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New map of Antarctica reveals hidden world of lakes, valleys and mountains buried beneath miles of ice

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

From flammable neighborhoods to moral hazards, fire insurance maps capture early US cities and the landscape of discrimination

Hundreds of thousands of Sanborn maps mapped the fire risk of every US city with over 1,000 people in the 20th century.

New map shows how to spot the measles risk level in your ZIP code

As measles has spread throughout the United States, many Americans have worried about their risk level. For the first time, a ...

Researchers expand human genome map to 2.37 million regulatory DNA elements

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...
eLife

A novel high-throughput single-cell DNA sequencing method reveals hidden genomic heterogeneity in the unicellular eukaryote Leishmania

This important study, which tackles the challenge of analyzing genome integrity and instability in unicellular pathogens by introducing a novel single-cell genomics approach, presents compelling ...

'She wanted her mom': Couple left 14-year-old girl to live alone in squalor with dead dog in closet, sheriff's office says

Inset left to right: Marchelle Pertilla and Eugene Medrano (Mobile County Sheriff's Office). Background: The inside of the ...
eLife

Synaptic Theory of Chunking in Working Memory

This valuable study links psychological theories of chunking with a physiological implementation based on short-term synaptic plasticity and synaptic augmentation. The theoretical derivation for ...
NPR

Code Switch

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...