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  1. Textbooks brace for nuclear challenge

    New data threaten to shake up 30 years of scientific dogma regarding how a cell carries out one of its most basic tasks: the translation of the genetic code into proteins.

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  2. Killer yeast win epic battle of toxins

    Researchers have discovered the molecular mechanism that keeps a yeast cell programed by a virus to spew a toxin that kills neighboring yeast cells from killing itself.

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  3. Earth

    A foamy threat to ozone

    Shredding the foam insulation in discarded refrigerators can release significant quantities of chlorofluorocarbons, which pose a threat to Earth's protective ozone layer.

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  4. Earth

    Blood points to pollution’s heart risks

    As airborne concentrations of fine dust particles climb, so do three blood factors that increase an individual's heart attack risk.