Wading in Waste
Thanks to unchecked development along America's coasts, disease-causing microbes are increasingly fouling beaches and shellfish beds
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Toward Better Pain Control
Advances in understanding the cells and molecules that transmit pain signals are providing new targets for drugs that could relieve various kinds of pain--including those poorly controlled by existing therapies...
Dependable Software by Design
Computers fly our airliners and run most of the world's banking, communications, retail and manufacturing systems. Now powerful analysis tools will at last help software engineers ensure the reliability of their designs...
A New Assault on HIV
The constant search for weak points in the virus yields ideas for a wholly new class of drug
The Secrets of Supervolcanoes
MIcroscopic crystals of volcanic ash are revealing surprising clues about the world's most devastating eruptions
The Science behind Sudoku
Solving a Sudoku puzzle requires no math, not even arithmetic. Even so, the game poses a number of intriguing mathematical problems
Engineering Life: Building a FAB for Biology
Principles and practices learned from engineering successes can help transform biotechnology from a specialized craft into a mature industry
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Fish Out of Water
Peaking Intelligence
The Other, Other White Meat
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Favored by the Gods
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The Flipping Point
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Up the Lazy Creek
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
Lysenko Retreats -- Consumers Benefit -- Neptune's Realm Photographed
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How to Kill Synthetic Biology
- In Brief
Data Points, June 2006
Brief Points, June 2006
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The Ultimate Blood Test
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Carbon Hooch
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The Implicit Prejudice
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The New Geopolitics
