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Can we simplify protein production?

Can anle138b delay the onset of genetic prion disease?

By Sonia Vallabh & Eric Minikel

Influence of trains on air quality in Whatcom County?

Do birds carry Lyme disease?

By Heather Kopsco

Using Engineered Bacteria to Produce Renewable Energy Cheaply

Why does our body produce one of the most potent hallucinogens?

By Eugenio Battaglia

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

By Michelle Legaspi and Kaury Kucera

Can we noninvasively measure blood sugar for diabetes?

By Laura Andrews and Kelly Zebrowski

Which of Cameroon's peoples have members of haplogroup A00?

By Bonnie Schrack & Matthew Fomine Forka

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

Increasing efficiency of solar cells with a "pinch" of sugar

By Jacob Kon, Jason Marmon, and Yong Zhang

How Much Carbon is Being Sequestered in Deep Reservoir Sediments?

How does a parasite create zombie-like behavior?

By Charissa De Bekker

How do chimpanzees adapt to a savanna woodland in Tanzania?

By Alex Piel & Fiona Stewart

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

By Kate Rawlinson and Cat Dybala

Development of miRNA Delivery System For Cancer

By Richard Gemeinhart

☃ Are microbes melting the Greenland ice sheet?

Digitizing the Coral Reefs of Easter Island and Salas y Gómez

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

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

By Marcus Lehmann

Bisphenol A and the brain: Are “safe” BPA levels really safe?

By Ricardo Mostany, PhD

Does fracking contaminate water with hormone disrupting chemicals?

By Susan C. Nagel, PhD

How does natural gas fracking contribute to air pollution?

By Becky Alexander, Maria Zatko, and SS

How do hormones make a bullfrog feel full?

By Nicholas Garcia

Wrangling Nitrogen to Reduce Waste and Increase Rates of Scientific Innovation

By Steve Heller

The calf connection: California humpbacks in their Costa Rican nursery

By Blake Gillespie

Deep sea sharks: Do they survive?

By Brendan Talwar

Using DNA to Protect Fiji's Fisheries

By Erin Eastwood

What are the patterns and effects of American crow movements?

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

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

By Monica Tydlaska

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

By Jennifer Mae-White Day

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

Understanding color and chemical diversity in nudibranchs

By Anne Winters

Can a Zebrafish be used to study diabetic nerve damage?

By Christa Bonney

An Archaeological Excavation of a Roman Bath Complex

By Allison Smith

Dicty World Race - finding the fastest and smartest Dicty cells

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

Can we change public perception of climate change by providing real-time environme...

By Stephen Holler and Juliana Troisi

The Down Low: Curbing the HIV Epidemic in Rural Louisiana

By Drs. Abrams-Downey, LaCross, Marsh, Paula Sereebutra Seal, Mary Van Sickels, and Paul LaCross

Are Greek lizards adapting to live with humans?

By Colin Donihue

Cataloging Insect and Bat Diversity in Belize

By David Wyatt and Fran Keller

Saving the most endangered seabird in the Americas

By Juan Martínez

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

The Ecological Impact of Invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) in Berm...

What makes British and American choirs sound so different?

A Prescription for Health and Fitness Based on Your Genes

By Linda Pescatello, Beth A. Taylor, Garrett Ash, Amanda Zaleski, and 1 other

Does Sleep Influence Charisma in Leadership?

By Christopher Barnes

Leaves in stone: does decay control the fossil record?

By Emma Rose Locatelli

Spiders of Yasuni: How do their Physical Traits Determine their Lifestyle?

By Andrea Haberkern

Why can't Amazon fishes adapt to extreme environments?

By Stuart Willis and Paul Reiss

Azolla, a little fern with massive green potential

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

A Search for the Origins of White-Nose Syndrome

Can we treat early Lyme disease with topical antibiotics?

By Charles Pavia

The LilBubome - Sequencing LilBub's Magical Genome

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

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

By Brandon Genco

Can we make radiation-resistant plants that can survive in space?

By Yuriy Fazylov

Likable Lichens: Investigating populations, dispersal and community ecology

By Stephen Kolomyjec

Effects of Hormones on Left-Right Brain Processing

By Shelia M. Kennison, Ph.D.

Educational computer games: How long do benefits last?

By Jane Hornickel

Singing and dancing spiders? Exploring communication in jumping spiders

By Damian Elias

Can we discover new antibiotic compounds in gecko skin?

By Mark Sistrom

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

By Rachel Racicot

Contamination and an emerging snake fungal disease. Can snakes beat this new threat?

By Seth LaGrange

How does our blood absorb light?

By Dan Oren, MD

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

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

How do Bobtail Squid choose their glowing bacterial partner?

By Sarah McAnulty and Andrea Suria

Can Benin's cell phones put more children in school?

By Claire Adida, Ganz Chockalingam, and Jennifer Burney

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

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

Detection of Protozoan DNA Sequences In Prostate Cancer

By Stephen E Fry, M.D.

Inception: Can we implant false memories during sleep?

By Iliana Vargas, Susan Florczak, and Ken Paller

Keeping boats afloat while cleaning the environment

By Thomas Webster

Can accurate DNA editing stop the formation and growth of tumors?

By Thomas Irvine

Why are some jumping spiders so colorful?

By Daniel Zurek, Sebastian Echeverri, and Nate Morehouse

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

Can we miniaturize thrusters for efficient electric spacecraft propulsion?

By Enric Grustan

Same Love: the hormonal love story of homosexual and heterosexual attraction

By Forrest Rogers

Can we Detoxify Pesticides and Nerve Agents by Engineering a Protein?

By Leif Arthur Halvorsen

Unlock the Secrets of Animals that Survive Freezing!

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

By Meghan Smallcomb

Using Nanoparticles to Activate Immune Cells to Fight Tumors

By Gail A. Bishop and Brett Hanson

Stem cells need a home to grow!

By Pelagie Favi and Thomas Webster

Improving the Biological Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles with Electrochemistry

By Michael Kitching, Enrico Marsili, and Paul Cahill

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

Studying Building Energy Use with a Micro Computing Cluster

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

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

By Alexandra Hedgpeth

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

By Collin Peterson and Steven Strauss

Mountain Rescue Anchor Strength Testing

By Zephyr Feryok

Frogs, Fire, and Fynbos: Restoring Mountain Biodiversity

By Jennifer Fill

Using high-tech toys to improve foraging in captive rhinos

By Bethany Krebs, Jason Watters, and Fred Schechter

Sequencing the Cactus Genome to Discover the Secret of Drought Resistance

By Peng Jiang and Hui Guo

How susceptible are oaks to climate change and drought?

By Alex Todorovic-Jones and Kyra Prats

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

By Michele Losee

Searching for Genetic Clues in Autism with Family Trio Sequencing

Developing a new treatment for Ebola Virus Disease

By Dr. Shawn Carbonell

Can Microbes Save the Earth? A study on Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture

By Vincenzo Antignani

Finding a Cure for Batten Disease

By Charlotte And Gwenyth Gray Foundation

Sequencing the Black Rhinoceros Genome

By Chuck Murry, Jay Shendure, New Harvest, Pembient, and 1 other

How do birds see the world?

By Aaron P. Blaisdell and Julia Schroeder

By Anthony Di Franco, Josiah Zayner, Yilan Shi, Maureen Muldavin, and 12 others