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  1. Chemistry

    Power plants: Algae churn out hydrogen

    Green algae can produce hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel that could one day power pollution-free cars.

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  2. Science News of the Year 2002

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2002.

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  3. Science News of the Year 2002

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2002.

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  4. Earth

    Zooplankton diet of mercury varies

    By modeling a lake ecosystem in large tubs of water, researchers have found that zooplankton—an important link in the food chain—consume much less toxic methylmercury when the lake experiences an algal bloom.

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  5. Paleontology

    Sea Dragons

    About 235 million years ago, as the earliest dinosaurs stomped about on land, some of their reptilian relatives slipped back into the surf, took on an aquatic lifestyle, and became ichthyosaurs—Greek for fish lizards.

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  6. Migration may reawaken Lyme disease

    Lyme disease can hide in healthy-looking birds until the stress of migration drives it into a potentially infectious state.

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  7. Math

    A Fibonacci Fountain

    The year 1202 saw the publication of one of the most famous and influential books in mathematics. Widely copied and imitated, Liber abaci introduced the use of Arabic numerals and the Hindu-Arabic place-valued decimal system into Europe. It was written by Leonardo Pisano, who became better known by his nickname Fibonacci. Helaman Ferguson’s Fibonacci Fountain. […]

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  8. Math

    A Fibonacci Fountain

    The year 1202 saw the publication of one of the most famous and influential books in mathematics. Widely copied and imitated, Liber abaci introduced the use of Arabic numerals and the Hindu-Arabic place-valued decimal system into Europe. It was written by Leonardo Pisano, who became better known by his nickname Fibonacci. Helaman Ferguson’s Fibonacci Fountain. […]

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  9. Humans

    Cold Comfort

    A futuristic play of cryogenic proportions.

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  10. Humans

    Cold Comfort

    A futuristic play of cryogenic proportions.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    New gene-therapy techniques show potential

    Two technologies for transferring genes, one that uses mobile DNA called transposons and another that uses a weak virus, have proved successful in overcoming genetic disorders in mice.

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  12. Anthropology

    Human fossils tell a fish tale

    Fossil clues indicate that Stone Age humans ate a considerable amount of seafood, giving them a broader and more resilient diet than that of Neandertals.

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