SCOPE'S scoops.

The article presents science-related news briefs as of November 2003. Researcher Daniel Chiu and colleagues found that fluid circulating in a microscopic whirlpool can reach radial acceleration more than a millon times greater gravity. In other news, it was revealed that two animals can develop very differently even though their genes are identical because of a host of chemicals. Finally, an innovative camera system was created to record life in the deap sea unobtrusively.