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Garbage to Guts: The Slow-Churn of Plastic Waste

Build a Sustainable Laboratory That Leads to Greener Scientific Progress

How to Get Started Sustainably

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The Constellation of Creatures Inhabiting the Ocean Surface

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Infographic: Neuston Drift Atop the World’s Oceans

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Neuston: Living Among Plastic Debris in the Open Ocean

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Green Lab Initiatives Take Root Around the World

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Plastic Pollution Boosts Bacterial Growth in Lake Water

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Microplastics in Seawater May Harbor Parasites

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Book Excerpt from Thicker Than Water

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Opinion: Plastic Pollution May Endanger Brains

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Labs Worldwide Still Struggling Amid Broken Supply Chains

Baby Bottles Can Shed Millions of Microplastic Particles: Study

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Beetle Larvae Can Survive on Polystyrene Alone

Image of the Day: Plastic Nests

Image of the Day: Impaired Meiosis

UCL to Phase Out Single-Use Plastics, Including Pipette Tips

Image of the Day: What We’ve Dumped

BPA and Its Replacements Have Same Effects on Mice

Giant Trash Collector Launched to Scoop Up Ocean Waste

Plastics Emit Greenhouse Gases as They Degrade

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Penguins Are Among the World’s Slowest-Evolving Birds: Study

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Universe 25 Experiment

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An AI-Powered Scientist Proposes a Treatment for Blindness

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Rare Disease Research Gets a Boost from Automated NGS Solutions

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Pioneering Cancer Plasticity Atlas will help Predict Response to Cancer Therapies

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How Alderley Analytical are Delivering eXtreme Robustness in Bioanalysis