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Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

Illustration of four people seated at a table with pads of paper and laptop on it. A woman on the left of the table in a red shirt, depicting senior staff writer Emma Dauster, has a speech bubble over her head with a picture depicting a shark and orca with “vs” in between them, showing an idea for a video on battles between apex predators.

Sparking Curiosity Through Science Communication

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A Multi-Ancestry Analysis Reveals Novel Obesity-Related Genes

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Social Interactions Slow Cancer Via an Anxiety-Reducing Neural Circuit

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US Could Lose 7 Billion Dollars and Invaluable Research Talent if International Student Enrollments Drop

A drawing of a brain with roads and maps drawn on different sections to represent memory of location information, which is controlled by place cells in the hippocampus.

The Brain’s Inner DJ Balances Electrical Activity to Build Memories

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40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images

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Integral HIV Protein Structure Paves the Way for New Therapeutics

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Low-Oxygen Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System

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Spiders Spin Web Decorations That May Help Detect Prey

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Aging Reprograms T Cell Behavior, Weakening Vaccine Responses

An African spitting cobra (Naja mossambica) sits up in a striking position.

Mambas, Cobras, and Rinkhals Beware! New Antivenom Targets 17 Deadly Snakes

Image of a woman with her hands across her stomach. She has a look of discomfort on her face. There is a blown up image of her stomach next to her and it has colorful butterflies and gut bacteria all swarming within the gut.
November 2025, Issue 1

Why Do We Feel Butterflies in the Stomach?

These fluttering sensations are the brain’s reaction to certain emotions, which can be amplified or soothed by the gut’s own “bugs".

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Olga Anczukow and Ryan Englander discuss how transcriptome splicing affects immune system function in lung cancer.

Long-Read RNA Sequencing Reveals a Regulatory Role for Splicing in Immunotherapy Responses

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Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

Research Roundtable: The Evolving World of Spatial Biology

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Exploring the State of the Art in Gene Editing Techniques

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Simplifying Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis with Blood Testing

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