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Horseshoe crabs in spawning season at Reeds Beach, N.J., on June 13, 2023. AP Photo/Matt Rourke

October 12, 2023

Horseshoe crab blood is vital for testing intravenous drugs, but new synthetic alternatives could mean pharma won’t bleed this unique species dry

Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology and Jolie Crunelle, Rochester Institute of Technology

Horseshoe crabs play a unique role in medicine, but they’re also ecologically important in their home waters along the Atlantic coast. Can regulators balance the needs of humans and nature?

Tu Youyou shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. Claudio Bresciani/AFP via Getty Images

March 4, 2022

Women’s History Month: 5 groundbreaking researchers who mapped the ocean floor, tested atomic theories, vanquished malaria and more

Maggie Villiger, The Conversation

Discover the stories of five trailblazing women – Tharp, Nice, Tu, Noether and Wu – who worked in STEM during the 20th century.

Making sense of bird behavior was a lifelong passion for Margaret Morse Nice. AP Photo

December 13, 2019

Margaret Morse Nice thought like a song sparrow and changed how scientists understand animal behavior

Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology

This 20th century ornithologist earned the respect of her contemporaries for her animal behavior research that went against the grain of traditional science.

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