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Female and minority-identifying researchers face extra challenges in becoming field project leaders. Universities should be providing equivalent numbers of solutions.

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Why Are Some Beetles Shiny? It’s Not What Researchers Thought

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Making Waves and Avoiding Beaks

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Baby Talk: Bat Pups Babble Like Human Infants

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Field Research Sites Damaged as Fires Ravage West Coast

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Border Closing Strands Professors, Students in Peru

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Diving Beetle Adults and Larvae Dismember, Eat Tadpoles: Study

Warming Permafrost Morphs Microbes into Greenhouse Gas Emitters

Squirrels Listen to Birdsong for Safety Cues

Combination Strategy Nearly Eliminates Invasive Mosquitoes in Field

Dorothy Cheney, Pioneer in Social Cognition, Dies

Research Building Burns Down in Woolsey Fire

Scientists Unite to Save “Monkey Island” After Hurricane Maria

Women Surveyed About Sexual Harassment Tell Their Stories

Streakers, Poopers, and Performers: The Wilder Side of Wildlife Cameras

Orca Death Spurs Reevaluation of Satellite Tagging

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Moss Medicines: The Next Revolution in Biotech?

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New Neurons Continue to Form in Adult Human Brains

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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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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Shift Bioscience proposes improved ranking system for virtual cell models to accelerate gene target discovery