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Most people don't really understand how climate change works

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How climate works, how it's being altered, and what the future can hold

Laura Lyon, McGill University

Skin cells protect their DNA from bumps and bruises with a jello-like response

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Rachel Stewart, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research

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Misinformation is keeping invasive, destructive lionfish around

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Sarah Heidmann, University of the Virgin Islands

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Hedy Lamarr: actress, inventor, wartime code maker

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“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid”

Elle O'Brien, Computational Neuroscience

The little mountain rivers that create the Amazon might soon be choked off

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Jeremy Snyder, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

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Animal "construction workers" rebuild natural landscapes more efficiently than humans ever could

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Ecosystem engineers like beavers and tortoises help restore water cycles and tree cover to degraded habitats

Jazmin Murphy, Ecology

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The remarkable adaptability of the human brain

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In “Livewired,” neuroscientist David Eagleman shows how the brain shapes itself by interacting with the outside world.

Elizabeth Svoboda

COVID-19 lockdown has changed how we use recreational drugs

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Christine Jack, University of Aberdeen

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Escaping through a predator's butt is a common strategy for prey

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Sahana Sitaraman, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India