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  1. Health & Medicine

    Protein in Parkinson’s provokes the immune system

    The immune system recognizes parts of a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease as foreign, triggering an autoimmune response.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Health & Medicine

    A baby’s DNA may kick off mom’s preeclampsia

    A large genetic analysis points to a protein made by the fetus that may trigger preeclampsia in the mom.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Environment

    New material could filter water contaminants that others miss

    A new polymer offers a better way to pull fluorine-containing pollutants out of drinking water.

    By Laurel Hamers
  4. Astronomy

    Kepler shows small exoplanets are either super-Earths or mini-Neptunes

    The final catalog from the Kepler space telescope splits Earthlike exoplanets into two groups and pinpoints 10 new rocky planets in the habitable zone.