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  1. Life

    Staggered lessons may work better

    Training at irregular intervals improves learning in sea snails.

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  2. Space

    Saturn moons spied from the side

    Cassini captures Titan and Dione against the sixth planet’s rings.

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  3. Paleontology

    Early animals dethroned

    Cell division patterns in controversial Chinese fossils place them outside the animal kingdom.

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  4. Ecosystems

    Groundwater dropping globally

    Nine-year record collected from orbit finds supply dropping mostly due to agriculture.

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  5. Life

    Pigeons rival primates in number task

    Trained on one-two-three, the birds can apply the rule of numerical order to such lofty figures as five and nine.