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  1. Health & Medicine

    Acetaminophen in Action: Effect on an enzyme may stop pain, lower fever

    The discovery of an enzyme scientists are calling cyclooxygenase-3, which is disabled by acetaminophen, might explain why this drug can stop pain and fever but not inflammation.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    From the March 22, 1930, issue

    THE SUN’S NEW TRANS-NEPTUNIAN PLANET The Lowell Observatory has made the discovery of a celestial body whose rate of motion and path among the stars indicate that it is a new member of the sun’s family of planets out beyond Neptune. Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Percival Lowell, director and founder of the Observatory at Flagstaff, […]

    By Science News
  3. Archaeology

    Visit Ancient Corinth

    Hosted at the University of Pennsylvania, this elaborate, regularly updated Web site features historical, literary, and archaeological information about the ancient Roman colony of Corinth in Greece.