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An Edith’s checkerspot butterfly

Genome Spotlight: Edith’s Checkerspot Butterfly (Euphydryas editha)

Tortoise leaf beetle on a green leaf

The Double Life of a Fungus: Defends Beetle, Attacks Plant

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The Neuroscience Behind Why Mosquitoes Always Find You

Newly hatched stinkbugs climbing over a pile of eggs.

Best Bugs: How E. coli Evolves into a Stinkbug Symbiont

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Science Snapshot: The Need for Speed

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Spilling the Tea: Insect DNA Shows Up in World’s Top Beverage

Bock's pygmy octopus in a lab tank—researchers explore if invertebrates like octopuses and crabs can feel emotions.

Do Crabs Have Feelings? Exploring Emotions in Invertebrates

A cockroach clings to the inside of a white mug.

Injecting Cockroaches with CRISPR Gene Edits Their Offspring

A fossil imprint of the stridulatory apparatus from an extinct cricket species

Listen to Extinct Crickets Chirp

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A person on an operation table getting anesthesia. A study revealed sex differences in ketamine anesthesia.

Female Brains Wake Up from Anesthesia Differently Than Male Brains

Photo of John Calhoun crouches within his rodent utopia-turned-dystopia

Universe 25 Experiment

A woman in her 60s wears a yellow tank top and brown-rimmed glasses while placing a hormone-replacement patch on her upper arm.

Flawed Studies Linked Menopausal Hormone Therapy to Breast Cancer

A hand holding $100 bills reaches out of a green-colored laptop screen, indicating a bribe.

Publisher Investigates an Alleged Peer Review Extortion Attempt

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Advancing Respiratory Immunity Through Tissue-Resident Memory T Cell Research

Advancing Respiratory Immunity Through Tissue-Resident Memory T Cell Research

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Mapping Tissues with Spatial Biology

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Epic Fail: Sea-Monkeys Sabotage Fieldwork

When Barry Hicks set out to photograph thrombolites, thousands of unexpected visitors photobombed his underwater images.

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Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Liver Cancer

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Optimizing NGS Library Preparation for Reliable Sequencing Data

Optimizing NGS Library Preparation for Reliable Sequencing Data

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Using TCR Repertoire Sequencing to Advance Immunology Research

Using TCR Repertoire Sequencing to Advance Immunology Research

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Resipher: Continuous Live-Cell Mitochondrial Respiration Monitoring in 96-Well Plates

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