Los Alamos metallurgists adapting technology for spraying molten metal to national security applications have also found a use for the technology as a new tool for sculptors.
Imagine if your old chemistry textbook could suddenly come to life. You could see chemical reactions or an interactive representation of the periodic table.
"It's a Wonderful Life" is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made. Long regarded as the definitive Christmas movie, "It's A Wonderful Life" tells the tale of a man's life that is recognized as wonderful and truly rich after he suffers through many hardships and trials. Yet in 1947, the FBI had some very different ideas about this holiday classic. In fact, the FBI branded "It's a Wonderful Life" and seven other films, including "The Best Years of Our Lives" as subversive.
World-wide financial crises--like the ongoing one Asia--will recur until the G-7 nations throw "sand in the gears" of globalized financial markets. So says Dr. David Felix, an economist at Washington University, in two papers he wrote well before the latest crisis.
What is it about the New Year that compels people to make resolutions? Michael Penn, assistant professor of psychology at Franklin & Marshall College believes it's the tone time of year when people drop their typically cynical views of human nature and hope for a positive change.
In their respective positions as president and vice president of Franklin & Marshall College, Richard Kneedler and Alice Drum have spent years talking to parents about the value of a liberal arts education. Sooner or later, almost every conversation comes around to cost.
Standard, widely-used measures of mutual fund performance are inaccurate and unreliable, and can lead to faulty conclusions by investors, a new study shows. The study--conducted by Professors S. P. Kothari and Jerold B. Warner of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration and funded by the Association for Investment Management and Research--has important implications not only for fund managers who claim they can outperform the market, but also for ratings services such as Morningstar that track mutual fund performance.
Leptin, a hormone that appears to play an important role in body metabolism and obesity, has been found for the first time in human breast milk.
A grass-roots movement to revivie businesses in the depressed regions of Madison County, NY, is enjoying great success and serves as an example of what can be done in other depressed rural areas of the country to revive industries.
Though anabolic steroids are known to produce aggressive behavior, a University of Iowa study shows that the drugs do not necessarily cause automobile drivers to take extra risks behind the wheel.
The unruly child in the dentist's chair may resist treatment not because of fear but rather out of trouble responding to requests from adults. A University of Iowa College of Dentistry professor suggests that parenting styles affect preschool children's willingness to comply with dental care.
New Scientist Tip Sheet for 12-16-97
Astronomers will release today (Dec. 17) the clearest Hubble Space Telescope images yet of zesty and mysterious cosmic spouts - known as FLIERs -- emanating from distant objects that once were stars like our sun.
The University of Maryland Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has selected the University of Maryland Medical CenterÃs sports medicine program to provide medical services to all Terrapin teams.
A 27-year-old Carroll County woman finally hopes to gain some control over her epileptic seizures with a new device implanted in her chest that sends electrical impulses to her brain via a nerve in her neck. In a surgical procedure at the University of Maryland Medical Center on December 15, Erinn Elizabeth Farver became the first person in Maryland to receive the new device, called a vagus nerve stimulator.
The renovation of Vassar College's Carol and James Kautz Admission House has garnered awards for renovation and design from leading construction and architectural organizations.
Researchers at Northwestern University Medical School have found that a chemical in red wine believed to help reduce risk for heart disease is a form of estrogen. The substance, resveratrol, is highly concentrated in the skin of grapes and is abundant in red wine.
Rolla, Mo. -- Recent tests of steel from the Titanic reveal that the metal was much more brittle than modern steel but the best available at the time, a metallurgical engineering professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla says in a paper to be published in the January 1998 issue of Journal of Metals.
If you have a phobia about "Friday the 13th" then 1998 isn't going to be a good year for you. There are three "Friday the 13ths" in the upcoming year: February 13, March 13 and November 13. Thomas Fernsler can discuss triskaidekaphobia--fear of the number 13.
Stanford Business School "”Economist Robert Wilson has a knack for turning abstract theory into practical solutions. When California takes the bold step of deregulating its electric power industry in January, it will be Wilson's carefully crafted auction rules that will govern the way consumers get their power.
The robust economy that created 2.3 million new jobs* over the past year is sending corporate recruiters to business school campuses with a vigor that exceeds the M.B.A. frenzy of the '80s. According to the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, the continued strong demand for M.B.A. graduates lifted recruitment activity on its campus
Science tips for December include ISU research on: 1.) Shuttle bus to space; 2.) Satellite sticky tape; 3.) Homegrown plastics; 4.) ISU physicists help build 'discovery engine'; 5.) Pure cooling power.
Between January 2 and 9, 1998, Louise Hose, the country's leading female cave explorer and a geology professor from Westminster College in Missouri, will lead a team of scientists into an almost unknown worldówhere they will study living creatures so bizarre that for centuries no one realized they were alive. Hose's team will travel to southern Mexico to delve into the Cueva de Villa Luz, or "The Cave of the Lighted House" and the rare sulfur-based life there.
Charles I. Plosser, dean and John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, presented his outlook for the 1998 U.S. economy on Tuesday, December 4, 1997, at the 19th annual Economic Outlook in Rochester, N.Y. He took issue with what he called the "new gloom-and-doom mantra"--a worldwide glut in industrial capacity creating the risk of a devastating deflation.
Scientists have discovered a bacterium with the same insect-thwarting properties as the widely-used Bacillus thurengensis. The bacterium, Photorhabdus luminescens, contains a toxin proven effective against a broad array of insects, and promises to become a potent, safe and environmentally benign weapon in the war against insect pests.
AIDS is spreading among young, monogamous, married women in India who get infected by apparently promiscuous husbands, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and the National AIDS Research Institute in Pune, India.
Diabetes has long been known to be one major cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), but the magnitude of risk has been uncertain. Now, a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers finds that diabetic men are nearly 13 times more likely to develop ESRD than non-diabetic men.
"We are closer to the day when mental illnesses -- and people with them -- are treated fairly and compassionately in our health insurance system," said Michael M. Faenza, President and CEO of the National Mental Health Association.
A major public service campaign for television is being launched January 8, 1998, to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of stroke, or "brain attack." For Immediate Release.
As winter finches move south across the Canada-U.S. border in what may be record numbers, ornithological scientists are getting their best-ever look at a massive bird 'irruption,' thanks to thousands of citizen scientists using BirdSource, the interactive World Wide Web database for bird information operated by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. The online database records bird sightings -- by casual backyard bird-watchers as well as serious bird enthusiasts.
Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine are reporting the development of a framework reference map of the canine genome. The map covers most of the canine genome. It was constructed from 150 microsatellite markers developed by the Seattle group and typed on pedigrees developed by the Cornell team.
A 'dispatcher' gene--described in the Dec. 12, 1997, issue of Science--seems to juggle assignments for many `sentry' genes in a model plant system and may ultimately help researchers design hardier, more disease-resistant food plants, a University of Delaware scientist says.
Annals of Internal Medicine TipSheet: 1) Isoniazid is recommended for tuberculosis patients with positive skin tests. 2) Women physicians use hormone replacement therapy in greater numbers than average female U.S. population. 3) Care of chronic illness can be improved through management by patients, families, physicians and health care systems. 4) ACP issues new lyme disease guidelines.
Food Chemistry Tip Sheet: 1. Soy-Based Infant Formulas Contain Beneficial Isoflavones 2. Sunflower Pectin Can Be Used for Low-Calorie Jellies 3. Epoxy from Can Copatings Found in Infant Formula Liquid Concentrates 4. Canadian Cured Meat Shows Little Decline in Nitrite Levels
President Clinton will present the nation's highest science and engineering honor, the National Medal of Science, to Marshall N. Rosenbluth, a nuclear physicist at the University of California, San Diego. Rosenbluth is one of fourteen oustanding scientists, inventors and business leaders being honored by the President on December 16 at a ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building.
An exaggerated response to mental stress could be a marker for future heart disease among people under age 60 with a strong family history of premature heart disease, according to a study by Johns Hopkins researchers.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs reduced heart attack risk in women and senior citizens by 34 percent -- about the same amount as in younger men, according to a report in today's American Heart Association journal Circulation.
One out of three women in a study were able to normalize their blood cholesterol levels by replacing regular canola margarine with one that contains a cholesterol-blocker called sitostanol ester, according to today's American Heart Association journal Circulation.
Stanford Business School--Of the many voices that compete for the chief executive's ear, one key source of influence is the board of directors, whose members also often sit on other company boards. These interlocking directors have firsthand, practical experience that can sway a CEO's strategic choices. But their influence wanes in the face of competing information.
A study by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center researchers of some 1,300 sixth through twelfth graders in NH and VT reveals that one-third of those students own items of the promotional gear that has been heavily hyped by several tobacco companies. This study supports FDA regulations to restrict the distribution of these items by tobacco companies.
The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University has released this year's statistical probabilities chart for a white Christmas for major metropolitan areas and other selected cities in the Northeast. It is not a forecast.
Leaders of fraternities, and to a lesser extent leaders of sororities, tend to be among the heaviest drinkers and the most out-of-control partiers, according to researchers at Cornell University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Their national survey of 25,411 students at 61 institutions reveals that Greek leaders are helping to set norms of binge drinking and uncontrolled behavior.
Electric utility customers will soon pick their power company, just as they now choose long-distance phone service. Two Johns Hopkins University researchers have studied the economic and environmental impact of utility deregulation and serve as consultants on the issue to such agencies as the World Bank and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They are available to reporters for internviews on utility deregulation.
The predecessor of the Avon lady was a man, notes a University of Delaware historian currently completing a doctoral dissertation titled, "Avon Ladies and Fuller Brush Men: The Gendered Construction of Door-to-Door Selling, 1886-1970." Farm boy D.H. McConnell began his career in 1877 selling books door-to-door and giving away perfume samples as part of his sales pitch, reports Katina Manko, a graduate student in the University of Delaware-Hagley Museum Program.
Robert G. Webster, Ph.D., who played a key role in helping to identify the new Hong Kong influenza virus (H5N1), will be available to the media Monday morning, December 15, via telephone conference call following recent news of additional infections and a second death. Call 800-289-0730 and give the confirmation number 410960, or ask for the St. Jude conference.
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) researchers are using computer models and psychological testing to help reduce the number of medication errors caused by look-alike and sound-alike medication names.
Sometimes cells are supposed to die. When cells don't die when they are supposed to, the result is cancer. Pathologists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine report research that brings them closer to their goal of understanding the process of programmed cell death, which could lead to development of drugs to cause or prevent it as appropriate.
Research Triangle Institute has developed a new Internet-based assessment tool to help companies improve how they practice technology innovation. Innovation InsightsTM quantitatively measures how well the technical staff and management: a) listen to customers, b) share ideas & know-how within the company, and c) use outside technology to leverage R&D.
Nashville, Tenn. - Two Vanderbilt University mechanical engineering professors are developing a tiny insect-like robot, about a third the size of a credit card, which will have applications for military and intelligence-gathering missions.
When you trade stock, will it be on the NASDAQ, the NYSE, or the American Stock Exchange? Will it be in New York, London, Tokyo, or perhaps Bangkok or Paris? Electronic market access has made buying and selling the same security in more than one market an increasingly widespread practice both within and across countries, raising the issue of how markets should be regulated as stocks are traded around the clock and around the globe.
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