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Dr. Temple Grandin speaks outside of the US Patent and Trademark Office on April 3, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Why visual thinkers will save the world

Matthew Rozsa
Man Forced To Smile (Getty Images/ferrantraite)

Death to "Good Vibes Only"

Nicole Karlis
A long line of soda bottles in various flavors and colors (Getty Images/RapidEye)

Sugar isn't the sole cavity creator

Daniel W. McNeil, Mary L. Marazita - The Conversation
Protesters rally against a mask mandate, many showing support for US President Donald Trump, in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 22, 2020. (BRIDGET BENNETT/AFP via Getty Images)

Are conservatives really more heartless?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Rover on Mars (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

When Mars went through climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Computer enhanced false-colour Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) of two mid-sagittal and one axial (cross sectional) sections through the head of a 46 year-old woman, showing structures of the brain, spine & facial tissues. Profiled features of the main part of the brain include the convoluted surface of the cerebral cortex, the corpus callosum, pons & medulla, structures of the brainstem, which are continuous with the spinal cord. The cerebellum, the centre of balance & coordination, lies to the right of the brainstem. (Getty Images)

What is "deep brain stimulation?"

Rachel A. Davis - The Conversation
Bacteria Lactobacillus in human intestine (Getty Images/nopparit)

Programmed bacteria make living material

Sara Molinari - The Conversation
Motion view of girl backstroke swimmers starting a race and entering the water together (Getty Images/Jonathan Kirn)

Was my swimming coach an abuser?

Kim Fairley
Grimacing businessman looking at computer screen (Getty Images/Westend61)

Why are security questions so dumb?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Shutterstock/DedMityay)

Alzheimer's may not be a brain disease

Donald Weaver - The Conversation
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (orange) found within an infected cell (green) (Getty Images/NIH-NIAID/IMAGE POINT FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group)

The monkeypox non-pandemic

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

Big Plastic pushes fake recyclables

Joseph Winters - Grist
A segment of Dakota fossil, mummified Edmontosaurus annectens (Kabacchi/Wikimedia Commons)

How to mummify a dinosaur

Troy Farah
Jupiter's large moon, Europa, is covered by a thick crust of ice above a vast ocean of liquid water (Getty Images/Ron Miller/Stocktrek Images)

Jupiter's moon may have secret lakes

Matthew Rozsa
Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo speaks at a press conference at the Space Coast Health Foundation in Rockledge, Florida on August 03, 2022 (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Fla. surgeon general's anti-vax warning

Matthew Rozsa
Pollution and pregnancy risk to the unborn fetus as polluted smoke stacks and toxic waste as an environmental danger to a mother and baby (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Air pollution squirrels into the unborn

Troy Farah
Silhouette of a man arguing with a woman (Getty Images)

Probing the mind of an incel

Matthew Rozsa
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)

Wildfire smoke hurting pregnant moms

Lauren DeLaunay Miller - Grist
A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

UN countries' goal: net-zero aviation

Jake Bittle - Grist
Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

Climate reparations on the COP27 agenda

Naveena Sadasivam - Grist
Mom breastfeeding a baby (Getty Images/istetiana)

Microplastics found in human breast milk

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA asteroid crash a smashing success

Troy Farah
American bullfrog floating at the surface of a farm pond in Kentucky USA. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How warming winters pollute US waters

John McCracken - Grist
Programming code and AI brain (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Why the brain is a terrible recorder

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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