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  1. Life

    Sea slug steals genes for greens, makes chlorophyll like a plant

    A sea slug, long known as a kidnapper of algal biochemistry, can make its own supply of a key photosynthetic compound.

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  2. Space

    Saving the Earth with dynamical simulations

    A new model suggests how protoplanets kept a safe distance from the sun.

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  3. Archaeology

    Ancient hominids may have been seafarers

    Researchers have discovered hundreds of African-style stone hand axes on Crete, suggesting that sea-going hominids reached the island hundreds of thousands of years ago en route to Europe.

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  4. Life

    Fruit fly bodies bank stem cells

    Stem cells carve their own niches.