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  1. Health & Medicine

    X-Ray Kin: Radiation risk is hereditary

    Susceptibility to radiation-induced tumors runs in families.

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  2. Animals

    Face it: Termites are roaches

    Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life.

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  3. Alzheimer’s clues from thin brains

    Children and teens who possess a gene variant linked to Alzheimer's disease have substantially thinner neural tissue in a key brain structure than their peers do.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Slimming on oolong

    Rats absorb less dietary fat and gain less weight when their diets contain lots of oolong tea.

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  5. Earth

    Emissions tied to global warming are on the rise

    The United States emitted nearly 1 percent more greenhouse gases in 2005 than it did in the year before.