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  1. Plants

    Stout Potatoes: Armed with a new gene, spuds fend off blight

    Splicing a gene from a blight-resistant wild potato into varieties used for consumption could lead to blight immunity for all spuds.

    By Sorcha McDonagh
  2. Tech

    Counting calories on the road

    People are programmed to spend about the same number of calories per day—roughly the energy of one hot dog—on daily travel, according to new analysis of British transportation statistics.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Astronomy

    Revved-up antics of a pulsar jet

    Flailing like an out-of-control fire hose, a mammoth jet of charged particles gushing from a collapsed star is varying its shape and brightness more rapidly than any other jet known in the heavens.