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  1. Health & Medicine

    Human sweat packs a germ-killing punch

    Sweat glands secrete a microbe-killing protein.

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  2. Chemistry

    Chemists Try for Cleaner Papermaking

    Chemists have developed a novel technology that could help clean up the papermaking process.

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  3. Dazzling Shooting Stars

    The impending encounter between Earth and a cloud of particles ejected from comet Tempel-Tuttle is likely to produce a dazzling meteor shower, visible over North America in the early morning hours of Nov. 18. Bill Cooke of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center provides forecasts and viewing conditions for this year’s Leonid storm. Go to: http://see.msfc.nasa.gov/see/Leonid_Forecast_2001.html […]

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  4. Astronomy

    After a martian dust storm

    The largest dust storm seen on Mars in more than 2 decades is now beginning to wane.

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  5. Astronomy

    Tracking the path of a black hole

    Astronomers have for the first time measured the motion of a small black hole and a companion star speeding through our galactic neighborhood.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Anti-inflammatory drug may unleash TB

    The anti-inflammatory drug infliximab, also called Remicade, can cause hidden tuberculosis to flare up.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Molecule may reveal ovarian cancer

    The presence of a protein called prostasin may signal cancer of the ovaries.

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  8. Earth

    Uranium recorded in high-altitude ice

    An international team of scientists has analyzed a lengthy core of ice and snow drilled from atop Europe's tallest mountain to produce the first century-long record of uranium concentrations in a high-altitude environment.

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  9. Earth

    Grape-harvest dates hold climate clues

    The vintner's habit of picking no grapes before their time may give scientists a tool that could help verify reconstructions of European climate for the past 500 years.

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  10. From the November 7, 1931, issue

    HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE RIVALED FOR FAME BY NEW ARCHES While the completion of the great George Washington suspension bridge, which has hurled itself in one bold leap across 3,500 feet of the Hudson River from Manhattan to the New Jersey shore, is being celebrated, two other bridges, likewise the largest in the world of their […]

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Trans Fats

    Increasing evidence links trans fats to health problems, and some researchers are looking for ways to reduce the fats in food.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    The Seeds of Malaria

    By studying the molecular footprints of evolution in parasites and human hosts, geneticists are casting light on when and how malaria became the menace it is.

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