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...instruments, three of which are the size of small automobiles, to record the full range of gamma-ray activity. The devices will also conduct tests of the skies throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, using X rays, visible light and infrared light. These sensitive instruments were developed by a team of scientists from Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S. and the European Space Agency. The four monitors will all use liquid and solid crystals to record the origin of gamma- ) ray sources. As the rays smash into the crystals, they produce flashes of light called scintillations. Those data will be measured and sent...
Some geologists, including Paul Hoffman, a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada, believe that the new map could point the way to valuable mineral discoveries. If the theory proves correct, silver, copper and zinc (all found in eastern Australia) should also turn up in northwestern Canada. But scientists caution that before anybody rushes out with a prospector's pick, research must confirm that the rocks in the Western U.S. are really related to those in eastern Antarctica. Dalziel estimates that this comparison should take no more than six months -- a short wait to clear up a mystery that...
...prepared statement, NYU Chancellor and President-elect L. Jay Oliva said, "The appointment of Alice Huang as Dean for Science brings a scientist of outstanding strength and stature to a leadership role in the sciences at NYU for the coming decade...
...turns out that they can be rotten for your health. The organic compounds of woodsmoke are suspected of being linked to cancer, heart disease and disorders of the central nervous system. "People never realized how dirty they were," says Naydene Maykut, an air-pollution scientist. Heating 30 houses with wood stoves, she notes, creates as much particulate matter as heating 30,000 houses with natural...
...scientific article signed by some of the university's leading biologists -- including Nobel laureate David Baltimore -- was based on data that had been fudged. But rather than reopen the experiment (which involved introducing foreign genes into a mouse and observing the effect on the animal's own genes), the scientists, led by Baltimore, closed ranks. The junior researcher, Irish-born Margot O'Toole, was asked to give up her place in the lab. The senior scientist accused of misconduct, a gifted Brazilian immunologist named Thereza Imanishi-Kari, went on to win a prestigious appointment at nearby Tufts University...