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3D rendered image, enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancer cells. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

How cancer cells move

Yizeng Li - The Conversation
A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Airline medical kits fall short

Vignesh Ramachandran - KFF Health News
Stethoscope and US dollars (Getty Images/Juan Moyano)

Orthopedic docs sell to private equity

Harris Meyer - KFF Health News
Heat waves rise near a heat danger warning sign on the eve of the AdventurCORPS Badwater 135 ultra-marathon race on July 14, 2013 in Death Valley National Park, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

90% of humans will suffer drought, heat

Matthew Rozsa
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Artist’s concept of a fallback disk around pulsar 4U 0142+61. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC))

A strange star with a solid surface

Troy Farah
Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021. (EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

Despite laws, deforestation not stopping

Maria Parazo Rose - Grist
Sunrise from South Colony Lake below Crestone Needle in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Westcliffe, Colorado. (Getty Images/Mike Berenson/Colorado Captures)

"30×30": Conservation's flashy new goal

Blanca Begert - Grist
Condoms in red wrappers (Getty Images / Alberto Tudor / 500px)

A "new" STI is on the rise

Troy Farah
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Girl with measles on their body (Getty Images/StockPlanets)

How a measles outbreak happened in Ohio

Nicole Karlis
A torn seat from an old car (Getty Images/Nicki1982)

A plant-based polyurethane alternative

Srikanth Pilla, James Sternberg - The Conversation
Student Meeting With School Counselor (Getty Images/monkeybusinessimages)

Fixing the youth mental health crisis

Cameka Hazel
This photo shows a vial of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, Bivalent, at AltaMed Medical clinic in Los Angeles, California, on October 6, 2022. (RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)

Americans aren't getting COVID boosters

Jenna Clark
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This photograph taken on February 3, 2021 shows workers assembling solar panels on the shore of the Tengeh reservoir as part of the constuction of a floating solar power farm in Singapore. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

There's a skills gap for green jobs

Christopher Boone, Karen C. Seto - The Conversation
Destruction of a cancer cell (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The future is "nanomedicine"

Morteza Mahmoudi - The Conversation
Fly on a big flower (Getty Images / Enrique Díaz / 7cero)

Earth is turning into a planet of flies

Troy Farah
Woman gliding through the web on a skateboard (Getty Images/We Are)

The Internet exists because of the state

Matthew Rozsa
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Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

California expands health safety net

Bernard J. Wolfson - KFF Health News
Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

What FDA's abortion pill changes mean

Nicole Karlis
The outside of the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center is seen through a gate (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Training to be an abortion doula in N.C.

Claire Donnelly - KFF Health News
A box of Narcan nasal spray (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

NY docs must give naloxone with opioids

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
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People line up before a Covid-19 vaccination drive the Lynchburg fire Department is helping organize at an old TJ Maxx store in Lynchburg, Virginia on March 13, 2021. - The Lynchburg Fire department teamed up with the city government and private industry to help administer and distribute vaccines to the counties around. They also use outreach with community groups to attract county residents from the surrounding areas to the mass vaccination sites. The biggest challenge the department sees moving forward is getting the vaccine to people in the rural areas. Health workers in the United States have administered more than 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses, an official tracker showed Friday, March 12, around 30 percent of the world's total of shots in arms so far. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Health agencies try to restore trust

Lauren Sausser - KFF Health News
USA, California, Los Angeles, traffic on the freeway (Getty Images)

The rising onslaught of noise

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui (Zhao Chuang/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

The dinosaur–bird missing link fossil

Troy Farah
The waiting room at Alamo Womens Reproductive Services is empty as just an hour prior the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade shutting down abortion services at Alamo Womens Reproductive Services on June 24, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

What happens when you restrict abortion

Nicole Karlis
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