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  1. Environment

    Air pollution takes a toll on solar energy

    Dust and other tiny air pollutants can reduce solar energy output by as much as 25 percent in parts of the world.

    By Laurel Hamers
  2. Life

    When a fungus invades the lungs, immune cells can tell it to self-destruct

    Immune system resists fungal infection by directing spores to their death.

    By Laurel Hamers
  3. Neuroscience

    Brain chemical lost in Parkinson’s may contribute to its own demise

    A dangerous form of the chemical messenger dopamine causes cellular mayhem in the very nerve cells that make it.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Animals

    Why bats crash into windows

    Smooth, vertical surfaces may be blind spots for bats and cause some animals to face-plant, study suggests.