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Building Toolkits With Biology

Graduate student Matthew Verosloff, hangs by one arm off a dirt ledge as he leans his body over the edge of a river. His free arm is reaching down with a test tube to collect a sample of water. He’s...
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Of Paint and Pollock

Everything goes in and out of Venice on flat barges — no walls, edges, or rails to steady the contents, even when it’s expensive scientific equipment. So I sat with my hands on as many boxes as I...
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Researchers Explore Preventive Options for Perinatal Depression

Many women have heard warnings and stories about postpartum depression, a serious mental illness, but not all women realize that depression can hit at any stage of pregnancy. Perinatal depression can...
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Open-Source Underwater

The cave system of Rio Secreto in Mexico lies underground in impenetrable darkness, locked away from all natural light. The creatures within have adapted to this environment. Blind fish once had eyes...
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Ancient Analogs

Shells — even those some 66 million years old — can tell us a lot about climate change, says Ben Linzmeier.
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Power Theory

Machines are changing how engineers think about materials. Using powerful computation, Chris Wolverton, the Jerome B. Cohen Professor at the McCormick School of Engineering, can achieve in hours or...
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Uncovering a Hidden Picasso

It’s a Friday morning in the painting conservation offices at the Art Institute of Chicago. I’m ushered through security and brought to a staging room. It’s cavernous. I tilt my head up: Towering...
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Space to Experiment
By: Lauren Robinson
Jun 3, 2019
Scientists at Northwestern University are taking their flourishing freeze-casting research, which... Read More
A Mobile Future
By: Sheila Burt
Nov 15, 2018
On stage at the Steppenwolf’s Garage Theatre in 2016, actor and director Michael Patrick Thornton... Read More
Ending an Epidemic
By: Roger Anderson
Oct 25, 2018
In the time it takes to read this paragraph, another American will be diagnosed with one of the... Read More
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Blog

Dear Lab Notebook ...
By: Sarah Anderson
Sep 5, 2019
As a graduate student getting my PhD in chemistry, I’m expected to keep a laboratory notebook. It’s where I... Read More
A Colorful Job
By: Rebecca Harmon
Apr 25, 2019
As I stand in an emerald green room beneath a windmill in Zaanse Schans, Netherlands, wearing a canvas smock... Read More
The Magic of Magnets
By: Ingrid Stolt
Feb 11, 2019
As a young girl I could spend hours playing with my parents’ refrigerator magnets. I used to pretend that one... Read More
Solar Cells of the Future: Inexpensive, Efficient Perovskites Gain Momentum
By: Julianne Beck
Jan 11, 2019
A new era of growth in the field of perovskite solar cells began this month, with the publication of a paper... Read More
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Silverstein Genetics for High School

With support from Science in Society and visiting scientists and faculty, high school students in this program undertake a genetics case study, learn about a hereditary health disorder, and use DNA-based laboratory diagnostics to determine the likelihood of mutation in the fictional patient. Afterward, students assess risk around...

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