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  1. Tech

    Hungry for Nano

    The food industry is turning to nanotechnology as it searches for innovations that could bring safer, healthier, and tastier products to consumers.

    By Alexandra Goho
  2. Physics

    Extreme Impersonations

    By creating tiny clouds of remarkable new kinds of ultracold gases, physicists are, in essence, bringing to their lab benches chunks of some of the most extraordinary and hard-to-study matter in the universe.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Anthropology

    In the Neandertal Mind

    Neandertals possessed much the same mental capacity as ancient people did, but a genetically inspired memory boost toward the end of the Stone Age may have allowed Homo sapiens to prosper while Neandertals died out.