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  1. Earth

    Infants pick up toxic chemicals in intensive care

    Newborns in intensive care units absorb high concentrations of a potentially toxic phthalate from the plastic tubing and other equipment used in treating them.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Health & Medicine

    After terror, moms’ stress affects kids

    Infants born to women who developed posttraumatic stress disorder during pregnancy have unusually low concentrations of the hormone cortisol.

    By Ben Harder
  3. Astronomy

    Cosmic soot

    Astronomers have found a group of complex organic compounds, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, from a time when the universe was less than one-third its current age.

    By Ron Cowen

  4. 19582

    This article says that fungal sprays could kill nontarget insect species, “but most of those species people don’t want anyway.”