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  1. Life

    Fossils show signs of earliest burrowing

    Worms’ seafloor tunneling more than a half-billion years ago could have stirred up evolutionary forces.

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  2. Earth

    Venice falling

    Compacting soil means the flood-prone city continues to sink.

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  3. Physics

    Order from disorder

    Collective motion emerges spontaneously in wiggling protein strands.

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  4. Life

    The farther the better for corals after oil spill

    Deepwater organisms may be slow to recover from Gulf accident.

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  5. Chemistry

    Protons on the move find novel molecular route

    Hydrogen bonds aren’t the only means of proton travel to another molecule, a study finds.