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The myriad species floating atop the world’s seas, called neuston, are mysterious and understudied, complicating efforts to clean up plastic pollution.

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Fish Poop a Big Player in Ocean Carbon Sequestration

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Atlantic Circulation Weakest in More Than a Millennium: Study

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Climate Change Could Drive Sharks to Fishing Grounds: Study

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Nitrogen-Fixing Microbes Found in Antarctic Sea

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How Ice Shelf Loss Will Change the Antarctic Ecosystem

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Affected Field Research

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Global Ocean Circulation Is Speeding Up

Blue-Green Algae Produce Methane

Oceanic Bacteria Trap Vast Amounts of Light Without Chlorophyll

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GPS-Tagged Seabirds Track the Tides

Maiden Voyage, 1872–1876

Nine Decades of Environmental Change Resurrected From Swedish Seas

Lubchenco on Conservation

Seals Help Oceanographers Explore Underwater

Sealing the Deal

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Imperiled Penguins

Half Mile Down, 1934

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Microplastics Build Up in Human Organs, Especially the Brain

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How Are Earwax and Body Odor Linked?

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How Does the Gut Immune System Distinguish Between Friends and Foes?

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How Bacteria Outsmart Disinfectants

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Explore a Concise Guide to Optimizing Viral Transduction

A Visual Guide to Lentiviral Gene Delivery

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Detecting Novel Viruses Using a Comprehensive Enrichment Panel

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February 2025, Issue 1

A Nanoparticle Delivery System for Gene Therapy

A reimagined lipid vehicle for nucleic acids could overcome the limitations of current vectors.

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Considerations for Cell-Based Assays in Immuno-Oncology Research

Considerations for Cell-Based Assays in Immuno-Oncology Research

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From Water Bears to Grizzly Bears: Unusual Animal Models

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Sex Differences in Neurological Research

Sex Differences in Neurological Research

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New Frontiers in Vaccine Development

New Frontiers in Vaccine Development

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