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Designer Soot

January 30, 2002

Creating a chemical identity for soot (by designing a standard soot) to study it.

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Vitamin Names-Rerun #2581

January 29, 2002

rerun

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Picture Passwords-Rerun #2585

January 28, 2002

rerun

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Water in Plants

January 25, 2002

Tracing how plants store water sheds light on desert ecology

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Looks and Lou Gehrig’s

January 24, 2002

Because I physically look like my mother, (who had ALS), do I have a greater chance of getting the …

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Multitalented Vaccine

January 23, 2002

Vaccines that can protect against more than one strain of pathogen.

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Icy-Cold Beverages

January 22, 2002

Why do some bottled beverages stored in the freezer a few minutes not get ice in them until they're …

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Lobster Sniffing

January 21, 2002

How a lobster uses his antennae to sniff the water around him.

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Green Glowing Sensor

January 18, 2002

A glucose sensor made from green jellyfish protein could help monitor diabetes.

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Quake Clusters

January 17, 2002

Mapping out a timeline of quakes shows that they tend to occur in clusters.

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Proteome

January 16, 2002

Fluorescent dyes help in studying proteins and their role in disease.

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Dangerous Hail

January 15, 2002

Why don't you ever hear about people getting hurt by hail? (Chances of getting hit are low)

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