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  1. Math

    Knots in Proteins

    Knotted proteins are rare but more than just random occurrences.

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  2. Humans

    From the October 10, 1936, issue

    The inner beauty of leaves, a better treatment for pneumonia, and alcohol fuel for cars.

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  3. Physics

    Hawking at CERN

    Physicist Stephen Hawking visited the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in late September 2006. The CERN Web site offers a glimpse of Hawking’s visit and video of two lectures that he presented, one for a general audience on the origin of the universe and the other for a specialist audience on the “semi-classical birth […]

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  4. Chemistry

    Pretty in Pictures: Details of molecular machinery gain Nobel

    This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to a researcher who determined the structure, in atomic detail, of RNA polymerase taken from yeast cells.