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Glutamatergic Synapses Act as a Hub for Intellectual Disability

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How Ocean Currents Shape the Marine Microbiome

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Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers

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Freeze-Tolerant Frogs Power Organ Cryopreservation Strategies

The green zombie virus under the microscope, on a mottled yellow background.

What Are Giant Viruses, and Are They Dangerous?

An abstract illustration of a tooth on a bluish background, signifying teeth that are a source of multipotent dental stem cells that can have therapeutic applications in dental diseases and beyond.

Dental Stem Cells Show Promise Beyond Oral Health

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Space Medicine Brings Researchers into the Second Space Age

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A Hell of a Disease: Can Science Save the Tasmanian Devil?

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The Ice is Alive: Uncovering the Vanishing World of Glacial Microbes

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PubPlant: The Google Maps of Plant DNA    

A paintbrush with orange paint colors a grey dinosaur on a pink background, representing researchers’ efforts to reconstruct dinosaur colors in the past decade.

Debate on Dinosaur Colors Persists After 15 Years 

An enveloped virus forms.

Where Do Viruses Come From?

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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

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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Mapping Tissues with Spatial Biology

Multicolor super-resolution microscopy image showing cellular structures within fixed cells.

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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