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  1. 19646

    Perhaps in addition to using a friendly strain of Clostridium difficile to crowd out the disease-causing variety in the gut, other species of benign bacteria could be reintroduced at the same time. This might be done inexpensively using “probiotic” bacterial cultures already being sold by some health food companies. Michael DunphyNaperville, Ill. Researchers have tested […]

    By Science News
  2. Health & Medicine

    Flora Horror

    A diarrhea-causing bacterium has developed new resistance to a widely used class of antibiotics and has recently become more transmissible and more deadly.

    By Ben Harder
  3. Math

    A Super Bowl Lift

    Does a Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl victory mean financial good times ahead?

    By Ivars Peterson
  4. Humans

    From the February 8, 1936, issue

    The flowers of trees, fuel-saving storm windows, and making radium in the laboratory.