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Humans

From the May 1, 1937, issue

A vitamin image, sugar versus alcohol, and patterns in cells.

Physics

Exploring Time

This new educational site offers time-lapse and high-speed video clips, 3D scientific animations, and other visually stunning features that reveal how events unfold on different timescales—from billionths of seconds to billions of years—and take place too quickly or too slowly for the human senses to perceive. Go to: http://www.exploringtime.org

Planetary Science

A solar forecast

Solar activity, which waxes and wanes in an 11-year cycle, will most likely begin its next round in March 2008 and peak sometime between late 2011 and mid 2012.