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The fossil fuel industry was built on white supremacy

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White oilmen codified segregation into the oil fields, and oil towns were the scenes of brutal racist attacks

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Building trust and relationships is key in changing vaccine-hesitant minds

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Lauren White

The Last Stargazer takes an intimate view of the world through telescopes

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Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

We must reckon with our ableism if we want healthcare to work for people

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Olivia Bernard

Fruit fly "cancer avatars" recreate mutations in tumors for personalized treatment

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Joyce Yu, The Francis Crick Institute

Ecology is overwhelmingly white. How can we halt gatekeeping and decolonize ecology?

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Jazmin Murphy, Ecology

How a scientist in a potato field founded the field of radio astronomy

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Olivia Harper Wilkins, Caltech

The Bind

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Katelyn Burns

Meet Gerty Cori, the Nobel-winning biochemist who uncovered how the body stores and consumes sugars

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Maggie Chen, Harvard University

The American West's sagebrush sea is rapidly vanishing

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Once considered a rangeland weed, this plant is the cornerstone of America’s desert ecosystems

Lauren J. Young

Ambitious gene editing needs an ambitious pair of scissors

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Alyssa Shepard, The Scripps Research Institute

The lab-leak hypothesis for COVID-19 is becoming a conspiracy theory

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Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

Huntington's disease is caused by more than a mutated protein

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Marina Olle Hurtado, MDPI

Meet Kathleen Lonsdale, the physicist and prison reformer who cracked benzene's code

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Josseline Ramos-Figueroa, University of Saskatchewan

There's a neurological reason you say ‘um' when you think of a word

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Adriel John Orena, University of British Columbia

Cicadas' shrieks have annoyed — and delighted — humans for thousands of years

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Eliza Middleton, University of Sydney

Linda Evans, Macquarie University

Can the criminal justice system's artificial intelligence ever be truly fair?

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Natalia Mesa, University of Washington

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How COVID-19 has worsened the lives of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients

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Burcin Ikiz, Neuroscience

Scientists capture the inner workings of the click beetle's explosive jumps

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Jumps like this would shatter your bones. Click beetles use soft materials instead

Adam Fortais, McMaster University

Comment 2 peer comments

An anonymous COVID-19 contact tracing app that warns you when your friends are sick

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Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

With a zap of electricity, scientists write a message into bacterial DNA for the first time

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Stephanie Batalis, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Why schools should be the center of a Green New Deal

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Dharna Noor, Earther

New research shows how one sniff separates trillions of molecules into smells

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Thiago Arzua, Medical College of Wisconsin

Researchers create an effective RNA vaccine for malaria

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Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

'Picture a Scientist’ director Sharon Shattuck wants you to know you're not alone

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Jerard Fagerberg

Neandertals don't deserve their bad, dim-witted reputation

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Brittany Kenyon-Flatt, North Carolina State University

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How seven cases of a mysterious opioid-induced disease revolutionized Parkinson's research

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Anna Wernick, University College London

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This Earth Day, turn your funeral into an ecoburial

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Traditional burial practices are ecologically unsustainable, so why not go green in your final act?

Sarah Brumble, Journalism

The Intersectional Environmentalist is the human voice of those most impacted by climate change

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Allison Fritts-Penniman, Ecology

When sperm can’t modify their proteins, their motors stop swimming

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Raj Rajeshwar Malinda, Cell Biology

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This technology was designed to grow human cells. Now it's transforming the cultured meat industry.

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Maryam Zaringhalam, Molecular Biology

Demystifying the effects of COVID-19 variants on vaccines

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Sara May Bergstresser , Columbia University

The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells

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Clayton Aldern, Grist

Christopher Collins, Texas Observer

Naveena Sadasivam, Grist

How a mislabeled wolf skull spurred an erroneous scientific conclusion

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Jazmin Murphy, Ecology

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The first ever image of a black hole's swirling magnetic field is released

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Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

Scientists have figured out what a nasty gut bacterium eats. Can live biotherapeutics help?

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

Comment 4 peer comments

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