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Pollution and climate change hurt children most of all

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An ER doctor explains how these shifts compound childhood illness

Renee Salas, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Alaska's oilfield has been subtly changing the state's environment for decades. Will Congress notice?

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Julia York, University of Texas at Austin

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How Saharan dust can influence health all the way in Florida

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Maite Ghazaleh Bucher, University of Georgia

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The most cost-effective ways to fight climate change are literally under our feet

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Jane Zelikova, University of Wyoming

What ancient corn farmers can teach us about engineering crops for climate change

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Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massive Science

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Can Hawaii's waterfall-climbing fish survive when mountain rains change?

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Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii

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Can termites teach us to build environmentally friendly communities?

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Salmaan Craig, Harvard University

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Boobies of the Galápagos are replacing their disappearing food source with junk fish

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Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

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The beautiful merger of art and science that inspired generations of neuroscientists

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Elle O'Brien, Computational Neuroscience

Genes are like the cosmos: the more we discover, the more we have to explore

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"I don't know how to keep the air in my chest thinking about the scale and size of the unknown"

Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

Why there probably won't be a 'magic bullet' for cancer

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Joshua Peters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Everything grows – that's how it goes – but the 'hows' and 'whys' will fascinate you

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Jasmin Imran Alsous, Princeton University

Meet the barrier-breaking physicist hunting gravity with lasers

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Prabarna Ganguly, National Human Genome Research Institute

Turkeys on treadmills are helping anthropologists test the fossil record

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Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

Why teamwork is better than attempting lone heroism in science

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Samantha McWhirter, University of Toronto

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Scientists are recruiting live bacteria to fight deadly infections

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Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

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Life is evolving through a hurricane of human pollution

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Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

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Aging is not the inexorable process we thought it was

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Anastasia Gorelova, University of Pittsburgh

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The hidden costs of fieldwork are making science less diverse

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Here are five practical ways to start fixing the problem

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

HIV uses camouflage to hide from cell defenses

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Maya Emmons-Bell, UC Berkeley

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The furious pace of modern research is creating a gnarly statistics problem

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Irineo Cabreros, Princeton University

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Meet the 14 researchers who will help you think about climate science in new ways

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Kira Goldenberg

5 facts about Marie Curie, chemist, physicist, and Nobel legend

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Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, McGill University

Beetles exploit bacteria labor to grow their exoskeletons

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Melanie Silvis, UC San Francisco

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Artificial intelligence isn't a 'black box.' It's a key to studying the brain

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Daniel Bear, Stanford University

Lab-grown leather and spider silk are the future of your wardrobe

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Abrahim El Gamal, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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The Republican tax plan would hurt students and young people. We can't let it pass

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Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

Only eight hurricanes hit New England in 100 years. Soon more will head for Boston

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Climate change is shifting storm paths, and new targets are underprepared

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

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The prolific life of Wang Zhenyi, autodidact, astronomer, and poet

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Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

The 'drunken monkey' argument: are we predisposed to alcohol addiction?

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Irene Park, University of Michigan

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Scientists have learned to grow brain tissue to 100x (just add water)

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Gregory Logan-Graf, Carnegie Mellon University

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Animals feel a 'landscape of fear' – just like humans

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Could raising our body temperature treat depression?

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David Haggerty, Indiana University School of Medicine

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Why scientists are exploring sleep deprivation as a treatment for depression

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Jack Barton, University of Manchester

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New HIV drugs show a disease under control – for those who can afford them

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Danny Jomaa, University of Ottawa

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Scientists found an entire herpes virus genome hiding out in fish DNA

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Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

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