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  1. Alpine Antarctica, before the ice

    A new survey may have unveiled the birthplace of the world’s largest ice sheet.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Nicotine’s role in SIDS

    New study in rats explains how smoke exposure may increase risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

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  3. Life

    No rest for weary fruit flies

    Fruit flies with insomnia may help researchers track genetic factors that lead to the sleep disorder.

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  4. Climate

    Cultivation changed monsoon in Asia

    The loss of forests in India, China during the 1700s led to a decline in monsoon precipitation.

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  5. Space

    Astrometry nabs an exoplanet

    long-proposed method of searching for extrasolar planets has finally discovered one — a body six times heavier than Jupiter that orbits a dwarf star 20 light-years from Earth.