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  1. Health & Medicine

    Stroke protection: A little fish helps

    As little as one serving of fish per month offers protection against the most common form of stroke.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. Ecosystems

    Why didn’t the beetle cross the road?

    Beetle populations confined to specific forest areas by roads seem to have lost some of their genetic diversity.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Health & Medicine

    Drug protects mouse eggs from radiation

    Mice protected by a drug from radiation-induced sterility have normal offspring.

    By John Travis
  4. Health & Medicine

    Cheap hypertension drug works best

    An old-fashioned pill for preventing high blood pressure and some heart disease appears to work better than new, more expensive drugs.