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Centrifuge Rail Six samples · drag the rack to spin through the bench
S-01Cortex RNAVos Lab1,284 bp2h agoS-02Coral SymbiontBhatt Lab2,061 bp6h agoS-03Chassis StrainZhang Lab3,470 bp1d agoS-04Organoid BatchCao Lab1,902 bp1d agoS-05Tundra FungalPrakash Lab2,845 bp2d agoS-06Retina LysateMahadevan Lab1,517 bp3d ago
Molecule Arc Six researchers · hover to straighten the structures
Junyue CaoSingle-cell biologyManu PrakashPhysical biologyL. MahadevanShape & behaviourSarah VosNeural dynamicsAparna BhattCoral ecologyWei ZhangSynthetic genomes
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The Sequence 56 stories from the bench
A Fossil Bed in Southern China Redraws the Cambrian Explosion LAB
EVOLUTION

A Fossil Bed in Southern China Redraws the Cambrian Explosion

Jul 02, 2026 · 45 · 16.6k reads
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One Experience, Lasting Change: A New Form of Plasticity NEW
NEURO

One Experience, Lasting Change: A New Form of Plasticity

Jun 29, 2026 · 62 · 17.2k reads
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Fifty Years of Work Finally Explain the Bacterium's Motor
MICROBIOME

Fifty Years of Work Finally Explain the Bacterium's Motor

Jun 26, 2026 · 79 · 17.9k reads
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Your Defenses Still Run on Tools Bacteria Invented Billions of Years Ago BRIEF
MICROBIOME

Your Defenses Still Run on Tools Bacteria Invented Billions of Years Ago

Jun 23, 2026 · 96 · 18.5k reads
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Under Alaska's Tundra, a Fungal Web Nobody Has Fully Mapped HOT
MICROBIOME

Under Alaska's Tundra, a Fungal Web Nobody Has Fully Mapped

Jun 20, 2026 · 53 · 19.1k reads
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A Pea-Sized Jellyfish Keeps Time in a Way Nobody Expected HOT
EVOLUTION

A Pea-Sized Jellyfish Keeps Time in a Way Nobody Expected

Aug 01, 2026 · 70 · 19.7k reads
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Chaos Is the Engine Inside the Cell's Busiest Gateway
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Chaos Is the Engine Inside the Cell's Busiest Gateway

Jul 29, 2026 · 87 · 20.3k reads
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Why Growing Organs Have to Crack Before They Can Hold STUDY
EVOLUTION

Why Growing Organs Have to Crack Before They Can Hold

Jul 26, 2026 · 44 · 20.9k reads
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What It Is Really Like Inside a Crowded Living Cell
CELL BIOLOGY

What It Is Really Like Inside a Crowded Living Cell

Jul 23, 2026 · 61 · 21.6k reads
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Machine Learning Is Redrawing the Map of the Brain
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Machine Learning Is Redrawing the Map of the Brain

Jul 20, 2026 · 78 · 22.2k reads
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Diaper Chemistry Gave Biologists Super-Resolution Vision LAB
BIO-COMPUTE

Diaper Chemistry Gave Biologists Super-Resolution Vision

Jul 17, 2026 · 95 · 22.8k reads
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Astrocytes Were Supposed to Be Support Staff. They Are Running the Show.
NEURO

Astrocytes Were Supposed to Be Support Staff. They Are Running the Show.

Jul 14, 2026 · 52 · 23.4k reads
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What Bats on a Remote Island Reveal About Direction
EVOLUTION

What Bats on a Remote Island Reveal About Direction

Jul 11, 2026 · 69 · 24k reads
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Tissues Talk in Voltage, and They Vote With It
CELL BIOLOGY

Tissues Talk in Voltage, and They Vote With It

Jul 08, 2026 · 86 · 24.6k reads
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A Father's Habits May Travel to His Children Inside Sperm
GENOMICS

A Father's Habits May Travel to His Children Inside Sperm

Jul 05, 2026 · 43 · 25.3k reads
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Twelve Months That Redrew the Living World LAB
EVOLUTION

Twelve Months That Redrew the Living World

Jul 02, 2026 · 60 · 25.9k reads
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One Scientist Says Language Is Not the Same Thing as Thought
NEURO

One Scientist Says Language Is Not the Same Thing as Thought

Jun 29, 2026 · 77 · 26.5k reads
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The Tiniest Known Cell Blurs the Line Between Alive and Not HOT
SYNTH BIO

The Tiniest Known Cell Blurs the Line Between Alive and Not

Jun 26, 2026 · 94 · 27.1k reads
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Crater Lake's Deep Water Is Stirring Less. That Is a Problem.
ECOLOGY

Crater Lake's Deep Water Is Stirring Less. That Is a Problem.

Jun 23, 2026 · 51 · 27.7k reads
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What Fires in Your Head at the Instant of Insight
NEURO

What Fires in Your Head at the Instant of Insight

Jun 20, 2026 · 68 · 28.3k reads
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Sharks Obey a Geometric Rule That May Constrain All Animals LAB
EVOLUTION

Sharks Obey a Geometric Rule That May Constrain All Animals

Aug 01, 2026 · 85 · 29k reads
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The Foggy Territory Where Sleep Begins and Ends
NEURO

The Foggy Territory Where Sleep Begins and Ends

Jul 29, 2026 · 42 · 29.6k reads
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How a Glass of Wine Explains the Way Embryos Fold
CELL BIOLOGY

How a Glass of Wine Explains the Way Embryos Fold

Jul 26, 2026 · 59 · 30.2k reads
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Ancient Cells Learned to Fold Their Genome Before They Got Complicated
GENOMICS

Ancient Cells Learned to Fold Their Genome Before They Got Complicated

Jul 23, 2026 · 76 · 30.8k reads
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The Tightrope Your Neurons Walk Between Fire and Silence BRIEF
NEURO

The Tightrope Your Neurons Walk Between Fire and Silence

Jul 20, 2026 · 93 · 31.4k reads
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How Science Learned to Read the Planet's Climate LAB
ECOLOGY

How Science Learned to Read the Planet's Climate

Jul 17, 2026 · 50 · 32k reads
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Where Scientists Go to Measure a Warming Planet
ECOLOGY

Where Scientists Go to Measure a Warming Planet

Jul 14, 2026 · 67 · 32.7k reads
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Chaotic Weather, Predictable Warming: Both Are True
ECOLOGY

Chaotic Weather, Predictable Warming: Both Are True

Jul 11, 2026 · 84 · 33.3k reads
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The Invisible Microbes That Help Set the Planet's Thermostat
MICROBIOME

The Invisible Microbes That Help Set the Planet's Thermostat

Jul 08, 2026 · 41 · 33.9k reads
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Can Equations Make Climate Tipping Points Useful?
BIO-COMPUTE

Can Equations Make Climate Tipping Points Useful?

Jul 05, 2026 · 58 · 34.5k reads
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Structures in Primitive Microbes Hint at How Life Got a Skeleton LAB
MICROBIOME

Structures in Primitive Microbes Hint at How Life Got a Skeleton

Jul 02, 2026 · 75 · 35.1k reads
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Evolution Does Not Run Marathons. It Sprints. BRIEF
EVOLUTION

Evolution Does Not Run Marathons. It Sprints.

Jun 29, 2026 · 92 · 35.8k reads
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Do Birds Pick Mates the Way We Pick Art?
EVOLUTION

Do Birds Pick Mates the Way We Pick Art?

Jun 26, 2026 · 49 · 36.4k reads
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Hunting for Living Things Miles Beneath the Seafloor
ECOLOGY

Hunting for Living Things Miles Beneath the Seafloor

Jun 23, 2026 · 66 · 37k reads
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Thirst Is a Message Your Brain Writes Before You Notice
NEURO

Thirst Is a Message Your Brain Writes Before You Notice

Jun 20, 2026 · 83 · 37.6k reads
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Can Something Without a Brain Hold On to the Past? LAB
NEURO

Can Something Without a Brain Hold On to the Past?

Aug 01, 2026 · 40 · 38.2k reads
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A Microbe That Consumes Oxygen and Sulfur at the Same Time
MICROBIOME

A Microbe That Consumes Oxygen and Sulfur at the Same Time

Jul 29, 2026 · 57 · 38.8k reads
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When a Cell Is Damaged, a Molecular Siren Goes Off
CELL BIOLOGY

When a Cell Is Damaged, a Molecular Siren Goes Off

Jul 26, 2026 · 74 · 39.5k reads
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Your Nose Is Writing a Story Only You Can Read BRIEF
NEURO

Your Nose Is Writing a Story Only You Can Read

Jul 23, 2026 · 91 · 40.1k reads
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Which Arrived First: Bright Signals, or Eyes to See Them? NEW
EVOLUTION

Which Arrived First: Bright Signals, or Eyes to See Them?

Jul 20, 2026 · 48 · 40.7k reads
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Why Some Communities Shrug Off Invaders and Others Crumble STUDY
ECOLOGY

Why Some Communities Shrug Off Invaders and Others Crumble

Jul 17, 2026 · 65 · 41.3k reads
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L. Mahadevan on Why Shape and Behaviour Cannot Be Separated STUDY
CELL BIOLOGY

L. Mahadevan on Why Shape and Behaviour Cannot Be Separated

Jul 14, 2026 · 82 · 41.9k reads
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The Surprising Price Your Brain Pays for a Hard Thought
NEURO

The Surprising Price Your Brain Pays for a Hard Thought

Jul 11, 2026 · 99 · 42.5k reads
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Manu Prakash Chases Urgent Problems and Seemingly Silly Questions Alike
SYNTH BIO

Manu Prakash Chases Urgent Problems and Seemingly Silly Questions Alike

Jul 08, 2026 · 56 · 43.2k reads
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Birds Fly Continents on a Battery Built Into Their Muscles
EVOLUTION

Birds Fly Continents on a Battery Built Into Their Muscles

Jul 05, 2026 · 73 · 43.8k reads
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The Cosmos Has a Favourite Hand, and Physics Knows Why STUDY
EVOLUTION

The Cosmos Has a Favourite Hand, and Physics Knows Why

Jul 02, 2026 · 90 · 44.4k reads
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How a Protein Handshake Keeps a Memory Alive for Decades
NEURO

How a Protein Handshake Keeps a Memory Alive for Decades

Jun 29, 2026 · 47 · 45k reads
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Machines Do Not Think Like Us, and That Is Fine
BIO-COMPUTE

Machines Do Not Think Like Us, and That Is Fine

Jun 26, 2026 · 64 · 45.6k reads
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New Audio Series Tours Science's Wildest Frontiers NEW
EVOLUTION

New Audio Series Tours Science's Wildest Frontiers

Jun 23, 2026 · 81 · 46.2k reads
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Tiny Rules, Weird Shapes: The Physics of Microbial Mats
MICROBIOME

Tiny Rules, Weird Shapes: The Physics of Microbial Mats

Jun 20, 2026 · 98 · 46.9k reads
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Under Your Skin Sits a Whole Library of Sensors LAB
EVOLUTION

Under Your Skin Sits a Whole Library of Sensors

Aug 01, 2026 · 55 · 47.5k reads
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Nature Invented Smarts More Than Once
EVOLUTION

Nature Invented Smarts More Than Once

Jul 29, 2026 · 72 · 48.1k reads
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Does Your Brain Really Flush Itself While You Sleep? BRIEF
NEURO

Does Your Brain Really Flush Itself While You Sleep?

Jul 26, 2026 · 89 · 48.7k reads
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A Cell's Chemistry Helps Decide What It Becomes
CELL BIOLOGY

A Cell's Chemistry Helps Decide What It Becomes

Jul 23, 2026 · 46 · 49.3k reads
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The Rare Molecules That Hold Whole Food Webs Together
ECOLOGY

The Rare Molecules That Hold Whole Food Webs Together

Jul 20, 2026 · 63 · 49.9k reads
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A Simple Equation Predicts How Coral Builds Its Shape LAB
BIO-COMPUTE

A Simple Equation Predicts How Coral Builds Its Shape

Jul 17, 2026 · 80 · 50.6k reads
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