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30 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Wilting Coral Reefs

Federal survey could signal more help for reefs in trouble
30 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Stemming the Passage of Herpes

Drug used to treat the virus also prevents its spread
30 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Ozone Hole Shrinks, Splits

Wild weather is beating down this year’s ozone hole
27 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Clean Fuel From Sunlight?

Catalyst boosts hopes for hydrogen bonanza
27 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Mystery Anti-HIV Factor Unmasked?

Defensin proteins might explain HIV's disparate killing rates
27 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Creationism Edges Toward the Classroom

Georgia county votes for flexibility in evolution teachings
26 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Drug Find Could Give Ravers the Jitters

Ecstasy damages dopamine neurons in animals
26 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Mild Winters Mostly Hot Air, Not Gulf Stream

Winds warm Europe more than ocean currents
26 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Gluten Allergy Puzzle Solved

Scientists find peptide that causes food intolerance and an enzyme to treat it
25 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Bacterial Defenses Predate Antibiotics

Resistance genes' mobility evolved millions of years ago
25 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

New Leader Proposed for FDA

Mark McClellan, economist and physician, would face daunting tasks
25 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

How the Eye Keeps Technicolor

Faster recycling of key molecule enables continuous daytime vision
25 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

MacArthur Grants Recognize Nine Researchers

Geniuses get a cool half-million to fund future creativity
25 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Physicist Fired for Falsified Data

Work from Bell Labs on superconductivity and nanotech was fabricated
24 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Taking Stock of U.S. Ecosystems

A new report aims to provide unbiased data to inform policy debates
24 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Coulston Chimps Retire

Troubled foundation donates research animals to sanctuary
24 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

A Sunny Climate for Stem Cell Researchers

New laws in California expected to lead to more state money for research
24 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Crucial Cipher Questioned

Two cryptographers claim the national encryption standard is vulnerable
23 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Five Lasker Winners Announced

Awards honor work in clinical and basic medical research
23 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Small Brains Hint at Human History

A gene mutation that shrinks the cerebral cortex may shed light on brain evolution
23 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Engineer Suffers Setback in Laser Lawsuit

Japanese court rules that patent for blue LED belongs to inventor's employer
23 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

West Nile Virus Can Paralyze

Poliolike paralysis found in people infected with virus
20 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

China Gets Its Bones in Order

New rules on excavation designed to organize research, safeguard fossils
20 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

The Cosmic Vibes Are Aligned

Discovery of polarization in the cosmic microwave background thrills cosmologists
20 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Space Telescopes Shoot 'Movie' of Crab Nebula

Hubble and Chandra expose new details of supernova remnant's inner workings
19 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Million-Dollar Plums for Teaching

HHMI awards 20 4-year grants to help senior researchers improve undergrad biology
19 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Out-of-Body Brain Site Found

Tickling the right brain site evokes out-of-body experience
19 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

NAS Censors Report on Bioterrorism

New report, abridged, concludes U.S. agriculture at risk
19 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

T cells Take on Tumors

New immunotherapy approach shows promise against melanoma
18 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Bad News for Quake Forecasting

The long-overdue Parkfield earthquake casts doubt on a leading technique
18 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Rings of Light Could Reveal Black Holes

A hole's powerful gravity could reflect faint glints of sunlight back to Earth
18 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

CERN Gets Antihydrogen in the Can

But physicists still need more of the stuff to study antimatter
18 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Red Planet Blues

France, Italy threaten to rain on parade of missions to Mars
17 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Killer Lawn, Man

Very low doses of herbicides depress reproduction in mice
17 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Even Globular Clusters Have Black Holes

Hubble Space Telescope finds massive objects inside tight swarms of stars
17 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

New Enzyme Might Relieve Research Headache

Discovery of a third COX enzyme may help explain how acetaminophen works
16 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

When Playing Dumb Is Smart

In some games, unsophisticated strategies are best
16 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

How to Make a Fly Bi

Genetic engineering gets male fruit flies hot ... for other males
16 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

Gene Therapy Gets Jumping

Jumping genes help researchers deliver DNA that stays put
13 September 2002 | ScienceNOW

New Hope for Fusion Fans

Panel urges U.S. to rejoin an international research project--or start one of its own
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