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Artificial Star

August 21, 2001

A laser beam creates an artificial star in the sky for a telescope's adaptive optics system

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Hot Chilies

August 20, 2001

The evolutionary basis for why chili peppers are hot

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Biting Insects

August 17, 2001

Tropical wasps bite each other to divide labor, may be form of insect communication, not bullying.

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Math Anxiety

August 16, 2001

Students anxious about math do worse on tests, even when they know the material, because their …

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Inflatable Wings

August 15, 2001

NASA is building aircraft with inflating wings to save space on probes in our atmosphere... and …

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CELT

August 14, 2001

California Extremely Large Telescope: Plans to build it and where

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Robotic Scorpion

August 13, 2001

A robot modelled after a scorpion that can be used to spy under harsh, desert-like conditions.

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Smell and Behavior

August 10, 2001

Teasing out how the nose works and how the sense of smell is important in everyday life.

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Wave Power

August 9, 2001

Turning the ocean's waves into electrical power with special buoys.

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Computer Personality Test

August 8, 2001

Psychologists will give an artificially intelligent machine named GAC (developed by the Mindpixel …

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Insect Sweet Tooth

August 7, 2001

Will insects that are attracted to sugar be attracted to artificial sweeteners?(insects aren't …

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Cause and Effect

August 6, 2001

Seeing an effect, people will think they've also seen the cause.

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