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  1. Earth

    A deadly threat in undeployed airbags

    The extremely toxic and reactive chemical used to inflate airbags could cause risks to human health and wildlife if accidentally released into the environment.

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  2. Chemistry

    The power of caffeine and pale tea

    The relatively rare brew known as white tea offers more caffeine than green tea—and perhaps more anticancer activity.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Taking a Break

    Can interrupting their treatment benefit HIV-infected people?

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Silencing the BRCA1 gene spells trouble

    Some breast cancer patients without a mutation in the BRCA1 gene nevertheless have an incapacitated gene, silenced by a process called hypermethylation of nearby DNA.