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  1. Space

    Aura of life captured in Earthshine

    Light from Earth reflected off the moon contains the kind of information that could prove useful in the characterization of faraway exoplanets.

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  2. Life

    Pollutants long gone, but disease carries on

    Even without new exposures, various chemicals can impact DNA and cause illness across at least three subsequent generations, rat study finds.

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  3. Anthropology

    Frozen mummy’s genetic blueprints unveiled

    DNA study reveals the 5,300-year-old Iceman had brown eyes, Lyme disease and links to modern-day Corsicans and Sardinians.

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  4. Life

    Sardine fishery may be in peril

    Cool ocean cycle, population slide evoke collapse of Pacific resource in the late 1940s.