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Why Are Successful Scientists Leaving Academia Mid-Career? 

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The Immeasurable Impact of a Scientist

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Work and Life: Balance or Blend?

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Save the Sample

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Glass Menagerie, 1863–1936

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Slideshow: The Lifelike Glass Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka

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Opinion: A Call for Open Funding Procedures

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University of California, Striking Workers Unions Reach Tentative Deal

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Up to 48,000 University of California Academic Workers Go on Strike

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What’s the Future of Science Twitter?

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Opinion: In Publishing, Don’t Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good

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Younger Scientists Are More Innovative, Study Finds

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Opinion: Science Needs Better Fraud Detection—And More Whistleblowers

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Q&A: Why eLife Is Doing Away with Rejections

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Ford Foundation Sunsets Diversity Fellowships

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“Extreme Inequality” Entrenched in Academic Hiring: Study

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Major, Groundbreaking Increase in Hype in Grant Applications

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AAAS Shutters Its Center for Public Engagement

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In Deep Water With Gül Dölen

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Many Japanese Scientists’ Jobs at Risk from Labor Law Loophole

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Penguins Are Among the World’s Slowest-Evolving Birds: Study

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Universe 25 Experiment

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An AI-Powered Scientist Proposes a Treatment for Blindness

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Rare Disease Research Gets a Boost from Automated NGS Solutions

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

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

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Pioneering Cancer Plasticity Atlas will help Predict Response to Cancer Therapies

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How Alderley Analytical are Delivering eXtreme Robustness in Bioanalysis