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Sounding Out the Ocean's ... - Probing the Ocean Interio...
Probing the Ocean Interior with Sound. SOSUS, with its vast reach, also has proved instrumental in obtaining information crucial to our understanding of ...
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Beyond Discovery
A series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic ...
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When the Earth Moves - Of Magnetism and Time
If spreading of the ocean floor occurs as Harry Hess suggested, these blocks of ... and he suggested that the maps showed a seafloor spreading ridge. ...
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Human Gene Testing - Summary
The following article, adapted from an account by scientists Stuart Orkin ... Understanding Gene Testing - FAQ from the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
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Human Gene Testing - Summary
Primer on Molecular Genetics - An introduction to many of the terms and techniques used in human gene testing. Ten Vignettes: Stories of Genomic Discovery ...
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Human Gene Testing - Tracking a Colon-Cancer G...
By 1990, researchers had the techniques that they needed to search for the gene that causes an important form of colon cancer known as hereditary ...
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Beyond Discovery
Beyond Discovery™: The Path from Research to Human Benefit is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical ...
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Sound from Silence - Sidebar - Cochlear Implan...
There is strong opposition to cochlear implants in the deaf community, a fact that many people in the hearing world find surprising. ...
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Modern Communication - Summary
All these technologies rely on lasers and fiber optics . The principle behind a laser lies embedded in the heart of quantum mechanics. ...
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The Ozone Depletion Phenomenon - Summary
Article describes how basic research has led to answers on what stratospheric ozone is, its role is in Earth's atmosphere and the devastating consequences ...
