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- Earth
Paved Paradise?
The precipitation-fed runoff that spills from impervious surfaces such as buildings, roads, and parking lots in developed areas increases erosion in streams, wreaks ecological havoc there, and contributes to urban heat islands.
- Math
More Progressive Primes
The first sequence consisting of 23 prime numbers in arithmetic progression has been discovered.
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From the August 25, 1934, issue
Earrings from Oklahoma's mound builders, a bathysphere's record descent, and gamma rays for splitting atoms.
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Bone Biology
Susan Ott, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, has created a Web site that provides information to physicians and others about bone physiology and osteoporosis.
