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Massive helps scientists share stories about their work and lives in pursuit of a more informed, rational, and curious society.
Joined February 2016
We have some news. We're taking a break from publishing on https://t.co/jnvLI0rZcF. It's been a long pandemic, and it's time for us as an organization to reconsider how we serve our many audiences: writers and journalists, partners, readers and our staff.
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We're a community of scientists telling fascinating, true stories about the science that's happening now.
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To start the week off right, here’s a particularly delicious sample from our new issue: in an epic food review, Nadia @thebirdisgone Berenstein surveys the struggles of lab-grown seafood makers to replicate the subtle flavors of the ocean. 📸: @millasorel
https://t.co/oJYbeon4Nx
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Disclaimer: The Futures Issue does not predict The Future. Instead, it is our attempt to demystify how the idea of The Future is constructed—a toolkit for building our own alternative paths forward. Ready to order now: https://t.co/QX6VLTI1vn
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So a blood test tells you that you're aging too fast...Now what? my latest for grow: https://t.co/42lDalrQJL
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A blood test says you’re aging too fast. Now what?
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A new class of at-home blood tests promise to reveal your true biological age. But how reliable are those estimates and what can a person do with that information? @laxmevy delves deep & tells the story of one user trying to turn back the hands of time.
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A blood test says you’re aging too fast. Now what?
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Today, @d_samorodnitsky reviews an “increasingly plausible” theory of how all life began. Unlike the dominant RNA World theory, he finds Rodin Ohno hypothesis “compellingly physical…the most comforting origin story.” Read why below. 🎨: @joana_gcc
https://t.co/zJgmBViQ9l
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Competing Origin of Life theories offer radically different ways of thinking about biology
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What it does it mean for living machines can assemble copies of themselves? @growbyginkgo @massivesci
https://t.co/XZ4RFcwANZ
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These scientists created living robots out of frog cells. Now these “Xenobots” are reproducing.
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The team behind Xenobots recently announced that their "living robots" can self-replicate. These reprogrammed frog cells can assemble identical copies of themselves. @laxmevy sat down with Xenobot creators @drmichaellevin & @DoctorJosh for a deep dive.
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These scientists created living robots out of frog cells. Now these “Xenobots” are reproducing.
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"In STEM, a few minorities are introduced into a monoculture and expected to thrive. We need to rethink the whole environment from the ground up." Drawing on her #lessonsfromplants, @BerondaM proposes a powerful new way of thinking about equity in STEM.
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What the plant kingdom can teach us about creating a more equitable science world
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Happy 315th birthday to Émilie du Châtelet! One of our science heroes, she blew past the gender norms of French aristocracy to be a pioneering physicist, scicommer, and advocate for women's education.
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She improved on Newton's work and outclassed Voltaire
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“Until we can comprehend the majority of eukaryotic life, we are playing in the shallows of an ocean of biological potential.” Do yourself a favor and read @davian_ho on protists and what they could mean for a future synthetic biology. @JourneyToMicro
https://t.co/pZuc9Pfh5O
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Why protists could turn out to be synthetic biology’s dark horse.
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This article "Biology is a Spectrum" quotes both @genderscilab and @Fausto_Sterling #goodcompany
https://t.co/boYXRUwE4K
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Life on Earth is complex and irreducible
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The most recent attempt to salvage behavioral genetics from its racist entanglements takes a hard fall with this book review by Kevin Bird. Before you get taken (in) with The Genetic Lottery, read this review/ https://t.co/lKsGDjqLSk
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Kathryn Paige Harden’s book tries to demonstrate how genetics can ameliorate societal ills. She falls well, well short
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New on The Broadcast: "How conservation science is relying on banks of genetic information to pause the sixth mass extinction" @kaitsulliva @massivesci
https://t.co/bJ0be2SMbX via @PioneerWorks_
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How conservation science is relying on banks of genetic information to pause the sixth mass extinction.
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"...the knowledge that biology is itself a spectrum, not just in one phenotype but in all of them, is liberation from a boxed-in world." Thank you for writing this piece, @d_samorodnitsky.
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A critical and thoughtful review with robust historical, theoretical and methodological engagement. Plus great quotes and context from Lewontin and colleagues. By @thebirdmaniac
https://t.co/Gb4xAj8O3s via @massivesci
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Kathryn Paige Harden’s book tries to demonstrate how genetics can ameliorate societal ills. She falls well, well short
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Closer to Russia than the United States, St. Lawrence Island has been Delbert Pungowiyi's home all his life.
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.@walkingthedot reports from inside an extraterrestrial's mind. How would we find an alien when we don't really know what we're looking for? Well, we must think like an alien. https://t.co/lc9G3lj1IK
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Researchers must ponder what extraterrestrials might know and how they might behave
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