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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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Deadly Dyes

December 16, 2002

Two colored dyes kill bacteria, viruses, and parasites donated blood.

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Rodent Roundup

December 13, 2002

A gene blocks the effects of muscular dystrophy, pain and inflammation promote tumor growth, and old …

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Fear Switch

December 12, 2002

The brain's medial prefrontal cortex is responsible for unlearning fear.

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Transplant Tolerance

December 11, 2002

Immune cells in the eye could be used to prevent organ rejection in transplant patients.

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