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  1. Health & Medicine

    Fish oil components may not benefit everyone’s heart

    A six-year study finds that omega-3 fatty acids don't lower heart risk in people with diabetes.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Life

    You have grandpa’s chromosome tips

    Older fathers pass more gene-protecting DNA to their paternal grandkids.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Physics

    The electric flour voltage test

    Granular materials give off a zap just before slipping, a finding with potential implications for sensing the starts of silo disasters or earthquakes.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  4. Life

    Invasive mite worsens honeybee viruses

    Once-obscure deformed wing virus swept to prominence in honeybee colonies in Hawaiian islands as invasive pest arrived.