| 04/13/2001 Shaky ground in southeast Texas may have been seismograph testing or sonic boom
LIBERTY, Texas – Some people in southeast Texas felt the Earth move under their feet today, but they didn't see the sky tumbling down. The ground shook in the Raywood and Devers areas at about 2:15 p.m., and some tremors were felt in Houston and Beaumont 60 miles away. New solar flare bursts from sun
WASHINGTON – Residents of northern states could be treated to the aurora borealis this weekend from another solar flare's eruption from the sun. Hypersonic jet program gains speed
For more than four decades, scientists have been trying to develop a jet-powered aircraft that could zip across the sky at five times the speed of sound, a feat that has been harder to accomplish than sending a man to the moon. 04/11/2001 Firm that cloned Dolly the Sheep fails to woo new investors
LONDON – Dolly the Sheep may be safe from foot-and-mouth disease but not, it would seem, from the scourge of plummeting stock markets. PPL Therapeutics, the British biotechnology firm that created Dolly – the first successful clone of an adult mammal – conceded failure Wednesday in its effort to raise the 45 million pounds ($64 million) it needs to develop new drugs. Injection an Alzheimer's first
Doctors in California have implanted genetically modified cells into the brain of a 60-year-old woman with an early stage of Alzheimer's disease in an effort to slow her mental decline, members of the research team announced Tuesday. Germ's genetic code unlocked
OKLAHOMA CITY – Scientists have cracked the genetic code for the bacteria that cause strep throat, rheumatic fever and a flesh-eating disease, raising hopes of better treatments for such illnesses. 04/09/2001 Depth of Seattle-area quake may have helped minimize damage
The Feb. 28 earthquake in Washington state demonstrated again to scientists just how the quake menace in the Northwest often differs from California. Tom Siegfried: That black-hole feeling could be universal
Black holes are a lot like some jobs – once you're in, you're trapped, with no way to escape. Of course, certain jobs do offer some flexibility, as long as you don't try to go too far. And if you lived inside a black hole, you'd be free to fly around inside, at least for a while. That's because all the mass that goes into making a black hole is crushed into a point in its center. The rest of a black hole's interior is relatively empty. Science calendar Science briefs A face that rings a bell ... and fires a neuron
NEW YORK – At first glance, the human brain seems to be ruled by mob mentality. Billions of nerve cells shout to one another by firing electrical impulses, controlling how the brain's owner behaves. Intriguing meteorite is rare but disappointing find
An unusually well-preserved meteorite recovered more than a year ago is turning out to be like no meteorite seen before – much to the disappointment of scientists. 04/08/2001 Russians retain pride in Gagarin space flight
MOSCOW – Strapped inside a clumsy, cannonball-shaped capsule atop a modified nuclear missile, Yuri Gagarin exuberantly cried, "Poyekhali!" – off we go. The ground shook with the rocket's thunder, and the world shook when it heard of his feat. 04/07/2001 Liftoff: Mars Odyssey en route to Red Planet
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Mars Odyssey spacecraft rocketed away today on a 286 million-mile journey to the Red Planet and what NASA hopes will be a mission of redemption. It is the space agency's first launch to Mars since a pair of humiliating failures in 1999.< |
