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June 2025

Fantastic Microbes and Where to Find Them

An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience tactics, from medicine to space exploration.

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March 2025

Peto's Paradox: How Gigantic Species Evolved to Beat Cancer

Scientists dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against cancer.

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December 2024

Detection or Deception: The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Research Misconduct

New artificial intelligence tools help scientists fight back against a rising tide of research misconduct, but is it enough?

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September 2024

XX Marks the Spot: Addressing Sex Bias in Neuroscience

Neuroscience research historically overlooked female subjects. Today, researchers actively rebalance the scales.

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Summer 2024

Synthetic Biology is in Fashion

Scientists are pulling on the protein threads that bind textiles and cosmetics together.

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Turning on the Bat Signal

Research into bat immune systems may help keep humans safe from viral attacks.

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Winter 2023

Ephemeral Life

Recent advances in modeling the human placenta may inform placental disorders like preeclampsia

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Fall 2023

Defying Dogma

To understand how memories are formed and maintained, neuroscientists travel far beyond the cell body in search of answers.

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Summer 2023

Divvying Up Duties

Bacteria cooperate to benefit the collective, but cheaters can rig the system

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Spring 2023

The Cancer Code

Once dismissed as genomic noise, some noncoding sequences (and the microproteins they encode) play important roles in cancer

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Winter 2022

Cell Matters

From eukaryote evolution to bacterial hijacking, researchers peer ever further into the building blocks of life

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Fall 2022

Rethinking Neuroscience

From the cerebellum to neurodegenerative disease, researchers are giving old science a fresh look

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Summer 2022

Know Thy Enemy

Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses interact with their victims

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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