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

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An illustration that shows the different measures taken to save US cotton from pink bollworm pest.

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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.

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

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Illustration of the profile of a human head, with the top of the head opened up to show a pink brain. A worm is standing up inside of the brain, with a string of musical notes coming from it. 

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What Causes an Earworm? 

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Life on the Ocean Surface

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Ten Minute Sabbatical

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Infographic showing where neuston reside.

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Sampling of different neuston species alongside recovered plastic

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The Constellation of Creatures Inhabiting the Ocean Surface

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Illustration showing where neuston reside

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Infographic: Neuston Drift Atop the World&rsquo;s Oceans

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The Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis)

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This buoy barnacle (Dosima fascicularis)

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The violet sea snail (Janthina janthina)

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The by-the-wind sailor (Velella velella)

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Violet sea snail (Janthina janthina)

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Water skaters (genus Halobates) left, and 
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Slideshow: Meet the Neuston, the Diverse Organisms Living at the Ocean&rsquo;s Surface

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Chlamydia invades a host cell, forms a membrane-bound vacuole, or inclusion, and then modifies the protein composition of the structure&rsquo;s membrane. If immune cells detect Chlamydia before it forms the inclusion, they trigger T cells to produce interferon-&gamma; (IFN-&gamma;), a powerful cytokine. IFN-&gamma; activates the protein mysterin (also called RFN213), which attaches ubiquitin to the inclusion membrane, signaling the cell to destroy the inclusion&rsquo;s contents by dumping them into a lysosome (left). C. trachomatis produces GarD, a protein that integrates into the inclusion membrane itself and somehow prevents mysterin from attaching ubiquitin, allowing the bacterium to evade immune destruction while continuing to multiply and eventually bursting from the cell (right).

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How Chlamydia Guards Itself Against the Immune System

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Infographic: How Chlamydia Evades Immune Detection

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The genomes of giant viruses often appear far more complex than those of simpler viruses. This Tupanvirus, first discovered in 2018, has the most complete protein-building apparatus of any virus to date, capable of coding for roughly 1,400 proteins.

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Monir Moniruzzaman Studies the Secrets of Giant Viruses

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Opinion: Neuroscience Could Help Demystify Religious Experience

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A black-and-white photo of a person&rsquo;s hands holding a black-and-white barred chicken. The feathers of its breast have been pulled back to reveal a large tumor.

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Transmissible Tumors, 1909

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The myriad species floating atop the world’s seas are complicating efforts to clean up plastic pollution