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Vox Future Perfect (5.7.24): Your phone can tell when you’re depressed

WIRED (3.28.24): The Earth Will Feast on Dead Cicadas

WIRED (2.14.24): Smoking Alters Your Immune System for Years After You Quit

WIRED (1.10.24): There's a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It

Advanced Science News (12.26.23): Living biobots come together to repair torn tissue

WIRED (12.12.23): Here’s Scientific Proof Your Cat Will Eat Almost Anything

WIRED (12.7.23): This Pill Tracks Your Vitals From The Inside

The Transmitter (11.16.23): Glow-in-the-dark labels accelerate AI-assisted animal motion tracking

WIRED (11.13.23): Nearly Everyone With Mild Cognitive Impairment Goes Undiagnosed

Advanced Science News (11.10.23): Meet CyberOctopus, the virtual cephalopod

Advanced Science News (11.6.23): Creating realistic "squishy" brain tissue in the lab

WIRED (10.30.23): These Plants Can Sound the Alarm in a Toxic World

WIRED (10.12.23): A Groundbreaking Human Brain Cell Atlas Just Dropped

WIRED (10.9.23): California Nixes a Bill to Decriminalize Plant-Based Psychedelics

WIRED (10.3.23): A lab just 3D-printed a neural network of living brain cells

Spectrum (10.3.23): Method pinpoints cell-specific effects of autism-linked mutations

Spectrum (9.19.23): ‘Social touch’ responses in mice gauged with unprecedented control

WIRED (9.12.23): Serious Brain Trauma Starts Well Before Young Athletes Go Pro

WIRED (8.30.23): Turtles Carry Signs of Humanity’s Nuclear History in Their Shells

WIRED (8.21.23): Adderall Shortages Are Dragging On—Can Video Games Help?

WIRED (8.10.23): How to Make Bionic Limbs (Literally) Very Cool

WIRED (7.31.23): For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic

WIRED (7.24.23): Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal

WIRED (7.18.23): Pure Oxygen Speeds Up Learning. Can It Help Stroke Survivors Recover?

WIRED (7.17.23): An Ancient Battle Is Playing Out in the DNA of Every Embryo

WIRED (7.5.23): Managing Type 1 Diabetes Is Tricky. Can AI Help?

WIRED (7.3.23): One Shot of a Kidney Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost

Berkeley Science Review (12.3.22): Snowy with a chance of data

The Open Notebook (11.15.22): Picking a Publication to Pitch

The Open Notebook (10.18.22): How to Report on Animal Research Fairly and Transparently

The Open Notebook (7.26.22): Jamie Lauren Keiles Follows the Surgical and Philosophical Journey of Phalloplasty

The Open Notebook (7.19.22): Demystifying Academic Hierarchies: Who’s Who on a Paper, and Whom Should You Interview?

The Open Notebook (5.17.22): Juli Berwald’s Life on the Rocks Meditates on Coral Reefs, Motherhood, and Battling the Unknown

Berkeley Science Review (4.30.22): Sana, sana, colita de rana

Berkeley Science Review (11.29.21): Faculty Profile: Andrea Gomez

Berkeley Science Review (5.28.21): Small words for big ideas

Berkeley Science Review (9.28.20): 2020’s wake up call stirs action in STEM

Massive Science (9.8.21): What engineers can learn about infrastructure from predatory army ants

Massive Science (11.2.20): Brain waves with the same beat as “Call Me Maybe” induce dissociative states

Massive Science (6.11.20): A bit of obligation binds us together, but too much breeds resentment

Massive Science (6.17.20): Mice’s brains fight enemy cells by talking directly to their spleens

Medium (2.28.18): #TimesUp, but academia hasn’t noticed