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  1. Tech

    Triggering genes in a flash

    A light pulse can activate or deactivate selected genes in cells.

    By Peter Weiss

  2. 19196

    The article claims that Lake Agassiz became the world’s largest lake. It seems to me that the same conditions should have occurred in Asia. Shouldn’t you compare Lake Agassiz to glacier-dam-produced lakes in Asia and contemporary freshwater versions of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea? Robert W. DavisMillburn, N.J. According to Martin Jakobsson of […]

    By Science News
  3. Earth

    Once Upon a Lake

    As Earth warmed at the end of the last ice age, the immense volumes of fresh water that occasionally and catastrophically spilled from Lake Agassiz—the long-defunct lake that formed as the ice sheet smothering Canada melted—may have caused global climate change and sudden rises in sea level.