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CO2 sucked out of the atmosphere can be reused for new chemical processes

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It can be converted into methanol, then used in resins and polymers

Rosaria Cercola, University of York

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A new shortcut skips stem cells completely, converts skin cells into photoreceptors

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Claudia López Lloreda, University of Pennsylvania

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It's lonely being a Black scientist

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Anonymous

Meet Lady Mary Montagu, who brought smallpox inoculation to England

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Dan Samorodnitsky, Senior Editor

Fungi learn how to cope with drought, but at a cost

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Matthew Vandermeulen, University at Buffalo

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Meet Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WW1 trenches of poisonous gas

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Joan Meiners, Ecology

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Rare spindle-shaped neurons from deep inside the brain recorded for the first time

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Burcin Ikiz, Neuroscience

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The genes of 600-year-old ginkgo trees are just as active as their teenage counterparts

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Luyi Cheng, Northwestern University

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This see-through worm offers new insights into the gut-brain axis

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The Salk Institute

Sea-level rise is putting our marshes at risk

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The effects of a higher sea level will ripple through entire ecosystems

Olivia Bernard

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How does an astronaut deal with isolation and self-care?

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Meredith Smith, Pioneer Works

Coffee's robust back-up bean isn't as resistant to climate change as once thought

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Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

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Scientists are producing data without sharing it with people who actually need it

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Maria Gatta, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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Every flood drives destructive Asian carp further into North American waters

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Olivia Box, University of Vermont

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The ground is softening. Something is shifting in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys

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Ariel Zych, Science Friday

Scientists recreated ancient Earth's ocean hell to figure out how life began

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Shi En Kim, University of Chicago

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Climate change will make allergy sufferers suffer a little bit longer each year

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Lila Westreich, University of Washington

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Could science actually make Game of Thrones happen? Sometimes!

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Farah Qaiser, University of Toronto

Did a mass extinction help dinosaurs dominate the Earth?

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These fossil hunters want to solve the mystery

Lauren J. Young

Industrial chemical polluters are almost unregulated in the US. We can do more

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Wendy Wagner

Will Walker

Could we develop plants to absorb our excess carbon?

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The Salk Institute

Your language brain matters more for learning programming than your math brain

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Amy R Nippert, University of Minnesota

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Don’t look now, but we could soon be growing steaks and pork loins in a lab

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Donavyn Coffey

Meet Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who figured out what the universe is made of

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Arianna Soldati, Ludwig-Maximillians Universitat Munchen

Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

Extreme microbes survive the desert by dissolving rocks with acid

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

Dogs can smell silent, deadly cancers before a blood test can

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Daniel Peterschmidt, Science Friday

Don't feed the bears. It shortens their telomeres

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Kelly Franklin, Temple University

EEG research is racially biased, so undergrad scientists designed new electrodes to fix it

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'Sevo' electrodes are designed with coarse, curly hair in mind

Danielle Nadin, McGill University

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Faraway cities are sending their heat to the Arctic's ecosystem

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Cheryl Katz

Can AI predict the next big flood before it happens?

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Christina Marvin, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Hurricanes are shaping lizard feet all over the world

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Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

All conferences should be virtual in a post-coronavirus world

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Adam Fortais, McMaster University

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A shapeshifting fungus lives in the dust. It's infecting across the American West

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Lauren J. Young

Without more coronavirus testing, the US is unprepared for a second wave of infections

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Shefali Oza, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Scientists have revised the recipe for the first gene and the origin of life

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Lauren Gandy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Comment 2 peer comments

It will take over one billion dollars to protect one small Louisiana town from climate change

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Joan Meiners, Ecology

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