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One step closer to the perfect chocolate chip cookie

Does freezing cookie dough make the baked cookie softer?

The Paleontology Field School

By Jason P Schein and Cindy Wu

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Secrets of the Mysterious Vessel

By Peter Lape and Laura Phillips

Analog Genetic Circuits for Interactive Learning

By Herbert M Sauro and Bennett Ng

Bring a Triceratops to Seattle

By Christian Sidor, Brandon Peecook, and Tom Kaye

Why are jokes funny?

By Lydia Chilton

Training a new generation of scientific beekeepers

By Evan A. Sugden

Tracking Magellanic Penguins

By Dee Boersma and Turbo

Formula SAE: Student designed and built electric racecar

By Alan Luan and Nicholas Conroy

Searching for Antifungal Agents in Earthworms

By Seana Davidson

Wormfree World - Finding New Cures

By Raffi V. Aroian, Rita Lim, Yan Hu, Richard Lin, and 1 other

Urban Pollination: sustain native bees & urban crops

By Susan Waters and Marie Clifford

UWashington Formula Motorsports: Electric Racecar Development

By Daniel Wageman, Dalton Morgan, and Evan Marquardt

NYU Research Labs Need Your Help

By Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker

Spotted Hyenas – An Indicator Species

Viral Causes of Lung Cancer

By Danny Colombara

New Rear Air Diffuser--Improving Race Car Aerodynamics

By 0

Cannibalism in Giant Tyrannosaurs

Why is breast cancer detection important?

By Melvin Baron

Can we prevent the transmission of BRCA mutations?

By Dr. Elizabeth Iorns

Seattle HiveBio Community Lab

By Katriona Guthrie-Honea and Bergen McMurray

How does brain cancer develop on the cellular level?

By .

Milk with altitude: Investigating Tibetan Mothers' Milk CompositionNot Published

By Dr. Elizabeth (E A) Quinn and Dr. Geoff Childs

How can NGOs guide fisheries to ecological sustainability?

By Laura Deighan

Increasing the reproductive success in captive Giant Pandas

By Meghan S. Martin

Keplr: A Science Education System Where Everyone Wins

By Yan Zhu / Justin Carden

Developing small-scale bees wax purification techniques

By Evan A. Sugden

Why do brain cells die after a stroke?

By Robert Bragg

A colorful world: Signaling in mantis shrimp

By Amanda Franklin

An ethnographic study of the illegal trade in Javan slow lorises

The DIG Field School: Hands-On Paleontology Experiences for K-12 Science Teachers

By Gregory P. Wilson and Lauren B. DeBey

Reservoir Sediment Carbon along the Elwha River after Removal of Dams

CodeDay: Teaching Tech in 24 Hours

By Tyler Menezes

Does genetic compatibility play a role in our mate choice?

By KW

Engineering E. Coli to Produce Hydrogen Gas Fuel

By UC Merced IGEM

Understanding the Forest for the Trees: Lemur-Ramy Co-Evolution & Conservation

By Andrea Baden, PhD

Developing A New Treatment For Neurodegenerative Diseases

By Dr. Miriam Kleinman

Habitat Use by the Eastern Hognose Snake on a Barrier Beach

By Dr. Daniel Gillis

Can you grow fish in space today?

By Alexander Stimpson

Electric Martial Eagle Project

By Jessie Berndt

Do coal and diesel trains make for unhealthy air?

How does Mount Rainier help maintain traditional tribal plant harvesting?

By Samantha Nemecek

Monkey Ecotourism and Health in South Africa

By Michael Muehlenbein, Colleen Friedly, Emilee Larson, Eric Shattuck, and 1 other

How Did Feasting Promote Cooperation between Cultures in the Ancient Andes?

By Kasia Szremski

By Elizabeth Chen and Vichitra Jagannathan

Can anle138b delay the onset of genetic prion disease?

By Sonia Vallabh & Eric Minikel

Influence of trains on air quality in Whatcom County?

Can we develop a diagnostic tool for non-healing wounds?

By Manuela Martins-Green, Sandeep Dhall, and Monika Garcia

Diet of the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in Arizona

By Michele Losee

Becoming molecular naturalists with an invasive red seaweed in Maine

By Jessie Muhlin, Nic Blouin, and Julie A Koester

Organofoam: Can we improve biodegradable fungal styrofoam substitutes?

By Cornell IGEM

Can we forecast the perfect ski day?☃

Can we keep skiers and snowboarders from landing on their heads?

By Jeffrey Campbell, M.S.

Do birds carry Lyme disease?

By Heather Kopsco

Back to the Basics of Synthetic Biology

Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Algae: Using Algae to Help Fight Infections

By Casey Hayslip

Search for Viable Graphene Production Methods

By Yong Zhang, Jacob Kon, and Jason Marmon

Can we use fungi to break down our plastic and rubber waste?

By Michelle Legaspi and Kaury Kucera

Climate change threats to the American pika

By Joseph Stewart

Barcoding Alaska

By Ellen Jorgensen

What does it take to get a fish on my plate?

By Lillian Brown

The Search For Beal's Treasure

Evolutionary implications of collective personality

By Sarah E Bengston

Are woodchip barriers adding to mercury pollution in our estuaries?

By Kenly Hiller

Saving the Bees: Improving Agricultural Sustainability and Biodiversity

By Kate Wallace, Leslie Corcelli, and Jonathan Mawdsley, Ph.D

Conserving California Red-Legged Frogs

By Rachel Anderson

Exploring an age-old question: Can we demystify skin color?

By Khai Chung Ang, Katherine Reid, and Tiffany Foster

Understanding the psychosocial impact of a motor skill intervention

By Priscila Caçola

Empower Chinese-speaking Women Suffering From Breast Cancer

By Dr. Judy Wang

Are prejudiced reactions to same-sex couples characterized by specific physiologic...

By Karen L. Blair, PhD

Wari Invaders or Local "Frenemies": Geographic Origins of Peruvian Trophy Skulls

By Beth Koontz Scaffidi

Evolution of Promiscuity in Angiosperms

By Thomas Stoughton

How do we learn words from speech?

By Elisa Kim Fromboluti and Katherine Jones

Is the Internet evolving into a Global Brain?

Can we deodorize pig manure?

Portland State's first formula electric race car

By Quinn Sullivan

Are CCR1 antagonists useful for treating triple negative breast cancer

By Annette Gilchrist

How do tropical landscapes drive insect evolution?

By Dominic Evangelista and Jessica L. Ware

Can music improve memories in patients with brain damage?

By Amy

Can we treat sepsis?

By Michael Bechill

Cane we sterilize mosquitos to prevent malaria transmission?

By Tapan Kanai, Jacob Marcus, and Richard Baxter

Can we restore the Chilean "espinal" with guanacos?

By Meredith Root-Bernstein

Amazon Bird Banding Course: Preparing the Next Generation of Ornithologists

How costly is flying and gathering food?

By Caitlin Elizabeth Kroeger

Conflict and cooperation during mating in Daddy Longlegs

By Kasey Fowler-Finn

How Do Boxers Get Concussions?

By KH

Rescuing Proteins to Prevent Cancer

Conservation Genetics of Green Turtles in KenyaNot Published

By Carlos A Santamaria

Can Corals Cope with Ocean Acidification?Not Published

By Lauren Linsmayer

Decreasing the Risk of Death and Diving Injuries in Artisanal Fishermen

By Walter Chin and Gracelene Wegrzyn

Can nutritional stress of orangutans reveal habitat degradation?

By Amanda Hoepfner

Is a newly discovered parasite negatively impacting bay scallops in North Carolina?

By Joseph Philip Morton

Alpine plant biodiversity: why is it so high?

By Ingrid Jordon-Thaden and Thomas Stoughton

How Much Carbon is Being Sequestered in Deep Reservoir Sediments?

My Awesome Example Project!Not Published

By George Su, Denny Luan, and Oscar Jasklowski

Can we use ultraviolet light to identify bats that have survived white nose syndrome?

Improving Collaborations for Neglected Tropical Diseases

By Michael Pollastri

Does censored news affect political attitudes in authoritarian China?

Do birds cooperate or eavesdrop on other birds?

By Sean ODonnell

Building DISASTER-RELIEF Concrete Homes from Garbage

By Jonathan Belkowitz

Fishes of the Salish Sea: Where Art Meets Science

By Theodore W. Pietsch

What can old stuffed animals tell us about the future?

By Evon Hekkala

Discovering Novel Viruses in the Environment

By Victoria Pearson

A Case Study of Resettlement and Community Adaptation after the 2011 Great East Ja...

By Eric Des Marais

Is the heart of South America the cradle of the blue pygmyflower plants group?

By Alina Freire-Fierro

Can we save birds from flying into windows?

By Rebecca Murray Schneider

How does lung fluke travel from snail to crab to human?

By Neetha Iyer and Alan Shabel

Do Asian elephant calls have grammar-like elements?

By Michael A. Pardo

Surviving on the savanna: how do traits predict tree success?

By Keala Cummings

How does a parasite create zombie-like behavior?

By Charissa De Bekker

Is seaweed farming the next social enterprise?

By Richard Ruiz and David Hudson

Have we found a new species of pterosaur from the Solnhofen Limestone?

By Chris Bennett

Radio Tracking Burmese Pythons in Bangladesh

By Scott Trageser

How do chimpanzees adapt to a savanna woodland in Tanzania?

By Alex Piel & Fiona Stewart

Learning beyond the textbook: Developing dialect-specific grammar in a study abroa...

By Bret Linford

Are Implanted Prosthetic Legs for Horses Possible?

By Niki Marie H

Using camera traps to estimate abundance of large mammals

By Mark Chynoweth, Blake Hethmon, and Erin Gamertsfelder

Human vs. Predator: Fighting the Cabbage Maggot and Saving Our Mustards

The Life Cycle of a Coral Killer: the Acropora-Eating Flatworm

By Kate Rawlinson and Cat Dybala

Chemically sterilizing mosquitoes to prevent malaria transmission

By Tapan Kanai, Jacob Marcus, and Richard Baxter

Development of miRNA Delivery System For Cancer

By Richard Gemeinhart

☃ Are microbes melting the Greenland ice sheet?

What do moose eat in winter when there are no leaves on the trees?

By John J. Henderson

Digitizing the Coral Reefs of Easter Island and Salas y Gómez

By James J. Herlan, Naiti Morales, Erin Easton, and Carlos Gaymer

Inspiring Environmental Change Through Shark Science and Youth Education

By Craig O'Connell

Is Male Infertility Being Under-Diagnosed?

By Laura Sirot and Paul Joseph

Can we solve future energy and freshwater crises with the Power of Ocean Waves?

By Marcus Lehmann

HiveBio Community Lab - Education, Resources, Community

By Bergen McMurray and Katriona Guthrie-Honea

A fossil leaf site west of Ellensburg: part of the Ellensburg Flora? Or its own t...

By Stephanie Zaborac-Reed

Can an App Encourage Regular HIV Testing?

By MarkAlain Dery

Of Monks and Men: How medieval construction brought monasteries and lay communitie...

By Alexis Jackson

Can we develop new drugs to protect kidneys from damage?

By Muhammad Altaf Khan

How does natural gas fracking contribute to air pollution?

By Becky Alexander, Maria Zatko, and SS

How can we prevent post traumatic stress syndrome for veterans?

By Ya-Ping Tang

How do hormones make a bullfrog feel full?

By Nicholas Garcia

Where are the Spanish Colonial Jesuit Missions at Guevavi?

By Deni Seymour

The calf connection: California humpbacks in their Costa Rican nursery

By Blake Gillespie

How does communication training benefit scientists?

By Jessica Rohde, Michelle Weirathmueller, Juliana Houghton, Melissa Clarkson, and 1 other

Can microorganisms help protect our groundwater from contamination by hydraulic fr...

By Lee Stanish and Stephen Osborn

Discovering Backyard Biodiversity in South Dakota

By Amanda Bachmann

Signs of change: documenting environmental change using crowd-sourced time-lapse p...

By Chuck Cannon

Using DNA to Protect Fiji's Fisheries

By Erin Eastwood

A Mobile Device Application for the Marine Protected Areas

By Carlos A. Espinosa

Relationship Among Andean Women, Biodiversity of Quinoa and Food Security in Bolivia

By Ashlee Adams

What are the patterns and effects of American crow movements?

By Ben Eisenkop, Jennifer Campbell-Smith, Anne Clark, Kevin J. McGowan, and 1 other

Wood: Is It What's For Dinner?

By Craig McClain

Can genetic diversity preserve a friendship?

By Shannon Bayliss

What are the feeding habits of threatened sharks?

By David Shiffman

Exploring the Depths with the OpenROV submarine robot

By Kalani Kirk Hausman

How can we better protect the biodiversity of the rocky intertidal zones?

By Monica Tydlaska

Friends Don't Let Friends Drive High

By Shashi Murthy, Ph.D. and Brian D. Plouffe, Ph.D.

Can fungi help us restore the American chestnut?

By Andrew Tomes

How Does Technology Affect Our Memory?

By Jason R. Finley and Farah Naaz

Biological Diversity on a Northeast Ohio College Campus

By Lisa Regula Meyer

Sex in the sea: Uncovering the mating behavior of Giant Sea Bass

Dogs, Cats, and Scats: Saving Jaguars, One Poop at a Time

By Jennifer Mae-White Day

A Pacific Northwest Clamtastrophe!

By Brian Turner

Help those Still Affected by the West Virginia Chemical Spill Understand their Dri...

By Andrew J. Whelton, Ph.D. and Lakia McMillan

Can we predict how social primates move?

By David Pappano, Ph.D.

Using Virtual Reality to Build Resistance to Distraction

By Julie Schweitzer, Ph.D., Cynthia Krafft, Ph.D., Songpoom Benyakorn M.D., Catherine Fassbender, Ph.D., and 2 others

Plant invasion! So what's going on in the soil?

By Adam Trautwig

One Toe Better Than Three?

By Nathan Jeffery

Can naturally occurring, soap-like materials be used for oil spill response?

By V. Faye McNeill, Christina Huang, and Mark De Luna

Can viral molecular structures cause cancer?

Searching for Seahorses & Sustainability

By Lindsay Aylesworth

Building a gel imager on a budget

Is Plastic a Chronic Killer? Calculating the Toxicity of Plastic Ingestion to Sea ...

By Christopher Pincetich, Ph.D. and Wallace J. Nichols

Determining the role of Solo GEF in astrocyte migration signaling

By Kristien Van Vlasselaer

Understanding color and chemical diversity in nudibranchs

By Anne Winters

By Adina Paytan

Will radioactivity liberated by hydraulic fracturing contaminate surface waters in...

By Michael K Schultz and Andrew Nelson

Can off-patent FDA approved drugs treat neglected liver diseases of the developing...

By Moses Bility

Researching 2,000 pound turtles along the Florida coast

By Chris Johnson, Kelly Martin, and Sandy Fournies

What is killing Caribbean corals? Investigating a devastating coral disease.

By Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn and Felicia Aronson

An Archaeological Excavation of a Roman Bath Complex

By Allison Smith

Does Remote Computer Training Help Expand STEM Enrollment in East Africa? If So, How?

By Israel Kloss

Dicty World Race - finding the fastest and smartest Dicty cells

By Daniel Irimia, Christopher Janetopoulos, Monica Skoge, Elisabeth Wong, and 3 others

ChromatograDIY: Open-Source Chromatography Effort

By Richard Arnett

How do bees first find their flowers?

By Levente Orban

Loggerhead Sea Turtles Dig The Dark! Artificial Light Effects on Hatchling Movement

By Eric Koepfler and Taylor Harris

Where Did the Terrapins Go? A Population and Health Assessment

By John Kusnierz

Qualitative survey of burritos in San Francisco

Is kink a sexual orientation?

By Richard Sprott, Ph.D.

Can you make algae biofuel in cool, cloudy Western Washington?

By Rose Ann Cattolico, Chloe Deodato, and Cattolico Laboratory UW

ZomBees: Are parasites controlling the minds of honey bees?

By Erika M. Bueno and Maria Jose Pastor-Infantas

What makes British and American choirs sound so different?

Do humans and noise pollution impact the way birds sing?

Learning to Live, or Living to Learn?

By Morgan E. Chaney

What’s the condition of your lake, river, or coastline? Support SPLASSH and find out.

By Lisa G Adams

Mapping Spotted Wing Fruit Flies in South Dakota

By Mary Roduner

Mommy dearest: how maternal care shapes juvenile stress in rhesus monkeys

By Lauren Petrullo

Azolla, a little fern with massive green potential

By Kathleen Pryer, Fay-Wei Li, Paul Wolf, Carl Rothfels, and 1 other

Do vaccines cause transverse myelitis?

By Michael Levy

The Hidden Ecosystem: Gut Microbial Mediation of Freshwater Ecosystem Dynamics

By Cagney McCauley

The LilBubome - Sequencing LilBub's Magical Genome

By Daniel M. Ibrahim, Uschi Symmons, and Darío G Lupiáñez

Pieris Project: using citizen science to learn how species will respond to climate...

By Pieris Project Team, Matthew Eng, Sean Ryan, Yiyuan Li, and 3 others

Can a Submarine be used to Tag Giant Deep-Sea Sharks?

By Brandon Genco

Why do daddy longlegs fight during mating?

By Kasey Fowler-Finn

Deciphering Social interactions of California Sea Lions

By Garet Lahvis

Educational computer games: How long do benefits last?

By Jane Hornickel

Sustainable Next Generation Biofuel Production

By UCSC IGEM and David Bernick

Vascular Flora of West Clear Creek Wilderness, Arizona

By Wendy McBride

Why the long face? Functional morphology of a unique fossil porpoise

By Rachel Racicot

How Can We Improve Support for Bonobo Conservation Among the Congolese?

By Aleah Bowie, Brian Hare, and Vanessa Woods

Can we save ash trees from the invasive emerald ash borer?

By David Showalter, Pierluigi (Enrico) Bonello, and .

Are Ruminative Thought and Depression Contagious?Not Published

By Amelia Aldao and Kara Christensen

Not just for hangovers: Ibuprofen as a protective treatment for fetal alcohol spec...

By Derick H. Lindquist, Molly J. Goodfellow, and .

How do Bobtail Squid choose their glowing bacterial partner?

By Sarah McAnulty and Andrea Suria

Saving Tropical Migratory Bird Habitat

By Margaret DiBenedetto

How do Personal Values Affect Attitudes about the Environment?

By Thomas E. Nelson and .

Walruses, Whales, and Worms: exploring marine mammal parasitology

By Caroline Keroack, Eirini Tsekitsidou, Kaela DeAngelis, and Kalani Williams

Final Frontier of Shark Discovery: Unexplored Seamounts of the Southern Indian Ocean.

By Paul J Clerkin

Research and conservation of threatened amphibians of Mt Nlonako, Cameroon

By Louis Nkembi

Can art interpretation, jiu jitsu, meditation and service heal brain injury?

By Maurice Stevens and Tracie McCambridge

How does alpine groundwater get from mountaintops to valley springs?

By Timothy D Bechtel And Nico Goldscheider

Tree Climbing for Climate Change Research

By Sybil G. Gotsch, Andrew Glunk, Lex Darby, Ken Davidson, and 1 other

Moths of the Cape Cod National Seashore

By Tea Kesting-Handly

Can We Defeat EBOLA with an Experimental CANCER Drug?

By Dr. Shawn Carbonell and Dr. Elizabeth Iorns

Your body can fight cancer!

By Brian W Booth

Creating a safer place at beaches and lakes: Are you clean?

By James K. Campbell

Taking the temperature of ancient oceans with microfossil chemistry

By Anna Waldeck

How can prey kill predators?

By Marty Condon, Kristina Ottens, and Glen Hood

Why are some jumping spiders so colorful?

By Daniel Zurek, Sebastian Echeverri, and Nate Morehouse

Assessing Guadalupe Fur Seal Health and Ecology

By Geno DeRango, Lorraine Barbosa, DVM, MPVM, and Casandra Gálvez

First, do no harm: Institutional Betrayal in healthcare

By Carly Smith and Jennifer Freyd

Studying South American fur seals in northern Patagonia, Chile

By Mauricio Seguel and Geno DeRango

Stop Lion Killing in Tanzania

By Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Sylvester Bwasama, and Jonathan Lucas Kwiyega

Water Purification for Developing Countries

By Pegah Hassanzadeh, Xiaolin Zhang, Rachel Rosenzweig, Susan Lu, and 1 other

The Future of Displays and Solar Cells: 10,000 times thinner than a human hair

By Jason Ross, Xiaodong Xu, Pasqual Rivera, and Marie Scott

Are our bacteria making us depressed or anxious?

By Philip Strandwitz

Can fungi help restore the American chestnut?

By Andrew Tomes

Got Frog-cicles?

By Dr. Faren R Wolter, CWB

Finding Ampituna: Understanding Interaction between Valleys in the Ancient Andes

By Kasia Szremski

Where are the Spanish Colonial Jesuit Missions at Guevavi?

By Deni Seymour

Can orangutan vocalizations signal rainforest condition?

By Amanda Hoepfner

The Experiences of Cross-Content Matched Mentors and Mentees

By Michael T. Neall, Ph.D.

Can we miniaturize thrusters for efficient electric spacecraft propulsion?

By Enric Grustan

What's happened to the Millicoma Dace?

By Shaun Clements and Paul Scheerer

Can our unconscious minds predict the stock market?

By Julia Mossbridge & Garret Moddel

Can Bacteria Help Plants in Growth Promotion?

What Animals Live in Disturbed Sumatran Rainforest? A Camera Trap Study

By James Askew, John Abernethy, and Matthew G Nowak

What was the paleoclimate of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument?

By Aly Baumgartner

Antibiotic Resistance: Between the Environment and Our Bodies

By Jeffrey Paer

Why do leaves change color in the fall?

By Christa Shen & Eleen Liao

Yale Engineering Students Build a Mars Rover

By Yale Undergraduate Rover Association

Editing Photographs in Three Dimensions

By Natasha Kholgade Banerjee

Capturing canine personality

By James Ha and Carly Loyer

BYU iGem: Genetically Engineered Wastewater Reclamation

New fish on the block: Ecological implications of black sea bass in the Gulf of Maine

By Marissa McMahan

Can storytelling improve bilingual children's literacy skills?

By Laura Quaynor

Unlock the Secrets of Animals that Survive Freezing!

Gray whales suck: skull adaptations to suction feeding in gray whales

By Meghan Smallcomb

Written in Bone: was the fossil Allodesmus a seal or sea lion?

By Reagan Furbish

A conservation comic book: Involving Rwandan children in saving endangered Grey Cr...

By Olivier Nsengimana

Why is Stress More Dangerous for Overweight People

By Christine McInnis

How do sponges influence the availability of nutrients on coral reefs?

By Cara Fiore and Elizabeth Kujawinski

Legs to Die For: Unveiling the Benefits of Centipede Venom

By Micaiah Ward, Dr. Darin Rokyta, and Dr. Kenneth Wray

How much fertilizer do we really need?

Does group gender composition influence how we explain success or failure?

By Rebekah C. DeVore

Does Botox Make Us Happy? How Facial Expression Affects Emotion

By Yael Horwitz and Jorge Barraza

Mothers' feelings and their children's activity levels

By Yue Liao and Genevieve Dunton

Penguins, plants, and people: Getting to the core of climate change in the Falklan...

By Dulcinea Groff And Kit Hamley

Striped bass diet, health, and movement patterns: Using science to inform management

By Robert Murphy

Vegetarian Spiders: Where and how do they live?

By Mark Eastburn

Something is wrong on the Internet! What does the Science Blogger do?

By Paige Brown Jarreau

Saving the Majestic Helmeted Hornbill

By Yokyok "Yoki" Hadiprakarsa

Mapping Salmon Spawning Sites with UAVs

By Max Silver and Zach Seilo

Practical Drone Lighting for Photography

By Manohar Srikanth, Kavita Bala, and Fredo Durand

Can we stop the spread of breast cancer?

By Monica Montano PhD

Creating a Safer Operating Room for Open Heart Surgery

By Kristen Welsh

Train the next generation of cancer scientists

By Matthew J. Sikora and Renée De Leeuw

Basking in Glory: Satellite Tagging of an Apex Predator

By Timothy Garvey

Do you want know what the dodo ate? So do we!

By Leon Claessens, Kenneth Rijsdijk, and Hanneke Meijer

Can we use our immune cells to fight lung disease?

By Julien Cobert and Maurizio Cereda

Is Mercury Pollution Contributing to the Moose Population Decline?

By Michelle Kneeland

Huqoq Archaeological Excavation, Galilee, Israel

By Jodi Magness, Daniel Schindler, Jessie George, and Bradley Erickson

How does packaged coconut water compare with it’s fresh, raw counterpart?

By Karthik Jayaraman

Carbon in Arctic Permafrost : An incubation experiment looking at carbon cycling

By Alexandra Hedgpeth

Using Gene Therapy to Target and Treat Cancers

By Dr Dieter Gruenert and Luke Gruenert

Are invasive turtles eating native fish in Hawaii?

Understanding Vernal Pool Hydrology and Animal Use

By Maureen Ryan, Mara Healy, and Noll Steinweg

Reducing anxiety with art therapy: A study of men with prostate cancer

By Anna Celander

The lost aspens of the Willamette Valley: Did catastrophic floods carry them from ...

By Collin Peterson and Steven Strauss

Human Impacts on Bottlenose Dolphins in Belize

By Jazmin Garcia and Caryn Self-Sullivan

Survey of Highly Endangered Mondzish Languages in Yunnan, China

New Method for Counting the Missoula Floods

By Skye W. Cooley

Sending the Garden of ETON to Space

By MaryAnn Bulawa, Adia Bulawa, and Lillith Bulawa

Birdsong and the Evolution of Human Language

By Madza Yasodara Farias Virgens and Jessi Sosnovskaya

Stayin' alive: how do microbes help corals recover from bleaching?

By Laura Núñez-Pons, Ross Cunning, and Raphael Ritson-Williams

Can we predict individual identity, age, and gender of Mexican gray wolves from th...

By Eric Burnham

Can lizards change their nesting behavior to survive climate change?

By Michael Carlo

Can cockroaches help us cure tularemia?

By Bridget Eklund and Nathan Fisher

Mountain Rescue Anchor Strength Testing

By Zephyr Feryok

It's Not Easy Being Green: The Color of Gene Diversity in Red-eyed Treefrogs

By Maria Akopyan

Reduction of Overfishing on Kenyan Coral Reefs

By Tim McClanahan

The brain patterns of emotion processing in preschoolers

By Claudia Lugo-Candelas

Using high-tech toys to improve foraging in captive rhinos

By Bethany Krebs, Jason Watters, and Fred Schechter

Tracking Male Lions in Matusadona National Park, Zimbabwe using Satellite GPS Collars

Ocean Warming under a Greenland Glacier

By Andreas Muenchow

Space Ice: Fabricating Solar Cell Electrodes Fabricated in Microgravity

By Kristen Scotti, Emily Northard, Amelia Plunk, and Felicia Teller

Record Voices of The Sizang Language of Burma

The Dirt on Viruses: Discovering the Role of Viruses in Soil

By David Esteban, Maggie Ginoza, and Jeff Werner

Canid howls: a window to cognition and cooperation

By Arik Kershenbaum, Bilal Habib, Jessica Owens, and Kenna Lehmann

One step closer to the perfect chocolate chip cookie

An 8000-year History of Climate and Environmental Change in Páramo of Central Cost...

By Jiaying Wu and Dr. David Porinchu

Stingray and Skate tagging in the Gulf of Mexico

By Rhoni A. Lahn

Sequencing the Cactus Genome to Discover the Secret of Drought Resistance

By Peng Jiang and Hui Guo

Do fungi exposed to toxic waste produce novel antimicrobial agents?

By Richard Honour

How Do Wolves and Beavers Interact in Boreal Ecosystems?

By Thomas Gable

Arizona's Golden Eagle: Characteristics of nest sites, phenology and climatic impact

By Michele Losee

You have mail: Stem Cell messages for fighting liver diseases

By Davide Povero and David Kneiber

How does volunteer tourism impact orangutan conservation?

Fauna of the Floating Islands: a study of the floating seaweed, Sargassum

By Lindsay Martin

Searching for Genetic Clues in Autism with Family Trio Sequencing

How Serious is Internet Gaming Addiction?

By Dr. Andrew Przybylski

How does hemlock tree decline impact bird bioindicators and ecosystem condition?

What environmental factors control lichen form throughout the redwood canopy?

By Samuel Hargrove

Using aphids to measure electrical outputs in ferns

By Vicenta Salvador Recatala

What Pathogens Threaten the Texas Horned Lizard?

By Mike McEntire

Ash Swamps of the Willamette Valley: Havens of Biodiversity

By Sean Prive and Dave Shaw

How Does Clean Water Alter Rural Community Health and School Attendance?

Identifying the influencing factors on San Salvador coral reefs by assessing 17 ye...

By Tiffany Razo, Renee R., and Lee Ann J. Clements, PhD

Stealth tagging of adult Scalloped Hammerhead sharks in Hawai'i

By James Anderson, Danny Coffey, and Mark Royer

How has a Hemileuca moth evolved to live in a unique coastal Texas ecosystem?

By Robert J. "Bob" Nuelle, Jr.

Developing a new treatment for Ebola Virus Disease

By Dr. Shawn Carbonell

It's getting hot in here: effects of ocean warming on Indonesian Yellow Tangs

By Lorna J. McFarlane

Coiba BioBlitz: Discovering the biodiversity of a remote tropical island

By Peter Houlihan and Christian Ziegler

Environmental Justice in North Charleston Communities

By DeNoia L Woods

How does the Effectiveness of Water Filters in Malawi Affect User Compliance?

By Kirsten Fagerli

Biologging the Hidden Life of the Chocoan River Turtle in Colombia

By Sonia Morrone and John L. Carr

Identity and Community Among Male Fans of My Little Pony

By Zachary Palmer and Lori Lundell

Do Symptoms of PTSD in Combat Veterans Provide Clues for Exercise Adherence?

By Danny Sauceda, Jay P. Ginsberg, and Roger D. Newman-Norlund

So near and yet so far? Investigating bats on the San Juan Islands

By Rochelle Kelly

Can Genes Associated with Dyslexia Determine Your Career Goals?

By Ann Yezerski Gilmor

Back in the Bay: Where are the North American River Otters?

Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution Profiles using Drones

By Gavin Edwards and Christopher Haskin

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Sequencing the Amazing and Enigmatic Alpaca to Understand Colour Genes

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