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  1. Earth

    Don’t like it hot

    King penguins don't live on continental Antarctica but even they are vulnerable to warming water.

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  2. Swell, a Pain Lesson: Gut microbes needed for immune development

    Intestinal bacteria train the immune system to cause pain and swelling, but that's a good thing.

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  3. Astronomy

    Where stars are born

    Some 300 young stars, hidden in visible light, shine through the dust in a new infrared portrait of the main cloud of a nearby star-forming region called Rho Ophiuchi.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Drug Running: Bust nets suspects in counterfeit antimalaria trade

    Investigators have traced the source of counterfeit antimalarial pills in Southeast Asia to southern China, where suspects have been arrested and an illicit factory shut down.