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Body System concept (Getty Images/zf L)

What does "heart rate variability" mean?

Anne R. Crecelius - The Conversation
Magic Mushroom (Getty Images/VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Drug science in 2023 is gonna be lit

Troy Farah
Herpes virus (CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Tests start for herpes vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
Girl refusing cigarette (Getty Images/MiljaPhoto)

Teens are becoming more square

Troy Farah
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A boat approaching a small island in the Aegean Sea. (Getty Images/George Pachantouris)

Boats predate humans — by 500,000 years

Troy Farah
Firefighters battle the NCAR Fire on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. The wildfire, which has forced almost 20,000 people to evacuate their homes, started just a few miles away from where the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Fires in Colorado get more unpredictable

Jennifer Oldham - ProPublica
Silhouettes of students with graduate caps in a row on sunset background (Getty Images)

How to fix adult education

Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby, Anna Clark - ProPublica
A pregnant woman receiving an ultrasound (Getty Images/Antenna)

Why is the doctor ignoring me?

Duaa Eldeib - ProPublica
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Little boy feeling pain while getting a vaccine (Getty Images/Luis Alvarez)

The quest to make a needle-less vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
Which Is The Weightier? (Artist John Doyle/The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

The cultural relativity of beauty

Matthew Rozsa
Protesters holding a banner during the construction blockade. 10 people from the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion NYC (XRNYC) were arrested in Bushwick for blocking the construction of the North Brooklyn fracked gas transmission pipeline for over 2 hours in a non-violent civil disobedience protest of this massive fossil fuel project. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Yes, local climate activism works

Adam Aron - The Conversation
(Getty/Emmanuel Dunand)

Public transit recovering from pandemic

Kari Edison Watkins - The Conversation
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New Twitter owner Elon Musk is seen surrounded by Twitter logos (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Twitter's threat to public health

Anjana Susarla - The Conversation
A man holding a non-stick pan with a damaged coating (Getty Images/Elena Gurova)

3M to stop making ‘forever chemicals’

John McCracken, Joseph Winters - Grist
DNA molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The case of the first gene-edited babies

G. Owen Schaefer - The Conversation
Woman at the doctor's office (Getty Images/fstop123)

The year in abortion in America

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Oil pipelines, pumping rigs, and electrical transmission lines dot the landscape along California's "Petroleum Highway" (Highway 33) running along the northwestern side of the San Joaquin Valley on April 24, 2020, near McKittrick, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Big Oil vs. California

Blanca Begert - Grist
Harvesting alfalfa crop, aerial view. (Getty Images)

Adjusting farming for climate change

Derek Lynch - The Conversation
Futuristic glowing low-polygonal bacilli bacteria and flu virus cells (Getty Images/inkoly)

Are viruses alive?

Matthew Rozsa
James Webb Telescope and Pillars of Creation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NASA)

Webb's spectacular year one

Matthew Rozsa
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A man walks with his son after being reunited in an I.C.E processing center, after being separated for three months when they tried to cross into the United States. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

COVID dread for immigration detainees

Renuka Rayasam - KFF Health News
Aliens emerging from the light at the end of a tunnel (Getty Images/David Wall)

2022 in the search for aliens

Matthew Rozsa
Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign on February 18, 2021 in Killeen, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Texas grid holds amid record demand

Emily Foxhall - The Texas Tribune
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Learning to love burned trees

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
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