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Researchers from around the world share their favorite bacteria, viruses, and fungi, highlighting their unique abilities in space, disease, and the environment.

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The Scientist Speaks - Rising From the Dead: How Antibiotic Resistance Genes Travel Between Current and Past Bacteria

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Biophysicist Howard Berg Dies at 87

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Deep Sea Microbes Produce Graphite-like Carbon

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An Earthy-Smelling Substance, 1964

Three researchers with headlamps on stand around a loggerhead turtle on the beach while a man covers the turtle's face with a gloved hand

Tiny Hitchhikers Reveal Turtles’ Movements and Foraging Ecology

Image of the Day: Inflamed Mouse Follicles

Image of the Day: Microscopic Creatures

Image of the Day: An Infectious Glow

Amyloid plaques (stained for amyloid-? peptide) detected in a post-mortem brain sample of a patient with Alzheimer's disease. Purple purple dots in the background are the nuclei of neurons and glia.

Herpes Viruses Implicated in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Brain-Computer Interface Advances Help Reconnect the Mind and Body

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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

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Publisher Investigates an Alleged Peer Review Extortion Attempt

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Mapping Tissues with Spatial Biology

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Expanding What Super-Resolution Microscopy Can Capture

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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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