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• A Gathering of Planets - The five brightest planets are gathering in the evening sky for a rare after-dark display.
• A Gathering of Planets:Part II
• A Greener Planetary Greenhouse - In recent years Earth-orbiting satellites have seen plants growing more vigorously than usual over northern parts of our planet.
• A New Form of Matter - Scientists have created a new kind of matter: It comes in waves and bridges the gap between the everyday world of humans and the micro-domain of quantum physics.
• A New Form of Matter: II - NASA-supported researchers have discovered a weird new phase of matter called fermionic condensates.
• A Pocket of Near - Perfection - Now orbiting Earth, Gravity Probe B is a technological tour de force.
• A Propitious Alignment of Planets - In ancient times heavenly alignments foretold doom. Nowadays they set the schedule for space exploration..
• A Quirky El Niño - The 2002-03 El Niño has resisted stereotypes with its unpredictable behavior.
• A Rare Meteor Shower - Earth is approaching a cometary debris stream that might trigger an unusual Antarctic meteor shower this weekend.
• A Shocking Space Movie - Astronomers have captured extraordinary footage of a Manhattan-sized star rotating and spewing antimatter jets into space.
• A Spaceship Among Meteors - With millions of people watching, the ISS will glide over North America during the 2002 Leonid meteor storm.
• A Star with two North Poles - Sometimes the Sun's magnetic field goes haywire, and the effects are felt throughout the solar system.
• A Super Galactic Discovery - Astronomers have spotted two supermassive black holes in the crowded center of a distant galaxy. And it's only a matter of time, they say, before the pair collide.
• A Teacher in Space - Educator-astronaut Barbara Morgan will visit the International Space Station in 2003.
• Access Excellence - The National Health Museum.
• Activities and Quizzes on Science - Science Quiz Activities to learn Physics, Chemistry and Biology for Kids, Teens, School and College Students.
• Adventure - Human sacrifice, flesh-infesting worms, flooded caverns—photographer Stephen Alvarez reveals the secrets of the nightmare caves of Belize, and of life in the field for Adventure.
• Alien Atmospheres - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected the atmosphere of a planet circling a distant Sun-like star.
• Amazing GRACE - A pair of satellites will soon begin mapping tiny variations in Earth's gravity, allowing scientists to track the motions of mass around and beneath the globe for the first time.

• Amazing Magnetic Fluids - Astronauts onboard the International Space Station are studying strange fluids that might one day flow in the veins of robots and help buildings resist earthquakes.
• Ancient Planet - Some 13 billion years ago in a distant cluster of stars, a planet formed.
• Annihilating Anthrax - NASA- and industry-sponsored research aimed at growing plants in space has led to a device that attacks and destroys airborne pathogens -- like Anthrax.
• Another Daring Adventure for Galileo - NASA's durable Galileo space probe is heading for a close encounter with an alien volcano on August 6, 2001.
• Anthropology in the News -From Texas A & M.
• Anthropology Subject Guide - LSU Libraries,| Louisiana State University.
• Anthropology Tutorials - Cultural and Physical Anthropology tutorials.
• Antibiotics from Space - Test tubes of bacteria produce more antibiotics in space than they do on Earth. Researchers aren't sure why ... but they aim to find out.
• Approaching Mars - Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter in August.
• Artificial Cells - NASA-supported researchers are learning to make designer cells for dehydrated blood supplies and space-age medicines.
• Astronaut Fingers - A device just delivered to the ISS will add something important to space station research: the human touch.
• Atmospheric Optics - Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles.
• Backyard Jungle - A free, safe, kid-friendly website where users around the world load photos, drawings, and descriptions about the natural surroundings...
• Balancing Brains - NASA researchers are learning new things about the human brain by studying how astronauts regain their balance.
• BBC Science - Take a tour from the smallest atoms, to the largest planets and the most ferocious dinosaurs.
• Beagle 2 - Mission home page.
• Beakman's World - Bonus.com the SuperSite for Kids features over 2,400 fun, free, online activities for Kids. Free Games, Puzzles, Brain Teasers, Build Things, Explore and More!
• Better Bone Implants - Using space technology, NASA-funded researchers are developing artificial bones for pain-free hip implants.
• Big Moonshine - Not all full Moons are alike. This week's will be the brightest of 2002 -- but will anyone notice?
• Bionic Eyes - Using space technology, scientists have developed extraordinary ceramic photocells that could repair malfunctioning human eyes.

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