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  1. Humans

    An earlier thaw can trim winter logging

    In New Hampshire, the trend toward earlier spring thaws has significantly lowered logging revenues.

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  2. Paleontology

    Struck from above

    Evidence of an extraterrestrial object striking Earth at the height of the last ice age comes from micrometeorites embedded in the tusks of creatures that were grazing the Alaskan tundra when the object burst in the air above.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Keeping metabolic syndrome at bay

    Chromium supplements reduced some of the unhealthy effects of a sedentary lifestyle in rats.

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  4. Milking performance from damaged brains

    A compound found in milk can mitigate damage to people's brains caused by stroke or diseases such as Alzheimer's.