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As viewed from a human perspective, nature has done some ingenious engineering to overcome some of the obstacles it has faced. Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from ...

However, hormone-replacement therapy does not maintain a woman's fertility into old age. Lexi Krock is editorial assistant of NOVA Online.

Here, in a frank and thoughtful interview with NOVA Online, Kitcher speaks his mind on some of the controversial issues now under discussion, including discrimination, abortion, and lack of ...

Maureen Dolan, NOVA Online's intern, worked with a bee researcher from the University of Massachusetts Boston in the summer of 1998.

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Peter Tyson is editor in chief of NOVA Online. Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center, by Angus Kress Gillespie. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999.