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Saving Lives, Creating Hope

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief provides treatment, care and hope for millions of people around the world infected with HIV.

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    Egg Beater Diagnoses Disease

    See how a centrifuge made from a $2 egg beater, plastic tubing and tape could replace expensive lab equipment and help financially strapped health programs.

Quiz

  • Of the nine 2008 winners of Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics, and medicine or physiology, how many are U.S. citizens?
    • A. Zero
    • B. One
    • C. Four
    • D. Nine

    Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien, and Osamu Shimomura won the chemistry prize. Yoichiro Nambu won part of the physics prize.

    Learn More: Four Americans Share in Nobel Science Prizes

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  • Mostafa El-Sayed won a 2008 National Medal of Science, the highest U.S. science honor, for contributions to which field?
    • A. Nanotechnology
    • B. Computer science
    • C. Engineering
    • D. Economics

    El-Sayed won for his work on small compounds known as nanomaterials.

    Learn more: Egyptian American Wins Highest U.S. Science Honor

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    Science Planet

    From stem cells to brain cells to understanding how organisms develop, Science Planet profiles the latest discoveries published in the scientific literature and discusses them in language you can understand.