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How seven cases of a mysterious opioid-induced disease revolutionized Parkinson's research

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In the early 1980s, seven people took synthetic heroin. What happened next drastically changed our understanding of Parkinson's disease, and how to treat it

Anna Wernick, University College London

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This Earth Day, turn your funeral into an ecoburial

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Sarah Brumble, Journalism

The Intersectional Environmentalist is the human voice of those most impacted by climate change

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Allison Fritts-Penniman, Ecology

When sperm can’t modify their proteins, their motors stop swimming

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Raj Rajeshwar Malinda, Cell Biology

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This technology was designed to grow human cells. Now it's transforming the cultured meat industry.

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Maryam Zaringhalam, Molecular Biology

Demystifying the effects of COVID-19 variants on vaccines

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Sara May Bergstresser , Columbia University

The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells

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Clayton Aldern, Grist

Christopher Collins, Texas Observer

Naveena Sadasivam, Grist

How a mislabeled wolf skull spurred an erroneous scientific conclusion

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Jazmin Murphy, Ecology

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The first ever image of a black hole's swirling magnetic field is released

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Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

Scientists have figured out what a nasty gut bacterium eats. Can live biotherapeutics help?

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They're the next big thing for treating C. diff infection, but developing them is a long process

Madeline Barron, University of Michigan

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Neuroscience has a part in why you're playing Taylor Swift's songs on repeat

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Sarah Anderson, Northwestern University

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When can kids get the COVID-19 vaccine? A pediatrician answers parent questions

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James B. Wood, Indiana University School of Medicine

Over-the-counter COVID tests are coming sooner rather than later

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Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News

Weeding out non-native strawberry guava keeps a flying fox, and the crops it feeds on, out of harm's way

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Eva Colberg, University of Missouri - St. Louis

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The Ever Given and the physics of big ships clogged the Suez Canal

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Margaux Lopez, Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Ocean heatwaves like "The Blob" cause lasting damage to marine ecosystems

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Keira Monuki, University of California, Davis

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Paw hygiene is no reason to ban assistance dogs from hospitals – they’re cleaner than people’s shoes

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Joris Wijnker, Utrecht University

Paul Overgaauw, Utrecht University

A decoy may be the key to developing a vaccine against a deadly bioweapon

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Amanda Rossillo, Duke University

Meet Sophie Germain, the amateur mathematician who worked on number theory's toughest problem

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Germain, or "Monsieur LeBlanc" to her professors, took a bold and creative approach to life and math

Rebecca Lea Morris, Mathematics

Your own yard could help reverse global insect declines

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Elyse DeFranco

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Air quality monitors mounted on public transit see pollution other sensors miss

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Krystal Vasquez, California Institute of Technology

Retracting publications doesn't stop them from influencing science

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Fanni Daniella Szakal, Marine Biology

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A skin-eating fungus from Europe could decimate Appalachia’s salamanders

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Debra Miller, University of Tennessee

Matt Gray, University of Tennessee

Backyard data in six US states shows that native mason bees are declining

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Hanusia Higgins, University of Vermont

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How dark is outer space? The New Horizons spacecraft is helping astronomers find out

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Briley Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles

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El sexo no es binario, y deberíamos dejar de pretender que lo es

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Liza Brusman, University of Colorado, Boulder

Minerva Contreras, University of California, San Diego

After years of gains, Black STEM representation is falling. Why?

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Ashley Smart

The supposedly oldest impact crater on Earth isn't a crater after all

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A history-rewriting discovery in Greenland in 2012 has been debunked

Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

Immunocompromised people must be a priority in the COVID-19 vaccination effort

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Francesco Zangari, University of Toronto

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How the age of Mars rovers began

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Lauren J. Young

Reintroducing predators doesn't always rebalance ecosystems

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Shi En Kim, University of Chicago

The neurons that make fruit flies interested in sex are turned on by song

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Ashley E Peppriell, University of Rochester

How a bearded dragon STI controlled the minds of a cricket colony

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Mackenzie Thornbury, University of Montreal

Microglia build and maintain the "roads" your brain needs to store memories

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Abdullah Asad Iqbal, University of Leeds

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Storytelling is the antidote to Americans' mistrust of science

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Jamie L Peeler, Pennsylvania State University

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We still don't know much about marijuana farms' effects on wildlife

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Maria Gatta, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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