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Adapted from Undesirable: Invasive Species, Humans and Where We All Belong, by Amy Crawford (Oxford University Press). In 1922, Popular Science ran an exclusive interview with Henry C. Wallace, then the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, about a small division of his department that had an outsize influence on Americans’ dinner tables—and imaginations. “[A] little band
Researcher Laura Carter’s children look out at the tarmac at Heathrow Airport, before the family boards a flight for a research trip to Australia. A trip in November 2025 brought home just how complex my family life has become. For a moment, my husband and I were in the air at the same time, crossing
Private firms will host US doctoral students in a scheme announced by the US National Science Foundation.Credit: Getty The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has kicked off a sweeping effort to deepen the ties between PhD students and industry. The pilot programme will provide participants with hands-on industry research experience and funding from universities, companies
Biospecimen processing and quality control Before extracting nucleic acids, pathology quality control (QC) was performed on all frozen and FFPE tumours and normal specimens. From frozen tissue, a 30 mg or smaller piece was prepared, or an equivalent amount of scrolls were cut from a FFPE block, with sections stained with haematoxylin and eosin taken from