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  What kind of researcher did sex offender Jeffrey Epstein like to fund? He told Science before he died

  BY JEFFREY MERVISSEP. 19, 2019

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  EPA signals retreat from controversial ‘secret science’ rule

  BY SEAN REILLY, E&E NEWSSEP. 19, 2019

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  Kashmir’s communication blackout is a ‘devastating blow’ for academics, researchers say

  BY SANJAY KUMARSEP. 19, 2019

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  Three billion North American birds have vanished since 1970, surveys show

  BY ELIZABETH PENNISISEP. 19, 2019

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  Microbe that got man drunk could help explain common liver disease

  BY JON COHENSEP. 19, 2019

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  Ancient DNA puts a face on the mysterious Denisovans, extinct cousins of Neanderthals

  BY MICHAEL PRICESEP. 19, 2019

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  Can the world make the chemicals it needs without oil?

  BY ROBERT F. SERVICESEP. 19, 2019

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  Watch a robot made of robots move around

  BY EVA FREDERICKSEP. 18, 2019

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  Three lessons from industry that I’m taking back to academia

  BY YUMENG MAOSEP. 19, 2019

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  A guide to diagnosing and treating ‘Undergraduate Awesomeness’

  BY ADAM RUBENSEP. 18, 2019

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  Universities need to do more to support grad student parents

  BY RILEY GALTONSEP. 12, 2019

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  U.S. academics, make sure you know the rules about foreign funding and affiliations

  BY BERYL LIEFF BENDERLYSEP. 11, 2019

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  As a professor, I wanted to have a bigger impact—so I left academia for a government job

  BY GISÈLE MULLER-PARKERSEP. 5, 2019

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  For academic parents, work travel can be costly—but some universities are stepping up their support

  BY TIEN NGUYENSEP. 4, 2019

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  How to keep a lab notebook

  BY ELISABETH PAINSEP. 3, 2019

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  I wanted to join my fellow Puerto Ricans in protest—but I’m far away for my Ph.D.

  BY LUIS ALEXIS RODRÍGUEZ-CRUZAUG. 29, 2019

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Journals

20 September 2019 Vol. 365 Issue 6459

• Carbon ring

• Renewable bonds

• A climate intelligence arms race in financial markets

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September 2019 Vol. 5 Issue 9

• Time over money

• Reading boosts visual response

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September 2019 Vol. 4 Issue 39

• Priming responses to checkpoint blockade

• Unraveling a paradox

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September 2019 Vol. 4 Issue 34

• A robot made of robots: Emergent transport and control of a smarticle ensemble

• Tuna robotics: A high-frequency experimental platform to explore swimming performance

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17 September 2019 Vol. 12 Issue 599

• Suppressing antitumor immunity

• Targeting RTKs to get into cells

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18 September 2019 Vol. 11 Issue 510

• Antimalarial pantothenamides disrupt P. falciparum metabolism

• Adipose-secreted WNT5A links obesity to vascular disease

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First Release Science papers

• Decline of the North American avifauna

• Satellite testing of a gravitationally induced quantum decoherence model

• Cryo-EM structure of a dimeric B-Raf:14-3-3 complex reveals asymmetry in the active sites of B-Raf kinases

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Editor’s Picks

Geography of loss—a global look at the uneven toll of suicide

BY MEAGAN WEILAND, NIRJA DESAIAUG. 23, 2019

• Specialized cutaneous Schwann cells initiate pain sensation

  BY HIND ABDO, LAURA CALVO-ENRIQUE, ET AL.AUG. 16, 2019

• White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic

  BY MELANIE BERGMANN, SOPHIA MÜTZEL, ET AL.AUG. 2, 2019

The untold story of the ‘circle of trust’ behind the world’s first gene-edited babies

BY JON COHENAUG. 1, 2019

• Insect-scale, fast-moving, and ultrarobust soft robot

  BY YICHUAN WU, JUSTIN K. YIM, ET AL.JUL. 17, 2019

• Mystery solved? Why cats eat grass

  BY DAVID SHULTZAUG. 8, 2019

A three-dimensional map of the Milky Way using classical Cepheid variable stars

BY DOROTA M. SKOWRON, JAN SKOWRON, ET AL.AUG. 2, 2019

• Here’s what Earth might look like to aliens

  BY DANIEL CLERYAUG. 16, 2019

• NSF graduate fellowships disproportionately go to students at a few top schools

  BY JANE C. HUAUG. 26, 2019

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