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Meet Stephanie Kwolek, the woman who gave us bulletproof vests and yoga pants

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The long-serving DuPont chemist invented kevlar and contributed to spandex

Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

Four times that Margaret Mead challenged societal norms

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Jennifer Tsang, Microbiology

It's time to highlight our fungus friends in our microbiomes

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Adriana Romero-Olivares, University of New Hampshire

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Knowing more about how sneeze droplets spray can help prevent disease

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Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

How do we measure pain, anyway?

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Jeremy Delahanty, UC Davis

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Before Apollo 11 landed, astronauts needed a map of the Moon

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Timothy Swindle, University of Arizona

Neurons and cancer cells are a dangerous duo

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Claudia López Lloreda, University of Pennsylvania

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Climate change is destroying ancient murals in Texas

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Alan Thompson

Rear Admiral Amazing Grace Hopper taught computers English

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Alyssa Shepard, The Scripps Research Institute

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Bacteria from our guts have the tools to solve blood bank shortages

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The discovery of a new enzyme system that can convert type A blood into type O blood could ease strain on universal donors and transform healthcare

Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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"Paraben-free" products aren't safer than anything else

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Emily Harari, UC Berkeley

Those few cigarette puffs during adolescence might have altered your brain

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Constanza Paulina Silva Gallardo, Pennsylvania State University

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Loneliness is an epidemic, and we can turn to technology to fix it

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Sophie Okolo, Health Technology

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Scientists have engineered a self-destruct button in bacteria

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Molly Sargen, Harvard University

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60% of astronauts test positive for active herpes virus in space

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Mackenzie Thornbury, University of Montreal

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People trust scientists, says landmark survey, but there are troubling trends

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

CRISPR nanoparticles are the next big hope in Alzheimer’s disease treatments

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Tara Fernandez, Cell Biology

The US-Mexico border is making life complicated for green sea turtles

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Tim Briggs, Northeastern University

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Sister Miriam Michael Stimson turned early models of DNA inside out

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Not everyone thinks of a Catholic nun when they think “scientist.”

Laura Mast, Georgia Institute of Technology

Sex isn't binary, and we should stop acting like it is

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Liza Brusman, University of Colorado, Boulder

You're eating, drinking, and breathing microplastics. Now what?

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Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

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There's no corner of the globe safe from microplastic pollution

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Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

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Testing drugs on stem cells in petri dishes may revolutionize our understanding of difficult-to-study diseases

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Carina Seah, University of Southern California

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Alternative medicine could treat our maladies, but we have to study it

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Song-My Hoang, University of Pittsburgh

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Bertha Parker, the trailblazing first Indigenous North American archaeologist, taught herself how to excavate a site

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Ashley Marranzino, University of Rhode Island

This year the flu came in two waves – here’s why

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Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University

Meet Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya: the Russian mathematician who pushed through the Iron Curtain

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

By 2100, the ocean will be a different color

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Incorporating the colored dissolved organic matter responsible for the color change improves the accuracy of climate models

Maddie Bender, Yale University

Meet Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion and savior of the Everglades

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Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

Listen to your parents when they tell you to tidy up: it's good for your brain

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Ive Velikova, Neuroscience

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The 1919 solar eclipse experiment that confirmed relativity was built with sweat and hard, physical labor

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Joshua Roebke, University of Texas at Austin

Evolution is elegant but not when it's in David Sloan Wilson's hands

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Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

People with narcolepsy process humor differently

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Quinn Eastman, Emory University

Microglia may be the missing clue to solve the opioid epidemic

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Sara Whitestone, Université de Bordeaux

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Climate change is almost too big a problem to study. The solution? Volcanoes.

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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Being a Pokémon Master in childhood permanently alters your brain

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Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

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