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How the pelvis, and not bipedalism, gave humans their narrow hips

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The anatomy of our pelvis is a result of an evolutionary trade-off, but perhaps it's not the one we thought

Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

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A human-elephant conflict video game may bolster conservation efforts

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Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Buyer, beware — cyanobacteria toxins in supplements are a serious health risk

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Derek Smith, University of Michigan

Cheap sensors transmit missing air quality data in African cities

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Carolyn Wilke, Science Journalism

Has evolution changed? Asking experts how Darwin's theories hold up in modern science

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Rita Ponce, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal

Changing your microbiome could be as easy as taking a walk in the park

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Sophia Friesen, University of California, Berkeley

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A map of Mars's ancient rivers unlocks new possibilities for learning about the Red Planet

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Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

The wealthy are hoarding livable homes as climate change makes land uninhabitable

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Angely Mercado

Let's go to Venus!

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Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

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Astronomers want the Thirty Meter Telescope on a sacred Hawaiian summit. But who is it for?

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The TMT, through the lens of a Native Hawaiian

Kailee Yoshimura

The fossil fuel industry was built on white supremacy

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Kendra Pierre-Louis

Building trust and relationships is key in changing vaccine-hesitant minds

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Lauren White

The Last Stargazer takes an intimate view of the world through telescopes

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Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

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We must reckon with our ableism if we want healthcare to work for people

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Olivia Bernard

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Fruit fly "cancer avatars" recreate mutations in tumors for personalized treatment

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Joyce Yu, The Francis Crick Institute

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Ecology is overwhelmingly white. How can we halt gatekeeping and decolonize ecology?

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Jazmin Murphy, Ecology

How a scientist in a potato field founded the field of radio astronomy

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Olivia Harper Wilkins, Caltech

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The Bind

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Katelyn Burns

Meet Gerty Cori, the Nobel-winning biochemist who uncovered how the body stores and consumes sugars

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Cori's work determined glycogen storage "disease" had several subtypes, each with a unique molecular cause

Maggie Chen, Harvard University

The American West's sagebrush sea is rapidly vanishing

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Lauren J. Young

Ambitious gene editing needs an ambitious pair of scissors

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Alyssa Shepard, The Scripps Research Institute

The lab-leak hypothesis for COVID-19 is becoming a conspiracy theory

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Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

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Huntington's disease is caused by more than a mutated protein

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Marina Olle Hurtado, MDPI

Meet Kathleen Lonsdale, the physicist and prison reformer who cracked benzene's code

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Josseline Ramos-Figueroa, University of Saskatchewan

There's a neurological reason you say ‘um' when you think of a word

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Adriel John Orena, University of British Columbia

Cicadas' shrieks have annoyed — and delighted — humans for thousands of years

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Eliza Middleton, University of Sydney

Linda Evans, Macquarie University

Can the criminal justice system's artificial intelligence ever be truly fair?

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Natalia Mesa, University of Washington

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How COVID-19 has worsened the lives of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients

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Poor health outcomes and quarantines have accelerated the progress of motor and neurological dysfunction

Burcin Ikiz, Neuroscience

Scientists capture the inner workings of the click beetle's explosive jumps

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Adam Fortais, McMaster University

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An anonymous COVID-19 contact tracing app that warns you when your friends are sick

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Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

With a zap of electricity, scientists write a message into bacterial DNA for the first time

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Stephanie Batalis, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Why schools should be the center of a Green New Deal

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Dharna Noor, Earther

New research shows how one sniff separates trillions of molecules into smells

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Thiago Arzua, Medical College of Wisconsin

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Researchers create an effective RNA vaccine for malaria

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Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

'Picture a Scientist’ director Sharon Shattuck wants you to know you're not alone

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Jerard Fagerberg

Neandertals don't deserve their bad, dim-witted reputation

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Brittany Kenyon-Flatt, North Carolina State University

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