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Mystery of the Head Activator
2026/1/18 | 36 mins.
A biological puzzle that made one researcher and ruined another might never be solved. By Brady Huggett.
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Solving the Electroporation Bottleneck
2026/1/15 | 16 mins.
Cultivarium, a focused research organization, has built a custom electroporator to engineer non-model organisms at scale. By Niko McCarty.
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Inventing the Methods Section
2026/1/12 | 42 mins.
What the evolution of scientific methods says about their future. By Andrew Hunt.
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Why Do Research Institutes Often Look the Same?
2026/1/08 | 11 mins.
Despite attempts at variation, many new research organizations are canalized into just a handful of forms. By Sam Arbesman.
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How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal
2026/1/05 | 38 mins.
Since launching in 1869, Nature has evolved from a periodical offering commentary on pigeons to the prestige journal in science. But how did Nature build its reputation, and can it last? By Robert Reason.
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