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  1. Earth

    Biological Hot Spots: Ocean eddies may not always lock away carbon

    The carbon in the tissues of organisms that bloom inside some ocean eddies doesn't always sink to the ocean floor to be locked away in sediments when those organisms die.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    X-Ray Kin: Radiation risk is hereditary

    Susceptibility to radiation-induced tumors runs in families.

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  3. Animals

    Face it: Termites are roaches

    Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life.

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  4. Alzheimer’s clues from thin brains

    Children and teens who possess a gene variant linked to Alzheimer's disease have substantially thinner neural tissue in a key brain structure than their peers do.