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  1. Earth

    Flaws make it a geologist’s best friend

    By analyzing some of a diamond's trapped impurities, researchers were able to measure remnants of the gargantuan pressure that produced the gem.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    AIDS Vaccine Tests Well in Monkeys

    An experimental AIDS vaccine bolstered with two immune proteins protects rhesus monkeys from the disease even when they are exposed to a combination of simian and human immunodeficiency virus.

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  3. Math

    Mapping Scientific Frontiers

    Can computer visualization help identify turning points and milestones in scientific discovery?

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  4. Humans

    Letters from the March 13, 2004, issue of Science News

    Dry hole? “Tapping sun’s light and heat to make hydrogen” (SN: 1/17/04, p.