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The Great White's Ways
by Glen Martin
Sharks gather off the coast of California each year and feast on seals and sea lions, but not humans. A new tracking system may help reveal why.
Ark de Triomphe
by Robert Kunzig
Wanted: Your message in a time capsule designed to last 50,000 years
Why We'll Never Run Out of Oil
by Curtis Rist
Back in 1973, some experts were predicting $100-a-barrel oil prices by the year 2000. What happened?
Got Cancer Killers?
by Peter Radetsky, Thomas Wester
Breast-feeding protects babies from cancer, but no one knows quite how. So when biologists in Catharina Svanborg's lab saw mothers' milk kill cancer cells, they knew they were onto something big.
Bleak Lagoon Creatures
by Josie Glausiusz
Araripe Lagoon was an unforgiving killer. It plucked its victims from the sky and sealed them in a briny grave
THE GREAT WHITE'S WAYS
by Glen Martin
Sharks gather off the coast of California each year and feast on seals and sea lions, but not humans. A new tracking system may help reveal why.
Surfing the Solar System
by Gary Taubes
Huge, invisible surfaces shaped like abstract tubas can carry spacecraft from planet to planet

DEPARTMENTS

Vital Signs
Vital Signs
by Sharron Sussman
What did Mr. Leonard's back have to do with his eyesight?
Letters
Letters
Fat people are quick to seize on any excuse for their obesity'
Reviews
Reviews
by Scott Kim
The Oriental Institute brings its Egyptian hall back to life

DATA

Sky Lights
by Bob Berman
Check out dusk's dazzling display of the evening star
Airplanes with Feathers
Brain Jogging
The Man Who Lives to Cure AIDS... and Cancer...
Life From Mars
More evidence for fossilized bacteria in a meteorite from Mars.
The Origins of Schizophrenia
Whale Chat
Glib Globe
Immortal Cells
by Shanti Menon
Is this the end of facial wrinkles and aging arteries that clog?
Works in Progress
by Karen Wright
You'll get no kick from cocaine if you take this new vaccine
Cosmic Light Show
Skin Breathers
Goodbye to Mammograms
Blinded by Submarines
Science Surfing
Mobile Robot Bombs
Venus on View
by Bob Berman
Check out dusk's dazzling display of the evening star
A Shot of Sanity
by Karen Wright
You'll get no kick from cocaine if you take this new vaccine
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