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  1. Computing

    Pictures Only a Computer Could Love

    New, unconventional lenses shape scenes into pictures for computers, not people, so that computer-equipped microscopes, cameras, and other optical devices can see more with less.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Astronomy

    A comet’s chilly origin

    Astronomers have detected argon in comet Hale-Bopp, the first time an inert gas has been found in one of these icy bodies and an indication that the comet formed in the frigid outer solar system between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Humans

    When Biologists Get Bombed

    Or shot at by soldiers. This isn't textbook conservation science.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Math

    Crediting Basketball’s Three-Pointers

    The adoption of the three-point field goal in basketball changed the game.