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- Sequencing the dead to save the living: Reviving ancient genomes of long-extinct creatures offers a window into past extinctions—and may help prevent future die outs
- No gene is an island: Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness
- The decider: Informing the debate over the reality of ‘free will’ requires learning something about the lateral habenula
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HAD A BLAST
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The meteorite that fell in eastern Peru on September 15, 2007, struck with the energy of two tons of TNT and blasted a 13.5-meter–wide crater (seen here about a week after the event). Inset shows the estimated size of the object at impact.
Credit: L.E. Jackson Jr./Geological Survey of Canada
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