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Despite its popularity, the science and regulations sur- rounding microbiome testing are still catching up, high- lighting the need for better standards and oversight.

Regulatory Gaps Plague At-Home Microbiome Tests

When Barry Hicks set out to photograph thrombolites, thousands of unexpected visitors    photobombed his underwater images.

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Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

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EVE Online Gamers Tackle Flow Cytometry Data in Space

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<em id="isPasted">EVE&nbsp;</em><em>Online</em> Gamers Tackle Flow Cytometry Data in Space

Article

Five people sit around a rectangular table with a tray in the middle for rolling dice in the game Dungeons and Dragons, a TTRPG. One person has just rolled out a handful of dice, and another is holding one die over the table.

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Illustration of three people sitting around a table playing a role-playing game with figurines, tokens, and cards. The person on the right has a notebook propped open in front of them, marking them as the game master. 

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Tabletop Role Playing Games Make Science an Adventure

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Fluorescent grid representing a microwell plate in a multimode microplate reader

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Advancing Cancer Assay Development in a Multiplexed Era

Image of Muunda Mudenda working in a biosafety hood. He holds a micropipette in his hand with a look of horror on his face as he realizes that he accidentally added the wrong reagent to his samples.

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Epic Fail: From Reagent Regret to Sample Rescue

Molly Edwards pretends to give a hug to a blooming corpse flower plant in a greenhouse surrounded by other plants. Edwards is wearing a dark yellow jumper and has her hair tied back. The corpse flower has a large green and dark brown base and a long, single brown leaf, which appears like a tree branch, extends up from the center of the base of the plant. 

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Illustration of Molly Edwards standing in front of her phone set up with a ring light. The word “live” is in the top left hand corner and transparent comment boxes are floating in the bottom left hand corner, making it look like it is a social media video. Edwards has a tall, leafy plant behind her and prints of other flowering plants on her walls. 

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Career Chat: A Science Communicator Uses Video to Bring Research to Life

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Croak and Contagion

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Citizen gamers help scientists train machine-learning algorithms by analyzing flow cytometry data from immunology and cancer research.