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Tropical forests are often prized for their incredible biodiversity. But the true value of tropical forestsalso rests in their ability to act as environmental buffers.

Tropical forests are often prized for their incredible biodiversity. But the true value of tropical forestsalso rests in their ability to act as environmental buffers.

Everyday life is filled with invisible hazards—dust, pollen, and stray food proteins—that can push the immune system into overdrive. Even tiny exposures, like a crumb

In the microscopic world, chemical signals are everywhere. As organisms seek out nutrients and flee from predators, they rely on invisible chemical gradients that ripple

A particle accelerator is like a bizarre ice cream shop where new flavors are created by smashing together existing ones. You take a sample of

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Miscibility, or the ability for liquids to mix, is often determined by the “like-dissolves-like” rule, which is largely qualitative. It

Image courtesy of Pixabay. Hearing loss is a commonly overlooked sensory disorder, even though it occurs all over the world. One type of deafness is

Image courtesy of Flickr. Freezing: a simple phase transition with a surprisingly complex set of mechanisms. Researchers use freezing dynamics to study the crystallization of

Image courtesy of Flickr. With an increased demand for wearable technology, soft and stretchable circuits have become an essential component to commercial electronics. This demand

Image courtesy of Pixabay. Spinal cord injury treatment without surgery—the work of science fiction or a soon reality? Spinal cord injuries continue to be a

Image generated using ChemDraw. Nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA and RNA, can be synthetically designed to mimic their biological counterparts and interact with the

Image courtesy of Getty Images. It has been frequently reported that racial disparities persist in COVID-19 mortality rates, but how large are these disparities, and

Image courtesy of Flickr. The bacterial pathogen Salmonella typhimurium causes intestinal inflammation. S. typhimurium injects effector proteins such as SopD that stimulate a signaling cascade,