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A big part of Donna Norton’s job as a peer support specialist with the Hornbuckle Foundation is building relationships with people in the early stages of recovery from substance use disorders. Norton draws from her own history with addiction, homelessness, and the justice system to help them get back on their feet. (Rae Ellen Bichell/KHN)

"Player-coaches" changing recovery game

Rae Ellen Bichell
US President Joe Biden speaks at a Democratic National Committee event at the Columbus Club in Union Station, Washington, DC (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

"AI Bill of Rights" governs safe AI

Christopher Dancy - The Conversation
Sunset over crashing ocean currents (Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

'Water paradox' solved by microdroplets

Nicolás M. Morato - The Conversation
People wait for eye exams at a Remote Area Medical Clinic (RAM) on February 03, 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Knoxville's ingrained health inequality

Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News
Bee on a vibrant orange flower (Getty Images/Vicki Jauron, Babylon and Beyond Photography)

Bees live half as long as they used to

Matthew Rozsa
Young pregnant woman being examined during pregnancy while coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

Private equity in the maternity ward

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
World map composed of people (Getty Images/imaginima)

Humanity just hit 8 billion. What now?

Troy Farah
Exhaust air rises from the chimneys of the Moorburg coal-fired power plant into the sky. (Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)

How energy companies envision the future

Seth Blumsack, Lara B. Fowler - The Conversation
Plastic Pollution in the Ocean (Getty Images/Yunaidi Joepoet)

Climate change inequity: Who pays?

Bethany Tietjen - The Conversation
COVID-19 virus destruction (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

The COVID "Franken-virus" threat

Troy Farah
People participate in a rally organized by RiseUp4AbortionRights, which held rallies and marches nationwide to oppose the growing erosion of abortion rights on International Women's Day. (Wendy P. Romero/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Abortion bans neglect teen pregnancies

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

Hospital probed after denying abortion

Harris Meyer - KFF Health News
Woman fanning herself (Getty Images/Jose Miguel Sanchez)

Don't fear the hot flash

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Smoke from Southern California wildfires drifts through the L.A. Basin, obscuring downtown skyscrapers in a view from a closed Griffith Observatory on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Here's why 'brown carbon' is so bad

Nealan Gerrebos, Allan Bertram - The Conversation
Woman wearing a surgical mask as crowd of people walk past her in blur motion (Getty Images/nycshooter)

The forgotten immunocompromised

Lindsay Karp
Twin American Pit Bull Terriers smiling (Getty Images/Josh Taxson)

Pitbulls: friend or enemy?

Colin Dayan - The Conversation
A helicopter drops water over a wildfire near El Pont de Vilomara, in Catalonia, on July 18, 2022. - Emergency services battled several wildfires as Spain remained in the grip of an exceptional heatwave that has seen temperatures reach 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Farenheit). (PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images)

Wildfires incite animal behavior changes

Taylor Ganz - The Conversation
close-up of a measuring tape, the concept of losing weight (Getty Images/puhimec)

Weight loss drug causing chaos on TikTok

Troy Farah
Elon Musk | "Aeroritratto di Mussolini aviatore" by Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Wikimedia Commons)

Is Elon Musk actually a futurist?

Matthew Rozsa
Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

Climate change ups the pressure on bees

Jennie L. Durant - The Conversation
Bacteria Lactobacillus in human intestine (Getty Images/nopparit)

Modified bacteria can clean up pollution

Sara Molinari - The Conversation
Positive Cassette rapid test for COVID-19 (Getty Images/Massimiliano Finzi)

How to make sense of your COVID-19 test

Nathaniel Hafer, Apurv Soni, Yukari Manabe - The Conversation
Swine Production (Getty Images/Arun Roisri)

Big Meat takes a page from Big Oil

Brian Kateman
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Climate change comes to prisons

Alleen Brown - Grist
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