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  1. Earth

    Feel the Heat: Rain forests may slow their growth in warmer world

    During a long-term research project in a Central American rain forest, mature trees grew more slowly in warm years than they did in cooler ones.

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  2. Fig-Wasp Upset: Classic partnership isn’t so tidy after all

    Genetic analysis suggests that a textbook example of a tight buddy system in nature—fig species that supposedly each have their own pollinating wasp species—may need to be rewritten.

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  3. Math

    Spheres in Disguise: Solid proof offered for famous conjecture

    A Russian mathematician has proposed a proof of the Poincaré conjecture, a question about the shapes of three-dimensional spaces.