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EarthPhytoliths as climate clues
Tiny silica plant structures from soil could track temperature changes.
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EarthBricks, mortar and magnetism
Medieval French castle, churches yield new data about Earth’s changing magnetic field.
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LifeFour 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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ChemistryNot your grandpa’s smoke signals
A fuse dotted with chemicals offers a new way to code messages.
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SpaceEvidence 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.