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Biology

When stories speak more truth than dog DNA analysis

Researchers turned to an unlikely source in a doggy DNA study. Here's why their technique should be used more often.

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Genetics

The case against the "gay gene"

What "Born This Way" got wrong, and whether we should even search for a genetic cause for sexuality

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Health

The public health crisis brewing behind bars

Incarceration leaves long-term impacts on an inmate's health. The staggering rates of incarceration transform those consequences into an epidemic.

Biology

Honey, I Drowned the Bees

The scientific reason behind a buzzy new study.

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Space

The solar eclipse, as seen by Sequencer readers

Earlier this week we asked our readers to share with us their photos of Monday's solar eclipse. What each person saw during the eclipse – in their backyard, in the park, several time zones away from home squatting in a cemetery – was shaped by our lives, as all art,

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Space

Why I’m a three-time eclipse chaser

Meditations on eclipse hunting, humanity, and the passage of time.

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Send us your eclipse photos!

Show! Us! The! Eclipse!

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News

Things seen and unseen at the solar eclipse, 2024

Strange darkness, confused birds, and the varieties of scientific experience.

A brief list of things I hope will happen during the 2024 solar eclipse

Keeping my fingers crossed!!

News

Don't step on this caterpillar

A Brazilian research institute is the only thing standing between a caterpillar sting and an untimely, grisly death.

A high-perch view of the Belo Monte dam that stretches across the Xingu River in Brazil.

Environment

Hydropower isn’t as green as you think

Brazil, the main stronghold nation of the Amazon rainforest, is embarking on a dam-building spree that ignores concerns the world has seen many times over.

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Neuroscience

Andrew Huberman is a celebrity first

And the case against celebrity scientists couldn’t be clearer

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Health Featured

Stop asking me why I care about tuberculosis

The pragmatic case for giving a sh*t about the world’s deadliest disease.

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cats

A brief introduction to a cat

The joy and the benefit of reader-supported publications like Sequencer is the relationship that readers and writers develop together. We are all characters in each others' lives. My therapist is known by his first name among my friends because I bring him up so often. Writers and artists I&

Environment

How Did We Draw The Planet Before We Actually Saw It?

The story of our not-so-Blue Marble

Welcome to SEQUENCER

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Biology

Alpine flower resolves sexual conflict through spacetime manipulation

You are a pretty little flower. You are Pulsatilla alpina, the alpine pasqueflower. You are have both male and female sexual machinery. This raises a conflict within you. All species that sexually reproduce have "sexual conflict," where sex-specific traits have different evolutionary arcs or are just straight-up in

News

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