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Clone Wars – Applying Selective Pressures to Evolve Clonal Multicellularity

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Holdfast! There's more to kelp than meets the eye.

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The Gamification of Music Education

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Tiny Messengers, Big Impact: Exploring the Gut–Brain Axis

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Knock, knock! Black-backed Woodpeckers have arrived, and it’s not where you’d expect

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Wolves, Cougars and the Fight for Food in Yellowstone

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It’s a RNA’s World and We’re all Living in it

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Understanding the Vole Picture

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A pear a day keeps the doctor…wishing for pear varieties with better rooting abilities

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From Space to the Sea: Oceanography Across Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales

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Scat, and wolves, and worms, oh my!

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When the Party’s Over: The Effects of Megafire on Oregon’s Forest Ecosystems

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Entering Tsunami Hazard Zone

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Farewell Interview: Esteban Hernandez

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Mimicking the body to help mother earth

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Oregon’s Next Top Model: Bull Kelp!

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Getting a Sense of the World Around You

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An Expert on Experts!

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Giants of Aotearoa: Predator-prey dynamics of blue whales in South Taranaki Bight, New Zealand

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Under the Bodhi Tree: Stories and Science

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The Eelgrass is Greener on the Other Side

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Nature and the Fire Inside

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Exploring the human-wildlife landscape of eastern Oregon

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A Burning Passion (All My Homies Hate Cheat Grass)

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Spines & Seaweed: Exploring the Complicated Relationships Between Urchins and Kelp

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Nanoplastics: From Farm to Table

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Mom Genes Look Good on Everyone

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Progress: A Natural Product of Science

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SHIME on: Simulated Guts, Prebiotics, and Passion

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No Rest for the Massless

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Tracking Sharks in the Pacific Northwest

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Protein Power!

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PFAS? Seems a little zebrafishy to me

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Gross and slimy: How salmon shark barf can teach us about their foraging ecology

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Carbon Dioxide Capture

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Diving into Underwater Robots

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The fourth of the Five Goliaths: Mercury poisoning

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Take a Deep Breath: Tracing the Carbon in our Air back to the Source

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The details are in the DNA

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How do you like them NAPLs?

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For the union makes us strong

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Straying from the stream: investigating the impacts of spring Chinook salmon hatchery fish on wild, origin fish

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Is Climate Change Making Gray Whales Picky Eaters?

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Fear.exe: How horror video games hijack more than just your computer

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From hooves to helicopters: the study of foot-and-mouth disease virus in African buffalo

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Sustainability and Decolonization of Doulas in the Healthcare Workforce

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Molecular Nutrition in Infants

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Translating Language and Transferring Knowledge

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Wind Farms and Fisheries

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Training the trainers who train the trainers of little humans

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Sniffing for science

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Hypoxic plankton

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Humpbacks in Mexico

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A surprise trip to the coldest continent on Earth!

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The Fiction in Poverty

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Artificial, Intelligent–Safe?

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Sim Like a Fish

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Exploding Cheeses and Microbes at Work

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Writing for Discovery

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My new neighbor might be a ghost (shrimp)

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The Memoir of El

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Taking Inspiration from Life: Short stories on why we believe what we believe

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Forever Chemicals: How can we better detect PFAS?

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The Lost Loggers: The Erasure and Exclusion of the Black Logging Community of Maxville, Oregon

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Bees Get Degrees

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Poopy predators: Assessing carnivore diet and population dynamics via non-invasive genetics

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Fighting for your French Fries

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Digging Deep: What on earth is there to learn from dirt?

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ChatGPT and Me

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Cheese and disease: how bacteria survive long term

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The noxious nucleocapsid

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The opposite of a pest: Bees, wasps and other beneficial bugs

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Nobody wants to eat bitter cheese

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Diving into the Unknown: Exploring the Role of Viruses in Coral Reef Health

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"Grouper Groupie": Studying Climate Change and the Nassau Grouper

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Finicky Fish: Investigating the impact of dams on the John Day White Sturgeon

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Robotic agents and coordination

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No Longer a Torrent of Salamanders

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Cell Repair for Muscular Dystrophy

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A Gut Feeling: Examining Whale Ecology Using Number-Two Genetics

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What to do with all the whey?

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Krypton-ice: what the noble gases tell us about the ancient climate

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LGBTQ+ health disparities and the impact of stress

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Lean, Mean, Bioinformatics Machine

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Environment and male turtles

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Smoky Beer (Halloween Episode)

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Stressed out corals

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What ice sheets can teach us about ancient ocean shorelines

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Warming waters, waning nutrition: energy and the oceanic food web

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Violence and Hyper Masculinity in Film

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Environmental Justice: what it is, and what to do about it

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From A(lgorithms) to Z(O-1 proteins): A Computer Scientist’s Journey into the Lab

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Our Energy System in Transition: Pushing The Grid Towards Zero Emissions

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The non-Ghostbusing Venkman: a virus that "eats" marine bacteria

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Spaghetti and Networks: Oodles of Nodes

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AI that benefits humans and humanity

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Horror in Fiction

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The rigamarole of RNA, ribosomes, and machine learning

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Red, Red, (smoky) Wine

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Special Episode: OSU alum raises $400k for trans advocacy groups