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  1. Rice, revealed

    Researchers have finished a 6-year-long effort to sequence the genome of rice.

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  2. Animals

    What’s That Knocking? Sound evidence offered for long-lost woodpecker

    Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology has released recordings from the woods of eastern Arkansas that researchers say could be the distinctive drumming and calls of the ivory-billed woodpecker.

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  3. Chemistry

    Presto, Change-o: New solutions could clean up chemistry

    Scientists have developed a simple technique to switch an oil-like solvent into a waterlike one.

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  4. Earth

    Seafloor features steered tsunamis

    Tsunamis circled the globe after a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck the Indian Ocean last Dec.