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ScientificAmerican.com -- WEEKLY REVIEW January 01, 2002
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** THE TOP SCIENCE STORIES OF 2001
** WHAT CLONES?
** MANY FROM ONE
Also...ASK THE EXPERTS
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--WHAT IS A BLUE MOON?
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** THE TOP SCIENCE STORIES OF 2001
Many events of the past year are now easily forgotten, hidden in
shadows cast by the former World Trade towers, the Pentagon wreckage,
the anthrax deaths and an ongoing war. But 2001 did witness a number
of important happenings in science and technology before and after the
terrorist attacks--including the 100th anniversary of the Nobel
Prizes. See the 50-odd stories that most captured our attention
and imagination.
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** WHAT CLONES?
On November 25, 2001, Massachusetts biotechnology company Advanced
Cell Technology reported in e-biomed: The Journal of Regenerative
Medicine that it had cloned the first human embryos. In a concurrent
article in the January Scientific American, the researchers explained
that their results could "represent the dawn of a new in medicine by
demonstrating that the goal of therapeutic cloning is within reach."
Many leading scientists, however, say the work should never have been
published, because the research failed on several accounts to achieve
its goals.
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** MANY FROM ONE
NASA's Deep Space 1 spacecraft made headlines when it passed within
2,200 kilometers of Comet Borrelly at some 59,400 kilometers per hour,
making the first image ever of a comet nucleus and, as one researcher
put it, "doubling" our knowledge of the wandering bodies. But the
plucky spacecraft--which completed the goals of its primary mission
back in September 1999 and finally ceased operations December 18,
2001--will be remembered not so much for the science it did during
that comet flyby, but for the broader impacts resulting from the
technologies it tested.
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ASK THE EXPERTS
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WHAT IS A BLUE MOON?
George Spagna, chair of the Physics Department at Randolph-Macon
College, explains.
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AND REMEMBER...
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