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  1. Astronomy

    Satellite begins its ultraviolet survey

    NASA last month released the first images taken by the recently launched Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Heart drug derails algal toxin

    A drug for treating high cholesterol might someday find use relieving the debilitating symptoms of poisoning from some algal toxins.

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  3. Chemistry

    Danger Detection

    Analytical chemists are exploring ways to improve chemical and biological weapons detection.

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  4. 19035

    I find the ideas promulgated in this article deeply disturbing. The idea of pulling out a couple of chemicals and standardizing them is a turning away from the holism that herbal remedies represent. This is the very essence of the complaint against conventional pharmaceuticals and why people are turning to herbals. That there is a […]

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Herbal Lottery

    Many herbal-product makers aren't maintaining adequate quality control, prompting the Food and Drug Administration to propose rules that mandate good manufacturing practices.

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  6. Humans

    Fellowships awarded to Science News writers

    Two Science News writers recently received prestigious fellowships.

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  7. Eggs and more grown from mouse stem cells

    Stem cells from mouse embryos can be converted into eggs, skin, or heart muscle.

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  8. Earth

    Vermiculite turns toxic

    Federal agencies issued a warning that much of the vermiculite ceiling insulation installed a decade or more ago may be tainted with cancer-causing asbestos.

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  9. Earth

    To contain gene-altered crops, nip them in the seed

    Researchers have demonstrated that, in principle, they can add genes that block genetically modified crops from breeding with conventional varieties and thus from spreading their artificial traits.

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  10. Math

    Uncovering a prime failure

    Mathematicians have returned to the drawing board after what looked like a dramatic step forward in understanding prime numbers.

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  11. 19243

    The discovery that humans share 99.4 percent of their genetic sequences with chimps does not make chimps like us in any meaningful sense or lower “humanity’s pedestal” in the slightest degree. In some 5 million years on Earth the sum total of chimps’ cultural achievements has been exactly 0. In only 200,000 years, modern humans […]

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  12. Anthropology

    Humanity’s pedestal lowered again?

    A new genetic study reaches the controversial conclusion that chimpanzees belong to the genus Homo, just as people do.

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