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  1. Plants

    Water-saving grain

    Rice with an added gene needs less water and can survive drought.

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  2. Animals

    Honeybee mobs smother big hornets

    Honeybees gang up on an attacking hornet, killing it by blocking its breathing.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Exhaust fumes might threaten people’s hearts

    Nanoparticles in diesel fumes thwart proteins that dissolve blood clots, perhaps increasing the risk of heart attacks.

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  4. 19884

    A researcher cited in this article recommends that people at risk of heart attack should avoid exercising outdoors on highly polluted days. What an odd conclusion, on two counts: First, that avoidance, instead of elimination of the poison from the air we breathe, is the recommended course of action; and second, that only “at risk” […]

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  5. Physics

    Not flipping out

    A single atom on a surface has favored magnetic orientations that could allow it to encode a data bit.