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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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Jurassic Docs
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
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Changing the Face of History
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,
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