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Allan Lasser

Biology is a spectrum

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Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

The Genetic Lottery is a bust for both genetics and policy

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Kevin Bird, Michigan State University

Urbanization increases risk for knee osteoarthritis, even in young children

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Matthew Bomkamp, University of Florida

An Arctic Elegy

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Lois Parshley

To find extraterrestrials, we have to think like extraterrestrials

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Charlie Wood

Researchers can trace the family tree of individual mutations inside our cells

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Malosree Maitra, McGill University

A butterfly's wings are the perfect mold to grow neurons on

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Reinack Hansen, Materials Science

Even cities have their own unique microbiomes

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Rita Ponce, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal

On faster spinning planets, life could be hiding out under the atmosphere

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Astrobiologists search for molecular oxygen as an indicator of life on other planets, but finding them isn't that straightforward

Derek Smith, University of Michigan

Caffeine keeps your body fat warm, on top of lighting up your brain

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Pamela Hirschberg, Rutgers University

To save the reefs, save the trees and the soil they grow in

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Animals, plants, and even some bacteria use hypodermic needles

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Hayden Waller, Cornell University

Artificial light makes it harder for nocturnal pollinators to find flowers and avoid predators

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Siddhant Pusdekar, University of Minnesota

A failed star known as "The Accident" is changing the way we look at the galaxy

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Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

Songbirds might hold the key to managing our cholesterol levels

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Sahana Sitaraman, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

A new drug reduces risk of psychosis relapse in patients with dementia

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Soren Emerson, Vanderbilt University

There's a connection between fasting, gut microbiota and blood pressure

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Mihaela Bozukova, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

After decades of work, an effective cytomegalovirus vaccine is on the horizon

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Monoclonal antibodies reveal key vaccine structure

Georgina To'a Salazar, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

There's more than one way to discover a new species

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Maria Gatta, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Cuttlefish can learn with the brains they keep in their arms

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Julia A Licholai, Brown University

The Biden administration must restore funding to the Cooperative Extension Services

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Madison Sankovitz, University of California Riverside

How survival of the fittest can look a lot like rock-paper-scissors

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Sree Rama Chaitanya, Molecular Biology

Serendipitous data reveals a previously unknown ecosystem under Arctic ice

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Sarah Heidmann, University of the Virgin Islands

How a tiny pet store fish became the center of neuroscience research

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Sahana Sitaraman, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

Some people just don't age, at least not like most

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Kelly Cotton, City University of New York

What would photosynthesis look like around other stars?

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Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

To shop sustainably for clothing, stop shopping

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Even clothing recycling and rental programs don't reduce CO2 emissions as much as just wearing the clothes you have

Juliette Strasser, University of Texas

A 'dead' CRISPR might be a better CRISPR for targeting Alzheimer's

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Charlotte Douglas, Institut Curie Paris

Chimpanzees' brains reflect their early childhood experiences

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Lauren Granata, Northeastern University

Infants are being exposed to PFAS chemicals in breast milk

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Iflah Shahid, University of Waterloo

Students can learn with their mouths as well as with their eyes and hands

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Alyssa Paparella, Baylor College of Medicine

We should look at healthcare through the lens of love

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Lauren White

AI and machine learning could halve preventable errors in medicine

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Lauren White

Meet the warty comb jelly, the only animal with a disappearing anus

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Anna Rogers, UC Berkeley

That stinky armpit smell? It's not you, it's your microbiome

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

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