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  1. Earth

    Cold and Deep: Antarctica’s Lake Vostok has two big neighbors

    Trapped beneath Antarctica's kilometers-thick ice sheet are two immense bodies of water that may harbor ecosystems that have been isolated for millions of years.

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  2. Good for Something: Prion protein maintains stem cells

    The same protein that, in an altered shape, causes mad cow disease maintains the body's cache of blood-producing stem cells.

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  3. Physics

    Smashing Success: Accelerator gets cool upgrade

    A novel scheme for increasing the number of collisions in particle accelerators has boosted the performance of the world's highest-energy collider.

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  4. 19641

    After reading about the use of electrons in a particle accelerator to “cool” the antiprotons in a secondary ring, I have a question.