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Sticky Rice

January 1, 2003

Tracing the origins of sticky rice through genetics

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Bowl Game Brawls

December 31, 2002

Why do fans of winning teams set fires and destroy property? (only a few, many drunken, not mob …

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Spider Bites

December 30, 2002

Family in house with thousands of brown recluse spiders, no bites

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Heavy Metal Roundup

December 27, 2002

Exoskeletons for lifting loads, steel frames for homes and a self-assembling satellite

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Pumpkin Planet

December 26, 2002

Planet Earth is getting bigger around the middle

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Turkey Diversity

December 25, 2002

Assessing the genetic diversity of wild turkeys

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Clone Fingerprints

December 24, 2002

Will clones have the same fingerprints as the person they're cloned from? (no, development in unique …

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Singing Frogs

December 23, 2002

Frogs can change the pitch/timing of their beeps to take advantage of reverb

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Food and Mood

December 20, 2002

Lowering tryptophan causes mood depression, boosting empty calories raises students' test scores, …

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Squirrel Drug

December 19, 2002

A protein in the brains of hibernating squirrels can help treat stroke.

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Tree of Life

December 18, 2002

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding a program to assemble the tree of life.

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Drugs and Teenage Brains

December 17, 2002

Drugs like cocaine affect adolescent brains more than those of young children or adults.

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