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  1. 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.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Drug protects mouse eggs from radiation

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

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  3. 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.

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  4. It’s a tough job, but native bees can do it

    An organic watermelon field in California near remnants of wild land still had enough bees of North American species to pollinate a commercial crop, but habitat-poor farms didn't.