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Nitro Boost
Tropical forests are often prized for their incredible biodiversity. But the true value of tropical forestsalso rests in their ability to act as environmental buffers. Tropical forests are extremely useful carbon sinks, or stores of carbon. Because of the high abundance of…
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Squeaky Clean
Everyday life is filled with invisible hazards—dust, pollen, and stray food proteins—that can push the immune system into overdrive. Even tiny exposures, like a crumb from a peanut or a speck of dust, can trigger severe, sometimes life-threatening allergic reactions. Allergies…
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Sensory Overload
In the microscopic world, chemical signals are everywhere. As organisms seek out nutrients and flee from predators, they rely on invisible chemical gradients that ripple throughout their environments. For the single-celled prokaryote, Escherichia coli, survival depends on…
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Particle Flavor Profiles
A particle accelerator is like a bizarre ice cream shop where new flavors are created by smashing together existing ones. You take a sample of an ice cream you haven’t tried before, and before you can taste it, the swirl melts into the classic familiar flavors in less than a…
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Beyond the Mosquito
For decades, the fight against malaria has targeted its chief carrier: the mosquito. Throughout the twentieth century, epidemiologists advocated ambitious public health campaigns against mosquitoes, leading to the widespread use of powerful insecticides. The most popular was…
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Living Fossils
What can organisms stuck in time tell us about our own biology? Gars, a lineage of predatory, freshwater, ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae, may have the answer. “Gars are a classic example of a term that Darwin coined, living fossils,” explains Chase Brownstein, one…
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Hijackers
To most of us, the word “nanotechnology” brings to mind futuristic and unfathomable gadgets and gizmos, whether it be the nano-bots from Big Hero 6 or an abstract nano-virus from I, Robot. However, at Tsinghua University, researchers have engineered a system that combines the…
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The Mental Machine
Imagine sitting at a café, waiting for your order. As soon as your number is called, someone else gets to the counter faster than you to pick it up. Perhaps you think that the person misread their number on the receipt as the rationale behind this action. This scenario…
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Pain, Pain, Go Away
Opioids have been a standard treatment for pain for thousands of years. Canonical forms like morphine have been administered since the early nineteenth century due to their high efficacy in reducing the emotional component of pain. However, opioids also carry risks, such as…
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The X(-Ray) Factor
Containing over a thousand galaxies and billions of stars, the Perseus Cluster helps astronomers study some of the most powerful and exotic phenomena in the universe. It is hard to fathom the gargantuan scale of the Perseus Cluster: even though it lies over a quintillion miles…
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Scaling Up
What if we could make computers that function like a human brain? Since the 1980s, scientists have been trying to engineer circuits that behave like clusters of neurons, which they call “neuromorphic chips.” “The idea behind neuromorphic computing is to try to build electronics…
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Catalyst Chemistry
The chemistry behind water treatment presents a paradox. The most powerful materials for breaking down pollutants are often too aggressive: they destroy harmful chemicals but also destroy themselves over time. Scientists call this the reactivity-stability tradeoff. For a while,…