A Toxin against Pain
For years, scientists have promised a new wave of drugs derived from sea life. A recently approved analgesic that is a synthetic version of a snail toxin has become one of the first marine pharmaceuticals...
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The Alternative Genome
The old axiom "one gene, one protein" no longer holds true. The more complex an organism, the more likely it became that way by extracting multiple protein meanings from individual genes...
Low-Temperature Superconductivity Is Warming Up
Magnesium diboride defies the once conventional wisdom about what makes a good superconductor. It becomes superconducting near the relatively warm temperature of 40 kelvins--which promises a variety of applications...
Stopping Spam
What can be done to stanch the flood of junk e-mail messages?
Probing the Geodynamo
Scientists have long wondered why the polarity of the earth's magnetic field occasionally reverses. Recent studies of our planet's churning interior are offering intriguing clues about how the next reversal may begin...
Shaping the Future
Scientific uncertainty often becomes an excuse to ignore long-term problems, such as climate change. It doesn't have to be so
How Animals Do Business
Humans and other animals share a heritage of economic tendencies--including cooperation, repayment of favors and resentment at being shortchanged
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In the Business of Synthetic Life
