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  1. Health & Medicine

    Mexican Americans face stroke risk

    Middle-aged Mexican Americans face twice the stroke risk that non-Hispanic whites do.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Tech

    Helping circuits get enough oxygen

    The search for new insulators needed for making ever-smaller circuits may get a boost from a new electron microscopy technique sensitive to a single oxygen atom missing from a crystal layer.

    By Peter Weiss
  3. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin E may curb colds in old folks

    Vitamin E seems to help elderly people fend off colds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Tech

    Sound power for deep-space travel beyond sun’s reach

    An unusually efficient new type of power unit for spacecraft uses sound to convert heat to electricity.