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It’s been one of those days. You lock yourself out of your car. You get into an argument with a loved one. Your professor decides to assign an additional packet of readings over Thanksgiving break to ...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] It’s been seven something months since you finished your first year of graduate school. Second year! How blissful…right? You ...

The immune system faces a paradox: it must recognize dangerous invaders while carefully sparing the body it protects. This is not an enviable job. Pathogens evolve quickly to hide in plain sight, and ...

Forty-three days. The longest government shutdown in United States history. From Oct. 1 through Nov. 12, uncertainty rippled across the country as the Senate debated extending health care subsidies ...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest photography category.] Baker Beach during my first San Francisco heat wave was a sight to behold. The shore transformed into a colorful ...