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You Shouldn’t Have Been Awake

Surgery preparation seemed to flow according to plan. During the day of your scheduled surgery or procedure, you are finally taken to the operating room…

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Eating the Inedible: Ideonella sakaiensis

A streak of sweat runs down the sides of your neck. Has it ever been this hot? You may think you’re the only one pondering…

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Music Heals More than the Soul

Music – it is powerful, inspiring, transcendent. It can fill us with joy or bring us to tears. It can make us excited for the future or reminiscent of the past…

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Sustainable Space Exploration: Recycling Beyond Earth

As children, the phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” is accentuated, often appearing in classrooms, posters, and public campaigns. Yet it has become more of a cliché, often ignored…

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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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