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  1. Life

    Biology’s big bang had a long fuse

    The fossil record’s earliest troves of animal life are the result of more than 200 million years of evolution.

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  2. Humans

    Cooking can be surprisingly forgiving

    Network analysis confirms deviations from the recipe are quite feasible.

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  3. Life

    Cretaceous Thanksgiving

    A fossilized feathered dinosaur dined on bird not long before its own demise.

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  4. Chemistry

    Radiation sickness treatment shows promise

    The regimen could be used to protect large numbers of people in the aftermath of major accidents such as Chernobyl or Fukushima.

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  5. Life

    DNA to flutter by

    The complete genetic instruction book for making monarch butterflies contains information about how the insects manage their long migration to Mexico.