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Want to Study Air Pollution? Look to the Birds!

Shane DuBay and Carl Fuldner, PhD students at University of Chicago, studied bird specimens from the last 135 years at museums across the American Manufacturing Belt.

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Southern Africa is Full of North Korean Monuments

Yes, you read that headline right. There are several North Korean made and designed monuments across southern Africa.

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P, H, D. Easy as 1, 2, 3

Stefan Buijsman is developing a theory to explain how kids learn what 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 mean.

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Manhattan Has Two Genetically Distinct Groups of Rats

Brown rats are nearly entirely dependent on humans for resources, which suggests that their evolutionary histories might be linked to the ways humans build and organize their urban landscapes.

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Helping Northern Communities Face Climate Change

For the most part, the communities of Labrador have been built on rock rather than permafrost, but there are some that have felt the impact of permafrost thawing.

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Manhattan Has Two Genetically Distinct Groups of Rats

Brown rats are nearly entirely dependent on humans for resources, which suggests that their evolutionary histories might be linked to the ways humans build and organize their urban landscapes.

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Researchers Discover How to Inject Instructions into the Premotor Cortex

Kevin Mazurek and Marc Schieber have found a way to “inject” information directly into the premotor cortex of two rhesus monkeys.

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Looking For a Postdoc? Have You Considered Sweden?

I thought it would be a good thing for my academic career to do an international postdoc. Sweden always seemed to be a feasible option if it wasn’t Canada or the US.

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How Does Prolonged Space Flight Affect the Human Body? It Takes Twins to Find Out.

What might happen to the human body at a molecular level during a long-haul flight to Mars? Brinda Rana is one of the investigators working with NASA to find out.

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