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Microscope Imaging
The Exploratorium in San Francisco provides images of a wide range of microscopic critters. The Web site also includes breathtaking movies of sea urchin fertilization, frog development, zebrafish embryo growth, and more. Go to: http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/
- Materials Science
Logos to Go: Hydrogel coatings provide removable color
A biodegradable coating could add a temporary splash of color to sports fields, buildings, or even people's bodies.
- Health & Medicine
Origins of Ache: Immune proteins may yield chronic-pain clues
People with chronic pain that has no underlying disease have low concentrations of proteins in the cytokine family that restrain inflammation.
- Chemistry
Tricky Transformation: Bubbling gases tighten, then loosen, the grip of novel molecules on grime
New compounds make oil mix with water, or not, depending simply on which gases are bubbled through the water.
