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    Student Scientists to Watch: With diverse ideas, young talents win big in annual competition

    With science projects by 40 of the nation's brightest high school students arrayed before them last week, judges had the task of weighing the merits of undertakings as diverse as the study of deep-sea volcanism and the development of a promising new antibiotic.

    By Ben Harder

  2. Sugar Coated: Molecular dress-up may disguise gut bacteria

    The mammalian immune system doesn't attack native gut bacteria as foreign invaders because the bacteria disguise themselves with sugar molecules.

    By Christen Brownlee

  3. Schizophrenia Syncs Fast: Disconnected brain may lie at heart of disorder

    A misalignment of electrical outbursts by large numbers of neurons may play a major role in schizophrenia.