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The fellowships celebrate exceptional students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines

A program at the Johns Hopkins University puts first-generation students in labs in a field that can feel inaccessible and intimidating.

Scientists have carefully simulated conditions on Earth in the earliest part of its history, some 4.6 billion years ago, hoping to unlock a greater understanding of how amino acids brought the first ingredients for life into being.

According to the research, the natural process of evolution may have been in action even before the development of life as we know it.

By simulating early Earth conditions in the lab, researchers have found that without specific amino acids, ancient proteins would not have known how to evolve into everything alive on the planet today-;including plants, animals, and humans.

In early Earth simulation co-led by Hopkins researchers, scientists gain insights into how amino acids shaped the genetic code of ancient microorganisms

E. coli proteins lacking the ability to reassemble themselves could one day help scientists rethink studies of the human brain

When I was on a search committee, I saw the sausage-making of synagogue life and how hard compromise is, but when done right, it can get you a pretty great choice

Michelle Huneven’s book set at a California church goes deep into the sausage-making at liberal houses of worship.

Older than the founding of the United States, the Liberty Bell has endured as a symbol of freedom for many Americans, even though that was not its original role.