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Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids

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Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Joel Michael Reynolds, UMass Lowell

Neuroscience should take sex differences in the brain more seriously

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Aarthi Gobinath, Neuroscience

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Biodiversity loss is the very real end of the world and no one is acting like it

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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In the ruling against Caster Semenya, bogus science is being used to stifle the vulnerable

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Sarah Laframboise, University of Ottawa

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Meet Nobel Prize winner Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, who let doctors see into your blood

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Jordan Harrod, Harvard University

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Meet Dorothy Hodgkin, the biochemist who pieced together penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12

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Chelsea Weidman, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine

Organic food is booming, but it's grinding field laborers into the dirt

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Nicholas Karavolias, UC Berkeley

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Great minds think differently - supporting neurodiversity benefits scientific progress

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Susanna Harris, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Juan Pablo Ruiz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Scientists are fostering public trust on social media, one selfie at a time

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

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Maria Goeppert Mayer discovered the magic numbers at the center of atoms

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She didn't have a paid professorship until three years before her Nobel prize

Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

What if we treated all sick people the way we treat people with a terminal disease?

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

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Maria Kirch was the first woman to discover a comet, but her husband took the credit

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JoEllen McBride, Astrophysics

Bioengineered yeast can produce the active ingredients of marijuana better than the plant

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Sarah Laframboise, University of Ottawa

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With inspiration from shark skin, redesigned oil tanker hulls could keep the oceans clean

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Patricia Fernandez

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There won't be a cure for Alzheimer's disease in our lifetime

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Norman A. Paradis, Dartmouth College

Netflix's Our Planet showed walruses in distress. We need to find what humanity's role is

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Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

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David Hu sells quirky research with an apartment full of snakes

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Laura Mast, Georgia Institute of Technology

Reducing agricultural carbon emissions will be good for the planet and our stomachs

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Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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While Congress does nothing, New York City passed its own climate legislation

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With the Green New Deal stalled, cities are stepping up with their own

Greta Moran

The medical jump from mice to humans just got easier

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Kimberly McCoy, Biochemistry

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Garbage mitochondria may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease

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Claudia López Lloreda, University of Pennsylvania

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When finding a mate, intelligence matters to female parakeets

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Therese Koch, Neuroscience

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Meet mathematician Emmy Noether, mother of the most beautiful theorem in the world

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Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

Humans are two developmental stages away from monkeys

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James R. Howe VI, UC San Diego

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Meet Maria Mitchell, the first American to discover a comet

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Laetitia Meyrueix, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

The secret code of sea shells

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Harini Chakravarthy, Biochemistry

Robyn Metcalfe hits dead ends in her quest to rethink agriculture

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Kevin Pels, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Blue whales and orcas and more form an emotional bond with humans in "The Breath of a Whale"

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Leigh Calvez blends Cetacean science with Cetacean narrative in her latest book

Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

Do animals hear music? "The Evolving Animal Orchestra" follows a decade on the beat

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Jennifer Tsang, Microbiology

Meet Elisa Izaurralde, who decrypted the mystery of messenger RNA

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Kimberly McCoy, Biochemistry

Science has to do better for its queer, trans, and non-binary scientists

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Lila Leatherman, Oregon State University

Climate change is causing floods all over the world. Here's what you can do to help

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

Who decides when life begins? How do we define a disease? What kind of gene edits should be allowed?

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Bahar Gholipour

Warming oceans cast a chill over New England's sea turtles

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Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

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Meet Katsuko Saruhashi, a resilient geochemist who detected nuclear fallout in the Pacific

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Laura Mast, Georgia Institute of Technology

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