“If you find yourself outside on a dark, clear night, with the haze of our Milky Way galaxy arcing overhead, see if you can pick out the dark, starless patches where dust and gas might gather. In this galaxy and beyond, stars and planets are forming, and the cycle of dust continues.”

Join Meghan Feldman as she illustrates how deeply dust and the cosmos are intertwined: https://www.thesciencewriter.org/small-things-stories/cosmic-cycle-of-dust

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"Lice are — and always have been — with us. Paleoentomologists can analyze the DNA of prehistoric lice remains found buried with their hosts to help piece together the story of early human migrations. Lice go where we go. Their story is our story."

For The Science Writer, Sarah Hartnett, a pediatrician, shares the history and her perspective on the teeny, tiny menace.

Read the essay here: https://www.thesciencewriter.org/small-things-stories/lice-lessons-learned

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