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  Anthrax-carrying flies follow monkeys through the forest

  BY EVA FREDERICKJUL. 12, 2019

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  In killing citizenship question, Trump adopts Census Bureau’s preferred solution to a thorny problem

  BY JEFFREY MERVISJUL. 11, 2019

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  Starving children often don’t recover, even when fed enough. Restoring their gut bacteria could help

  BY ELIZABETH PENNISIJUL. 11, 2019

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  Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil fuels off the grid

  BY ROBERT F. SERVICEJUL. 11, 2019

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  Courting controversy, scientists team with industry to tackle one of the world’s most destructive crops

  BY DYNA ROCHMYANINGSIH JUL. 11, 2019

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  This ancient bird sported a ginormous toe

  BY SABINE GALVISJUL. 11, 2019

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  In a first, a Japanese spacecraft appears to have collected samples from inside an asteroid

  BY DENNIS NORMILEJUL. 11, 2019

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  Update: Hawaii governor says construction of controversial giant telescope will begin soon

  BY DANIEL CLERYJUL. 11, 2019

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  Amid concerns about grad student mental health, one university takes a novel approach

  BY KATIE LANGINJUL. 11, 2019

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  How I negotiated paternity leave in a place where it’s not the norm

  BY KAZUMASA Z. TANAKAJUL. 11, 2019

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  In the tough academic job market, two principles can help you maximize your chances

  BY JAY J. VAN BAVEL , NEIL A. LEWIS, JR., ET AL.JUL. 10, 2019

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  Committee members shouldn’t expect Ph.D. students to serve coffee and pastries

  BY KATE BREDBENNERJUL. 4, 2019

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  Yes, you can—and should—negotiate academic job offers

  BY BRANDON BROWNJUN. 27, 2019

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  It’s OK to quit your Ph.D.

  BY KATIE LANGINJUN. 25, 2019

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  Struggling with your academic writing? Try these experiments to get the words flowing

  BY JAY J. VAN BAVEL , JUNE GRUBERJUN. 24, 2019

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  Academia or industry? How I learned to pivot between them

  BY PEDRO RESENDEJUN. 20, 2019

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Journals

12 July 2019 Vol. 365 Issue 6449

• Artificial muscles

• Polio eradication campaign loses ground

• Making peace with oil palm

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July 2019 Vol. 5 Issue 7

• Pointing originates from touch

• Sex change in tropical fish

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9 July 2019 Vol. 12 Issue 589

• LAT1 maintains bone density

• Remembering the past for CXCR4 signaling

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10 July 2019 Vol. 11 Issue 500

• Autoimmune encephalitis can be recapitulated by NMDAR immunization in mice

• A variant erythroferrone dysregulates iron loading in myelodysplastic syndrome

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July 2019 Vol. 4 Issue 37

• Targeted tumor immunotherapy

• The anatomy and immunology of CNS vasculature

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June 2019 Vol. 4 Issue 31

• A soft ring oscillator

• Muscle synergy-based control of a myoelectric hand

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• A cytosine deaminase for programmable single-base RNA editing

• Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker

• The nucleolus functions as a phase-separated protein quality control compartment

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Editor’s Picks

This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit

BY DOUGLAS STARRJUN. 13, 2019

• A wave of graduate programs drops the GRE application requirement

  BY KATIE LANGINMAY. 29, 2019

• In vivo liquid biopsy using Cytophone platform for photoacoustic detection of circulating tumor cells in patients with melanoma

  BY EKATERINA I. GALANZHA, YULIAN A. MENYAEV, ET AL.JUN. 12, 2019

Type A blood converted to universal donor blood with help from bacterial enzymes

BY ELIZABETH PENNISIJUN. 10, 2019

• RNA sequence analysis reveals macroscopic somatic clonal expansion across normal tissues

  BY KEREN YIZHAK, XIAO LI, ET AL.JUN. 7, 2019

• Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing. Here’s what they found

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Acceleration of ice loss across the Himalayas over the past 40 years

BY J. M. MAURER, J. M. SCHAEFER, ET AL.JUN. 5, 2019

• Quantifying human energy spent

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• Using cell death to resurrect antitumor immunity

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