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Marine biologists sampling coral reef waters multiple times a day have shown how they shape surrounding marine life.

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Oysters’ shells were made into concrete and other materials used in construction during the Industrial Revolution.

Scientists Use Sound to Attract Baby Oysters Back to the Reef

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Human-Made Noise Disrupts Fish Parenting

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Great Barrier Reef Suffers Sixth Mass Bleaching in Two Decades

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Corals and Sea Anemones Turn Sunscreen into Toxins—Understanding How Could Help Save Coral Reefs

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Genome Spotlight: Tubifer cardinalfish (Siphamia tubifer)

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Infographic: How Corals Remember the Past, Prepare for the Future

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Environmental Memory: How Corals Are Adjusting to Warmer Waters

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What Scientists Learned by Putting Octopuses in MRI Machines

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Cleaner Fish Alter Behavior if Partners Can See Them “Cheating”

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Kirsty Wright is searching for evidence in a missing persons investigation. She is wearing a blue shirt and glasses. Behind her is dense vegetation and police procedural tape.

How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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