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The SciFri Book Club reads ‘The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year’

Many of us have gotten sucked into the tiny dramas unfolding in our backyards, or on the bird feeder or the fire escape. But not everyone can turn those observations into a best-selling book. Author Margaret Renkle joins Host Flora Lichtman to talk about the SciFri Book Club pick ...  Show more

Meet the tiny, see-through fish that can regenerate its brain

Move over, Drosophila. Step aside, C. elegans. Scientists are working to establish a new model organism. It’s a tiny species of glassfish called Danionella cerebrum, and its claim to fame is that it's almost completely transparent and can regrow parts of its body, including its b ...  Show more

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