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  1. Life

    Cattle genome sequenced

    Researchers unlock the DNA of M-O-O.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Morning birds buckle under sleep pressure

    Sleep pressure helps set the circadian clocks of early birds and night owls.

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  3. Plants

    Oops, missed that tree

    Until now, an acacia common in its African homeland had no scientific name

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  4. Chemistry

    Yeast bred to bear artificial vanilla

    Researchers have co-opted fungi to produce the flavor more efficiently.

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  5. Animals

    Ants do real estate the simple way

    Tracking ants with anti-shoplifter RFID tags has inspired a new, simplified view of how a colony finds a home

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  6. Earth

    A little air pollution boosts vegetation’s carbon uptake

    Aerosols bumped up world’s plant productivity by 25 percent in the 1960s and 1970s, new research suggests.