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  1. Chemistry

    Were Viking landers blind to life?

    The Viking landers may have missed potential signs of life when they explored Mars in 1976.

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  2. Earth

    The African source of the Amazon’s fertilizer

    More than half of the airborne dust that provides vital nutrients to the Amazonian rainforest comes from a small corner of the Sahara.

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  3. Tech

    The Little Chill: Tiny wind generator to cool microchip hot spots

    By generating a tiny cooling wind, a microscale silicon needle armed with a powerful electric field has demonstrated its potential as a new way to cool increasingly hot microchips.

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  4. Birds Beware: Several veterinary drugs may kill scavengers

    Scavenging birds worldwide could be at risk of accidental poisoning from carcasses of livestock that farmers had dosed with certain anti-inflammatory drugs.