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ENVIABLE EARS 

INSPIRED BY NATURE Reverse-engineering bat hearing could lead to better sonar NOBODY EVER ACCUSED the bat of being beautiful. But its ugliest...

TRUE CHEMISTRY 

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? A husband-and-wife team empties the joint checking account to search for cancer cures in toxic sludge IN THE HUNT for...

Heat Waves 

A cancer researcher stumbles upon a way to set saltwater aflame. Neat trick, but is his discovery useful?.? LAST WINTER, inventor John Kanzius was...

Nose For Trouble 

A portable germ scanner exposes tainted food. YOU'RE LUNCHING in a greasy spoon where a dude called Roach has grilled up your burger, extra...

Blood Simple 

A new machine that makes any blood type universal could lessen the risk of fatal transfusion mix-ups. IN 2003 Tawnya Brown was awaiting bowel...

Up And Away 

In the latest bid to rocket tourists into orbit, the secretive Blue Origin unveils a flying pod. Is your space voyage sooner than you think?.? A...

Tire Tester, The 

A whiz kid's automated system for gauging air pressure. WHATEVER YOU were doing in high school, it probably didn't include inventing a potentially...

IN THE DOGHOUSE 

Call it a mugging in the Milky Way.

In a stunning reversal, astronomers who were ready to expand the solar system's number of...

Daring scientists find trees' upper limit -- 425 feet 

BALTIMORE SUN It's the kind of stumper a chronically curious kid might pester a parent with: Daddy, how tall can a tree grow? Now, in a...

Daring scientists find trees' upper limit -- 425 feet 

It's the kind of stumper a chronically curious kid might pester a parent with: Daddy, how tall can a tree grow? Now, in a daredevil field study...