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  1. Chemistry

    Greener Nylon: One-pot recipe could eliminate industrial leftovers

    Researchers have devised a one-step process for making the primary ingredient of nylon.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Astronomy

    Farthest Bang: A burst that goes the distance

    The most-distant gamma-ray burst ever found hails from 900 million years after the birth of the universe, around the time when stars and galaxies first flooded the universe with light.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Humans

    Letters from the September 17, 2005, issue of Science News

    Just Feynman A lot of people ask how someone like Richard Feynman, who played the bongo drums, loved practical jokes, and was an amateur safecracker and a bon vivant, could also win a Nobel Prize in Physics (“Dr.