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  1. Ozone Linked to Sun’s UV Flux

  2. Protein Lack and the Next Generation

  3. Front Matter

  4. Quick Look at Fast Reactions

  5. Earth Sciences

  6. Argonne Makes ‘Heavy’ Move

  7. Moonshining around the World

  8. Biomedicine

  9. Tapping Heavy Crude: A Forgotten Resource

  10. Man Flies Channel

  11. Biology

  12. Two, Two: Two Quasars in One

    Gravity's ability to bend light (an effect predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity) has been confirmed many times. What had not been observed was the more extreme case deflection of light by a gravitational field so strong that it acts as a lens on the line of sight. But now astronomers believe they have found the first evidence for just such a gravitational lens.