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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From bodily fluids to skeletal remains, advances in DNA analysis and the study of insects and microbes aid forensic investigations.

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A postcard from the early 1900s depicting an Indigenous midden in Damariscotta, Maine.

Sticks and Bones, Circa 8000 BCE

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Science Snapshot: An Arm and A Leg

A yellow-orange, translucent artist's rendition of a yunnanozoan, an ancient wormlike fish, that highlights the arches that make up its cartilage skeleton.

This Simple Fish May Have Been One of the First Vertebrates

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Domesticated Chickens Were Initially Friends, Not Food

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Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey Dies at Age 77

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Scratchy Scalps Help Glue Together Pieces of an Ancient Past

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Paleontologists Find Possible Dinosaur DNA

New Mammal Fossil May Show How Ear Bones Evolved from Jaw Bones

Bubbles for Broken Bones

Infographic: Ultrasound-Stimulated Microbubbles Fix Fractures

Image of the Day: No Table Manners

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Universe 25 Experiment

Green clusters of moss on a petri dish against a white background.

Moss Medicines: The Next Revolution in Biotech?

A watercolor illustration of the human brain.

New Neurons Continue to Form in Adult Human Brains

Split image of a man unsuccessfully trying to tickle himself with a feather (right) and a man laughing and being tickled by a woman with a feather (left).

Why Can’t We Tickle Ourselves?

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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The Holy Grail Hunt in De Novo Antibody Design

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July Digest 2025
July 2025, Issue 1

What Causes an Earworm?

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

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Explore synthetic DNA’s many applications in cancer research

Weaving the Fabric of Cancer Research with Synthetic DNA

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Enhancing Elution of Plasmid DNA

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An illustration of green lentiviral particles.

Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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