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  1. Health & Medicine

    Herbal Activity

    The Alternative Medicine Foundation offers a searchable database that provides scientific and general information about the biochemical activity of a variety of herbs, from Achillea (Yarrow) to Ziziphus (Jujube). The entry for each herb includes warnings about dangers to human health and links to relevant abstracts in the scientific literature. Go to: http://www.herbmed.org

    By Science News
  2. 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
  3. 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.