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Scientists recreated a key step for the origin of life at hydrothermal vents

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Simulating alkaline environments from 3 billion years ago showed formation of precursor cells is possible

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

The 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak is serious, but we are getting the response to it right

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Mackenzie Thornbury, University of Montreal

Technology has made it easier to fake scientific results. Is a cultural shift required to fix the problem?

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Bhavya Singh, McMaster University

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5400 kilometers of vaporized ice: scientists have unearthed the mystery of the planet's oldest known crater

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Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

Meet Rebecca Lancefield, the revolutionary microbiologist whose work paved the way for antibiotics

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Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego

Five facts about Pamela E. Harris, Mexican-American mathematician and educator of "leaders of character"

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robotic skins might enable the next generation of space exploration

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Shi En Kim, University of Chicago

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How an undergraduate paper helped launch the cultured meat industry

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Rachel Nuwer

Lead poisoning hits low-income children harder than their affluent neighbors

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Claudia Lopez-Lloreda, University of Pennsylvania

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Melting sea ice gives phytoplankton the space to pump out cloud-forming gasses

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With warming temperatures, microscopic plankton are creating big clouds that could further affect Arctic temperatures

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

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Fights are good for science. Just ask Elizabeth Nolan or Louis Pasteur

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Lauren Gandy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Viruses can infect the brain, hide out for decades, and then cause Viral Parkinsonism

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Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

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Scientists can diagnose skin diseases like eczema with tiny zaps of electricity into your skin

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Stephanie Zimmer, Emory University

What "Dark Waters" gets right about the DuPont/PFAS water pollution case

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Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

How much does genetics affect political beliefs? Does it even matter?

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Prabarna Ganguly, National Human Genome Research Institute

Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever

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Brittney Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

Meet Chien-Shiung Wu, the nuclear physicist who developed revolutionary experiments

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Nadja Oertelt

Meet Annie Jump Cannon, who cataloged and ranked over 300,000 stars by their hotness

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JoEllen McBride, Astrophysics

Meet Dr. Gladys West, the hidden figure behind your phone's GPS

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Gladys West is one of the reasons why you can receive driving directions from your phone or tag a photo location on Instagram

Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

To stop pancreatic cancer from spreading, cut out the chatter

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Max Levy, University of Colorado Boulder

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A failed Alzheimer's drug stops cancer cells from shedding their coats and hiding from the immune system

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Christina Marvin, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Early diagnosis of Parkinson's is becoming possible, but how early do patients want to know?

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Monica Javidnia, University of Rochester

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Connecting brains to machines may let bacteria come along for the ride

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Amy Nippert, University of Minnesota

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Here's why many CRISPR/Cas9 experiments could be wrong – and how to fix them

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Nicholas McCarty, California Institute of Technology

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Miniature brains the size of a pea are sending out brainwaves for the first time

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Thiago Arzua, Medical College of Wisconsin

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Healthy and cancerous pancreatic cells fit together in a dangerous puzzle

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The Salk Institute

Thinking of applying for the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship? Get inside tips from former fellows

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Maddie Bender, Yale University

Irresponsible scientific research and media portrayals are hurting trans people. Do better

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Avoid essentialist biases and treat all identities, non-binary, gender nonconforming, trans, or cis, as equally valid

Elysa Carr, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

Pheromones and social lives are becoming a liability for insects in changing climates

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Madison Sankovitz, University of California Riverside

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Scientists are growing mini-intestines that stretch and bulge just like the real thing

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Juliann Tefft, Boston University

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Cats communicate with the help of bacteria living in their butts

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Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Pocket-sized DNA sequencers could soon stop food-borne pathogen outbreaks as soon as they start

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Bhavya Singh, McMaster University

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Huge genetic databases are hurting marginalized people's health

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Rebecca Muir, University College London

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Sometimes they make food ferment, but used in the right way, these bacteria can also be a preservative

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Lauren Gandy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Can AI help diagnose depression? It's a long shot

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Alejandra Canales, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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You live in a mostly 2D world, but the map in your brain charts the places you've been in 3D

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Dori Grijseels, University of Sussex

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