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The rising Brown University senior and biology concentrator is conducting hands-on research with snake specimens at natural ...

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A leaf-eared mouse living more than 6,700 meters (22,000 feet) above sea level in the Andes has shattered assumptions about ...

Contributed by Xing Wang Deng; received June 21, 2024; accepted October 28, 2024; reviewed by Daniel J. Cosgrove, Richard A. Dixon, and Loren Rieseberg ...