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What’s happening in Texas is climate nihilism

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The disastrous blackouts are the government admitting they don't care if some people die

Dan Samorodnitsky, SUNY Buffalo

NASA's Perseverance Rover has landed on Mars

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Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

Stem cells can give new life to ovaries and potentially restore fertility

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Ivana Marisa da Costa Martins, University of Coimbra

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Community health workers, often overlooked, bring trust to the pandemic fight

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Michele Cohen Marill, Kaiser Health News

Plastic trash can now be recycled into ultra-strong graphene

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Juliette Strasser, University of Texas

Women scientists are bearing the brunt of COVID-19's impacts

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Kristen Vogt Veggeberg, University of Illinois at Chicago

Meet Jane Colden, the 18th century botanist snubbed by Linnaeus

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Brittany Kenyon-Flatt, North Carolina State University

DNA-RNA hybrid molecules keep the very centers of our cells together

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Sree Rama Chaitanya, Molecular Biology

Mating plugs and other weird butterfly sex habits

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Lauren J. Young

Elon Musk's climate change prize is empty and worthless

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Those who control vast sums of money could easily fund real changes and simply choose not to

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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Microbes in your gut might be impairing your memory

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Simon Spichak, Neuroscience

Ants swallow their own acidic venom to filter their gut microbiome

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Sruthi Sanjeev Balakrishnan, National Centre for Biological Sciences

Astronomers are turning orbits and planetary rings into mournful, loud music

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Sarah Brumble, Journalism

Fungi create genes to "win over" their plant friends and neighbors

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Attabey Rodriguez Benitez, Science Friday

Meet Virginia Apgar, the unlikely anesthesiologist who saved newborn babies

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Shannon Casey, Biology

Mountain lions switch up their sleep schedules to find prey in one of Patagonia's most extreme landscapes

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Lauren Koenig, Michigan State University

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Sugar may trigger inflammatory bowel disease by breaking down gut mucus

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

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Is dark matter just made of "antimatter nuggets"?

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Eleni Petrakou, Particle Physics

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Your morning walk, no matter how far, can help you live longer

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Science says it's okay if you only get 15 minutes of exercise per day (but the more the better)

Luke Whitcomb, Colorado State University

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Chemicals called SVOCs, emitted from household objects, are altering children's microbiomes

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Lila Westreich, University of Washington

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COVID-19 is setting back the lives and careers of young scientists

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Francesco Zangari, University of Toronto

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How the COVID-19 vaccine is distributed determines how the pandemic will end

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Sara May Bergstresser , Columbia University

What you need to know about this year’s winter solstice and the great conjunction

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William Teets, Vanderbilt University

Empathy is key to overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

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Shelby Bradford, West Virginia University

Why do the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines need to be kept so cold?

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Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Genetic engineering can save the American chestnut tree from a deadly fungus

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Colleen J Mulvihill, University of Texas at Austin

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How do geese know how to fly south for the winter?

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Tom Langen, Clarkson University

It's time to track city sewage for emerging diseases, not just COVID-19

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The current pandemic accelerated the wastewater epidemiology techniques, but researchers hope to continue the practice to prevent the next one

Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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In Miami, environmental injustice and the ocean tides rise alongside luxury housing

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Mario Alejandro Ariza, Yale Environment 360

This is how climate change is reshaping the entire planet

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Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

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Police helicopters circling a city are environmental terrorism

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Léon Dische-Becker

Instead of a colonoscopy, a new screen tests poop for colorectal cancer-related bacteria

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Manisha Roy, Kidwai Cancer Institute

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Climate change is a cultural issue as much as an environmental one

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Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

Mushrooms, virtual reality and a dose of nature: an interview with Winslow Porter

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

These slimy underwater mats can help store carbon, but only if they can survive

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

'Symbiosis/Dysbiosis' VR art installation will let you see, feel, hear the invisible

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

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