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TechA Shot in the Light
Bullet replicas that look on a microscopic level like they've been fired from a gun—even though they haven't—enable forensics specialists to fine-tune as never before instruments to automatically match bullets from crime scenes.
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HumansFrom the June 14, 1930, issue
WELLAND CANAL Slightly more than a century after the falls and rapids of Niagara were first overcome for water transportation by a canal only 8 feet deep, there has been completed on practically the same site a mammoth structure that will pass giant 600-foot lake grain vessels up and down the 326.5-foot difference in elevation […]
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Health & MedicineSnow and Cholera
Most people have heard of cholera, but few know anything about John Snow, the British doctor who determined how the disease is spread.