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Arsenic-Loving Ferns

March 16, 2001

Using ferns to soak up arsenic out of contaminated soil

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Solar Flip-Flop

March 15, 2001

How the Ulysses is gaining new insights as the sun flips its magnetic field at solar maximum

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Barbados Genes

March 14, 2001

Finding the genes for asthma and allergies in large families

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False Memories

March 13, 2001

People may not be able to pick out what memories are real and which are imagined, but the brain …

Read moreFalse Memories

Flying Bacteria

March 12, 2001

Scientists show for the first time that bacteria in the air are active

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Hominid Diet

March 9, 2001

Old bone tools reveal that ancient ape-men may have dined on tasty termites.

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DNA Heritage

March 8, 2001

Can DNA testing reveal your ethnic heritage? (yes and no-- it can reveal heritage if special markers …

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Understanding Ritalin

March 7, 2001
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Sea Salt

March 6, 2001

How naturally-occurring sea salt may actually be depleting ozone

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Bacterial Genome

March 5, 2001

The genome sequence of e. coli

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Running Water

March 2, 2001

A new material that can channel water in any direction

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Animal Dreams

March 1, 2001

How animals "dream" about events from their day.

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