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SCIENTIST AT WORK | ERIN PETTIT: Young Women Get Serious in a Laboratory of Ice
By MARGARET WERTHEIM, The New York Times, March 8, 2005
TAYLOR VALLEY, Antarctica - At Blood Falls on the Taylor Glacier, iron oxides streak down the face of a pristine ice cliff as if the glacier were bleeding from a wound. No one knows why the oxides, which are believed to leach up from a subglacial lake, appear at just this spot, but the effect is stunning, a febrile flash of color in a landscape of ice and stone.
This is one of the few places on the Antarctic continent that is not covered in ice. Bare rock and dirt rule here. Utterly devoid of vegetation, this may as well be another planet.
Indeed, researchers for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration think the region offers clues to what Mars once looked like.
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Hans Bethe, Prober of Sunlight and Atomic Energy, Dies at 98
By WILLIAM J. BROAD, The New York Times, March 8, 2005
Hans A. Bethe, who discovered the violent reactions behind sunlight, helped devise the atom bomb and eventually cried out against the military excesses of the cold war, died late Sunday. He was 98, among the last of the giants who inaugurated the nuclear age.
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SIDE EFFECTS: A World Without Males? Not Just Science Fiction for Insects
By JAMES GORMAN, The New York Times, March 8, 2005
What people dream, insects do. Ask Michael Majerus.
Dr. Majerus, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, studies insects and the male-killing bacteria that live in them.
In his recent book, "Sex Wars: Genes, Bacteria and Biased Sex Ratios," he points out right at the start that the idea of a plague killing all the men is a common science fiction plot, while in insects, the bacteria are already at work.
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At - Home Genetic Testing Raises Questions
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The New York Times, March 7, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Commercials hawking prescription drugs directly to consumers have driven doctors crazy for years. Now comes a new kind of medical marketing that is already troubling some medical professionals: at-home genetic testing.
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By MARGARET WERTHEIM, The New York Times, March 8, 2005
TAYLOR VALLEY, Antarctica - At Blood Falls on the Taylor Glacier, iron oxides streak down the face of a pristine ice cliff as if the glacier were bleeding from a wound. No one knows why the oxides, which are believed to leach up from a subglacial lake, appear at just this spot, but the effect is stunning, a febrile flash of color in a landscape of ice and stone.
This is one of the few places on the Antarctic continent that is not covered in ice. Bare rock and dirt rule here. Utterly devoid of vegetation, this may as well be another planet.
Indeed, researchers for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration think the region offers clues to what Mars once looked like.
( Read More )
Hans Bethe, Prober of Sunlight and Atomic Energy, Dies at 98
By WILLIAM J. BROAD, The New York Times, March 8, 2005
Hans A. Bethe, who discovered the violent reactions behind sunlight, helped devise the atom bomb and eventually cried out against the military excesses of the cold war, died late Sunday. He was 98, among the last of the giants who inaugurated the nuclear age.
( Read More )
SIDE EFFECTS: A World Without Males? Not Just Science Fiction for Insects
By JAMES GORMAN, The New York Times, March 8, 2005
What people dream, insects do. Ask Michael Majerus.
Dr. Majerus, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, studies insects and the male-killing bacteria that live in them.
In his recent book, "Sex Wars: Genes, Bacteria and Biased Sex Ratios," he points out right at the start that the idea of a plague killing all the men is a common science fiction plot, while in insects, the bacteria are already at work.
( Read More )
At - Home Genetic Testing Raises Questions
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The New York Times, March 7, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Commercials hawking prescription drugs directly to consumers have driven doctors crazy for years. Now comes a new kind of medical marketing that is already troubling some medical professionals: at-home genetic testing.
( Read More )
