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  1. Math

    Big prize for unlikely research

    A New York University mathematician has won one of the highest prizes in mathematics for figuring out the likelihood of unlikely events.

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  2. How smart are amoebas?

    Amoebas seem to possess a rudimentary form of memory that keeps them from walking around in circles.

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  3. Plants

    Old plants were lost in the grass

    An obscure family of plants long thought to be relatives of grasses turns out to represent one of the most ancient surviving lineages of flowering plants.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Working in a cotton mill has bright side

    People who work amid bales of raw cotton are less likely to get lung cancer than are people in the general population, a study of Chinese women indicates.