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May/June 1999, Volume 9, Number 4, Circulation 9000, Subscribe Free

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Horsetail Plant Plants with Backbone: A Promising Mystery   Fierce competition drove prehistoric plants upward in search of sunlight. This skyward impulse was facilitated by lignins, compounds that reinforce cell walls and serve as the "backbone" for all upright plants. (Photo: Horsetail Plant)
MRX  Laboratory Plasmas Shed Light on the Sun   Laboratory research on plasmas cuts across fields of solar physics and fusion science to provide new tools and answers for those attempting to understand the activity of plasma in fusion reactors. (Photo: Plasma discharge in a magnetic reconnection experiment)
Colored plutonium solutions  Eureka! California Discovers Plutonium...Again!  This year, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory filled in the vacancy left in the chart for the long-sought plutonium-231 isotope. (Photo: Colored plutonium solutions)

Clouds over Nauru  Working Science: Nauru99 Triangle  Unlike the mysterious "Bermuda" or "Devil's" triangle, the Nauru99 triangle is intended to solve some mysteries, like the influence of the tropics on global weather events such as El Niño and La Niña. (Photo: Nauru Island)


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