Image of Julie Huber holding up vials of different deep-sea microbe cultures.

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Fantastic Microbes and Where to Find Them

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A grayscale image of several small, round zebrafish embryos. 

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On the left, several white sperm face towards a pink ball representing an egg, which is held in a woman’s hand.

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How Cryptic Female Choice Shapes the Evolution of Species

Brown and white photo of Ivan Shiller standing in a cotton field looking at a boll.

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How America&rsquo;s Cotton Farmers Eradicated the Pink Bollworm

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

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

Image of small blue creatures called Nergals. Some have hearts above their heads, which signify friendship. There is one Nergal who is sneezing and losing health, which is denoted by minus one signs floating around it.

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Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

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Jumping to Evolve

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Illustration showing how cohesin mediates DNA loop extrusion by a ‘swing and clamp

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Mechanism of a Genome Packaging Machine Discovered

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Photo of Hormiphora californensis, a species of comb jelly

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Photo of a zebra jumping spider (Salticus scenicus)

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Cancer cells (lower right) stealing mitochondria from immune cells such as T cells (upper left) using long extensions called nanotubes.

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Researchers created replicating xenobots from the stem cells of the African frog (Xenopus laevis). Here, the Pac-Man–shaped “parent” (red) replicates by smooshing together loose stem cells (green).

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Caught on Camera

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Olive Sea Snake on blue ocean sea surface

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Human DNA abstract dotwork vector illustration made of cloud of colored dots.

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Illustration of transposable element insertion polymorphisms (TIPs)

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Percentage of different organisms genome made up by transposable elements

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Adapting with a Little Help from Jumping Genes 

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The hinge region of cohesin pulls DNA to two head regions, like a person’s hand-to-hand motion of pulling on a rope.

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Infographic: How Genome-Packaging Protein Cohesin Handles DNA

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Organisms from infographic about transposable elements 

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Infographic: How Transposable Elements Can Shape Evolution

Researcher fighting misinformation online

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Twitter&rsquo;s Science Stars Fight Misinformation

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A man and a woman kneeling next to a seal

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Roxanne Beltran Dives into Seal Research

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Cover of Endangered Maize by Helen Anne Curry

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Opinion: Going Beyond Seed Banks

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By moving around in the genome, transposons contribute to adaptation