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Preserving America's Birth Certificate
Engineers designed a case to
protect the map that first
used the word "America" to
describe the land masses now
called North and South
America. The air-tight
container is made of two
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Baking Out DNA
Forensic scientists
analyzing bones found in the
Gobi desert discovered that
the DNA within them could be
surprisingly easily
extracted. In an experiment
designed to mimic the
conditions that affected
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A Look Inside A Mummy
Medical physicists used
computed tomography to
compose a picture of the
body within an ancient
mummy. The scan provided
more detail in both bone and
tissue than a conventional
x-ray. The three dimensional
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Dating Hidden Treasures
A biologist developed a
method to determine the date
of antique prints made from
hand-cranked presses. In his
so-called print-clock
method, image analysis
software counts the number
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Paleontologists Teach Medical Students About Fossil Tumors
Using medical-physics tools such as CT scans, medical students can learn to recognize a tumor even in a 150-million-year-old dinosaur bone. Paleontologists say the role of disease during evolution ... > more -
Forensic Anthropologists Reconstruct First President's Real Looks
Using 3D laser scans of sculptures and processing images with math-based computer software, forensic anthropologists are making life-size models of George Washington at ages 19, 45, and 57. An ... > more
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