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Disruption of sleep-wake cycles damages the intestinal wall and promotes inflammatory disease.

Fusing artful beauty with functional utility could help heal the environment, and restore our humanness.

Patients with disabilities are learning to regain skills with the assistance of smart machines.

Even in a computer model, racial divisions are not all black and white.

Applying the principles of optics to a basic human need required both imagination and skill.

Transparent, liquid-filled films become opaque when stretched

Several developing nations could soon lead the world in use of air-conditioning.

Finding evidence of crime in electronic memory requires careful methods.

Beautiful structures form when water freezes under the right conditions.