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  1. Life

    A key virus fighter is implicated in pregnancy woes

    In mice, activating a key component of the body’s antiviral machinery in response to a Zika infection can cause harm to developing fetuses.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  2. Anthropology

    ‘Laid-back’ bonobos take a shine to belligerents

    Unlike people, these apes gravitate toward those who are unhelpful.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Oceans

    Corals are severely bleaching five times as often as in 1980

    Corals are now bleaching more frequently and severely than they were in the early 1980s.

    By Laurel Hamers
  4. Archaeology

    How the Dead Sea Scrolls survived a war in the 1960s

    50 years after the Dead Sea Scrolls survived a war, another possible scroll cave offered tantalizing new clues.