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  1. Life

    Seeing, feeling have something in common

    A protein needed for eye development is also involved in detecting vibrations.

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  2. Earth

    Natural gas wells leakier than believed

    Measurements at Colorado site show methane releases are twice as high as previously estimated.

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  3. Physics

    Crystals may be possible in time as well as space

    A theory proposes that objects in their lowest energy state can loop through the fourth dimension forever, much as atoms arrange themselves periodically in matter.

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  4. Life

    Yeast find use for misfolded proteins

    Protein bundles may help single-celled organisms adapt to difficult environmental conditions.