archive: SETI SciCentral News Alert for Friday, 30-Apr-1999 11:58:25 AM EDT

SETI SciCentral News Alert for Friday, 30-Apr-1999 11:58:25 AM EDT

Larry Klaes ( lklaes@bbn.com )
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:40:34 -0400

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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/
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> BIOTECHNOLOGY
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Just Released: Biotechnology State of the Industry Report
> 1999
> + Genzyme Transgenics Corporation Announces First Successful
> Cloning of Transgenic Goats
> + Quick Tests for Fatal Diseases Possible with New Sensor
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-biotec.html#articles
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> ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Parasites, Not Pollution, Responsible for Some Frog
> Deformities
> + Pesticide Use, Cancer Incidence Both Increasing
> + Report Says Most U.S. Water Unfit for Consumption
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-enviro.html#articles
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> EVOLUTION & PALEONTOLOGY
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + UCSD Biologists Compile Genetic History of Apes and Humans;
> "Family Tree" Shows that Humans Had Brush with Extinction
> + Archeologists Find Milder Arctic Climate May Have Aided
> Aleutian Settlement
> + New Evidence Links Mass Extinction with Massive Eruptions
> that Split Pangea Supercontinent and Created the Atlantic 200
> Million Years Ago
> + Dinosaurs Across the Ocean
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> * [2]Special Reports:
> + Earliest Evidence of Animal Butchery, New Species of Human
> Ancestor, Found in Ethiopia's Afar Desert
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/B-evolut.html#articles
> 2. http://www.scicentral.com/B-evolut.html#reports
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> ASTRONOMY
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Plate Tectonics on Mars?
> + Catalog of Spiral Galaxies Shows Evidence of Galactic
> Collisions
> + A Close Encounter with Mars
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/S-astron.html#articles
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> GEOPHYSICS & SEISMOLOGY
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Active 14,000-Foot-High Submarine Volcano Found Near Samoa in
> South Pacific
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/S-geophy.html#articles
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> METEOROLOGY & CLIMATOLOGY
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Chill in the Air (cooling of the upper atmosphere)
> + La Niña Is on Its Way Out
> + Atlanta's Urban Heat Alters Weather Patterns
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/S-meteor.html#articles
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> OCEANOGRAPHY
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + International Research Team to Study Indian Ocean Monsoon
> + USGS Ocean Floor Mapping Reveals New View of Los Angeles
> Basin
> + A Gulf Stream Collision: Cold Air, Warm Water
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/S-oceano.html#articles
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> SATELLITES & REMOTE SENSING
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Landsat 7 Starts Viewing the World: New Satellite Provides
> Double the Detail of Earlier Satellites
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/S-satrem.html#articles
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> INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Finding a Way Through Internet Traffic Jams Is Focus of Grant
> for Cornell Computer Problem-Solver
> + Electronic Auction House First to Offer Mobile Virtual Agent
> + Cyborg Seeks Community (wearable computer development)
> + Titans Talk Tech (Michael Dertouzos and Bill Gates ponder
> open-source software and the future of the computing
> industry)
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> * [2]Specialized Resources:
> + MIT's Media Lab
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/E-infote.html#articles
> 2. http://www.scicentral.com/E-infote.html#specialized
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> MECHANICAL ENGINEERING & ROBOTICS
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Leaders in Robotics Community to Discuss Ways to Advance U.S.
> Robotics Technologies
> + Japans Friendly Robots
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/E-mechan.html#articles
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> NANOTECHNOLOGY
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Microphone and Radio Components May Lead to a Real-Life Dick
> Tracy Watch
> + Bell Labs Researchers Set Record for Making Smallest
> Electronic Device with Optical Lithography
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/E-nanote.html#articles
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> TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Tiny Chip to Replace Phone Masts
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/E-teleco.html#articles
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> ASTROPHYSICS & RELATIVITY
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Worldwide Search for Gravitational Waves
> + Measuring the Cosmic Neutrino Background
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/P-astrel.html#articles
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> ATOMIC & PLASMA PHYSICS
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> * [1]Specialized Resources:
> + The Ultimate Neutrino Page
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/P-atopla.html#specialized
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> COMPUTER SCIENCE
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + NERSC Selects IBM RS/6000 SP for Next-Generation
> Supercomputer
> + Air Force Grants and a Parallel Array of PCs Will Boost
> Cornell Research on "Hard" Computer Problems
> + The Real Lesson of Y2K Is that Software Operates Just Like
> Any Natural System: Out of Control
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/P-comput.html#articles
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> OPTICS, PHOTONICS, & LASER SCIENCE
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> * [1]Selected Articles:
> + Down but Not Out (new bistable LCD technology)
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>References
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> 1. http://www.scicentral.com/P-optics.html#articles
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