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Words or Numbers

A key duty of researchers, beyond lab work and data analysis, is to make their findings accessible to the public in understandable ways…

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Why Museums Feel Intimidating

Imagine walking into a museum gallery filled with beautiful paintings, ancient artifacts, and carefully carved sculptures. The room is dead silent as visitors admire the art…

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What Bees Reveal About Intelligence

In the past, it was believed there was a single neuron that led all decision making in the brain. In the modern-day neuroscientific and cognitive scientific fields, however…

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The Cost of Overactive Immunity

Why was Covid 19 so deadly? Why was it that people often passed away even weeks after the infection had cleared? To answer this, we must analyze one of the body´s most important protective mechanisms: immunity…

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Taxidermy as Art?

What comes to mind when you think of taxidermy? Perhaps you envision a taxidermy shop, the lifeless eyes of deer heads and deceased pets staring down at you from every angle…

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Why a 1971 Alaska Land Deal Still Matters: The ANCSA Question

In 1985, at age 69, Katie John filed a federal lawsuit for the right to fish at Batzulnetas, where her ancestors had fished for thousands of years. The State of Alaska had closed the fishery in the 1960s, but…

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What Does Sewage Reveal About Public Health?

Surveilling sewage systems is an epidemiological approach for monitoring pathogen occurrence. It has emerged as a powerful tool in public health…

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Profit or Progress? The Hidden Battle in Science 

From movie scripts and Nike’s swoosh to insulin formulas and artificial heart valves, intellectual property (IP) protects human creativity and technical innovation through patents…

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