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  1. Chemistry

    Striking Oil: High-pressure processing minimizes trans fats

    Improvements in the techniques used to hydrogenate vegetable oils could soon fill store shelves with food products containing smaller percentages of unhealthful trans fats.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Health & Medicine

    Heartening Responses: Depression drugs may aid survival after heart attack

    Depressed patients recovering from heart attacks receive big heart-health benefits by taking prescribed doses of the antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Plants

    Honey, We Shrank the Snow Lotus: Picking big plants reduces species’ height

    Years of harvesting the larger plants of a Himalayan wildflower used in traditional medicines may be driving the evolution of a stubbier plant form.