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  Strong Medicine

  One of the nation’s top health-care executives explains what’s needed to sustain the health of the hospitals that bring us the latest technological advances.
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  The Great Unknown: Readers Respond

  In July, we asked readers to pick today’s most profound questions of science. The results, tabulated here, show that while the questions are scientific, the process of identifying them is anything but.
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  The Incredible Shrinking Transistor

  Fifty years ago, researchers at Bell Labs put theory into practice and started a revolution in electronics. Can today’s companies foster the same lively interplay between the practical and the scientific?
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  High-Tech for Ancient Turtles

  Some of the world’s oldest and most remarkable creatures are dying out. Can advanced technologies help rescue the leatherback sea turtle and other endangered animals?