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Simple science communication helps ease fears and spread good information during the COVID-19 pandemic

Epidemiologists Eleanor Murray and Benjamin Linas have created a set of posters for Boston-area patients, which have since been translated into many languages

Your brain isn't the same in virtual reality as it is in the real world

VR is widely used to study the brain, but it isn't the same as real life — and this has real-world consequences

Scientists built a 4D map of cell division

Cell division involves around 600 different proteins — it could take five or so years to study a single protein

A version of this article originally appeared on NPR Scicommers

When scientists become 'data parasites,' everybody wins

Why some scientists are celebrating colleagues who "steal" data

Meet the chemist who engineered the first effective treatment of leprosy

Alice Augusta Ball died at the age of 24. Ninety years later, we finally started recognizing her contributions.