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  1. Health & Medicine

    Protein Pump: Experimental therapy fights Parkinson’s

    Bathing surviving dopamine-making neurons with a natural protein that induces nerve-fiber growth reverses some of the symptoms in Parkinson's disease patients.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Math

    The Colors of an Equation’s Roots

    Over the centuries, mathematicians have developed a variety of methods of solving equations. Using the capabilities of modern computers, they have explored in detail how these age-old recipes work–when the methods can be relied upon, when they fail, and when they behave strangely. A polynomiograph of a degree-36 polynomial. B. Kalantari “Cathedral” by B. Kalantari. […]

    By Ivars Peterson

  3. Moving On: Now the human genome is really done

    An international consortium of scientists announced that the deciphering of the human genetic code is now truly complete.