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Stem cells: The secret to change

By Alison Pearce Stevens / April 10, 2013

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Unusual, versatile cells hold the key to regrowing lost tissues

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Teens win big for their research

By Meghan Rosen / March 13, 2013

Jonah Kallenbach (left) and Adam Joseph Bowman (right) join first place winner Sara Volz, to round out the top three places in the competition. Credit: Chris Ayers Photography/SSP

2013 Intel Science Talent Search awards teens for science projects

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The 2012 Nobel Prizes

By Stephen Ornes / October 19, 2012

David Wineland, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., adjusts a laser that’s going to be used to study charged atoms, or ions. Wineland was named a winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics. Credit: Geoffrey Wheeler

Annual awards go to research on cells, atoms and light

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