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  1. Health & Medicine

    Coming to a Bad End: Lost chromosome tips linked to heart problems

    Men with short telomeres, the ends of chromosomes, are twice as likely to develop heart disease as are men with longer telomeres.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Chemistry

    Fish Killer Caught? Ephemeral Pfiesteria compound surfaces

    Scientists claim to have found an elusive algal toxin implicated in massive fish kills along the Mid-Atlantic coast in the 1990s.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Astronomy

    A Cosmic Pas de Trois: Triple-quasar system may signal galaxy mergers

    Astronomers have discovered the first example of a trio of quasars, the brilliant beacons of light that seem to be fueled by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.