You Read It Here First!
Here are some stories I broke exclusively, often weeks or months ahead of top UK science magazine New Scientist , and less frequently, other publications such as the Guardian of London, National Public Radio, and Reuters. I unearthed these stories myself -- they were not assigned by editors.
Universal Law May Govern Tumor Growth
Researchers
Suggest That Universal ‘Law’ Governs Tumor Growth (scroll down)
by Mike Martin
Journal of the Natl Cancer Inst
May 21, 2003; 95: 704-705
Modeling the growth and development of tumors with specialized software,
mathematics, and biologic data is a burgeoning area of cancer research. Biological
scientists seeking to model nature have increasingly turned to "fractals"—jagged
geometrical arrays that never simplify or smooth out, no matter how close you
look at them. Fractals and tumor modeling have recently merged in a simple and
ingenious "universal growth law." Originally formulated for normal
organisms, this growth law may also apply to benign and metastatic tumors.
Cancers
obey universal law of growth
New Scientist
November 17, 2003
Universal
law of growth tested on tumors
UPI
November 17, 2003
Invisible Asteroids
Invisible asteroids might endanger
Earth -- UPI -- March 9 2001 or
Invisible asteroids
might endanger Earth
What lies beneath -- New Scientist -- July 28 2001
A mad cow cure proposed by physicists
Physicists propose mad cow cure -- UPI
-- March 20 2001
Physicists
propose mad cow cure
Buying time -- New Scientist
-- April 21, 2001
New Scientist even published a press release on
this story (hey -- it was a good story):
Press release on prion story by New Scientist at Eurekalert
Other worlds (O-regions) that may surround us
Other worlds may surround us, physicists
claim -- UPI -- March 23, 2001 or
Other
worlds may surround us, physicists claim
The King lives! -- New Scientist -- May
19, 2001
In another world -- New Scientist
-- December 22, 2001
A baby talking computer
Baby-talking computer may soon debut
-- UPI -- March 30, 2001
Look who's talking -- New Scientist-- August 11, 2001
A filter that might remove AIDS from blood
AIDS filter may remove virus from
blood -- UPI -- April 27 2001
My story also at:
http://www.aegis.com/news/upi/2001/UP010405.html
http://www.aegis.com/news/bw/2001/BW010501.html
http://medserv.no/article.php?sid=65
http://www.centrexnews.com/news_archive/news0401.html
Could HIV be filtered from patients' blood? -- New Scientist -- May 12, 2001
Untying the Gordian Knot
Legendary knot finally untied -- UPI --
April 9, 2001
http://fizyka.phys.put.poznan.pl/~pieransk/UPI.htm
Scientists use noodle to model DNA mutation
-- UPI -- April 12, 2001
The same story much later by NPR's "Math Guy," Keith Devlin:
Untying the Gordian
Knot -- Devlin's Angle for NPR -- September 2001
Unravelling
the myth -- by Keith Devlin for The Guardian (UK) September 13, 2001
Round the twist -- by Keith Devlin for New Scientist -- November 10, 2001
The first quantum computer chip
Team makes first quantum computer chip
-- UPI -- May 7, 2001
Line 'em up -- New Scientist -- September 8, 2001
An unusual new solution for Einstein's famous gravitational field equations
Einstein equations yield anti-black
holes -- UPI -- June 18, 2001
Utterly repulsive -- New Scientist-- July 07, 2001
What a Web we Weave -- the network work of Amaral, Barabasi, and others
Sex findings may alter STD treatment strategies
-- UPI -- June 29, 2001
To Stop AIDS, Find Hub, Scientists Say--
UPI -- July 23, 2001
To Stop AIDS,
Find Hub, Scientists Say
Research team plans Internet map -- UPI
-- July 20, 2001
All the world's a net -- New Scientist -- April 13, 2002
The Homestake Gold Mine to Neutrino Lab Project
New science may save old town -- UPI -- 3 part series -- May 28 - June 7, 2001
A world-class lab, 8,000 feet underground -- Christian Science Monitor -- June 27, 2001
Nightmares plague Republicans
Nightmares plague Republicans, study claims -- UPI -- July 9, 2001
I broke this story about nightmares plaguing Republicans more than Democrats.
The Drudge Report picked it up that day, linking to the old UPI archive in NYC,
VNY. After that, the story took off, with CNN's Bill Schneider even doing a
live report on it! Here are other takes.
Republican
Nightmares -- The Guardian (UK) -- July 10, 2001
(thanks for crediting UPI here!)
Oh, the Horror of it All -- US News and World Report -- July 10, 2001
In sleep,
Republicans run scared, Democrats hit the clouds: Study -- Reuters -- July 11,
2001
(Reuters even borrowed a couple of our exclusive quotes!)
Republicans have more nightmares -- Mother Jones -- July 11, 2001
Bad dreams haunt right-wingers
-- New Scientist -- July 11, 2001
What dreams say about your politics -- BBC (UK) -- July 11, 2001
Republicans get nightmares -- Billings Weekly -- July 12, 2001
Light pollution
Light pollution hampers astronomer -- UPI -- August 14, 2001
Rainfall and earthquakes
Rainfall
and earthquakes may be alike -- UPI -- February 27, 2002
Rainfall and earthquakes may be alike
Rain is "earthquake in the sky" -- New Scientist -- May 01, 2002
t'hooft and Susskind's holographic principle -- is the Universe a giant hologram?
Scientists: Bits more basic than quarks -- UPI -- April 1, 2002
The hollow universe -- New Scientist -- April 27, 2002