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  1. Ecosystems

    Feminized cod on the high seas

    Male cod in the open ocean are producing an egg-yolk protein ordinarily made only by females, signaling their potential exposure to estrogen-mimicking pollutants.

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  2. Earth

    Elevated pesticide threatens amphibians

    The survival of certain mountain-dwelling amphibians may be threatened by toxic pesticides that are blown uphill from distant agricultural lands in California's Central Valley.

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  3. The Sum of the Parts

    Some researchers are breaking genomes into a collection of parts and precisely reassembling them to do a scientist's bidding.

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  4. 19619

    The lack of the linguistic device “recursion” in the Pirahã language might be more subtle than investigator Dan Everett suspects.