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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
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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
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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
Healthcare professional is discussing an x-ray with a woman in the hospital (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

Long COVID and lung damage

Jeffrey M. Sturek, Alexandra Kadl - The Conversation
An NHS staff prepares to administer the Covid-19 vaccination booster jab during a press tour at a vaccination center (Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Social media use and vaccine hesitancy

Muhammad E. Rasul, Jaeho Cho, Saifuddin Ahmed - The Conversation
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PCR tests inside vials awaiting testing inside an on-site laboratory for COVID-19 beside the departures hall at Sydney Airport on November 23, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (James D. Morgan/Getty Images)

Will COVID spike again this fall?

Céline Gounder - KFF Health News
Capsule pills and marijuana in a blister-pack (Getty Images / Ilya Sereda / EyeEm)

Is cannabis an effective antibiotic?

Troy Farah
Election Vote Button 2022 (Getty Images/adamkaz)

Experts: Red trickle vindicates polling

Matthew Rozsa
A Turtle (Getty Images/Minko)

Cowabunga! These turtles can talk

Matthew Rozsa
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Gavin Newsom speaks at a Homekey site to announce the latest round of awards for homeless housing projects across the state on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Medi-Cal leaves most patients behind

Angela Hart - KFF Health News
Doctor writing notes on a clipboard in a modern hospital (Getty Images/shapecharge)

Haven’t seen your doctor in a few years?

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Wastewater samples for covid-19 analysis. ( DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty)

Wastewater monitoring and public health

Rochelle H. Holm - The Conversation
Small cannabis leaf on USA flag (Getty Images/Olena Ruban)

Five states voted on adult-use marijuana

Troy Farah
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Vector of a man looking in the mirror and seeing themself as a woman (Getty Images/SIphotography)

The autism and gender dysphoria link

Matthew Rozsa
Autumn Trees at Walden Pond (Getty Images/Mick Roessler)

Fact-checking Thoreau’s observations

Tara K. Miller, Richard B. Primack, Abe Miller-Rushing - The Conversation
Emperor Penguins in Antarctica (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

The great threat emperor penguins face

Stephanie Jenouvrier - The Conversation
A nurse prepares an injection of the Moderna dose vaccine on 26 September, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. (Alejandro Martinez Velez/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Pandemic greed killed 1.3 million: study

Troy Farah
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