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

By Beth Koontz Scaffidi

Assessing Guadalupe Fur Seal Health and Ecology

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

Capturing canine personality

By James Ha and Carly Loyer

How does the packaging shape of commercial containers affect the water solutions i...

By Maher A. A. Abdelsamie, PhD

Can low carbohydrate ketogenic diets inhibit cancers?

By Eugene J Fine and Richard D Feinman

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

By Jiaying Wu and Dr. David Porinchu

Reducing Dive-Related Decompression Illness among Artisanal Fishermen in the Yucatan

By Walter Chin and Oswaldo Huchim

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

Modeling a Portable Solar Mini Cluster for Field Data Analysis

By David Molik and Oliver Tam

Can Genes Associated with Dyslexia Determine Your Career Goals?

By Ann Yezerski Gilmor

How does toilet training without diapers affect a child’s temperament and health?

By Janelle Boram Lee, Warren O. Eaton, and Melanie Soderstrom

How is the environment affecting fungal pathogen abundance and incidence in leathe...

By Jon-Erik Taylor

Assessing oyster restoration using morphological records and next-generation seque...

By Irena Werner, Allison Fitzgerald, and Eugenia Naro-Maciel

Investigating how green crab extinction affects seabed ecosystems in Irish waters

By William Hunter

How can we maintain rhino populations during poaching crises? A population genetic...

By Gayle Pedersen

Genome sequencing and drought tolerance in Sporobolus grass

By Christopher Hendrickson

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

The Lenten Season Study: Exploring shifts in diet, lifestyle, and health during Ch...

By Hilary Bethancourt

Which Human Physical Aging Biomarkers Validate Genetic and Biochemical Aging Rever...

By Elliott Small and Alexander Hoekstra

Building the next generation of Mars Rovers

By Steven Medico, William McKinnon, Jennifer Geehan, Joseph Horn, and 5 others

Manuka Honey: A New Tool in the Battle Against Antibiotic Resistance?

By Gabrielle Hayes

Sequencing the genomes of all known kākāpō

By David Iorns, Andrew Digby, Bruce Robertson, and Jason T Howard

Improving Living Shoreline Projects!

By Steven Carrion

Does Too Much RAGE Protein in the Premature Lung Affect Development?

By Henry Rozycki, MD, El Noh, DO, MPH, and Jennifer Bradley

Meat! Can manhood stomach the punch of the vegetarian alternative?

By Attila Pohlmann

Purification of an antiviral for dengue virus

By Michael James Conway and Maya O. Tree

Recent climate change and foraminifera populations on Greenland's continental shelf

By Laura Larocca and Kimberly Meehan

Studying the impact of leaders' purpose-driven messages

By Gregory Hennessy

A scientific approach to placenta remedies: What hormones are found in placenta ti...

By Sophia Johnson, Jana Pastuschek, and Prof. Dr. Med. Udo Markert

Can "beneficial" microbes help eelgrass plants survive?

By Crystal Weaver

Reconnecting Indigenous Collections to their Source Communities

By Sydney Collins

Combating climate change with biochar in beautiful Bangladesh

By Nigel Gale, Md. Abdul Halim, and Sean Thomas

Help name a beetle species (with spectacular genitalia) after Stephen Colbert

By Michael Ferro

Activating brown fat to improve diabetes and obesity

By James Law and Michael Symonds

Finding Patterns Within the Connectome

By Regina R. Monaco and Russell Hanson

Can we predict whether an athlete will sustain an ACL tear?

By Liz Letchford

The worm that must be named: Schikhobalotrema n.sp.

By Daniel C Huston

Go West, young man: in search of the A00 haplogroup among peoples of Western Cameroon

By Bonnie Schrack & Matthew Fomine Forka

Does mobile phone radiation cause gene mutation in human cells?

By Shen Steve Hu and Ramin Rabii

Monitoring and Banding Birds in the Sacramento Valley of California

Making Inexpensive Insulin Using Microalgae

By Antonio Lamb, Simon Jegan Porphy, Jegathese, Jeffrey Boore, Alec O'Reilly, and 1 other

Impact of Soylent Consumption on Human Microbiome Composition

By Ryan Hsu, Dylan McCormick, Kate Schreiner, and Mitchell Seitz Jr.

Archaeology & Drones: Mapping Neolithic Structures in the Black Desert, Jordan

By Austin Hill and Yorke Rowan

Discovering the ants of Singapore

By Mark K L Wong

Targeting the Hypoxic Response in Multiple Myeloma Cells Engrafted in the Bone Marrow

By Patrick Frost, PhD and Veena Mysore, PhD

Applying non-invasive conservation physiology tools to assess and manage chronic s...

By Edward Narayan, Mandala Hunter-Ishikawa, Corinne Van Den Hoek, and Asumi Willis

Bighorn Basin Dinosaur Project's 2016 Field Expedition

By Jason P Schein

Do humpback whales cooperate while foraging?

By Natalie Mastick

Mapping snow dams and meltwater ponds in remote tundra streams using UAVs

By Branden Walker

Happy Meal, Healthy Child: Can toys reinforce choice of smaller portion sizes amon...

By Kristen Lane

A study of the radiocarbon ages and isotopic data for a new population of Steller'...

By Lorelei Crerar

Whale snot and blubber: Tools used to better understand basic physiology in free r...

How does sea level rise affect wetland soil metabolic processes in the Florida Eve...

Will dolphins cooperate to maximize their reward?

By Heather M. Hill

E pluribus unum: how honey bee bacteria coordinate behaviors

By Irene Newton and Kayla I Miller

Estimating Florida Manatee Population Size from Helicopter Sightings

By Christopher Fonnesbeck

It's all about the attitude: personality, fitness, and foraging in northern elepha...

By Rachel Holser

Are Pollutant Levels Changing in Marine Life? A Case Study of Metal Levels in Whal...

By John Wise, James Wise, Johnny Wise, Jamie Young, and 4 others

The Cookie Monster: How does the type of sugar affect different cookies?

By Emma DeLoughery

Does woody encroachment of prairies affect amphibian and reptile communities?

By Iulian Gherghel

Affordable 3D-Printed Neural Devices for Spinal Cord Regeneration

By Donald Bejleri

Can personalized medicine subtype bladder cancer?

By Douglas A. Mata, MD, MPH, Paras Minhas, BS, Taylor P. Kohn, MPhil, Marco A. Ramos, MPhil, MSEd, and 3 others

Comprehensive Conservation of Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Modern Ocean

By Lindsey Peavey, Robert Wildermuth, Carrie Kappel, and Leah Gerber

Can Data Management Tools Improve Research Efficiency and Reproducibility?

By Guillermo Vela, Hugo Guerrero-Cazares, Travis Jackson Block, Anna Christina Clements, and 1 other

What is the Role of Media Narratives in Shaping Perceptions of the Food Stamp Prog...

By Nicholas Younginer

Effects of salt intrusion on flora and fauna in South Florida

By Joshua Paladon

Does the judge's nationality affect their judicial decision making in the European...

By Hendrik M. Wendland

The Mental Health Consequences of a Genocide

By G C Pelletier

How Insects and Bacteria Can Solve Murder Mysteries

By Sibyl Rae Bucheli, Aaron Lynne, James R. Willett, and Jacquelyn Vasquez

What comes in must go out: honey bee hive economics and food allocation

By Peter Berx and Kurt Beheydt

The Joshua Tree Genome Project

By Christopher Irwin Smith, Jeremy B. Yoder, Jim Leebens-Mack, and Michael R. McKain

Brrr…It’s Cold! Can Blood Nanovesicles Encourage Heat Production and Help Fight Ob...

By Daniele Lettieri Barbato, Katia Aquilano, Rolando Vegliante, Fabiana D'Angelo, and 5 others

Are American Women of Childbearing Age Changing Their Behaviors in Response to the...

By Becky Smullin Dawson and Amelia Darrouzet-Nardi

What is True Recovery from Schizophrenia? Learning from Patients to Improve Outcom...

By Laurie Heatherington and Ellen Finch

What if we could stop the brain from making risky decisions?

By Mike Robinson, PhD, Rebecca Tom, and Charlotte Freeland

How Useful Could a Tiny New Microcontroller be for Small Spacecraft?

By Zachary Hoelscher, Niall McKinnon, Viswa Yakkala, Alexander Eaton, and 2 others

Killing the Aedes aegypti mosquito using roundworms

By Ricardo M. Souza and Claudia Dolinski

Mosquitoes as Flying Syringes: The Solution to Rapid Zika Monitoring

By Caroline Keroack, Weam I. Zaky, Marina Papaiakovou, Jessica Grant, and 2 others

The role of local communities in influencing environmental policies; Case Study: M...

By Phyllis Duff

Voices of food insecurity: Exploring barriers and strategies to healthy food access

By Chris Schaefbauer, Nina Holtz, Hana Dansky, Ingrid Castro-Campos, and 2 others

Detection of Zika virus rapidly without the need for a laboratory in Brazil

By Gilad Gomé, Danyelly Bruneska Gondim Martins, Maria Amélia Borba, Henrique Castelletti, and 3 others

False Killer Whales Detecting Fishhooks with Biosonar

By Paul E. Nachtigall and Aude Pacini

The Red Devil squid: Oxygen deprived, cold, and under pressure

By Hanane Hadj-Moussa, Samantha Logan, and Kenneth B. Storey

Obtaining clean, renewable energy from 'dead zones'

By Maria Luiza Schmitz Fontes, Lisi Heinzen De Liz, Vinicius W Salazar, Fernando De Freitas, and 2 others

Do spider silk biomaterials evolve as quickly as behaviors during adaptive radiati...

By Angela M. Alicea-Serrano and Todd Blackledge

Assessing the risk of microscopic plastic accumulation in South Carolina's Winyah Bay

By Samantha Ladewig

The cost of being super-fly: The effects of Vespa Amino Acid Mixture on cellular r...

By Caitlin Linville, Chelsea Leann Rasnic, Elizabeth Grandy, and Jason Davis

Bioinspired Engineering: Learning how bats use echolocation to develop novel dynam...

By Joseph Sutlive and Rolf Mueller

Do iridescent butterflies actively orient themselves to optimize their color signals?

By Parrish Clawson Brady

Building a stingray-inspired underwater robot

By Jon Erickson

Unraveling the mystery of mass-nesting sea turtles

By Vanessa Bezy

How do companies repair their reputation after scandals?

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh and Chun-Yi Peng

No but seriously now, how much fertilizer do we really need?

By Buz Kloot and Carl Coleman

Can we express a synthetic gene of interest in bacteria for study as an antiviral?

By Edwin Schenderlein, Celena Carrillo, Sean Greenwood, and Claudia Sanchez

How do Business and Economic Elite Facing Resist Taxation Efforts and Can it Endan...

Pinpointing disease: development and expansion of diagnostic tools for personalize...

By Sumner Magruder

How can women be successfully integrated into agricultural teams?

By Monica Cooper and Malcolm Hobbs

Increasing teens' ability to resist negative peer pressure

By Kelli Sargent and Ernie Jouriles

Who influences adolescents more - parents or friends?

By April Gile Thomas

Heavy Metals Bees: how do they indicates the transference of heavy metals through ...

By Yasmine Antonini, Alessandra Rodrigues Kozovits, and Nathália De Oliveira Nascimento

Do adolescents do and feel better when their absent military parents communicate w...

By Sarah L. Friedman, Meytal Eran Jona, and Abraham Sagi-Schwartz

Where Can Solar Panels Be Used to Extract Groundwater Sustainably?

By Khalil Lezzaik

Can the implementation of In-Situ Filtration (ISF) wells improve water quality in ...

By Hayley Schram and Peter Wampler

Can 8 weeks of high intensity exercise training improve outcomes in patients with ...

By Gerald Zavorsky

Is climate change depleting an untapped water resource?

By Raquel Granados Aguilar, Taylor Rowley, and Rodrigo Rodriguez

Moving to Mindful: Reducing Stress and Anxiety in High-Risk Teens using a Mindful...

By Rachel Lucas-Thompson, Charlotte J McKernan, and J. Douglas Coatsworth

Helping parents and their teens talk about romantic and sexual relationships

By Stacey Hust and Kathleen Boyce Rodgers

Battle of the clocks: Does your biological clock determine whether the timing of e...

By Royette Tavernier, Ph.D.

Do you really need more protein if you exercise?

By Erin Simmons

Efficacy of interval training on cardiorespiratory function and muscle force in ob...

By Todd A. Astorino Ph.D, Annie De La Rosa, and Amy Clark

Why Is Ankle Mobility Important Following Lateral Ankle Sprains?

Why benthic cladocerans (water fleas) show signs of changing lake water quality an...

What are the socioeconomic impacts of teaching Nepalese women in rural communities...

By Samantha Farquhar

Have we got it wrong about why children fail at mathematics?

Can we engineer pancreatic beta cells to function properly and safely increase ins...

Youth on the Move: Re-Storying Urban Communities with Public Art and Digital Media

By Stephen Goss, Ryan Rish, and Damiana Pyles

Through the Farm, Our Future: sustainability assessment of wheat producing farms i...

By Michael John Thompson

Do microplastics on our ocean's surface have an effect on climate change?

By Luisa Galgani, Steven Loiselle, and Anastasia Tsiola