Word: discoverers
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Scientists are combing rain forests around the world for potential cures for cancer and other ailments, but the residents near Uganda's last rain forests are are not waiting around for a multinational drug company to discover their treasures first. They have always believed that there are cures in the...
By discovering the process by which Vitamin A bonds to form a structure when activated by light, Wald was the first to discover a biological mechanism that is critical to many other enzymatic processes in the body, such as olfactory responses and hormone regulation.
Headlines are hard. I know, because I write for a newspaper. I remember when I first became an editor and spent the better part of an hour staring at a computer screen, trying to figure out a way to fit the words “genie,” ?...
As the sun began to set on what would have been an ordinary day at the beginning of the third millennium, the light shone through the window to strike two ordinary young scholars. They were hungry. But they were also privy to a different hunger. Watching how the light passed...
On one issue that might favor them next year - immigration - the leading Republicans have had to scramble to realign themselves with voters in their base. Bush came into office in 2001 in favor of a pathway to citizenship for some illegals, only to discover that his party's right flank...