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  1. Life

    Carried aloft, tiny creatures avoid parasites, sex

    Dry and blowing in the breeze, rotifers are safe from a deadly fungus — and perhaps from the vulnerabilities presumed to accompany asexual reproduction.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Neurons may function more solo than thought

    Neurons coordinate activity less often than previously thought.

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  3. Climate

    Water vapor slowed recent global warming trend

    A decline in stratospheric water vapor has slowed Earth’s surface warming slightly in recent years.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Running barefoot blunts foot’s force

    A new study finds that going shoeless tempers impact but can’t say whether this difference reduces injuries.