All Papers

Ancient footprints offer clues into early humans’ body size New footprints from Laetoli (Tanzania) provide evidence for marked body size variation in early hominins

Annotated by Mary Colvard

Annotated on 09/24/2018

Originally published 12/14/2016

Einstein explains: It's all relative Time, space, and gravitation

Annotated by Staci Hill

Annotated on 08/30/2018

Originally published 01/02/1920

Just a few degrees can change an ecosystem Climate change: The 2015 Paris Agreement thresholds and Mediterranean basin ecosystems

Annotated by Sarah Studer

Annotated on 07/26/2018

Originally published 10/28/2016

Harnessing symbiosis to hide in plain sight Evidence for light perception in a bioluminescent organ

Annotated by Cheryl Squair

Annotated on 05/31/2018

Originally published 04/28/2009

Out of Africa: What skin color tells us about human evolution Loci associated with skin pigmentation identified in African populations

Annotated by Allison Mayle , Beth Ruedi PhD

Annotated on 04/25/2018

Originally published 10/12/2017

Keeping up with climate change: Species on the move Rapid range shifts of species associated with high levels of climate warming

Annotated by Christine Naspinski

Annotated on 03/29/2018

Originally published 08/11/2011

If you give a rat a tickle Neural correlates of ticklishness in the rat somatosensory cortex

Annotated by Christine Hunter, Christina Juste , Taylor Plenty …

Annotated on 03/05/2018

Originally published 11/11/2016

Hair, feathers, and scales: An evolutionary tale The anatomical placode in reptile scale morphogenesis indicates shared ancestry among skin appendages in amniotes

Annotated by Alicia Graham, Reyhaneh Sharif Sanavi, Hamidreza Esmaeili …

Annotated on 01/25/2018

Originally published 06/24/2016

CRISPR-Cas9 vs. DNA: A knockout Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screening in human cells

Annotated by Justin German, Ian Ahrens, Regg Strotheide …

Annotated on 12/06/2017

Originally published 01/03/2014

Good science is reproducible science Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

Annotated by Rima-Maria Rahal

Annotated on 10/26/2017

Originally published 08/28/2015

Coral reefs ride out the storm Hurricane Allen's impact on Jamaican coral reefs

Annotated by Bryan Nguyen

Annotated on 10/10/2017

Originally published 11/13/1981

How explosions can tackle the brain Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in blast-exposed military veterans and a blast neurotrauma mouse model

Annotated by Andrew Fisher, Lee Goldstein, Shelby Lake

Annotated on 08/31/2017

Originally published 05/16/2012

Does peer review choose the best science? Big names or big ideas: Do peer-review panels select the best science proposals?

Annotated by Zsuzsanna Gere, Baptiste Rouger, Oleksandra Sorokina …

Annotated on 07/27/2017

Originally published 04/24/2014

Can eco-leadership save the planet? Beyond the roots of human inaction: Fostering collective effort toward ecosystem conservation

Annotated by Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Susan Koger …

Annotated on 04/21/2017

Originally published 04/21/2017

Learning to let go: The extinction of fear memory Induction of fear extinction with hippocampal-infralimbic BDNF

Annotated by Adam Swiercz

Annotated on 10/21/2016

Originally published 06/04/2010

The building blocks of Alzheimer's Reducing endogenous tau ameliorates amyloid ß-induced deficits in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

Annotated by Hilary Gerstein

Annotated on 10/07/2016

Originally published 05/04/2007

Rats to the rescue! Empathy and pro-social behavior in rats.

Annotated by Chantal Bodkin-Clarke

Annotated on 10/05/2016

Originally published 12/09/2011

High-throughput screening of drug leads Nanomole-scale high-throughput chemistry for the synthesis of complex molecules

Annotated by Gurshagan Kandhola

Annotated on 08/23/2016

Originally published 01/02/2015

CSI Africa: Tracking ivory poachers Genetic assignment of large seizures of elephant ivory reveals Africa’s major poaching hotspots

Annotated by Travis Dittmer, Paul Beardsley

Annotated on 08/18/2016

Originally published 07/03/2015

A caffeine jolt gives bees a buzz to remember Caffeine in floral nectar enhances a pollinator's memory of reward

Annotated by Tara Bracken

Annotated on 08/08/2016

Originally published 03/08/2013

An eft of a central newt from (Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis) Iowa. / Physon, CC

Limb regeneration: Fact or (science) fiction? Molecular basis for the nerve dependence of limb regeneration in an adult vertebrate

Annotated by Jason Librande

Annotated on 07/29/2016

Originally published 11/02/2007

An image of neurons in a mouse hippocampus taken with expansion microscopy. Credit Ed Boyden, Fei Chen, Paul Tillberg/MIT

Expanding the limits of optical resolution Expansion microscopy

Annotated by Bob Kao

Annotated on 07/27/2016

Originally published 01/30/2015

Can we handle the power of CRISPR? The mutagenic chain reaction: A method for converting heterozygous to homozygous mutations

Annotated by Jennifer Susan Stancill

Annotated on 07/26/2016

Originally published 04/24/2015

Brain makeover Vascular and neurogenic rejuvenation of the aging mouse brain by young systemic factors

Annotated by Eshini Panditharatna

Annotated on 07/22/2016

Originally published 05/09/2014

One vaccine to rule them all Long-term measles-induced immunomodulation increases overall childhood infectious disease mortality

Annotated by Sara Reynolds

Annotated on 07/21/2016

Originally published 05/08/2015

Empowering youth through summer jobs Summer jobs reduce violence among disadvantaged youth

Annotated by Jessica Ham

Annotated on 07/20/2016

Originally published 12/05/2014

Metabolic middle ground Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs

Annotated by Valerie May

Annotated on 07/19/2016

Originally published 06/13/2014

Origin of immunity Fate mapping analysis reveals that adult microglia derive from primitive macrophages

Annotated by Tatiana Schnieder

Annotated on 07/18/2016

Originally published 11/05/2010