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  1. Life

    Duckbill decoded

    With a mix of reptilian, bird and mammalian features, the duck-billed platypus genome looks as strange as the animal.

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  2. Humans

    Slowpoke settlers

    Evidence suggests New World settlers slowly moved down the Pacific Coast and inhabited southern Chile by 14,000 years ago.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Smart microbes

    Bacteria are smarter than you might think. Single-celled microbes can learn to predict changes in their environments and prepare themselves.

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  4. Climate

    A little drier every day

    The Sahara, one of the hottest and driest regions on Earth, gradually became arid over a period of centuries, a finding that contradicts many previous studies.