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Lawn Nitrates

October 3, 2001

Measuring fertilizer runoff from a lab-lawn to see how much gets into drinking water, etc.

October 2, 2001

rerun

October 1, 2001

Matching cheetah mates with the most diversified DNA to perpetuate the species

September 28, 2001

Preventing programmed cell death makes tomatoes resistant to black mold.

September 27, 2001

rerun

September 26, 2001

Increased carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere affects soybean growth.

September 25, 2001

Dogs laugh when they're at play.

September 21, 2001

Squeezing minerals in a heavy press provides clues about what happens deep inside the earth

September 20, 2001

Beer can feed microbes involved in trapping heavy metals from mining waste.

September 19, 2001

Small viruses called phages can be sources of new antibiotics.