Building a Brainier Mouse
By genetically engineering a smarter than average mouse, scientists have assembled some of the central molecular components of learning and memory
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The Discovery of Brown Dwarfs
Less massive than stars but more massive than planets, brown dwarfs were long assumed to be rare. New sky surveys, however, show that the objects may be as common as stars.
The 1999 National Medal of Technology
The latest winners of the nation's highest honors for innovation are celebrated for outstanding contributions to the growth and commercialization of the Internet, biotechnology, pattern recognition and more
Quantum Teleportation
The science-fiction dream of "beaming" objects from place to place is now a reality—at least for particles of light
Understanding Clinical Trials
The journey from initial medical research to the bottle in your family's medicine cabinet is complex, time consuming and expensive. Can the clinical trial process be refined?
The Aleutian Kayak
The Aleuts built the baidarka to suit their life as hunters on the open ocean. The sophisticated design of this kayak is still not entirely understood
Monitoring Earth's Vital Signs
A new NASA satellite—one of a fleet called the Earth Observing System—is using five state-of-the-art sensors to diagnose the planet's health like never before
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