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Neuroscientist Kale Edmiston on why biological bases of being trans shouldn't matter

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'We should haven’t to prove that we’re really a certain gender in order to be treated like a person'

Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego

Three facts about Helen Rodríguez-Trías, pediatrician-turned-healthcare activist

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Natalie Parletta, University of South Australia

The art of publicly changing your mind on GMOs

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Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

What ancient salt can tell us about life on Earth

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Laura Carter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Refrigeration slows – but doesn't stop – food rot. Now scientists know why

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Melanie Silvis, UC San Francisco

Deep-sea creatures are weirder than we ever suspected

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Ashley Marranzino, University of Rhode Island

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Massive Science Consortium members on why they dig our community

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Kira Goldenberg

Meet Jane Marcet, whose books made science accessible

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Natasha Chrisandina, Georgia Institute of Technology

'Being Ecological' is a book with admirable aims and a tangled execution

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

The secret to sounder sleep may be lurking in our guts

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New research shows that stressed med students on probiotics got better shut-eye

Hannah Thomasy, University of Washington

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Can exercise counteract the effects of aging on our muscles?

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Yewande Pearse, LA Biomed

That bossy GPS voice isn't actually necessary for navigating

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Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

After you march for science, we'll help you keep up the cause

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Allan Lasser

Three times Louise Slaughter used her microbiology training in Congress

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Jennifer Tsang, Microbiology

How farmers on the Great Plains are changing the local climate

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Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens, Virginia Commonwealth University

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The Graduate Research Fellowship Program favors elite schools – again

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Kelsey Lucas, University of Michigan

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Watch Nadja Oertelt's TEDMED talk, now online

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Massive Staff

It turns out public engagement is good for your science career

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Kira Goldenberg

A new study shows that some are 'immune' to CRISPR. What does it mean for biology's breakthrough editor?

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It's complicated, and the road from lab to clinic is long

Alireza Edraki, University of Massachusetts Medical School

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The Lyme wars are upon us. We should probably read up on them

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

Four facts about Jane Goodall, primatologist, anthropologist, and activist

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Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

Scientists are trying to cure diseases by harnessing our own cells

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Chelsea Weidman, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine

Charles Darwin, made flesh and tedious

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Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

The Moon's origins may be far different than we thought

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

Can nutritious eating improve mental health?

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Natalie Parletta, University of South Australia

Meet Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astrophysicist who first noticed pulsars

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Yewande Pearse, LA Biomed

Building a Massive scicomm effort

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Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego

Don't fear germs – at least not too much

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Microbes are neither purely 'good' nor 'bad'

Jennifer Tsang, Microbiology

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Why I'm quitting GMO research

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Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

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Vaccines aren't yet using our immune system's full potential

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Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Our science communication training is free again. Here's why

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Gabe Stein

A rare disease offers clues to how genes affect social behavior

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Yewande Pearse, LA Biomed

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Did humans evolve to eat raw, aged, or cooked meat? I tried to test digestion

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Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

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More than 10 percent of healthy people hallucinate. You can likely thank dopamine

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Jack Barton, University of Manchester

A scientist responds to that 'Science' Instagram essay

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

My life in butterflies: how a childhood hobby shaped my career

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Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

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