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  1. Humans

    Tracing Jewish roots

    An analysis of the entire genome of Jewish people shows Middle Eastern roots and traces ancestry across the globe.

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  2. Animals

    Diversified portfolio yields benefit for salmon stocks

    Local diversity keeps sockeye from going bust every few years, a study finds.

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  3. Life

    Seaweed genome reveals tools for multicellular lifestyle

    Genetic blueprints of a brown alga reveal adaptations to changing tides and may give clues for to evolution of more complex life.

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  4. Planetary Science

    Jupiter’s crash of ’09

    The body that crashed into Jupiter last summer was likely an asteroid, and such impacts might occur as frequently as every 10 to 15 years, new studies suggest.