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Physical
FLIPPING OUT
The Galchenko siblings push the
science of juggling to the limit.

Health
PERFECT FIT
A girl's liver transplant surprised
doctors when she also acquired
a new immune system.

Earth
SPIN CONTROL
Can tornadoes be turned into alternative
sources of electrical energy?

Discoveries
Toxic toads threaten mini crocodiles
Peanut paste relieves malnutrition in Africa
Ask Prof O: Is teleportation possible?
British artist plants a field of lightbulbs.
Has Earth entered a new age of geohistory?
How sax players hit the high notes.

Physical
BIONIC MAN
Physicist Hugh Herr builds prostheses
that have their own power supplies.

Life
SONG AND DANCE
Biologist Erich Jarvis sequed from a
budding career in dance to the study
of songbirds.

Health
PRISON BREAK
Physician Josiah Rich is fighting twin
plagues of infection and addiction
among U.S. inmates.

Earth
PLANET HUNTER
Astronomer Sara Seager sees new planets
in points of telescopic data.

Discoveries
U.S. scientists are close to creating life.
Palm tree's bloom heralds its doom.
Ask Prof. O: Is it safe to take cough medicine?
Hydrothermal explosions rock Yellowstone.
Tourist spaceliner is now taking reservations.
Worker bees sculpt vase inside their hive.

Earth
FIRE FIGHT
Why are wildfires getting worse
in California?

Physical
COOL POOLS
The country's most beautiful
swimming pools are kept clean
with few or no chemicals.

Life
SAFE HAVENS?
After a deadly tiger attack,
activitists ask whether wild animals
belong in zoos.

Health
OUT OF THE BAG
A Colorado man's passion for popcorn
lands him in the hospital.

Discoveries
Psychic sleuths fail to solve any TV cases.
African tree doesn't know what's good for it.
Ask Prof. O: What is the appendix?
Psychologists say autism rise may be a myth.
Heated skate blade cuts friction on the ice.
Hissing cockroach paints bug art.

Health
COLD CASE
Doctors chilled an NFL player's body
to save him from paralysis.

Earth
OVER THE MOONBOW
You don't have to wish upon a star
to find a rainbow at night.

Life
WINTER'S TAIL
An injured young dolphin is back
in the swim with a prosthetic tail.

Physical
MIND GAME
Our reporter tested the newest in interactive
technology: a thought-controlled video game.

Discoveries
Georgia county was untouched by drought.
Feces therapy cures serious infection.
Australian coast got giant bubble bath.
Why is winter flu season?
Is huge hole evidence of another universe?
Giant turtle teeters on brink of oblivion.

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Life
INTO THIN AIR
How humans survive on less oxygen
at the world's top spots

Physical
HOT AIR?
A new car from France runs on
nothing but air.

Earth
BIG BANG
Why you've never heard about the biggest
volcanic eruption in history

Health
SELF HELP
A young scientist is racing against time to
find a treatment for a disease that could kill him.

Discoveries
Monkeys are running wild in India's capital.
Green clay kills MRSA "superbug."
New bike transmission has unlimited gears
Eruption on Hawaii surprises scientists.
Iraq dam is in danger of catastrophic collapse.
Parking garage dazzles Santa Monica.

Physical
GUN CONTROL
Mark Contois has been making
paintball safer since his wife was killed.

Earth
AIR REPAIR
Can global warming be stopped by burying
carbon dioxide emissions underground?

Health
CANCER CLUSTER
Why have so many children in Fallon, Nev.,
development leukemia?

Life
BIG DIG
A herd of troglodyte tuskers mines a volcano
in Africa for a valuable mineral.

Discoveries
Broccoli extract protects skin against cancer.
New device ends need for police chases.
Scientists breed "Lance Armstrong" mice.
Electronic dress expresses wearer's moods.
Ask Prof. O: What are energy vampires?
Black-footed ferrets make comeback.

Life
WHAT A HOOT
Maine's owls are communicating with
wildlife biologists by phone.

Health
THE BEAT GOES ON
Matt Keene wants every school
equipped with the same kind
of device that saved his life.

Physical
FAILING GRADES
U.S. engineers have issued the country's
infrastructure an embarrassing report card.

Earth
SOURCE OF WONDER
Why is Saturn's ice moon Enceladus
erupting like Old Faithful?

Discoveries
Tacoma bridge disaster inspired inventor.
Telescope is searching for alien messages.
Tree surgeon wove trees into an arbosculpture.
Australia's cane toads suffer from arthritis.
Ask Prof. O: Do vaccines cause autism?
Earth breathes oxygen into the atmosphere.

Earth
MELTDOWN
Arctic ice is melting faster than expected,
speeding climate change.

Health
BIG DOPES
Athletes risk their reputations
and their health when they take
performance-enhancing drugs.

Physical
SCIENCE IS GOLDEN
Some of the strangest parts of
The Golden Compass are
grounded in science.

Life
SONIC SIGHT
Ben Underwood, a blind teeanger, senses
the world like a bat, through echolocation.

Discoveries
Landmark ozone treaty is strengthened.
Rare snow doughnut is photographed.
Plants stink to shoo away insects.
Will nanocomputers store data on single atoms?
Astronomers find nothing in outer space.
Wild crows are videotaped making tools.

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Physical
THE BODY ELECTRIC
Engineers are harvesting the body's
energy to run electrical gadgets.

Life
HISTORY TEST
What are people discovering when they use
DNA tests to trace their family trees?

Earth
DEATH STARS
Dying stars release powerful blasts of energy.
What if one blast hit Earth?

Health
GOT MILK?
How safe is the newest food fad--raw milk?

Discoveries
Dead pianists return to concert stages.
Monkeys wreak havoc in South African town.
Japanese scientists breed see-through frogs.
Did a cosmic collision doom the dinosaurs?
Giant Chinese dam threatens environment.
Did starchy food give humans big brains?

Physical
DARK MATERIALS
They're out there in space.
Scientists just don't know what they are.

Life
TOO WEIRD
Alien life-forms may be familiar yet
oddly different from life as we know it.

Health
SLOW BURN
Is a malfunctioning immune system
the key to every major disease
from diabetes to cancer?

Earth/Physical
POST HISTORY
What would Earth be like if humans vanished?

Discoveries
China's Great Wall is falling down.
Insecticide-treated nets fight malaria in Kenya.
Do dust particles become weird life in space?
Doctor pulls kidney through belly button.
Students design and build a hovercraft.
Was Beethoven poisoned by his doctor?

Life
ON THE EDGE
Helping a wildcat hang on to its
home in the United States.

Health
DOUBLE TROUBLE
U.S. doctors are witnessing a new
health concern: "double diabetes."

Earth
HOME WRECKERS
To protect buildings from earthquakes,
you first have to shake them to pieces.

Physical
OUTSIDE THE BOX
Attention, Detroit! Fuel-saving technologies
for cars are ready to be picked up.

Discoveries
Flying Asian fish have invaded U.S. waters.
Scientists build a battery from paper.
Does a soft mineral reduce California quakes?
Giant water bridge carries boats over river.
Squirrels heat their tails to scare snakes.
Ask Prof. O: What is tennis elbow?

Physical
SUNKEN TREASURE
Conservators race to save thousands
of artifacts from the sunken Titanic.

Life
LOST
U.S. scientists probe the puzzling
disappearance of the country's honeybees.

Earth
SOLAR POWER
The sun could be heading into its
stormiest season in 50 years.

Health
MYTH INFORMATION
Health young baseball players are
asking for surgery to improve
their pitching.

Discoveries
New tape sticks like a gecko.
Fabled giant apes of Africa are found.
The Milky Way's Mira is a real shooting star.
Great Britain was born in prehistoric flood.
Ask Prof. O: What is a blended-wing aircraft?
Lightning strikes iPod wearer

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Physical
THE BIG DROP
Is skydiving from space the
next extreme sport?

Earth
BURIED SECRET
What built a mountain range that
lies deep beneath Antarctica's ice?

Life
LIFE IN THE FAST LANE
What happens when country moose
become city moose?

Health
A SECOND WAR
When injured Iraq war vet Jon Town
returned home, he had to fight
the Army for medical care.

Discoveries
Asian insect is attacking North American trees.
Roller pigeon fanciers caught in sting.
Flying dinosaur fossil found.
Pollock paintings may be bogus.
Video game helps teens fight cancer.
'Hot Jupiter' has signs of water.

Health
CRUNCH TIME
Doctors are looking for a cure
for deadly peanut allergies.

Physical
OLD TIMER
Divers have found the world's first
computer, built more than 2,000
years ago.

Earth/Physical
A MIGHTY WIND
Forrest Masters's monster machine
unleashes hurricane-force winds
and rain.

Life
MEET THE BEETLES
A tiny insect is destroying the
pine forests of western
North America.

Discoveries
Bamboo bikes roll into Africa.
Did disease fuel Hatfield-McCoy feud?
Dog mummies are found in ancient cemetery.
Curtain is drawn back on shower mystery.
Pumping iron reverses aging.
Did comet deal deathblow to giant mammals?

Earth/Physical
WINDS OF CHANGE
Virginia residents are battling
developers of a proposed wind farm.

Life
PRICKLY SITUATION
Wildlife rescuers in Arizona save cacti
from the jaws of developers' bulldozers.

Health
HARD KNOCKS
One strike to the head and a player
should be out of the game in football.

Earth
TO THE MOON?
Would a U.S. base on the moon be
a boon or a boondoggle?

Discoveries
Paddlefish sense food electrically.
Parkinson's disease is linked to pesticides.
Patient bleeds green blood.
Lake Superior is less so nowadays.
Future farms could grow up the wall.
Ask Professor Ossolotch: Why does biting a
   Life Saver make your mouth light up?

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In Issue 1 (September 9, 2007)

Life
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Brian Kubicki tends a refuge for tiny green
glass frogs in Costa Rica.

Physical
WATER WINGS
Why are competitive swimmers breaking so
many records? Is there something in the water?

Earth
DRY RUN
The drought gripping the U.S. Southwest may
be the start of a permanent climate shift there.

Health
OUTBREAK
Why was a sick American held in
solitary confinement?

Discoveries
The Empire State Building has a brighter future.
Students' glove jump starts hearts.
Snakes derive their poison from toxic toads.
Kryptonite found in European mine.
Ask Professor O: What is a Blue-ray Disc?
Finger lengths forecast exam results.

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