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June 2003 Archives

Congress Aims at Journal Copyrights

U.S. bill aims to deny protection to government-funded work

Turning Down the Heat on Nanowires

Technique puts nanowires one step closer to mass production

Afghani Looting Rampant

Only 416 of 70,000 stolen artifacts recovered so far

NIH Budget Gets Slightly Hopeful Sign

The Senate recommends more than the House, but less than advocates want

What Does 'Ouch!' Mean?

The same pain affects different brains in different ways

Catalyzing a Greener Fuel Economy

Catalyst converts agricultural waste to clean-energy hydrogen gas

A Neural Knack for Grammar

New evidence shows that the brain seems to intuitively learn syntax

Picky Females May Drive Speciation

After 35 generations, some dung flies reject outsiders

Nanoscale Straws Take Sides

New technique separates metallic and semiconducting nanotubes

Volcanoes Blow Expectations

A midocean ridge challenges theories of slow rifts

Keeping Out the Competition

Male spiders die in flagrante delicto; their corpses act as mating plugs

Drug Reduces Risk of Prostate Cancer

Trial halted early because the outcome was so striking, but dangerous cancers persist

Panel Warns Against Widespread Vaccination

Heart problems linked to smallpox vaccine worrying

Does DNA Determine Bedtime?

Gene variant more common in extreme night owls

The State of Biotech

Global report foresees industry profitability by 2010

Global Internet Research Lab Launched

University and company scientists team up to test new applications

Finally, Nozomi Heads for Mars

Earth swingby hurtles Japan's spacecraft toward delayed rendezvous

HIV Targets the Masses

The virus doesn't waste time with rare immune systems

Nuclear Material in Iraq Accounted For

Uranium at Tuwaitha secured by inspectors

A Bug-Eat-Bug World

Cannibalistic bacteria consume neighbors to stave off dormancy

Britain's First Cave Art

Engraving of wild goat, birds may date to Paleolithic period

Entangling Across the Danube

Physicists link photons across 600 meters outdoors, bringing quantum crytography a step closer

Why Dolphins Aren’t Deaf

The trick is in the clicks, not the ears

NIH Gets 2.5% Raise in House

Meager increase signals end of boom times for biomedical research agency

$100 Million Launches New Institute

New Institute Aims to Put the Genome in the Doctor’s Bag

Bodybuilding of the Ancestors

Ancient spider species uses same embryonic genes as recent animals

Do Pesticides Ruin Sperm?

A new study says yes, but the controversy continues

Male Chromosome Full of Surprises

An unusual arrangement of genes speaks to unique functioning of the Y chromosome

Looking to an Explorer's Bones for Answers

Testing DNA from Columbus and his supposed brother and son should shed light on his past

African AIDS Study Closing

A decade-old AIDS epidemiology project in Ethiopia is being shuttered

Lose a Protein, Gain an Aggressive Cancer

Metastatic prostate cancers don't display well-known protein

When Dengue Strikes Twice

T cell malfunction leads to deadly hemorrhagic fever

Pulling the Plug on Hubble?

NASA Panel to Ponder the Fate of the Space Telescope

The Trouble With Hydrogen

'Fuel of the future' may affect global climate, too

Devonian Death From Outer Space

Asteroid impact linked to a mass extinction 380 million years ago

Melting the Nucleus

Increasing evidence suggests physicists have created a new state of matter

The Flattest Star

An oblate star may help refine views of what's inside stars

Dangerous Monkey Business

Monkey-eating chimps, chimp-eating people spread HIV-like viruses

Flinching Over Fake Fingers

The brain can easily be tricked into responding to simulated injuries

Max Planck Society Retrenches

Sluggish economy forces German research organization to make cuts
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