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A box of mounted and labeled iridescent bees.
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Gayle Laird ©2021 California Academy of Sciences
Museum collections hold a wealth of data just waiting to be brought into the digital age.

The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century

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Man stands shirtless with his arms open towards the ocean
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UC Santa Barbara researchers establish the Center for Longevity and Aging Studies
A computer rendering of bacteria and a superbug
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Ryan Allen and Peter Allen, Second Bay Studios
A new antibiotic cured mice infected with bacteria deemed nearly “untreatable” in humans — and resistance to the drug was virtually undetectable.

New antibiotic cures superbugs without bacterial resistance
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New electrical method triggers and analyzes dynamics of brain protein that underlie many neurodegenerative diseases
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Photo by Laura College, Unsplash

Researchers use machine learning to map where sharks face the most risk from longline fishing
A dusky-footed woodrat with baby in tow

Mapping Lyme Disease Out West
healthy options for ketogenic diet

An ‘Amazing’ Result

A Needle in a Coastal Haystack
Light shines through the leaves of a venus flytrap, revealing a captured insect

Mixing Up Metabolism
Young father trying to work on laptop as his children stand around him

The World According to GARP
sample tubes containing seawater and sand in a test tube rack

Fantastic Bioplastic
Pink cells on a purple background

From Droplet to Discovery
Two silver colored fish swim above a red coral reef in dark blue water

Healing Our Ocean
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