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  1. Life

    Ingredients of hagfish slime revealed

    Figuring out the ingredients still doesn’t explain how the fishes avoid premature mucus explosions

    By Susan Milius

  2. Contemplating future plans for particle colliders

    Caltech physicist Barry Barish is the director of the global design effort for the International Linear Collider, which is currently in the planning stages. If built, the ILC would smash together electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, at nearly the speed of light. The ILC would complement the Large Hadron Collider, a European proton collider […]

    By Barry Barish
  3. Science & Society

    Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

    In her new book, science writer Rebecca Skloot describes how Henrietta Lacks' cells changed the face of modern medical science.