy to counter rise in dubious behavior
17 April 2002
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Salmon's Lasting Legacy
Researchers reconstruct past population levels using traces of ancient fish
17 April 2002
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Seeing Beyond the Limits
New technique improves light microscopes' vision
17 April 2002
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Ants Form European Union
The world's largest insect colony poses an evolutionary mystery
16 April 2002
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A Brain Receptor's Stroke of Fate
Location of key receptor can mean life or death for brain cells
16 April 2002
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Muscle Disease Inhibited in Mice
Duchenne muscular dystrophy avoided when a substitute protein sweeps in
16 April 2002
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Wellcome Says Farewell
Director Mike Dexter leaves $16 billion British charitable foundation
16 April 2002
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Flame Retardants Spreading Like Wildfire
Levels in Arctic animals have jumped 10-fold in 2 decades, study finds
15 April 2002
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A Fresh Start for Life?
The first cells may have formed in ponds, not in the ocean
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