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How shadowy tax havens skirt conservation efforts

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Dark money foreign investments may bankroll deforestation and overfishing

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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Should parents fear potatoes as much as screens?

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Jack Barton, University of Manchester

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What a strange case of scientific déjà vu showed us about the dangers of plastics

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Jackie Grimm, Princeton University

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Short, glassy buildings are a bird’s worst nightmare

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

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The UN reports humanity is failing its climate change goals

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Michael Graw, Oregon State University

Scientists sent thoughts from brain to brain with nothing in between

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Jordan Harrod, Harvard University

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"Skeleton Keys" reveals the secrets hidden inside your bones

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Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

A patient was cured of HIV. What should you expect in the future?

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Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Here's why insect protein could be the next whey powder

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Shira Gordon, Entomology

What do we really know about the safety of probiotics?

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Messing with our gut microbiome could hurt us

Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

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Climate change once heated the oceans and caused "The Great Dying"

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Elena Suglia, UC Davis

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Opportunity, thanks for inspiring a new generation

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Jesse Feddersen, Yale University

How your immune system can give you narcolepsy

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Quinn Eastman, Emory University

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Great news! Hops contain a molecule that improves metabolism!

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Kevin Pels, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Massive Science celebrates love, nature-style

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Massive Staff

Who owns your cells?

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Sarah Kearns, University of Michigan

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A new comprehensive report shows how women in STEM face huge disadvantages

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

Meet Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered how to split an atom

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Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University

"Poached" takes you into the trenches of wildlife crime

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Rachel Love Nuwer explains how and why illegal trade threatens to wipe some of our planet's most charismatic animals off the map forever

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Humans in South America evolved to live with arsenic poisoning

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Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

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How does an electric fish get its charge?

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Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

Medical costs for older adults are going up. Self-care technology can help

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Sophie Okolo, Health Technology

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Ancient plankton have climate data hidden in their shells

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Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

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Scientists have got the recipe for growing miniature human brains just right

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Paige Winokur, Rockefeller University

These corals love the warming oceans

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Gina Mantica, Tufts University

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Climate change is rotting away Greenland's cultural heritage

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Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

Need to check your blood sugar? Just scan your contact lens.

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Kimberly McCoy, Biochemistry

Climate is getting more extreme in every possible way

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From precipitation to the carbon cycle to natural disasters, the outliers are now the norm.

Coleman Harris, Vanderbilt University

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Why is this huge group of deep sea octopus moms suffocating?

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Rose Jones, Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Science

Saliva is just what we needed to create a new malaria vaccine

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Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

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Humanity's viral stowaway is now a defense against our greatest diseases

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Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Next Human: Brain and Body as Connected Devices

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Bahar Gholipour

The world's oldest cave paintings were probably made by Neanderthals

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Patty Hamrick, New York University

100 vignettes that will make you excited to talk about the weather

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Laura Mast, Georgia Institute of Technology

Even corals deep down on the ocean floor can’t escape humanity's impact

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Sandra Brooke, Florida State University

We're studying collapsed civilizations so that ours can endure climate change

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Brittany Ward, University of Waikato

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