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Do scientists understand why there are so many more right-handers than left-handers? Do other primates show a similar tendency to favor one hand over the other?

Home, Bacteria-Ridden Home

Could antibacterial soaps lead to resistant strains?

FOLLOW-UP: How do trees carry water from the soil around their roots to the leaves at the top? Clearly, they are fighting gravity--so how do they do it?

Rambling Road to Humanity

Anthropologists debunk another myth of evolutionary progress

Life in the Balance

A new exhibit makes the case for the value of biodiversity

Peeking and Poking at DNA

New microscopy techniques observe life's molecules in action

SUICIDE PREVENTION

Biochemistry offers some new clues

CHINA SYNDROME

China's eugenics law makes trouble
for science and business

BY THE NUMBERS

Global Fertility and Population

Body Blow

BETTER RED
THAN DEAD

An inexpensive new test instantly
spots harmful E. coli

A Clone in Sheep's Clothing

A sheep cloned from adult cells opens vast scientific possibilities and ethical dilemmas

How to Clone a Sheep

Soaking up the Rays

A sponge uses optical fibers
to gather sunlight

BEATING BACTERIA

New ways to fend off antibiotic-resistant pathogens

ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY

Life, Life Everywhere

The origin of life on earth appears more and more inevitable--or does it?

Gene Therapy

Early trials encountered unforeseen complications. A new round of more sophisticated strategies may turn the tide

Tempest in a T-Bone?

Researchers go around in circles on mad cow disease

Unnatural Nature

Engineered enzymes make drug candidates that flummox chemists