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  1. Astronomy

    Sputnik + 50

    The launch of Sputnik 1, 50 years ago, ushered in a scientific and technological revolution, but dreams of the human conquest of space have faded.

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  2. Agriculture

    Web Special: You fertilized with what?

    A study shows that farmers can substitute human urine for conventional fertilizer.

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  3. Humans

    From the September 25, 1937, issue

    Insulin's molecular structure revealed, a new supernova observed less than a fortnight after an earlier one, and a hypothesis for how X rays kill cancer cells.

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  4. Animals

    Not Your Ordinary Amphibians

    They resemble mondo worms or perhaps eels and snakes.