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  1. Gene Doping

    Inserting genes for extra strength or speed could give athletes an unbeatable, and perhaps undetectable, advantage in competitive sports.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Creepy-Crawly Care

    Encouraging results from research on medical uses for maggots and leeches, coupled with recent government approval of both therapies, lend credibility to the idea that some live organisms deserve a place in the medical armamentarium.

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  3. Reworking Intuition

    Financially endangered companies rapidly reorganized to become profitable after key staff members ran simulated companies in 2-day sessions organized by a San Diego psychologist.

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  4. Materials Science

    One-Upping Nature’s Materials

    Striving for designer substances that build themselves from individual molecules.

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  5. Animals

    Will Mr. Bowerbird Fall for a Robot?

    Push a button and she turns her head. But can she turn his?

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  6. Humans

    What’s Wrong with This Picture?

    Scientists and educators increasingly are using analyses of bad science in movies, as well as the good, to inform the public about scientific facts and principles.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin D: What’s Enough?

    Most researchers studying vitamin D agree that many people would benefit from more of the vitamin, but they haven't yet decided just how much.

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  8. They’re Sequencing a What?

    Announcements of new targets for genome sequencing are bringing celebrity to lesser-known twigs on the tree of life.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin Boost

    Vitamin D is being linked to a host of health benefits that go well beyond stronger bones, extending to muscle preservation and some protection against cancer, diabetes, and multiple sclerosis.

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  10. Math

    Oddballs

    Mathematicians have found that it's easier to pack spheres in some dimensions than it is in others.

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  11. Archaeology

    Original Microbrews

    Pots, vats, and other artifacts unearthed on three continents are giving archaeologists new clues about ancient cultures' beer-brewing practices.

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  12. Physics

    Information, Please

    Understanding whether the information swallowed by black holes is destroyed forever may provide physicists with new clues for unifying gravity and quantum theories.

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