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Posted August 25, 2000:

• New Material Could "Revolutionize" Treatment Of Broken Bones

Posted August 22, 2000:

• UCSD Chemists Develop Portable Nerve Gas Sensor

Posted August 17, 2000:

• Brown University Physicist Proposes That Electron May Be Split In Two

Posted August 11, 2000:

• Free Electron Laser Demonstrated At Brookhaven Lab

Posted July 26, 2000:

• Single-Atom Blinking Phenomenon Has Ornl Scientists Thinking Big

Posted July 20, 2000:

• Researchers Determine Improved Pattern For Artificial Light-Harvesting Molecule

Posted July 6, 2000:

• Sail Technology Beamed To Future Space Exploration

Posted June 19, 2000:

• Scientists Discover Sugar In Space

Posted June 18, 2000:

• Bright Lights Put Astronomers In The Dark

Posted June 12, 2000:

• Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: Tailor-Made Polymers For Better Flat-Panel Displays

Posted June 8, 2000:

• Sandia Develops Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser That Promises To Reduce Cost Of Fiber Optics Connections

Posted June 2, 2000:

• Liquid Film-Thickness Measurement Technique Is Fast And Inexpensive
• Liquid Film-Thickness Measurement Technique Is Fast And Inexpensive

Posted June 1, 2000:

• Refined NASA Technology May Replace Dentist's Drill

Posted May 29, 2000:

• NYU Chemist Develops Molecule With Switchable Chirality

Posted May 26, 2000:

• The Sound Of Deadly Danger: Researchers Combine Acoustic Waves With Radar To Detect Buried Land Mines

Posted May 19, 2000:

• New Deployable Thin-Film, Ultralight Mirror May Be Future Of Space Telescopes And Surveillance Satellites

Posted May 16, 2000:

• Gamma Ray Hide & Seek

Posted May 11, 2000:

• Astrophysicists Detect Cosmic Shear, Evidence Of Dark Matter

Posted May 5, 2000:

• Molecules With Attitude, Ready To Perform -- Functioning Nanostructures Self-Assemble Out Of Ink

Posted May 3, 2000:

• Lasers Shine New Light On Gravity Waves

Posted May 2, 2000:

• New Chemical Instrument Uses Advanced Missile Technology

Posted May 1, 2000:

• NIST/Lucent Team Develops Method For Ultraprecise Optical Frequency Measurements

Posted April 27, 2000:

• You'd Have To Break The Laws Of Physics To Break This Code

Posted April 6, 2000:

• Unique Study Reveals New Details Of How Genes Are Transcribed

Posted April 4, 2000:

• Polymer-Based Mirror Outshines All Others

Posted March 29, 2000:

• UC Berkeley Chemists Find Reliable Way To Grow Quantum Rods And Pack Them Into Microscopic Solar Cells And Leds

Posted March 24, 2000:

• Cancer Cells Detected In Seconds By "Smart Scalpel" Device
• Optical Tweezers: Single Photons Trap A Single Atom
• Femtosecond Pulses Produced From Synchrotron Light Source At Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source

Posted March 22, 2000:

• UCSD Physicists Develop New Class Of Composite Materials With "Reversed" Physical Properties Never Before Seen

Posted March 21, 2000:

• Researchers Develop "Artificial Eyelid" That Reacts Faster Than A Laser

Posted March 16, 2000:

• Bell Labs Scientists Demo First Long-Distance Triple-Terabit Transmission
• Largest Study Finds Evidence Of Association Between EMFs And Exposed Worker Suicide

Posted March 10, 2000:

• New Semiconductor Alloy's "Crazy Physics" Makes It A Possible Photovoltaic Power Source For Satellites

Posted March 6, 2000:

• Light Receptor May Be Key In How Animals Use Earth's Magnetic Field

Posted February 22, 2000:

• First Time Success: Individual Photons In A Trap
• Scientists Develop New Material For Efficient Flat-Panel Displays

Posted February 18, 2000:

• Space Photonics Takes Flight

Posted February 16, 2000:

• Optical Switching Could Cause Shakeup In Electronics Industry

Posted February 14, 2000:

• World's Largest Fast-Growth Crystal Grown At Lawrence Livermore Lab
• New Way To Probe Interacting Molecules Reported

Posted February 11, 2000:

• Synchrotron Radiation Reveals Secrets Of Antiferromagnetism

Posted February 9, 2000:

• Chemists Report Using Infrared Lasers To Probe Key Molecular Interactions

Posted February 4, 2000:

• Weak Interaction Helps Locate Strange Quark In Proton Structure

Posted January 25, 2000:

• Ultrasensitive Analysis Technique Detects Single Atoms In Large Samples

Posted January 17, 2000:

• The Star Splitter: Microlensing Technique Pioneered By NSF Researchers Finds Lone Black Holes Adrift In The Galaxy

Posted January 12, 2000:

• Astronomers End Year With A Bang: NASA Uses Teamwork To Learn About One Of The Most Powerful Explosions In The Universe

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