I came packing water bears. There were crowds of bright-eyed families gathered outside the doors of the DC convention…
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Suddenly preprints are the hot new way for biologists to share their research. Preprint servers allow researchers to…
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Last December, Sheila Patek, a Duke University biologist who studies the mechanics of movement in, among other organisms, the Panamanian…
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The name may evoke images of “The Island of Dr. Moreau” or of countless comic book superheroes who are human-animal…
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An Elephantnose might sound like a stage prop from circus freak shows of a bygone era, but this very real…
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Often in our scientific careers we are faced with the question of how to choose an area of research to…
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Two years before he finished his doctorate in molecular biology at the University of Pittsburgh, Venky Raghavan already knew that…
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Back in the day, vendors working the stands at baseball games hawked scorecards (pencil included) with the cry, “You can’t…
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