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  1. Physics

    The Atoms Family

    Dracula doesn’t want to suck your blood. He wants you to enter his online library and learn about the properties of light, waves, and particles. Here at “The Atoms Family” Web pages, created by the Miami Museum of Science, Dracula and four other silver-screen ghouls invite Web surfers into their laboratories to try out physics […]

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Calcium supplements for chocolate

    Using soap chemistry, scientists prevented some of chocolate's saturated fat--and calories--from being absorbed.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Can childhood diets lead to diabetes?

    Prolonged consumption of foods that break down quickly into simple sugars appears to foster obesity and vulnerability to diabetes, an animal study shows.

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  4. Chemistry

    Research shows why water acts weird

    A new technique shows a link between water's unusual physical properties and its abnormal molecular structure.

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  5. Chemistry

    New all-metal molecules ape organics

    Researchers have stumbled upon the first all-metal, aromatic molecules.

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  6. Organ donations take family toll

    Taiwanese people who donate organs from a deceased family member still support that decision 6 months later, despite frequently experiencing negative consequences related to their culture and religion.

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  7. Hormone therapy may prove memorable

    Healthy, older women may be protected against losses of verbal memory that typically occur with age if they receive hormone-replacement therapy.

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  8. Materials Science

    From Metal Bars to Candy Bars

    Materials scientists have turned the tools of their trade on some of the most familiar substances in the world: food.

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  9. 18918

    Finally, scientists are exploring the nature of religious experiences. Scientists will soon discover that the final frontiers of science and the origin of religion are one and the same. In authentic Zen Buddhism, ultimate reality is that from which all things come and to which all things return. Astrophysicists are traveling in time to find […]

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  10. Into the Mystic

    Scientists confront the hazy realm of spiritual enlightenment.

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  11. Planetary Science

    Happy landing: Craft descends onto Eros

    On Feb. 12, NEAR Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid, the space rock 433 Eros.

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  12. Archaeology

    Maize domestication grows older in Mexico

    Maize cultivation existed in southern Mexico at least 6,300 years ago, according to a recent radiocarbon analysis of two maize cobs unearthed in a cave nearly 40 years ago.

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