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  1. Earth

    Oxygen Rocks: Volcanoes spurred early atmospheric change

    Earth owes its oxygen-rich atmosphere to a change in volcanic activity about 2.5 billion years ago.

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  2. Earth

    Dead Serious

    Little progress has been made this decade in reducing the size of the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, a massive area of oxygen-depleted water caused by agricultural and urban runoff.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Chocolate Constituent Bests Fluoride

    The beans used to make chocolate can also render a tooth-decay-fighting extract; unfortunately, it's bitter, not chocolaty.

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  4. Tech

    Wheel of Life: Bacteria provide horsepower for tiny motor

    Crawling bacteria can power a micromotor.

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  5. Chemistry

    Switch Hitters: Antibacterial compounds target new mechanism to kill microbes

    Recently discovered ribonucleic acid segments, called riboswitches, may become prime targets for new antibacterial drugs.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Dangerous History

    The genome of the TB bacterium has small but significant pockets of diversity, giving scientists new targets for preventing and treating the disease.

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  7. Science & Society

    From the March 20, 1937, issue

    The real Groundhog Day, microfilm book storage, and turning farm waste into chemical products.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine Harvest: Cholera fighter could be easy to swallow

    An edible vaccine, made by genetically engineering rice, safeguards mice against the toxin produced by cholera bacteria.

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  9. All in the Family

    Contrary to popular belief, species of salamanders, birds, beetles and fish prefer to mate with close kin.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Milk Therapy

    Breast milk has long been known to be the best food for babies, but compounds in breast milk promise to be a tonic for many adult ills as well.

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  11. Role Change: Mast cells show an anti-inflammatory side

    Cells that cause inflammation in allergic skin reactions to poison ivy also produce a protein that subdues the reaction a few days later.

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  12. Cooked garlic still kills bacteria

    Cooked garlic can kill bacteria, but less efficiently than raw garlic does.

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