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  1. Earth

    A little air pollution boosts vegetation’s carbon uptake

    Aerosols bumped up world’s plant productivity by 25 percent in the 1960s and 1970s, new research suggests.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Earth

    Fossil of a walking seal found

    A fossil skeleton discovered in the Canadian Arctic could represent a missing link in pinniped evolution.

    By Solmaz Barazesh
  3. Life

    Fossil evidence for a Goldilocks tyrannosaur

    A newly described species of tyrannosaur helps fill in details about the fearsome meat-eating dinosaurs.

    By Sid Perkins
  4. Agriculture

    News from Experimental Biology

    Senior editor Janet Raloff blogs from the 2009 meeting gathering dozens of societies together in New Orleans

    By Janet Raloff
  5. Health & Medicine

    Childhood leukemia worsened by genetic mutations

    Mutations in JAK genes make childhood leukemia more dangerous and may offer a target for drug manufacturers.