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  1. Bright Prospects for Laboratory Lasers

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  2. Astronomy

    Supernova 1987A: Astronomers’ Luck

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  3. Nearby supernova

    Astronomers at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory at La Serena, Chile, discovered a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud on the morning of Feb. 24, 1987.

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  4. Gene for Manic Depression?

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  5. Checking out a Theoretical Superconducting Transition

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  6. Biology

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  7. The Dark Side of Mt. St. Helens

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  8. Two, Two: Two Quasars in One

    Gravity's ability to bend light (an effect predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity) has been confirmed many times. What had not been observed was the more extreme case deflection of light by a gravitational field so strong that it acts as a lens on the line of sight. But now astronomers believe they have found the first evidence for just such a gravitational lens.

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  9. The Last Eclipse

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  10. Koko

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  11. A Supermassive Object in Galaxy M87

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  12. Physical Sciences

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