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Proliferation of pills: antibiotics don't fight many infections well, yet doctors continue to prescribe them
Some physicians advocate caution in using antibiotics to treat sinus infections because of the danger of encouraging antibiotic resistance in...
Science News, 05/17/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication -
Subatomic scrutiny from Jefferson lab - improved picture of quarks produced at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility - Brief Article
One hundred years after the discovery of the electron--the first known subatomic particle--physicists are using the particles to reveal the quirks...
Science News, 05/03/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication -
Flu and HIV wield common viral harpoon - studies indicate influenza virus and HIV virus use harpoonlike action to infect cells - Brief Article
The proteins cloaking the influenza virus (left) and the HIV virus (right) deploy similar weapons to infect a cell, two research groups report....
Science News, 04/26/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication -
Where in the brain is working memory? - brain scans indicate more than one part of brain is involved in memory functions - Brief Article
Working memory holds and relates a variety of stored information during tasks such as talking, reading, and recognizing objects. The dominant...
Science News, 04/26/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication -
Dancing droplets: studying liquids in microgravity yields applications for Earth and space - droplet experiments in space
Studying water droplets in space may eventually lead to applications such as improved methods for transplanting human cells and controlling oil...
Science News, 04/19/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication -
Retelling the tale of the two-legged snake - Pachyrhachis problematicus fossil indicates snakes may have evolved from giant sea lizards called mosasaurs rather than from borrowing lizards - Brief Article
In 1978, the late geologist George Haas, working near Jerusalem, found the fossil of a sinuous, meter-long creature with two stubby rear legs. He...
Science News, 04/19/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication -
Grains sort themselves into layers - glass beads and grains of sugar poured into deep, narrow glass container separate into layers - Brief Article
Separating glass from sugar sounds like a tedious task requiring tweezers and tenacity, but a group of physicists has found an easier method. In...
Science News, 04/05/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication -
Swapping insulin syringes for tiny beads - plastic coating used to develop oral insulin - Brief Article
Coating insulin with a layer of plastic the width of a few human hairs could allow diabetics to swallow the medicine that they now must inject...
Science News, 03/29/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication -
Hardy synthetic patterned after nature - protein synthesized to maximize hydrophobic stabilization - Biochemistry - Brief Article
Taking a cue from microorganisms that thrive in near-boiling water on the ocean floor, chemists are learning how to build tough synthetic proteins...
Science News, 03/08/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication -
New dust sheds new light on planetary birth - binary stars may be able to create planets - Brief Article
Astronomers once thought that planets could be born of only a single star. Now, researchers have discovered a disk-shaped layer of dust orbiting a...
Science News, 03/08/97 by Paul Smaglik · More from publication
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