Word: vials
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...Harvard researchers had discovered black silicon by accident while Mazur was researching the properties of platinum and semi-conductors. Mazur had arbitrarily chosen silicon to study—a random vial of sulfur later, black silicon was born...
...from the womb all blond, blue-eyed and generally un-Jewy. In an earlier century, I would have had no choice but to trick my wife Cassandra into a best-of-three contest using a method that depends on my genetically inherited lack of rhythm. But with just a vial of spit each from Cassandra, myself and Laszlo, I could find out with DNA-lab-tested certainty which of us had influenced our child more. And for those of you worried about our putting him through this, know that the one thing babies look kindly upon donating is their drool...
...While nobody expected spectacular results, neither did anyone expect such a stunning defeat, and the scientific community is still struggling to recover from it. "We are still a long ways away from having an effective HIV vaccine that physicians can reach into the cabinet and pull out in a vial and inject into a person," says Dr. Bruce Walker, an HIV expert at Harvard Medical School. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...