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  1. Plants

    Traveling tubers

    Potato varieties from Chile arrived in Europe several years before the blights of the mid-1800s, a new analysis of DNA from old plant collections reveals.

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  2. Planetary Science

    Dusty Clues: Study suggests no dearth of Earths

    A new study suggests that many, or perhaps most, sunlike stars have planets much like Earth.

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  3. Earth

    Seafloor Chemistry: Life’s building blocks made inorganically

    Hydrocarbons in fluids spewing from hydrothermal vents on the seafloor in the central Atlantic were produced by inorganic chemical reactions deep within the ocean crust, a finding with implications for the possible origins of life.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Tasty stalks

    Celery's tasteless compounds make chicken soup taste better.