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

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Are they fetal brains in a jar? No. Should we still be excited and slightly concerned? Yes.

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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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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Lactic acid bacteria produce antibiotic-like compounds that kill off potentially harmful contaminants

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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Climate change's future of pain and disease isn't imminent, it's already here

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

Salk scientists show that when you eat may be as important as what you eat

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The Salk Institute

Aerogel, the world's lightest solid, can help bones heal faster

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Sruthi Sanjeev Balakrishnan, National Centre for Biological Sciences

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Researchers use CRISPR to eliminate HIV in mice, DNA and all

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Xinwen Zhu, Boston University

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Should the age of humans have a geologic name?

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Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

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Meet Maria Sibylla Merian, the naturalist who painted insects in living color

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Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Daylight saving time is bad for your health

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We should go to year-round standard time, as the sun intended

Anisha Kalidindi, Ohio State University

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Researchers are abolishing an ancient epidemic — and trying to prevent the next one before it starts

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Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Meet Émilie du Châtelet, the French socialite who helped lay the foundations of modern physics

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Kelsey Lucas, University of Michigan

This initiative wants you to snap a pic of your poop — for the future of gut health

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Graduate student working conditions are worsening. To fight back, they're unionizing

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Kristifor Sunderic, BMCC CUNY

A new combination of DNA, metal, and light could revolutionize drug discovery

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Teresa Ambrosio, University of Nottingham

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Wildfires are both environmental catastrophes and public health problems

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Max Moritz, University of California

Faith Kearns, University of California

Gamers are one-upping nature and computers by designing whole new proteins

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Luyi Cheng, Northwestern University

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Science has a garbage problem. Why aren't recycling schemes more popular?

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Simone Eizagirre, University of Cambridge

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Exosuits can restore mobility in stroke patients and soldiers alike

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And they're customizable for different types of bodies, gaits, and speeds

Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Unexpected gorilla snacking behaviors make scientists question what we know about early humans

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Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

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Pregnant women must get their flu shots to help avoid future influenza epidemics

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Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

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Some brains are more susceptible to PTSD after trauma than others

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Claudia López Lloreda, University of Pennsylvania

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After Hurricane Maria, an isolated community rescued itself, with help from their abuelas

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

New types of drugs, called PROTACs, melt cancer-causing proteins away

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Fiona Scott, University of Sussex

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Algae, a low-impact, delicious and sustainable food

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Rachel Nuwer

A Climate Change: An Unstoppable Movement Takes Hold

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António Guterres

La lucha contra el cambio climático: un movimiento imparable

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António Guterres

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