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April 2005
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; April 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Reactive Reasoning; April 2005; by Diane Martindale; 2 Page(s)
Is an inflammation protein the next cholesterol?
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Strange New World; April 2005; by Mark Alpert; 2 Page(s)
Piercing the haze, Huygens gets a view of Titan's surface
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Leafy Letdown; April 2005; by JR Minkel; 2 Page(s)
Eating vegetables seems to do little in warding off cancer
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CT Scan for Molecules; April 2005; by Graham P. Collins; 2 Page(s)
Producing 3-D images of electron orbitals
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Qubit Twist; April 2005; by Charles Q. Choi; 1 Page(s)
Bending nanotubes as mechanical quantum bits
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News Scan Briefs; April 2005; by JR Minkel, Charles Q. Choi, Steve Mirsky; 2 Page(s)
Aurora Born of Radio; Procrastinate Later; Ernst Mayr (1904-2005); One Small Step; Descent on the Ants; Crustaceans against Dengue Fever
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Insights: In the Business of Synthetic Life; April 2005; by Sam Jaffe; 2 Page(s)
Synthetic biology might someday lead to artificial organisms. To James J. Collins, it already offers pharmaceutical promise, like turning a person's cells into custom drug factories
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Stopping Spam; April 2005; by Joshua Goodman, David Heckerman and Robert Rounthwaite; 8 Page(s)
What can be done to stanch the flood of junk e-mail messages?
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Probing the Geodynamo; April 2005; by Gary A. Glatzmaier and Peter Olson; 8 Page(s)
Scientists have long wondered why the polarity of the earth's magnetic field occasionally reverses. Recent studies of our planet's churning interior are offering intriguing clues about how the next reversal may begin
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The Alternative Genome; April 2005; by Gil Ast; 8 Page(s)
The old axiom "one gene, one protein" no longer holds true. The more complex an organism, the more likely it became that way by extracting multiple protein meanings from individual genes
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Shaping the Future; April 2005; by Steven W. Popper, Robert J. Lempert and Steven C. Bankes; 6 Page(s)
Scientific uncertainty often becomes an excuse to ignore long-term problems, such as climate change. It doesn't have to be so
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How Animals Do Business; April 2005; by Frans B. M. de Waal; 8 Page(s)
Humans and other animals share a heritage of economic tendencies--including cooperation, repayment of favors and resentment at being shortchanged
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Low-Temperature Superconductivity Is Warming Up; April 2005; by Paul C. Canfield and Sergey L. Bud'ko; 8 Page(s)
Magnesium diboride defies the once conventional wisdom about what makes a good superconductor. It becomes superconducting near the relativity warm temperature of 40 kelvins--which promises a variety of applications
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A Toxin against Pain; April 2005; by Gary Stix; 6 Page(s)
For years, scientists have promised a new wave of drugs derived from sea life. A recently approved analgesic that is a synthetic version of a snail toxin has become one of the first marine pharmaceuticals
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Reviews: Evo Devo Is the New Buzzword...; April 2005; by Brian K. Hall, Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful describes how a deeper appreciation of developmental biology clears up many enigmas of evolution. Also, The Editors Recommend
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Ask the Experts; April 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
What is the fastest event that can be measured? Why is normal blood pressure less than 120/80? Why don't these numbers change with height?
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