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1997
DECEMBER
December 31, 1997
Picture
Perfect
With its troubled past long behind it, the Hubble telescope produces
dazzling images.
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December 29, 1997
Reproduction
Review
A year-end report on remarkable changes in reproductive technology. |
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NOVEMBER
November 4, 1997
Pathfinder
Phone Home
Four months after it landed on Mars, NASA has lost contact with
the Mars rover.
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OCTOBER
October 22, 1997
Heated
Debate
Can the United States get back to 1990 levels of greenhouse gas emissions
by 2012?
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October 21, 1997
Forum: Risks Vs. Returns
Looking back on the dawn of the Space race. |
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October 20, 1997
Forum: Science and Cents
Do business interests affect scientific study? |
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October 17, 1997
Water
Mystery
The latest on an environmental mystery in Minnesota.
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October 15, 1997
Cassini
Probed
NASA begins its seven-year mission to explore Saturn.
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October 15, 1997
Nobel
Prize: Physics
Professor Steven Chu, one of the three Nobel Prize winners
in physics, discusses his collaboration in developing a way to cool and trap
atoms with laser light.
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October 7, 1997
Bracing
for El Nino
Experts report on the tropical Pacific warming known as El Nino.
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October 2, 1997
Space
Race Revisited
Forty years after Sputnik first circled Earth, historians
examine its impact.
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SEPTEMBER
September 30, 1997
With
Us Via Satellite...
Going straight to the source for an interview with MIR
astronauts.
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AUGUST
August 26, 1997
Colon Cancer Prevention?
The Human Genome Project reports that it uncovered
a new mechanism by which misspelling a gene can confer risk to cancer.
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August 22, 1997
Stroke
Relief
The stroke center at Oregon Health Sciences University has discovered
a promising new treatment in the fight against strokes.
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August 14, 1997
Coming
Apart?
While two Russian cosmonauts traveled back to Earth, the United States
is trying to decide if it should stay on course with the Russian space station
MIR.
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August 14, 1997
Walking
Back in Time
Why is a set of fossilized footprints in South Africa causing
so much excitement?
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August 8, 1997
Breakthrough
The director of the Huntington's Disease Research Center at Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine discusses possible causes for a debilitating neurological disorder.
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JULY
July 31, 1997
Deep
Sea Discovery
Using nuclear submarines, archaeologists have located the
largest concentration of ancient shipwrecks ever found, representing a new marriage
of oceanography and the humanities.
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July 21, 1997
Losing Faith?
With problems aboard the space station MIR, are Russians beginning
to lose confidence in the space program?
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July 17, 1997
MIRed
in Mishap
The Russian space station MIR was accidentally left to drift overnight.
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July 14, 1997
Simply Irresistible
After a
reading by poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a panel discusses why we can't ignore
the lure of new frontiers, most recently the red, rocky surface of Mars.
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July 11, 1997
Red
Rover, Red Rover
The Sojourner rover continues to send fuzzy images from
Mars that, while not perfect, still shed light onto the look and makeup of the
Red Planet's surface.
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July 9, 1997
Chiseled
in Stone
More images from the Sojourner rover studying the surface of Mars
have given scientists clues to the makeup of the many rocks found on the Red
Planet. Their latest observations show that Martian rocks may not be too different
from our own.
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July 7, 1997
Signs
of Ancient Floods
The Sojourner rover continues to study the surface of
Mars, sending back what may be evidence that some of the Red Planet was covered
with water billions of years ago.
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July 2, 1997
Mars
Probe
As fireworks light up the sky, the U.S. spacecraft Pathfinder will
end a seven-month voyage and land on Mars.
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JUNE
June 16, 1997
Forum: Gardens of Eden
Author William Broad on the ocean's secrets and life in outer space. |
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June 13, 1997
'X'
Marks the Spot
Scientific studies may make women's intuition less of a myth,
suggesting now that women inherit the ability to decipher social situations
from their fathers.
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June 9, 1997
Double
Trouble
A presidential blue-ribbon commission recommended a legislative
ban on the cloning of human beings because of safety risks and ethical questions
and a continued moratorium prohibiting the use of federal money for any research
that could lead to cloning for reproductive purposes.
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MAY
May 30, 1997
Family
Ties
Recently discovered 800,000-year-old bones may lead to a change in
scientists' concepts of the human family tree.
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May 29, 1997
Child's
Play
Recent scientific studies have found that the human brain does much
of its development in a child's first three years of life. How will this impact
the way children are raised?
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May 26, 1997
Ground
Control
A report on the cooperation between the space shuttle Atlantis and
the Russian space station MIR and leads a discussion on where the countries'
space programs should be headed.
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May 16, 1997
Forum: The Living Cell
Explore the world of the cell with Boyce Rensberger |
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APRIL
April 24, 1997
Miracle
Mom?
The baby is apparently healthy and normal, but the mother is most unusual.
She is the oldest known woman to have given birth, at the age of 63.
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April 10, 1997
Icy Moon
Galileo spacecraft passed within 363 miles of icy Europa, one of 16 moons surrounding Jupiter. Wednesday, scientists showed some of the pictures from that fly-by and said they may reveal a global ocean of water or slush lying under the broken ice that covers Europa's surface. |
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April 8, 1997
Forum: Estrogen Deficiency Disease: a.k.a. Menopause
Should menopausal women take hormone replacements for the rest of their lives? |
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MARCH
March 27, 1997
Hale-Bopp
Watch
The Hale-Bopp comet has become somewhat of a phenomenon.
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March 14, 1997
Forum: Forbidden Knowledge
A discussion of the federal ban on human embryo research. |
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March 12, 1997
New
Hope in Alzheimers Research
According to the latest Journal of the American
Medical Association, small strokes in the brain accelerate the deterioration
caused by Alzheimer's disease. New drugs and treatments may offer hope.
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March 10, 1997
Forum: Multiplicity
Experts explore the ramifications of cloning mammals. |
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March 6, 1997
Feeling
the Heat
The fastest rise in temperature for perhaps 10,000 years is having
a dramatic effect on the brittle ecosystem of Antarctica.
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March 5, 1997
Cloning
Responsibly
First a sheep was cloned, then a monkey, but if President Clinton
has his way a human isn't next.
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FEBRUARY
February 24, 1997
Multiplicity
Scientists have cloned an adult mammal for the first time, producing a lamb
named Dolly. This experiment has raised ethical
questions over the role of cloning in science and medicine.
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February 18, 1997
The Final Frontier
Although reports of space shuttle successes have become almost routine, the NewsHour's panel of historians recall prior space programs' magical moments. |
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February 11, 1997
Mirror
to the Future
After an uncertain beginning, the Hubble Space Telescope is
now considered a scientific success.
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JANUARY
January 27, 1997
Giving
Nature a Hand
Advances in science and a continued demand has led to an explosion
in assisted reproduction.
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January 23, 1997
Old
Tools
Some tools that are 2.5 million years old were found in Ethiopia by
a group of scientists from Rutgers University and reported on in the journal
Nature.
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January 3, 1997
Fight
for Kennewick Man
A 9,000 year old skull, called Kennewick Man, that was
found in a Washington state river has created a stir between the local Indian
tribe and archaeologists. Both groups claim the rights to the bones and aren't
about to back down. |
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January 1, 1997
Genetic
Advances
A look at what has been a banner year for gene research. |
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