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  1. Health & Medicine

    4 reasons not to worry about that ‘new’ swine flu in the news

    Researchers identified a pig influenza virus that shares features with one that sparked the 2009 pandemic — that doesn’t mean another one is imminent.

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  2. Animals

    A sparrow song remix took over North America with astonishing speed

    A variation on the white-throated sparrow’s song spread 3,300 kilometers in just a few decades.

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  3. Earth

    Earth’s annual e-waste could grow to 75 million metric tons by 2030

    Unwanted electronic waste is piling up rapidly around the globe, while collection and recycling efforts are failing to keep pace, a new report shows.