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Precision Medicine's Promise and Progress
As gene-based therapies move from lab to clinic, how can business and government bridge the gap between availability and access?
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Yes, Female Inventors Actually Exist
They don’t fit the stereotype, but fortunately, that image is headed for extinction
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Kicking My Caffeine Addiction
A science writer and java junkie struggles to stop abusing the world’s most popular drug
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Hurricane Communication Is as Complex as the Storms Themselves
Wind intensity categories are a narrow and misleading gauge of hurricane-related risks
Bringing Esports to the Land of Letter Jackets
Expanding the youth sports landscape with National American Scholastic Esports Federation
Grit: Bringing Passion Back
Passion is an essential element of grit.
Leaving Academic Science Doesn't Make You a Failure
The notion that intellectual freedom and fulfilling careers can't be found elsewhere is simply wrong
"Wild, Wonderful" West Virginia's Decapitated Mountains and Deformed Fish
A scientist documents the poisoning of the state’s waters by the coal industry
Following in the Steps of a Peculiar Protomammal
Five-toed tracks found in Argentina revise what paleontologists thought about a strange group of animals called dicynodonts.
A Hot Polar Planet
Some exoplanets defy easy explanation, a newly discovered world is no exception
Why Sex and Gender Matter in Migraine
Men and women experience the attacks differently due to both physiology and sociology
To End Poverty, Increase Access to Energy
Concern about climate change has unintended consequences for the most impoverished countries
A New Front in Fighting the Bias against Women in Science
We’re working to get copies of Angela Saini’s Inferior into all of New York City’s middle and high schools
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