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While some sustainable development efforts will reduce emerging disease risk, others may increase it—suggesting important lessons for the coronavirus outbreak and beyond.
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Thus far, researchers have mostly just monitored the body’s microbiome. Now they’re starting to modify it to treat disease.
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An ancient bead-making settlement on a Florida coastal island was crucial to pre-Columbian economies.
Image courtesy of Terry E. Barbour and Kenneth E. Sassaman.
A beetle preserved in Burmese amber suggests early evidence of insect pollination of flowering plants.
Image courtesy of Bo Wang.
A study explores the pervasiveness of plastics in fish nurseries and suggests plastic accumulation in larval fish nurseries may affect marine ecosystems.
Image courtesy of Jonathan L. Whitney.
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Philipp Heck tells the story of interstellar stardust grains that predate the Solar System.
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QnAs with NAS member and bioengineer Sangeeta Bhatia.
Image courtesy of Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Scott Eisen.
