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  1. Keeping Bugs from Pumping Drugs

    Researchers hope that attacking the machinery some microbes use to pump antimicrobial agents out of their cells may help deal with the increasing problem of drug resistance.

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  2. Physics

    Scaling energy barriers to save data

    Researchers demonstrate a promising new way to make semiconductor-based memory that doesn't erase when the power goes off.

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  3. Physics

    Spectral atom rings in

    Electron waves can generate a phantom atom when a real atom is placed at the right spot inside an elliptical quantum corral, or loop of atoms, arranged on a surface.

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  4. Humans

    From the August 13, 1932, issue

    ONLY HALF OF LIGHTNING FLASH IS SEEN BY OBSERVERS Not many years ago, a thunderstorm often meant that the supply of electricity would be interrupted.