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I'm a freelance journalist based in Casablanca, Morocco covering news, travel, culture, and science. My portfolio is at laurenschenkman.com.

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Discovering how butterflies choose their mate

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By Natalia Mesa Verified, Lauren Schenkman, Paul Middlebrooks
| The Transmitter Verified
Your browser does not support the video tag. A pop of color: Heliconius butterflies tend to prefer mates that match their own color patterns. Video by Mariana Murillo Heliconius butterflies offer a window into the neural circuits and genes involved in mate color preference. A pop of color: Heliconius butterflies tend to prefer mates that match their own color patterns.
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Data centers’ indirect water use is a bigger part of their water footprint than the water they use directly: report

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By Lauren Schenkman
| Facilities Dive Verified
Data centers in seven states with a large number of the facilities use about 3.4 trillion gallons of freshwater indirectly because of the electricity they consume, according to a from sustainability nonprofit Ceres. That makes electricity, rather than cooling, the biggest contributor to data centers’ overall water use.
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Dutch primate center awaits October animal research debate

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By Emily Singer Verified, Lauren Schenkman, Arash Fassihi
| The Transmitter Verified
One of Europe’s biggest primate research centers has escaped a budget mandate passed last October that would have phased out federal funding for animal experiments at the center by 2030. But the fate of the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC), based in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, remains vulnerable, according to center director Merel Langelaar, a veterinarian.
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