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Feeling Pain

April 2, 2003

The hormone estrogen makes women less sensitive to pain.

March 20, 2003

Two fungal diseases threaten the health of banana crops worldwide.

February 26, 2003

A person's ancestry can be tracked by looking at their DNA

January 15, 2003

Getting design ideas for aircraft parts by studying the holes in horse bones

January 13, 2003

Genetically engineering rice to produce a sugar called trehalose makes the rice hardier.

December 26, 2002

Planet Earth is getting bigger around the middle

December 4, 2002

Iron leaches out of iron pots and into food when food is cooked in iron pots

November 7, 2002

What caused the Ice Age? (cooler summers)

November 4, 2002

Researchers attempt to find ways to tap frozen natural gas under the sea

September 18, 2002

Genetically engineering corn to be more nutritious using its own genes

September 16, 2002

Worries about vietnamese nuclear worms, imported as bait, becoming a new invasive species

September 3, 2002

Does the eye get bigger as we get older? (yes, but it's already 65 percent of adult size at birth)