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2001 Intel Science Talent Search Winners

First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Viviana Risca, 17, Paul D.Schreiber Senior High School, Port Washington, N.Y., for her computer science project, “DNA-based Steganography,” which studied…

DK Science & Technology: Chemistry

WHAT IS A CHEMICAL? WHAT ARE CHEMICAL PROPERTIES? WHY ARE SOME CHEMICALS DANGEROUS? CHEMICAL REACTIONS BIOCHEMISTRY FIND OUT MORE Chemistry is the science of matter. Scientists study…

2002 Intel Science Talent Search Winners

First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Ryan R. Patterson, Grand Junction, Colo., for his project entitled “The American Sign Language Translator.” Patterson devised a glove that converts American Sign…

Environment, Energy, and Nature

  Environment Energy Nature See also: Earth Science Projects for Beginners Earth Science Projects: Intermediate-Level Earth Science Projects: Advanced-Level…

DK Science: Dinosaurs On Display

The different functions of a museumDinosaur displays in museums can take many forms. Original fossils are shown in glass cases, often presented in the rock in which they are embedded. Complete…

teleportation, in science fiction

(Encyclopedia) teleportation, in science fiction, the process of instantaneously transporting a person or an object between two points, usually by disappearing from one place and reappearing at a…

Roundup of Recent Science Discoveries, 2006

—By Borgna BrunnerStardust Memories After a seven-year, three-billion-mile expedition through the solar system, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft capsule landed in the Arizona desert on Jan. 15, 2006,…

2000 Intel Science Talent Search Top Ten Winners

First Place: $50,000 scholarship, Natalia Toro, 14, Fairview High School, Boulder, Colo., for her physics project “Independent Analysis of Evidence for nu_mu <—> nu_tau Oscillations in the…