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We at Science News read a lot of journal articles—scores and scores each week. The choicest few become fodder for what ends up filling our pages. But poring over all of those papers makes us quite familiar with a topic—“the bleak sensory landscape” of scientific texts—discussed in a commentary released today in, of all places, EMBO Reports. It’s a publication of the European Molecular Biology Organization. The authors, an electrical engineer at Columbia University and geneticist at the University of Chicago, used data-mining algorithms to tally the number of times various sensory...

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