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Rear View Of Woman In Wheelchair Shopping For Food (Getty Images/Daisy-Daisy)

The impending intergenerational crisis

Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
Pumpkins and gourds arranged on shelves (Getty Images/Natalia Ganelin)

What makes gourd DNA so malleable

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty Images)

Bird flu driving up turkey prices

Yuko Sato - The Conversation
The UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 06, 2022, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

A climate reparations insurance scheme

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

Extreme heat killing prisoners in Texas

Alleen Brown - Grist
Sacramento State Capitol Building (Getty Images/Zeka G)

California stockpiled uninsured fines

Angela Hart - KFF Health News
Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other emitting gravitational waves, a prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity (Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library)

Gravity: The final frontier

Matthew Rozsa
President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a Cabinet Meeting at the White House on September 06, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden tells contractors to cut emissions

Avery Schuyler Nunn - Grist
Scene setter images outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Atlanta, GA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Mass public health specialist layoffs

Lauren Weber - KFF Health News
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

How NASA is going back to the Moon

Troy Farah
(Getty/agrobacter)

The Medicare insulin price cap explained

Susan Jaffe - KFF Health News
Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

Concerns rise over obesity care startups

Darius Tahir - KFF Health News
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at The Unity Council on May 10, 2021 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Calif.'s flawed electric car initiative

Blanca Begert - Grist
(Shutterstock)

France mandates parking lot solar panels

Alex Lawson - Grist
Increase in medical cost (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why are insulin prices so high?

Matthew Rozsa
US President Joe Biden delivers a speech during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP27, at the Sharm El Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on November 11, 2022. (Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Biden touts methane crackdown at COP27

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Plastic pollution in the ocean (Getty Images)

Corporations have co-opted climate talks

Kate Yoder - Grist
Baby playing with hanging mobile (Getty Images/Guido Mieth)

Policy backs 'fourth trimester' care

April Dembosky - KFF Health News
Factory chimneys spewing smoke and pollution into the atmosphere on the outskirts of Ulan Bator (Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images)

'Anthropocene engine' changes the planet

Manfred Laubichler - The Conversation
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
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