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%Our results show that stars with no observable field at the surface can still harbour strong fields in the core, which could potentially influence mixing processes in their interiors including thermohaline mixing, which does not occur in a fraction of red giants \cite{Charbonnel_2007}.  %The strong dynamo-generated fields reported here have survived from hydrogen-core burning to hydrogen-shell burning.   Our results show that stars with no observable magnetic  field at the surface can still harbour strong fields in the core, which core. Fields too weak to suppress dipole oscillation modes may exist in normal red giants, and these fields  may transport enough  angular momentum and to  help explain the measured rotation rates of the cores of non-magnetized red giants \citep{Mosser_2012}. (HOW DOES THIS LOOK?) After hydrogen-shell burning, intermediate-mass red giants burn helium in their cores. Suppressed dipole modes in those so-called red clump stars will reveal whether the fields survive until helium-core burning, and whether they can account for magnetic fields observed in stellar remnants such as white dwarfs. Like intermediate-mass stars, massive stars ($M>10$\msun) also undergo convective hydrogen-core burning that generates a magnetic dynamo, and which may produce the magnetic fields observed in many neutron stars. %Massive stars ($M>10$\msun) produce neutron star remnants, whose magnetic fields could be generated by the core dynamos of their massive star progenitors. %It is also possible that core dynamos in massive stars ($M>10$\msun) are the source of the magnetic fields observed in some neutron stars.  %CAN WE SAY MORE? TIM THOUGHT THIS WAS A WEAK ENDING.  %[Suppressed stars seem not to show significant surface fields beyond normal