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  1. Earth

    Phytoliths as climate clues

    Tiny silica plant structures from soil could track temperature changes.

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  2. Earth

    Bricks, mortar and magnetism

    Medieval French castle, churches yield new data about Earth’s changing magnetic field.

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  3. Life

    Four marmosets are first transgenic primates

    Scientists in Japan have successfully introduced a foreign gene into a primate species for the first time, opening a new avenue for modeling human diseases, particularly brain disorders.

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  4. Chemistry

    Not your grandpa’s smoke signals

    A fuse dotted with chemicals offers a new way to code messages.

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  5. Space

    Evidence mounts for liquid interior of a Saturn moon

    Plumes of Enceladus offer hints that moon is now or was in the recent past partially liquid inside.