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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
Crime Scene Police Tape (Getty Images/Prathaan)

Colo. considers changing gun laws

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
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The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Climate may have driven Huns to raid

Troy Farah
Portrait of American military commander and 18th US President Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885) (Stock Montage/Getty Images)

The president who couldn't hear music

Matthew Rozsa
Semi Truck on I-5 (Getty Images)

New pollution rule for heavy-duty trucks

Brett Marsh - Grist
A female Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and her baby sitting on a tree in Gombe Stream National Park in Western Tanzania (Getty Images/guenterguni)

Did bipedalism evolve in the trees?

Troy Farah
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Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Impact (Getty Images/Peter Zelei Images)

2022: The year the pandemic dragged on

Matthew Rozsa
Crime scene barrier tape (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

Many coroners have no medical background

Samantha Young - KFF Health News
Hospital bed in the hallway (Getty Images/David Sacks)

When hospitals become usurers

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

An international deal to protect nature

Blanca Begert - Grist
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