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Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

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As the world around us seems increasingly volatile, protecting and respecting the integrity of research and evidence becomes more important than ever.

The scenarios that run through our sleeping brains may help us explore possible solutions to concerns from our waking lives.

Join The Scientist on December 11 to discuss Yaa Gyasi’s sophomore novel, about a Stanford University neuroscience grad student navigating family issues, lab work, and her emerging identity.

In a year of racial tumult, Black scientists are uniting for visibility and action. 

In Chapter 7, “Wind and Breath,” author Jeremy England considers research findings that point to a surprising, emergent property of seemingly disordered molecules.

Is the model of early life as a freak occurrence in a disordered, primordial soup of chemicals wrong?