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Dorit Hanein
Dorit Hanein’s team and collaborators captured Rac1, a tiny molecular switch, rapidly building and breaking cellular scaffolds, revealing how cells swiftly reshape their skeletons to move and adapt.
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Juan Manuel Urueña Vargas
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Dead Men Tell Tales, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
Orbital lesions (cribra orbitalia) in a young child from the medieval site of Helgeandsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
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Matt Perko
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Yaoinlove via iStock
Children are more sensitive to heat than adults, and chronic overheating can affect their experience and engagement at school.
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H. Zell via Wikimedia
The non-native black rat was the only small mammal infected with Hantavirus in an immensely biodiverse region of Madagascar. Animals trapped in agricultural fields carried the disease more often than those trapped in homes or in the rainforest.