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Last week, a new species of dinosaur was described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The dinosaur, Arkansaurus fridayi, is an ornithomimosaur…

Last December, a very interesting journal article was published in Science about the reconstitution of functional plant RuBisCo in E. coli…

Famed CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna, along with a past student Samuel Sternberg (starting his own lab in at Columbia University), wrote an…

If you want to get “technical” about it, dentistry, is about 13,000 years old. However, while the fillings Neolithic peoples performed with…

In a new report, a group convened by the US National Academy of Sciences and including a dozen journal editors reflects on…

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Open Science (OS) is a movement toward increased sharing among scientists of their data, their materials, their computer code, their papers, and…

I wrote about engineered probiotics at the beginning of 2017, and the field continued throughout 2017 with more papers and startup news…

Snakes are beautiful and bizarre animals. Limbless vertebrates, they have been around for more than 150 million years, and occupy almost every…

I don’t remember too much from the eighties–other than Nintendo, Sonic, and how cool the Ghostbusters were. But I do clearly remember…

Last month, Nature Ecology & Evolution published Courchamp and Bradshaw’s ‘100 articles every ecologist should read.’ Here, Courchamp and Bradshaw attempt to…