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Humans

Helping patients decipher options

Scientific publishers and research organizations are preparing to launch a Web site that will make new research findings available to the public in an easy-to-understand context.

Physics

Probe bares heart of X-ray inferno

Physicists have snapped the first real-time pictures of the exploding core of the world's most powerful X-ray source other than a nuclear bomb.

Earth

Climate Storm: Kyoto pact is confirmed, but conflict continues

Controversy flared over the link between climate change and increasing storm activity at the first international climate change meeting since the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol was assured.

Ecosystems

Fallout Feast: Vent crabs survive on victims of plume

Researchers in Taiwan propose an explanation for how so many crabs can survive at shallow-water hydrothermal vents.