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Mountain lions switch up their sleep schedules to find prey in one of Patagonia's most extreme landscapes

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The nocturnal cats defy expectations and adapt to an evolving predator-prey game

Lauren Koenig, Michigan State University

Sugar may trigger inflammatory bowel disease by breaking down gut mucus

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Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

Is dark matter just made of "antimatter nuggets"?

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Eleni Petrakou, Particle Physics

Your morning walk, no matter how far, can help you live longer

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Luke Whitcomb, Colorado State University

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Chemicals called SVOCs, emitted from household objects, are altering children's microbiomes

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Lila Westreich, University of Washington

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COVID-19 is setting back the lives and careers of young scientists

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Francesco Zangari, University of Toronto

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How the COVID-19 vaccine is distributed determines how the pandemic will end

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Sara May Bergstresser , Columbia University

What you need to know about this year’s winter solstice and the great conjunction

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William Teets, Vanderbilt University

Empathy is key to overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

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Shelby Bradford, West Virginia University

Why do the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines need to be kept so cold?

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The Pfizer and Moderna vaccine cold chains, explained

Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Genetic engineering can save the American chestnut tree from a deadly fungus

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Colleen J Mulvihill, University of Texas at Austin

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How do geese know how to fly south for the winter?

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Tom Langen, Clarkson University

It's time to track city sewage for emerging diseases, not just COVID-19

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Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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In Miami, environmental injustice and the ocean tides rise alongside luxury housing

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Mario Alejandro Ariza, Yale Environment 360

This is how climate change is reshaping the entire planet

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Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

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Police helicopters circling a city are environmental terrorism

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Léon Dische-Becker

Instead of a colonoscopy, a new screen tests poop for colorectal cancer-related bacteria

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Manisha Roy, Kidwai Cancer Institute

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Climate change is a cultural issue as much as an environmental one

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Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

Mushrooms, virtual reality and a dose of nature: an interview with Winslow Porter

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The artist spoke about connecting nature, mushrooms, and technology

Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

These slimy underwater mats can help store carbon, but only if they can survive

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

'Symbiosis/Dysbiosis' VR art installation will let you see, feel, hear the invisible

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

Most people don't really understand how climate change works

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Laura Lyon, McGill University

Evolution doesn't work the way you think it does

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Allison Fritts-Penniman, Ecology

How should a COVID-19 vaccine be distributed?

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Jill Neimark, Science Journalism

Skin cells protect their DNA from bumps and bruises with a jello-like response

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Rachel Stewart, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research

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Misinformation is keeping invasive, destructive lionfish around

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Sarah Heidmann, University of the Virgin Islands

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DNA from a mummified bishop's lungs shows tuberculosis infected humans only recently

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Amanda Rossillo, Duke University

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The NIH is turning the human reference genome into a pangenome

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An interview with the creative team behind "The Human Pangenome"

Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

The mother's gut microbiome helps a child's brain develop its senses

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Simon Spichak, University College, Cork

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Meet Katherine Johnson, the computer who helped send men to the moon

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Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

Hedy Lamarr: actress, inventor, wartime code maker

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Elle O'Brien, Computational Neuroscience

A potential new treatment for premature aging diseases keeps stem cells fresh longer

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Deanna MacNeil, McGill University

What counts as 15 minutes of close contact?

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Ryan Malosh, University of Michigan

Polar bear numbers are rising in a once too-frigid Arctic basin

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Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

Brood parasites are quite picky about who they offload their kids on, depending on the climate

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Sara Zlotnik, University of Florida

The little mountain rivers that create the Amazon might soon be choked off

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Jeremy Snyder, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

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