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  1. Life

    Bacteria use poison to make food

    Bacteria from Mono Lake conduct photosynthesis with arsenic, a form of the process that may be a relic of life on Earth before the advent of an oxygen atmosphere.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Heart to heart

    Successful heart transplant experiment in infants draws attention to debate on defining death of organ donors.

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  3. Physics

    Invisible hand, and a quick one at that

    God doesn’t play dice, Einstein said in his critique of quantum theory. But any alternative theory to quantum mechanics would require certain quantum events to influence each other 10,000 times faster than the speed of light, physicists have shown.