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  1. Chemistry

    Air pollution molecules make key immune protein go haywire

    Reactive molecules in air pollution derail immune responses in the lung and can trigger life-long asthma.

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  2. Animals

    Neandertal of ant farmers grows modern food

    The most old-fashioned fungus-growing ant yet discovered grows a startlingly new-fangled crop.

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  3. Astronomy

    Unlikely nursery for new planets is next to massive black hole

    Planet nurseries encircle young stars within a few light-years of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, scientists claim.

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  4. Planetary Science

    Earth, neighbors weren’t the first rocky planets in the solar system

    Jupiter might have swept an earlier generation of rocky planets into the sun, leaving room for Earth and its neighbors to form.