Science News articles from June 2004

Science News archives from June 2004

Young world: NASA telescope reveals clues to newborn planet.(This Week)
June 5, 2004... Astronomers have found signs of what may be the youngest planet known, plus the first signs ever of organic compounds in a region of dust that could evolve into a planet-forming system. By measuring infrared light, the Spitzer Space...

Protein power: solar cell produces electricity from spinach and bacterial proteins.(This Week)
June 5, 2004... Inspired by the efficiency with which plants convert sunlight into sugar, researchers have fabricated a solar cell that uses photosynthetic proteins to convert light into electricity. Although the prototype device can't yet rival commercial...

Tiny tubes brighten bulbs: nanotubes beat tungsten in lightbulb test--maybe.(This Week)
June 5, 2004... As inventors in the early 1900s vied to devise the best incandescent lightbulb, tungsten won out over carbon for making filaments. Today, however, there's a form of carbon that was unknown back then--the carbon nanotube. New experiments on...

Death waits for no one: deferred demises take a couple of hits.(This Week)
June 5, 2004... Two new reports challenge the idea, which has been promoted in a series of high-profile studies, that elderly people suffering from serious physical illnesses can prolong their lives just long enough to experience a personally meaningful event,...

Geyser bashing: distant quake alters timing of eruptions.(This Week)
June 5, 2004... A powerful earthquake that struck central Alaska on Nov. 3, 2002, did more than just shake up the locals: It changed the eruption schedule of some geysers in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park, more than 3,100 kilometers away. ...

Gender neutral: men, women face same cancer risk from smoking.(This Week)
June 5, 2004... Over the past decade, the scientific community has turned up conflicting evidence regarding whether cigarettes impart a greater risk of lung cancer to women than to men. In the largest comparison to date, researchers now report that the sexes...

Turtle trekkers: Atlantic leatherbacks scatter widely.(This Week)
June 5, 2004... Satellite surveillance of leatherback turtles in the Atlantic Ocean is posing tricky new questions for conservationists. The data, the first of their kind to be published, reveal that these highly endangered turtles range widely over the...

Got Milk? Dairy protein provides bone-forming boost.(This Week)
June 5, 2004... Calcium isn't the only thing in milk that's good for bones, a new study suggests. A protein present in cow's milk, as well as in human breast milk, stimulates bone-forming cells in lab dishes and induces bone growth when injected into mice,...

Dead waters: massive oxygen-starved zones are developing along the world's coasts.
June 5, 2004... First in a two part series on dead zones in coastal waters Summer tourists cruising the waters off Louisiana or Texas in the Gulf of Mexico take in gorgeous vistas as they pull in red snappers and blue marlins. Few realize that the lower...

Nice threads: the golden secret behind spinning carbon-nanotube fibers.
June 5, 2004... In 1991, while analyzing a sample of soot under an electron microscope at his NEC laboratory in Tokyo, chemist Sumio Iijima made the discovery of a lifetime. He identified needle-shape formations that became the first examples of the structures...

Oddball asteroid.(Astronomy)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2004... While scanning the sky for near-Earth asteroids last month, an astronomer made a rare find. On May 10, Brian Skiff of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., spied a space rock that takes only 6 months to go around the sun, the shortest...

Breast milk may lower cholesterol.(Biomedicine)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2004... Feeding a newborn baby breast milk instead of formula during the first month of life improves the child's cholesterol readings later on, a study in the May 15 Lancet suggests. The work augments previous research indicating that breast-feeding...

Killer weather on Mount Everest.(Physiology)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2004... In May 1996, eight climbers attempting to reach the peak of Mount Everest died. An analysis of weather patterns at the time suggests that a sudden drop in barometric pressure may have played a significant role in the tragedy. During the...

Simple water filter can nail arsenic.(Science And Society)
June 5, 2004... Field tests in Nepal suggest that people who live in areas with arsenic-tainted aquifers maybe able to purify their drinking water by passing it through a low-cost, low-tech filter with a simple active ingredient--a few handfuls of iron nails....

Huge solar flares hit far-flung craft.(Astronomy)
June 5, 2004... Spacecraft distributed throughout the solar system, including one launched more than a quarter-century ago and now billions of kilometers from Earth, have detected material spewed into space by a spate of huge solar flares late last year. ...

Adam's Curse: a Future without men.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 5, 2004... ADAM'S CURSE: A Future without Men BRYAN SYKES In his last book, The Seven Daughters of Eve, geneticist Sykes explored how DNA that passes from mother to daughter to granddaughter and so on enables scientists to trace Europeans'...

Galileo's Pendulum: From the rhythm of time to the making of matter.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 5, 2004... GALILEO'S PENDULUM: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter ROGER G. NEWTON One day, at age 17, Galileo found himself a little bored while attending mass. He fixed his gaze on a chandelier swinging above his head and wondered...

The Mold Survival Guide For Your Home and For Your Health.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 5, 2004... THE MOLD SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR YOUR HOME AND FOR YOUR HEALTH JEFFREY MAY AND CONNIE MAY Mold is a hot issue today, but the problem dates to biblical times. Jeffrey May, author of My House Is Killing Me, is a recognized authority on indoor...

Turn It Loose: the scientist in absolutely everybody.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 5, 2004... TURN IT LOOSE: The Scientist In Absolutely Everybody DIANE SWANSON Swanson believes every person is born a scientist. From infancy, we wonder about how things work and why things are and then experiment to learn more. Science may be as...

The Whale And the Supercomputer: on the northern front of climate change.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 5, 2004... THE WHALE AND THE SUPERCOMPUTER: On the Northern Front of Climate Change CHARLES WOHLFORTH Average winter temperatures in interior Alaska have risen 7[degrees]F since the 1950s, and annual precipitation has increased by 30 percent....

Blackened reputation.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 5, 2004... Again, humans are implicated in the promotion and distribution of our own misery ("Medieval cure-all may actually have spread disease" SN: 4/3/04, p. 222). However, if bitumen was wrongly credited with darkening the skin of mummified remains,...

Me and my monkey.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 5, 2004... When I was a teenager, I lived with a brown capuchin monkey ("Monkey Business: Do the quirks of capuchins make them creatures with culture?" SN: 4/3/04, p. 218). Among other games, we enjoyed trading: his poker chips for my food. When he was...

Potent rodent.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 5, 2004... It should have come as no surprise that the rat's DNA had "changed much more than the human genome had since the two species diverged from a common ancestor" ("Devil's Lapdog Gets Its Due: The lab rat bares its DNA to biologists," SN: 4/3/04,...

Corralling the mass maker: hunting ground shifts for elusive particle.(This Week)
June 12, 2004... It was the year 2000, and scientists at a European particle collider observed possible traces of the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson--the presumed origin of mass itself and the most-wanted quarry in high-energy physics today....

A fetching lexicon: language clues come from dog's vocabulary.(This Week)
June 12, 2004... On a European television broadcast 2 years ago, a border collie named Rico wowed viewers by correctly retrieving items from an array of children's toys at the request of one of his German owners. For example, if instructed to "get the panda,"...

Genetic pickup: did animals get brain genes from bacteria?(This Week)
June 12, 2004... Reviving a controversy about whether animals have acquired key genes from bacteria, a study suggests that microbes have provided genes that now play vital roles in brain-cell signaling and other forms of cell-to-cell communication. The genes...

Setting a stage for cancer: another reason for women not to drink while pregnant.(This Week)
June 12, 2004... Imbibing substantial amounts of alcohol during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome, a condition characterized by birth defects ranging from abnormal facial features to severe neurological defects. New studies with rats indicate that a...

Well-tuned bats: these animals are what they hear.(This Week)
June 12, 2004... Bats living side-by-side may, in effect, be in different worlds. Two studies of the animals' beeps find that their heating is differently tuned in ways likely to affect their mating and hunting. On two Indonesian islands, three groups of...

Weighty discovery: chemical screening technique identifies potential anthrax drug.(This Week)
June 12, 2004... Pharmaceutical and biotech firms, which spend billions of dollars every year searching for new drugs, keep an eye open for technologies to make their drug screening more fruitful. Chemists at the University of Chicago report a new screening...

Newspaper's footprint: environmental toll of all the news that's fit to print.(This Week)
June 12, 2004... The environmental impacts of getting a newspaper dropped on your doorstep each morning vastly outweigh those of receiving the same information via a handheld electronic device such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), according to an analysis...

Theorems for sale: an online auctioneer offers math amateurs a backdoor to prestige.
June 12, 2004... In April, an eBay auction offered math and science aficionados a rare opportunity: to link their names, albeit through 5 degrees of separation, with one of the most famous mathematicians of the 20th century. Trumpeting the title "Decrease your...

Limiting dead zones: how to curb river pollution and save the Gulf of Mexico.(Cover Story)
June 12, 2004... Second of two parts Every second, the mighty Mississippi gushes another 4.5 million gallons of water into the Gulf of Mexico. Along with the water come nitrate and other pollutants. In the Gulf and other large bodies around the globe,...

Statins might fight multiple sclerosis.(Biomedicine)
June 12, 2004... Statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs taken by millions of people, might also help those with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a preliminary study appealing in the May 15 Lancet. Various studies have indicated that statins--in...

Crystal could generate pure hydrogen fuel.(Chemistry)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2004... The bizarre behavior of an organic crystal called calixarene could help drive a hydrogen economy, suggests a new study. Researchers describe a crystal that, when exposed to air, absorbs molecules such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide,...

Americans eat faster, and more.(Food And Nutrition)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2004... Data from a nationally representative survey show that in the mid-1990s, one in four U.S. residents was patronizing a fast-food restaurant on any given day. In a similar survey 5 years earlier, the figure was just one in six. The new study also...

Microwave mirror hits the spot.(Technology)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2004... Microphones and speakers in arrays known as mirrors can reflect and focus sound in a way that shows promise for fighting disease and other uses. Now, scientists have adapted the concept to work with electromagnetic waves, rather than sounds....

Green tea takes on poison.(Food And Nutrition)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2004... Dioxin, a carcinogenic by-product of many combustion processes, is ubiquitous throughout the environment, including in the food people eat. One way to protect against this contaminant could rely on natural plant compounds that short-circuit...

Chimp DNA yields complex surprises.(Genetics)(Brief Article)
June 12, 2004... Genetic differences between chimpanzees and people are more complicated than scientists had previously suspected, according to an international team. Asao Fujiyama of the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo and his colleagues used...

DNA puts its best foot forward.(Nanotechnology)
June 12, 2004... Scientists have created a walking robot out of DNA--a first step toward DNA-based devices that could shuttle molecular cargo around as if on a conveyor belt or assemble other nanoseale machines. Created by chemists Nadrian Seeman and...

Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 12, 2004... DEBUNKED! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience GEORGES CHARPAK AND HENRI BROCH It's easy to see how charlatans and sorcerers deceived people 200 or even 75 years ago with claims of abilities to predict the future, levitate...

Evolution: the Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 12, 2004... EVOLUTION: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory EDWARD J. LARSON This book traces the 200-year history of evolutionary thought from its beginnings in the minds of 18th-century naturalist Georges Cuvier and geologist Charles...

Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 12, 2004... HEAVENLY INTRIGUE: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries JOSHUA GILDER AND ANNE-LEE GILDER The meeting of 17th-century astronomers Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe has long...

The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 12, 2004... THE MOUNDBUILDERS: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America GEORGE R. MILNER The closest thing North Americans have to the pyramids of Egypt are the earthworks built by eastern Native Americans from 3000 B.C. to the 16th century A.D....

Under the Weather: How the Weather and Climate Affect Our Health.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 12, 2004... UNDER THE WEATHER: How the Weather and Climate Affect Our Health PAT THOMAS It's fairly common for people with arthritis or other joint ailments to predict a change in the weather on the basis of their aches and pains. Thomas, editor...

Go with the flow.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 12, 2004... In "Tales of the Undammed: Removing barriers doesn't automatically restore river health" (SN: 4/10/04, p. 235), the photo comparison of the dam site is deceptive because the two photos of the same spot appear to have been taken during different...

Yes, Sir, you did.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 12, 2004... I described everything in "Primal Progress: Pattern hunters spy order among prime numbers" (SN: 4/24/04, p. 260) almost 50 years ago in The City and the Stars (1956, Harcourt, Brace, and World). See chapter 6: "He set up the matrix of all...

The right light.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 12, 2004... The article "Photon Double Whammy: Careening electrons may rev up solar cells" (SN: 4/24/04, p. 259) focused exclusively on the conversion efficiency of the solar cells. To my way of thinking, the important parameter is not output power versus...

Corrections.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
June 12, 2004... In "Wind Highways: Mosses, lichens travel along aerial paths" (SN: 5/22/04, p. 324), the name of the wind-recording NASA satellite should have been spelled QuikSCAT. In "Travels with the War Goddess" (SN: 5/29/04, p. 344), the genus of the...

Teleporting matter's traits: beaming information quantum-style.(This Week)
June 19, 2004... While not actually teleporting matter from place to place as in Star Trek, physicists have now plucked a quantum property from one atom and transmitted it to another. That feat of quantum teleportation, reported independently by teams in...

Portrait of Phoebe: Cassini images a large Saturn moon.(This Week)
June 19, 2004... By any standard, Saturn's moon Phoebe is an oddball. The largest of Saturn's outer satellites, it's barely held in place by the massive planet's gravity. Phoebe is among a handful of so-called irregular moons, which swoop above and below the...

Blueberry hills: Utah nodules resemble some found on Mars.(This Week)
June 19, 2004... Small iron oxide nodules recently found on Mars by NASA's Opportunity rover could have a geological kinship with similar spherules within certain sandstones of the Southwest, suggest scientists who are analyzing the terrestrial material. ...

Better form, same function: liposuction doesn't lessen health risks.(This Week)
June 19, 2004... There appear to be no shortcuts in life. A new study finds that very obese people who reduce their weight by undergoing liposuction, instead of cutting back on calories, fail to improve their long-term health prospects. As a public health...

A tale of new whiskers.(This Week)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2004... Despite widespread habitat destruction on the Philippine Island of Luzon, scientists have discovered a featherweight tree mouse there with an unexpected evolutionary past. Weighing just 15 grams, the only specimen of the yet-unnamed species...

Tuning up young minds: music lessons give kids a small IQ advantage.(This Week)
June 19, 2004... Researchers have debunked the much-publicized idea, known as the Mozart effect, that listening to classical music improves children's ability to reason about spatial relations and other nonverbal tasks. Learning to play a musical instrument or...

Bubble trouble: mad cow proteins may hitch a ride between cells.(This Week)
June 19, 2004... The deadly malformed proteins responsible for mad cow disease and similar neurodegenerative illnesses in people and other animals may spread between cells using microscopic bubbles, a new study suggests. These bubbles, known as exosomes,...

Fossil fingerprints: rare earths tie bones to burial ground.(This Week)
June 19, 2004... In the summer of 2002, paleontologists traveled from Temple University in Philadelphia to Badlands National Park in South Dakota. There, they uncovered hundreds of fossils, among them 30-million year-old specimens derived from ancient mammals...

Sixth sense: probing the world by means of electric auras.
June 19, 2004... A decade ago, Philip H. Rittmueller was a man on a mission. By the early 1990s, the automobile industry knew that airbags, while successful at saving lives in crashes, could also prove deadly to children and small adults (SN: 9/26/98, p. 206)....

Narcolepsy science reawakens: insights create a new order for disordered sleep.
June 19, 2004... Early last December, an 8-year-old boy showed up in Sameer Zuberi's pediatric neurology clinic in Glasgow, Scotland. Previously healthy and active, the child had suddenly become unable to stay awake, and he described vivid, dreamlike...

Hepatitis C drugs are less effective in black patients.(Biomedicine)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2004... Standard drugs for hepatitis C virus are less likely to knock out the infection in black patients than in whites, finds a study in the May 27 New England Journal of Medicine. Hepatitis C is a liver ailment that afflicts roughly 4 million...

Squashed spheres set a record for filling space.(Physics)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2004... As is clear to anyone who has played with blocks, piles of cubes can occupy every last niche of a space. As for other objects that can't be arranged to fill a space completely, such as cylinders and spheres, scientists have long pondered what...

Compound in salsa kills off salmonella.(Food & Nutrition)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2004... Salsa is more than just a spicy condiment. New research suggests it may also offer protection against Salmonella, the common foodborne pathogen that can cause severe sickness and even death. In preliminary experiments, chemist Isao Kubo of...

Sperm defender has second role.(Biology)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2004... A protein that scientists suspect defends sperm and other cells from microbes also guides the maturation of sperm, a new study concludes. Before a sperm cell can fertilize an egg, it must pass out of a testicle and through a coiled tube...

Tackling stroke and heart risks.(Biomedicine)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2004... Lowering cholesterol concentration in diabetes patients can prevent heart attacks and strokes, even in those who have acceptable cholesterol numbers and no history of heart problems, a new study finds. People with diabetes have an increased...

Gene variant boosts diabetes risk.(Genetics)(Brief Article)
June 19, 2004... Researchers studying the Old Order Amish people of eastern Pennsylvania have found that variant forms of two genes show up more often among those who have type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes than in those without the disease. The genes,...

Cell transplants stop diabetes in some patients.(Biomedicine)
June 19, 2004... Injecting insulin-making cells into diabetes patients can reverse the disease in some cases, according to the technology's most promising test to date. Scientists obtained clusters of cells that include insulin-making beta cells from...

Blocking an enzyme combats disease.(Biochemistry)
June 19, 2004... Scientists have extended the life of a compound important for metabolism by obstructing an enzyme that breaks it down. Called glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1), the beneficial compound stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas and...

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 19, 2004... PHILIP BALL Ball turns to the unlikely realm of physics to answer the question, How, in human affairs, does one thing lead to another? During the post 30 years, the author asserts, three theories relevant to the question have emerged:...

Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 19, 2004... PAUL BLOOM A clown slipping on a banana peel is funny. Baby killing is repugnant. Paint stroked on canvas is art. All but a fraction of people agree with these statements, demonstrating that humor, morality, and art are basic aspects of...

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 19, 2004... PAUL ROBERTS The world's politics, economics, and culture are largely founded on one natural resource--oil--writes Roberts. And the dependence on oil increases as more of the world becomes affluent. China, for instance, is now the world's...

Weird Science: 40 Strange-Acting, Bizarre-Sounding and Barely Believable Activities for Kids.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Children's Review)
June 19, 2004... JIM WIESE Experiments in this book trigger children's enthusiasm about science by appealing to their inherent attraction to things that are gross or bizarre. By example, one experiment asks kids to gather the sweat from between their toes,...

A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table.(Books: a selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Book Review)
June 19, 2004... MICHAEL D. GORDIN While Dmitrii Mendeleev was making an organized system for understanding modern chemistry, the test of his world was disintegrating. Mendeleev lived primarily in the tumultuous period between the emancipation of Russian...

Scan or scam?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 19, 2004... Using laser technology that has an apparent resolution of only about half a centimeter is somewhat laughable ("Laser scanners map rock art," SN: 4/3/04, p. 222). I also wondered whether the "fresh coat of desert varnish" was an April fool joke....

Fish stories.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
June 19, 2004... "Hooking the Gullible" (SN: 4/24/04, p. 264) reminded me of the old quote: "A fishing lure is any combination of metal, plastic, wood, feathers, hair, or other manmade or natural material attached to a hook (or hooks) and designed to attract...

Hot bother: ground squirrels taunt in infrared.(This Week)
June 26, 2004... Ground squirrels are the first animals reported to broadcast an infrared signal, and the message seems to be "Nyah, nyah." When adult California ground squirrels discover a lurking rattlesnake, they often harass it, says Aaron Rundus of the...

Misbehavin' meson: perplexing particle flouts the rules.(This Week)
June 26, 2004... The discovery of what appears to be a new subatomic particle with bizarre properties is challenging theorists' understanding of how matter behaves on the scale of protons and neutrons. What seems especially weird about the particle, dubbed...

Stone age ear for speech: ancient finds sound off on roots of language.(This Week)
June 26, 2004... Using digital enhancements of skull fragments from five prehistoric individuals dating to more than 350,000 years ago, anthropologists argue that these human ancestors probably had hearing similar to that of people today. Since the ears of...

Cancer with a twist: protein instrumental in breast-cancer metastasis.(This Week)
June 26, 2004... A protein called Twist, which orchestrates gene activity in cells, facilitates the spread of some breast cancers, according to a study in the June 25 Cell. Because it induces a cell to disengage from its surroundings and float freely,...

Mr. Universe Jr.: child's gene mutation confirms protein's role in human-muscle growth.(This Week)
June 26, 2004... Find the kid a sports agent. Researchers studying an unusually muscular tot have found that he has gene mutations similar to ones that produce abnormally brawny cattle and mice. Less-severe variations in the same gene may underlie the success...

Cool magnet: a little bit of iron gives magnetic refrigeration a boost.(This Week)
June 26, 2004... Magnets are big-time materials, finding roles in products ranging from motors to medical-imaging systems. Now, a team of engineers' improvement of a custom-made magnetic material increases the odds that refrigeration will soon join the roster...

When protein breakdown breaks down: bacterial toxin yields signs of Parkinson's.(This Week)
June 26, 2004... Certain compounds that hinder cells from destroying waste proteins can produce symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rats, researchers report. That finding could lead to a new animal model for studying the brain disorder. It also raises the...

Long dry spell.(This Week)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2004... An ongoing drought that began in 2000 is driving down reservoir levels in the western United States. Utah's Lake Powell fell more than 10 meters between June 2002 (top) and December 2003 (bottom)--a change unrelated to the different seasons...

Thoroughly modern migrants: moths and butterflies--round-trip tickets not necessary.
June 26, 2004... Hugh Dingle is gracious about geese and robins. They may be the most popular icons of migration, winging south in the fall and lifting people's spirits in spring, when they finally honk or bob-bob-bob their way back to the same territory. For...

Beg your indulgence: the Japanese social concept of amae goes global.
June 26, 2004... In private conversations, native Japanese people olden regale one another with tales of tactless, even tasteless, encounters that fall under the heading of the Japanese term amae (pronounced "a-mah-yeh"). Amae also encompasses sweet moments...

New diabetes drug passes early tests.(Biomedicine)(Brief Article)
June 26, 2004... The drug exenatide stabilizes and can reduce blood sugar in diabetes patients for whom standard medications don't work well, two studies show. In one trial, Ralph DeFronzo of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and...