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  1. Colossal Colon Tour

    The Colossal Colon is a 40-foot-long, 4-foot-high replica of a human colon. Visitors can crawl through the colon or look through the viewing windows to see healthy colon tissue, colon disease, polyps, and various stages of colon cancer. Under the auspices of the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, the giant model will be on display […]

    By Science News
  2. Tech

    Digital Cells

    Researchers are gearing up to create cells with computer programs hardwired into the DNA.

    By Erica Klarreich
  3. Animals

    Fishy Paternity Defense: Bluegill dads: Not mine? Why bother?

    Bluegill sunfish have provided an unusually tidy test of the much-discussed prediction that animal dads' diligence in child care depends on how certain they are that the offspring really are their own.