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  1. Proteins in the Stretch

    Scientists are for the first time getting a feel for how proteins fold and unfold.

    By David Shiga
  2. Math

    Going with the Crowd

    Choosing a restaurant can pack them in.

    By Ivars Peterson
  3. Humans

    Letters from the January 8, 2005, issue of Science News

    Below the surface I would suggest that the Italian hydrologists cited in “Fighting Water with Water: To lift the city, pump the sea beneath Venice” (SN: 10/30/04, p. 277: Fighting Water with Water: To lift the city, pump the sea beneath Venice) consider the law of unintended consequences. Similar actions begun in 1978 at an […]

    By Science News
  4. Humans

    From the January 5, 1935, issue

    Karl T.