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  1. Life

    Climate warms, creatures head for the hills

    Unusual data let scientists test predictions that global warming drives species up slopes.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Life

    Community of one

    Scientists have discovered how a single bacterial species living in a gold mine in South Africa survives on its own. Its genome contains everything it needs to live independently.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Paleontology

    New arthropod species really stuck together

    Recent fossil discovery shows that new species of arthropod formed chains, raising the possibility of communal behavior.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Life

    A better understanding of inherited breast cancer

    New studies on a type of inherited breast cancer identify a key factor with different roles in different cancers.