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  1. Animals

    Low Life: Cold, polar ocean looks surprisingly rich

    The first survey of life in deep waters around Antarctica has turned up hundreds of new species and a lot more variety than explorers had expected.

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  2. 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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  3. Health & Medicine

    X-Ray Kin: Radiation risk is hereditary

    Susceptibility to radiation-induced tumors runs in families.

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  4. Animals

    Face it: Termites are roaches

    Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life.