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Eric Carrasco
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Immunological sin: how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Immunological sin: how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity
Researchers are striving to understand the impact a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin has on immunity to the virus.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I’ve earned my PhD — what now? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I’ve earned my PhD — what now?
A chemist faces a classic early-career dilemma: what should they do next, and how do they start?
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December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their own queen | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
This parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their own queen
Scientists capture a unique—and gruesome—example of matricide in the animal kingdom
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November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This beloved animal is back from the brink of extinction — with one big caveat www.vox.com/climate/4662...
This beloved animal is back from the brink of extinction — with one big caveat
Decades of protection helped these sea creatures recover. So why are some scientists worried?
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October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
These stinkbugs coat their eggs in fungi to protect them from parasitic wasps | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
These stinkbugs coat their eggs in fungi to protect them from parasitic wasps
An unusual relationship could shed light on how insects choose their partners
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October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Skinned for Profit: How Global Trade Is Driving Africa’s Donkeys to the Brink • The Revelator therevelator.org/skinned-for-...
Skinned for Profit: How Global Trade Is Driving Africa’s Donkeys to the Brink • The Revelator
Millions of animals are slaughtered each year for use in traditional Chinese medicine — a trade that’s devastating many African communities.
therevelator.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this.
Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu?utm=.share.b...
Hands Off Nature – Defend Europe’s Forests, Rivers & Wildlife
Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.
handsoffnature.eu
September 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate news.mongabay.com/2025/08/mong...
Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate
Endangered shark meat and heavy metals found in Brazil’s public food trigger a reckoning.
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September 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Streetlights are quietly rewriting the rules of birdsong Light pollution is making many birds sing nearly an hour longer at dawn or dusk; whether that is helpful or harmful for the birds is an open question. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/08/stre...
Streetlights are quietly rewriting the rules of birdsong
Light pollution is making many birds sing nearly an hour longer at dawn or dusk; whether that is helpful or harmful for the birds is an open question.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
August 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Nikola Tesla's Obsession with Pigeons, Electricity, and a Plan to Wirelessly Connect the World nautil.us/teslas-pigeo...
October 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Baby tardigrade riding a nematode | 2024 Small World in Motion Competition | Nikon’s Small World www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
October 5, 2024 at 8:49 PM