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

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Fantastic Microbes and Where to Find Them

Image of a peacock with brightly colored tail feathers on display.

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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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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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Science Experiments from the Afterlife

Researchers found human antibody candidates that neutralize the toxin of European black widow venom.

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Image of biologist Michael Hust and his graduate student Maximilian Ruschig from the Technical University of Braunschweig who generated human antibodies that neutralize the toxin of European black widows. Hust wears a grey shirt and Ruschig wears a white shirt.

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Antibody Potion Against Black Widow&#39;s Bite

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A Simple Cell Culture Intervention for Healthier Cells

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The infographic shows a new method where researchers used spider webs to monitor environmental eDNA of vertebrates. They demonstrated the effectiveness of their by analyzing samples from a zoo and a wildlife sanctuary.

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A Spider-Web Trap to Monitor Environmental DNA

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An illustration of a 17th-century plague doctor wearing a full overcoat and a bird beak mask.

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Fluorescent microscopy image of a human body louse (appearing green) with two red ovoid shapes in its head (mCherry-expressing Yersinia pestis).

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What Is <em >Yersinia pestis</em> and How Does It Spread?

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Liquid biopsy and circulating tumor cells

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The Next Frontier: Circulating Tumor Cells and Liquid Biopsies

Sibyl Bucheli, an entomologist at Sam Houston State University, poses in a pink shirt with several of her team members against a backdrop of trees.

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A skull is seen on the forest floor; above it, magnified and in circles, are a blow fly, bacteria, and a carrion beetle.

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Photograph of Lauri Nummenma, a neuroscientist and physiologist at the University of Turku. He is wearing a white shirt and is smiling at the camera.

Two women enjoy a late-night horror movie, captivated by the suspense and thrill of the cinematic experience.

Cartoon showing the neurons in the brain enjoying the frightening movie the person is watching.

The Neuroscience of Thrills: Why Do We Like Horror Movies?

Rows of old, microbe-covered headstones in a misty graveyard with two leafless trees in the background.

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Microbial Tales from the Crypt

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Forensic anthropologists, microbiologists, and entomologists study donated cadavers to determine how human bodies decompose.

Science Experiments from the Afterlife

Forensic anthropologists, microbiologists, and entomologists study donated cadavers to determine how human bodies decompose.

Antibody Potion Against Black Widow's Bite

A Simple Cell Culture Intervention for Healthier Cells

A Spider-Web Trap to Monitor Environmental DNA

What Is Yersinia pestis and How Does It Spread?

The Next Frontier: Circulating Tumor Cells and Liquid Biopsies

Science Experiments from the Afterlife

The Neuroscience of Thrills: Why Do We Like Horror Movies?

Microbial Tales from the Crypt