PNAS
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- 16399 Vision and transition to land
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Malcolm MacIver describes how our aquatic ancestors may have become interested in land. 2019-06-11 16:27:42 [anonymous]
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- 16398 Self-driving cars
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Jeff Schneider explains how self-driving cars use machine learning to learn the rules of the road. 2019-06-11 16:25:38 [anonymous]
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- 16397 Science for the general public
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Steven Weinberg describes his experiences writing about science for a general audience. 2019-06-11 16:22:14 [anonymous]
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- 16396 Interview with 2017 Breakthrough Prize winner Steve Elledge
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Steve Elledge discusses how cells sense and respond to damage to their DNA. 2019-06-11 16:20:45 [anonymous]
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- 16395 DNA folding by loop extrusion
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Erez Lieberman Aiden discusses a model of how DNA folds to fit inside a cell nucleus. 2019-06-11 14:46:04 [anonymous]
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- 16394 Maize domestication in Mexico
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Researchers Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada and Miguel Vallebueno discuss 5,000-year-old partially domesticated maize. 2019-06-11 14:45:10 [anonymous]
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- 16393 Future of infectious disease research
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Charles Rice and Robert Landford discuss the future of hepatitis C research without chimpanzees. 2019-06-11 14:43:40 [anonymous]
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- 16392 Honeybees and biofuel crops
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Clint Otto discusses the impact of land-use changes on beekeepers in the Dakotas. 2019-06-11 14:42:28 [anonymous]
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- 16391 Recoding an organism
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George Church, Matthieu Landon, and Michael Napolitano discuss the genetic replacement of arginine codons in E. coli. 2019-06-11 14:38:17 [anonymous]
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- 16390 Interview with 2016 Kavli Prize Winners Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss
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Kip Thorne and Rai Weiss describe the detection of gravitational waves with LIGO. 2019-06-11 14:35:58 [anonymous]
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- 16389 20th-century excess male mortality
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Eileen Crimmins discusses the mortality difference between the sexes and its possible causes. 2019-06-11 14:32:59 [anonymous]
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- 16388 Remodelling brain function
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Kavli Prize winner Eve Marder discusses flexibility and stability in neural circuits. 2019-06-11 14:31:34 [anonymous]
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- 16387 Climate change and irrigation water
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Joshua Elliott discusses potential impacts of climate change on water availability for irrigation. 2019-06-11 14:30:37 [anonymous]
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- 16386 Modeling disease spread
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Andrea Rinaldo explains how cell phone data can be used to model disease spread. 2019-06-11 14:29:29 [anonymous]
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- 16385 Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Amanda Woerman
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Amanda Woerman discusses the role of the alpha-synuclein prion in the neurodegenerative disorder multiple system atrophy. 2019-06-11 14:28:03 [anonymous]
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- 16384 Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Anne Case and Angus Deaton
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Anne Case and Angus Deaton describe recent changes in mortality trends for white non-Hispanic Americans. 2019-06-11 14:27:02 [anonymous]
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- 16383 Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Glaucio Paulino and Evgueni Filipov
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Glaucio Paulino and Evgueni Filipov describe an origami-inspired approach to designing deployable structures and metamaterials. 2019-06-11 14:26:00 [anonymous]
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- 16382 Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Mark Jacobson
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Mark Jacobson explains the feasability of a 100% wind, water, and solar power grid in the continental United States. 2019-06-11 13:40:40 [anonymous]
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- 16381 Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winners Will Castleman and Cuneyt Berkdemir
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Will Castleman and Cuneyt Berkdemir describe how to mimic rare earth elements using superatom clusters. 2019-06-11 13:39:31 [anonymous]
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- 16380 Interview with 2015 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Yatrik Shah
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Yatrik Shah describes the connection between maternal iron absorption during lactation and neonatal anemia. 2019-06-11 13:38:20 [anonymous]
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- 16379 Nanoparticles for disease detection
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Sangeeta Bhatia describes the development of nanoparticles that can aid in detecting cancer and other diseases. 2019-06-11 13:36:21 [anonymous]
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- 16378 Origins of mathematical ability
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Stanislas Dehaene investigates how certain areas of the brain might be related to mathematical ability. 2019-06-11 13:35:13 [anonymous]
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- 16377 Building the James Webb Space Telescope
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John Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center explains why and how the James Webb Space Telescope is being built. 2019-06-11 13:34:01 [anonymous]
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- 16376 Tracking endemic tuberculosis
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Robyn Lee and Marcel Behr investigate the genomics of endemic tuberculosis in Northern Canada. 2019-06-11 13:29:56 [anonymous]
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- 16375 Brain clarity
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Karl Deisseroth explains a method to explore the wiring and structure of the brain. 2019-06-11 13:27:20 [anonymous]
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- 16374 Gene drive for malaria mosquito control
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Anthony James describes how gene drives can be used to spread malaria parasite resistance in mosquitoes. 2019-06-11 13:20:50 [anonymous]
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- 16373 Interview with 2014 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Anthony Vecchiarelli
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Anthony Vecchiarelli explains a system of genetic cargo movement within cells that has roots in the work of Alan Turing. 2019-06-11 13:18:27 [anonymous]
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- 16372 Interview with 2014 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Jintai Lin
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Jintai Lin explains the impact of a global economy on air pollution in China and in the US. 2019-06-11 13:14:10 [anonymous]
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- 16371 Interview with 2014 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Frank Bates
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Frank Bates describes how a project related to chewing gum led to materials science discoveries. 2019-06-11 13:07:12 [anonymous]
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- 16370 Interview with 2014 Cozzarelli Prize Winner Abigail Marsh
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Abigail Marsh describes mechanisms of altruistic kidney donors' responsiveness to others' emotions. 2019-06-11 12:59:09 [anonymous]