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  1. Health & Medicine

    Centenarian Advantage: Some old folks make cholesterol in big way

    People who live to be nearly 100 and their offspring are more likely to have large cholesterol particles in their blood, a condition conducive to good health.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Magnets, my foot!

    Shoe inserts with magnets have no more effect against foot pain than insoles without them.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Earth

    Smog chemicals found even in rural western plains

    Analyses of the atmosphere over the south-central United States show that gases emitted from the region's oil and natural gas industries contribute to air pollution—even over remote Kansas cornfields—that can surpass the noxious mix found in urban areas.