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  1. Health & Medicine

    Stroke protection: A little fish helps

    As little as one serving of fish per month offers protection against the most common form of stroke.

    By Janet Raloff
  2. 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.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Math

    Super Bowls and Stock Markets

    The Super Bowl “theory” links U.S. stock market performance to the results of the championship football game, held each January since 1967. It holds that if a team from the original National Football League wins the title, the stock market increases for the rest of the year, and if a team from the old American […]

    By Ivars Peterson
  4. Health & Medicine

    Drug protects mouse eggs from radiation

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