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Four facts about Marie Tharp, the woman whose art mapped the bottom of the sea

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She discovered the Earth's 'backbone' even though men wouldn't let her on a ship for 17 years

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

BRCA genes are more complicated than most people think

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Rachel Aronoff, Molecular Microbiology

Your mom is right: you probably need more sleep

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Jack Barton, University of Manchester

Low doses of contaminants, long ignored, can have vast consequences

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Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

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To predict the future of Southern California's seas, scientists are looking to the past

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Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, an inspiration to scientists

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How paper towels could revolutionize DNA analysis

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Jennifer Tsang, Microbiology

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Scientists were long baffled by a methane surplus in our atmosphere. The culprit: trees

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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Chameleons do more than change color – their bones glow in the dark

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Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

Evolution is a lot messier than we thought

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Cells evolved haphazardly, not in one overall arc

Melanie Silvis, UC San Francisco

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Science doesn't need to be so complicated. The answer: more sensible statistics

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Irineo Cabreros, Princeton University

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How yellow-eyed penguins and sea lions took over New Zealand

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Jerald Pinson, University of Florida

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How scientists are mapping the building blocks of life

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Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Humans appear to be worse for animals than radioactive fallout

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Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

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What does California's future look like? Scientists asked trees

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Daniel Ackerman, University of Minnesota

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The brain treats questions about beliefs like physical threats. Can we learn to disarm it?

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Jonathan Rydberg, SUNY Buffalo

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What the Ice Age tells us about how plants will manage in a hotter world

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Baird Langenbrunner, UC Irvine

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Simulating evolution helped scientists design a better virus

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Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

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Can young blood actually help cure Alzheimer's?

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Researchers are testing the idea, with encouraging early results

Gregory Logan-Graf, Carnegie Mellon University

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Alternative medicine should be subject to scientific rigor, too

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Sukalp Muzumdar, ETH Zurich

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Natural disasters leave behind more than just physical damage

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Ashley Best, University of Louisville

Is light pollution changing how plants do – and don't – grow?

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Kylla Benes, Ecology

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Can better sleep help protect us from trauma?

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Brooke N Dulka, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Scientific knowledge is drowning in a flood of research

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Matteo Farinella, Columbia University

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Shrews change size with the seasons. Could we do it too?

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Jasmin Imran Alsous, Princeton University

These researchers want to stop treating depression with trial and error

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Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

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People ask about my experiments on mice. The answers are … complicated

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Ashley Juavinett, UC San Diego

Why you shouldn't believe everything your sleep tracker tells you

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People who are told they slept poorly will act accordingly, even if it isn't true

Jack Barton, University of Manchester

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How gut bacteria manipulates your immune system – by mimicking it

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Melanie Silvis, UC San Francisco

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Tiny computers are transforming weather data collection

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Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii

Ketogenetic dieting aids look too good to be true because they are

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Kevin Pels, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Here's how to avoid outliving your own bones

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Emily Atkinson, Indiana University School of Medicine

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How fieldwork on a remote, tiny island taught me to navigate family dinners

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Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

It's time to stop excluding people with disabilities from science

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

We can no longer count on nature's 'self-correction' to curb warming

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Alanna Shaw, University of Montana

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Toxic chemicals are being freed from melting glaciers

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Carrie McDonough, Colorado School of Mines

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