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March 16th, 2002
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In mouse studies, scientists have used a technique called therapeutic cloning to create personalized replacement tissue. (p. 163)
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A rejuvenated Hubble Space Telescope floated away from the space shuttle Columbia on March 9 after astronauts spent a week renovating the observatory. (p. 163)
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An antibiotic might protect people with heart disease from future coronary events, according to the results of a small-scale trial. (p. 164)
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A vaccine fashioned from pieces of dengue virus and West Nile virus protects mice against West Nile fever, suggesting it might work in people. (p. 164)
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A new dating of Chinese fossils buttresses the idea than an Asian Eden gave rise to at least one of the groups of mammal species that appeared in North America some 55 million years ago. (p. 165)
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Forty students reaped rewards for their excellence this week when the Intel Science Talent Search handed out the top awards in its 2002 competition for high school seniors. (p. 165)
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A common capacity among primates for solving a broad range of problems, from coordinating social alliances to inventing tools, may have played a central role in the evolution of progressively larger brains. (p. 166)
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A few optimists keep looking for species that might already have gone extinct. (p. 168)
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Examining the Eagle nebula's pillars of creation with infrared detectors, scientists are viewing an astronomical icon in a whole new light. (p. 171)
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Sleeping 8 to 9 hours a night doesn't necessarily translate into a longer life. (p. 173)
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Experimenters have found evidence that a type of magnetic behavior correlated with the onset of zero electrical resistance in some so-called high-temperature superconductors is generic to the whole class of those materials, yielding a possible clue to how the substances lose their resistance. (p. 173)
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Researchers have identified the second member of a class of human viruses that may increase people's susceptibility to obesity. (p. 173)
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A dietary deficiency in selenium, an essential trace mineral, may cause a usually harmless strain of the flu to mutate into a virulent pathogen. (p. 173)
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Simultaneous measurements by two spacecraft have probed in greater detail than ever before Jupiter’s magnetosphere, the invisible bubble of charged particles that surrounds the giant planet. (p. 174)
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The fringe on the edges of the floating blooms of water snowflake flowers helps protect the important parts from getting drenched in dunkings. (p. 174)
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Safety concerns forced the shelving of tests of an experimental vaccine for Alzheimer's disease. (p. 174)
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