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...burned in cars and power plants. Aerosols actually cool the planet by blocking sunlight and mask the effects of global warming. Says Tom Wigley, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a member of the international panel: "We were looking for the needle in the wrong haystack...
Among the CDF's most vital parts are the fast electronics that sift through torrents of incoming data, instantaneously separating the mundane from the rare. "We're looking for needles in haystacks," observes University of Michigan physicist Myron Campbell, "and to find them, we have to process a haystack every second." During the last experimental run, for instance, a trillion collisions between protons and antiprotons occurred inside CDF's big particle trap. Yet of these, only 16 million were deemed promising enough by the detector's electronic gate-keepers to be worth more detailed analysis. Further winnowing occurred as banks...
Above all, he is a relentless hunter of disease genes. Finding a gene embedded in long, nearly featureless spirals of DNA, he likes to observe, is harder than locating the proverbial needle in a haystack. "At least a needle looks different from a haystack," he says, "but a gene is just another piece of DNA." His love for lab work won't let Collins become merely a bureaucrat. He has already established his own research center at the National Institutes of Health so he and colleagues can continue their search for errant genes...
FINDING A SINGLE GENE AMONG THE ESTIMATED 100,000 genes scattered along the 23 pairs of chromosomes in human cells is every bit as daunting as finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. But now the quest has been made simpler, at least for two of those chromosomes. As reported in the research journal Nature, investigators in Paris have published the first map to describe in the correct order all the most important subsections of the 21st chromosome -- the one that harbors genes associated with Down syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders. Simultaneously, researchers in Boston published...
...White water! White water!" yelps Neil Kaminsky, an Albuquerque physician and veteran rafter, as he maneuvers through 5 ft.-tall, "haystack" waves on Idaho's roaring Salmon River. It may not be everyone's idea of a great vacation, but Kaminsky counts himself lucky to be out there risking his life. The U.S. Forest Service, which administers the Salmon and other prime Idaho rivers, grants just 1,100 permits to rafting parties annually. They are chosen by lottery from more than 11,000 applicants...