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- Health & Medicine
Wanted: ‘Smart’ cleaners
Active surfaces will — on their own — help remove everything from insects and germs to poisons.
- Chemistry
A penny for your health?
Copper is best known as the reddish metal used to make pennies, electrical wiring and weather vanes. But two teen scientists think copper should find its way into medical settings as well. Their data suggest the metal — in bandages or on surfaces — could play a major role in killing some types of bacteria responsible for serious infections.
- Health & Medicine
Killer-flu update
Infection that recently developed in China shows signs of being easy to spread and hard to kill.
- Physics
Black hole mysteries
Scientists are just getting to know the black holes that help anchor our cosmos.
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- Chemistry
A warming life jacket
New liner contains a substance that helps fight heat loss in chilly water.
- Physics
Smile! Dimples boost your mileage
Trucks covered with tiny indentations, like those on golf balls, experience less friction.
- Tech
Better chow yields more milk
A more nutritious form of corn for dairy cows boosts farm profits, teen investigator finds.
- Health & Medicine
Fuzzy future
Kids may suffer impaired vision from spending too little time outdoors, studies suggest.
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- Tech
Building with moon rocks
Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials.
- Climate
Major twister hits Oklahoma
Its speed, which largely determines the damage it causes, is still unknown.
