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  1. Humans

    Letters from the August 21, 2004, issue of Science News

    Complex issue When cyanobacteria and plants transfer electrons photosynthetically, light is absorbed not by their photosynthetic proteins but by chlorophylls (“Protein Power: Solar cell produces electricity from spinach and bacterial proteins,” SN: 6/5/04, p. 355: Protein Power: Solar cell produces electricity from spinach and bacterial proteins). Some of these proteins indeed participate in electron flow, […]

    By Science News
  2. Space

    Good-bye Shuttle

    Looking back at the space plane’s scientific legacy

    By Alexandra Witze
  3. Health & Medicine

    Inside Job

    Teams of microbes pull strings in the human body.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  4. Evolution’s Wedges

    Finding the genes that drive one species into two.

    By Daniel Strain
  5. Humans

    Water’s Edge Ancestors

    Human evolution’s tide may have turned on lake and sea shores.

    By Bruce Bower

  6. When Birds Go to Town

    Urban settings offer enterprising critters new opportunities — if they can cope with the challenges 

    By Susan Milius
  7. Life

    Helping Bats Hold On

    Scientists seek a savior as a deadly fungal pandemic explodes through vulnerable colonies.

    By Janet Raloff

  8. Science From On High

    Google Earth gives researchers new access.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  9. Health & Medicine

    Reviving A Tired Heart

    With a bit of encouragement, the life-giving muscle may renew itself.

    By Laura Beil

  10. Lopped Off

    Removal of top predators trickles through the food web.

    By Nadia Drake

  11. Space Eats

    Astronaut journey to Mars requires new age nibbles.

    By Alexandra Witze
  12. Humans

    Missing Lincs

    Lesser-known genetic material helps explain why humans are human.

    By Tina Hesman Saey