May 2021

Animal Hybrids

Mating between different species may drive evolution

Features

Hybrid Animals Are Not Nature’s Misfits

Can Single Cells Learn?

Scientist To Watch

Amanda Tokash-Peters Links the Microbiome to Ecology

Notebook

Sponge Names for Sale, Proceeds to go to Conservation Efforts

Pain Researcher Quits Academia, Takes Lab Home with Him

The Literature

Aphid Salivary Gene May Regulate Gall Color

When Pursuing Prey, Bats Tune Out the World

Reading Frames

Opinion: Western Canada Must Stop Clearcutting Its “Mother” Trees

Foundations

Stamping Out Science, 1948

Careers

Pandemic Accelerates Trend Toward Remote Clinical Trials

Critic at Large

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Opinion: Science Advocacy in the Post-Trump Era

Infographics

Infographic: Animals of Different Species Hybridize

Infographic: Investigating Whether Single Cells Learn

Infographic: How to Ferret Out SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage

Modus Operandi

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Sewage Sampling Robots Speed SARS-CoV-2 Detection

Speaking of Science

Ten Minute Sabbatical

Editorial

American flag made from blood vials

Depoliticizing Science

July Digest 2025
July 2025, Issue 1

What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Explore synthetic DNA’s many applications in cancer research

Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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Illustrated plasmids in bright fluorescent colors

Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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An illustration of green lentiviral particles.

Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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